Welcome to Year 6

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Welcome to Year 6

• Mrs Berry-Simpsons Class

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Uniform

• White polo t-shirt or shirt, with or without
  school logo
• Black, grey or navy trousers or skirt
• No jeans or tracksuit bottoms please
• No jewellery (small stud earrings only)
• No make-up
• Plain black trainers or school shoes

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PE

• Outdoor kit plain white t-shirt navy, grey or
  black plain tracksuit suitable trainers
• Indoor kit plain white t-shirt plain, navy,
  grey or black shorts
• Tuesday and Wednesday sessions
• No kit three times letter home
• All kit must have childrens names in

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House System

• Rubies, Diamonds, Sapphires and Emeralds
• Year 6 children House and Sports captains.
• Voted for by their peers

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Expectations of your Child

• Readiness for High School
• Organisation (PE kit, homework diaries, toilet
  during lesson time)
• Encouraging independence
• Jobs around school (playmakers dinner monitors
  etc)
• Attitude
• Buzz words Respect, Organisation and Attitude

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Curriculum Coverage

• Numeracy, Literacy Guided Reading are all
  taught daily
• Science, French, Computing PSHE are taught
  weekly
• Other curriculum subjects may be taught on a
  rotational basis but over the course of the
  academic year, all objectives will be covered

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Homework

• Set weekly
• Maths Literacy (at least one of these)
• Learning logs with open ended tasks (not always
  set weekly)
• Handed out on a Friday, expected back in on a
  Tuesday
• Homework club on a Monday lunchtime
• If homework is not in by Wednesday children spend
  playtime lunchtime completing it

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Spelling

• Children will no longer have spellings sent home
  with a test every week.
• Children will be learning spelling patterns
  relevant to their learning needs and year group.
• Parents will still be able to support their child
  at home following the guidance to be given to you
  this evening.

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Marking writing
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Subscriptions

• My Maths children may be set tasks on here to
  complete for homework
• Can access on computer and tablets

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Positive Behaviour Management

• Same system throughout school from Nursery to
  Year 6. Traffic light system used.
• Friday activites
• House points system
• Merit box (please remember that your child may
  receive this more than once or perhaps not at
  all)

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Target setting

• Numeracy, Writing and Reading
• Personal targets
• Target ladder
• Pizza

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Topics

• Treasure of the Tomb
• Disaster strikes!
• Around the world South America
• Arabian Nights
• Survival of the fittest
• SATS prep beginning from January

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Trips

• Kingswood Residential
• Chester Zoo - June

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SATs

• New SATs this year
• SATs information evening January

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Leavers Book

• Leavers Book as a momento of their years at GPS
• Fundraising activities may be required

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Communication between home and School

• Homework diary essential link, to be handed in
  signed, Tuesday morning
• Telephone
• Before or after school
• Year 6 blog
• Friends of Gildersome Primary FB Page
• Please come to see me, dont brood over potential
  issues

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How can I support my child?

• Clear communication between home school
• Embed times table knowledge
• Encourage more responsibility and independence at
  home

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Suggestions

• Are there things that you would like to happen
  that do not currently take place?
• Please go away and think about this and let us
  know.
• Thank you for your support in our three way
  partnership.