St David
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Welcome to St David Years 5/6
Class Teacher: Miss Burgess
burgl134@mastacademy.co.uk
Now that your child is in Upper Key Stage 2, please encourage them to take responsibility for their behaviour and learning and help them understand these are fundamental to their future at secondary school and beyond.
Our Curriculum
We adopted a curriculum which is published by Cornerstones. English and all foundation subjects: History, Geography, Art, DT and Music are taught through our termly theme. Cornerstones will provide our children with a good level of challenge, giving them opportunities to solve problems, apply themselves creatively and express their knowledge and understanding across the full range of National Curriculum subjects.
Year 6 will experience 3 Imaginative Learning Projects in a year. Each individual project is split into sections, which see children progress through four stages of learning: Engage, Develop, Innovate and Express. We are confident that our curriculum will instill a curiosity and love of learning/school in our children. It will help them maintain their well-being and provide opportunities for each of them to achieve their full potential. In every lesson and homework piece, we make sure that there is an accessible challenge to extend learning and we even have a termly curriculum challenge for all the whole school to take part in! We have a daily maths lesson that is taught using our school scheme ‘Third Space Learning’. In St. Martha, we work in separate groups for maths & literacy for targeted support from adults.
Our Term 1 & 2 Topic
Over the year, the children will learn many things through our projects and our topic for terms 1 and 2 is:
'Tomorrow's World.'
Key text: Alex Rider: Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz.
In this project, the children will learn about this history of computing, which surprisingly goes back 6000 years to the Antikythera mechanism, and find out how optical fibre cables are used. Through further exploration of modern technology, we’ll learn about some of the amazing people responsible for its development. In our ICT work, we’ll investigate how to decide whether a website is trustworthy and what malware is. We’ll learn all about lasers, and make periscopes and complex circuits. We’ll investigate robotic toys and make our own. For literacy, we will write a newspaper report, design a new spy gadget and write a persuasive advert for spies to buy it, write an imaginative description of a spy villain's lair, write instructions on how to escape a mine that is booby-trapped and finally, write a thriller narrative!
P.E
P.E days are on Monday & Wednesday.
Wednesday: Outdoor
Tuesday: Indoor
Please ensure your child brings their PE kit to change into on these days.
Children may need jogging bottoms if we are outside as the weather changes. Children must be able to take out their ear rings before the lesson and are responsible for looking after these. If your child is unable to remove their ear rings, they must come to school with tape on their ears or you can show your child how to apply the tape themselves before the lesson.
P.E. kit: White t-shirt, dark shorts or jogging bottoms, plimsolls or trainers. . Long hair must be tied back. NO jewellery.
If your child is unable to remove their ear rings, they must come to school with tape on their ears or you can show your child how to apply the tape themselves before the lesson.
If your child cannot partake in PE, we expect to receive written confirmation of this unless the class teacher has already been informed previously. PE is a compulsory element of the National Curriculum.
Homework
Homework will be sent home on a Friday to be returned the following Thursday.
There will be a maths, spelling and literacy/reading comprehension task for the children to complete. Homework is adapted to suit the abilities of the children and each piece of homework includes an accessible challenge to ensure that all children are being extended in their learning.
Homework should be returned to school by the following Thursday. In addition to this, children will have a weekly spelling test every Friday based on the spellings sent home the previous week. Below are the common exception words that Year 6 children should be able to spell by the end of UKS2.
Furthermore, children are expected to read their book, sent home from school, read their KO and practice all their times tables up to 12s for 5 minutes each, every night. Children can practise the recall of their times tables on Times Table Rock Stars whereby homework will be set each week. To access TTRS, children only need to input their Accelerated Reader logins. Independence is a critical skill pupils should develop in preparation for secondary school and are encouraged to do so through autonomous engagement in homework.
Reading challenging texts is vital to pupils in year 6. Whilst it is paramount that children read for pleasure, children must ensure they read a variety of texts. Local libraries are free to join and are currently offering a 'click and collect' service. It might be an idea to use the AR Book Finder website to check if the book/s your child has chosen is on the AR system then they will not only be able to read it, but quiz on it too! Below is a book reading list for year 6.
Suggested Reading
Knowledge Organisers
Please remember to look at your Knowledge Organisers each night at home and quiz your child on the different interesting facts on both sides! The information on these sheets should be easily recalled by the children once the topic is completed. Children may also wish to extend their learning beyond the knowledge organiser if they have a specific interest in the topic. Please use the knowledge organiser as a starting point for any extra study. The knowledge organiser for our current topic, 'Tomorrow's World', will be sent home with your children.
Behaviour Expectations
St. David class are expected to follow the school’s Golden Rules at all times and are encouraged and rewarded for being ‘Green to go’.
The Golden Rules are:
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If, after a reminder, a child continues to break a rule, their name will be moved on our class traffic lights. Each colour (yellow, orange and red) has a number of possible consequences, such as loss of play time. If a child has to move their name, they given the opportunity to earn their way back to green by sticking to the golden rules and showing “green to go” behaviour.
Attendance & punctuality
The school is committed to ensuring a high rate of attendance for all. We want all of our children to have a 97% attendance rate over each school year. We ask all parents to inform the school before 9.30am on the first day of absence and to send a letter to the class teacher on the day their child returns from absence. The school will phone/contact parents on the first day of absence if the parent has not contacted the school. If contact cannot be made with the parent then the child's absence will be marked as unauthorised. Ten sessions ( 5 days ) of unauthorised absences can lead to the local authority issuing fines. The fine will be £120 per parent per child, but if paid before 21 days, it is reduced to £60 per child, per parent. This money goes to Medway council not the school. Repeated or unexplained absences will be followed up with more phone calls, letters home, requests for medical certificates and a home visit from the School Family Support Worker - so it is important to keep the school informed. All contact with families regarding pupil absence is logged systematically to show the lengths the school are going to, to get the children into school. Children are asked to be punctual. The registers will be taken at 8.55am for juniors. Lateness and absence will be noted on the child’s Annual School Report. 100% attendance is rewarded regularly at the end of every term and year.
Uniform
Our uniform consists of:
- a white shirt or polo shirt that must be tucked in.
- grey skirt, trousers or pinafore dress- black is acceptable
- a navy blue sweatshirt or cardigan
- blue and white checked dresses can also be worn in the summer.
- Long hair tied back.
- No jewellery apart from religious or small studs.
Walking permits & Mobile phones
If you would like your child to walk home in UKS2, you need to write into the office to request a walking permit. UKS2 siblings can walk junior siblings home, but not infants. Mobile phones are only to be sent into school if your child is walking home without adult supervision and these must be given to the teacher on arrival.
Rewards and Prizes
The children are rewarded in class by getting stickers, sweets or awards for following the Golden rules or for producing beautiful work. Green to Go Star of the week, Maths Star of the week and Literacy Star of the week are nominated and rewarded during class praise assembly on a Friday morning. The year 5/6 children can also receive a whole class reward each term! The children choose a treat and, working as a class, they aim to collect a number of marbles to fill the jar and once the jar is full they will receive their prize.
Children with SEND
We understand that every child is unique and so, we adapt our learning to suit all needs. Similarly, if your child is registered with the school as having specific special learning needs, please look at the home learning links to meet their requirements attached to this link. Thank you.
If your child is registered with the school as having specific special learning needs, please look at the home learning links to meet their requirements attached to this link. Thank you.
