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Year 6: Embracing Opportunities for Growth and Responsibility

Join us in Class 6 as every child matters! Explore new responsibilities like being House Captains, reading partners, and digital leaders. From guiding visitors to delivering harvest goods, students will engage in various activities. Opportunities like the residential trip await, along with focusing on PSHE, Geography, English, and Design & Technology. Prepare for SATs and hands-on tasks like Wonder Takeaway Homework. Engage in communication through Class Dojo and stay updated through Friday News. Key events include Family Assembly, Harvest Service, and supporting the school budget. Come, be part of a rewarding Year 6 journey!

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Year 6: Embracing Opportunities for Growth and Responsibility

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  1. Welcome to Class 6

  2. Every Child Matters

  3. Year 6 Opportunities • New opportunities and responsibilities: • Responsible for their learning! • House captains • Reception reading partners & school buddies • Peer mediators, Digital leaders, Play leaders • Guides for visitors around the school • Main roles in concerts • Readings in church at Harvest and Christmas • Deliver Harvest goods around the village • Work with visiting secondary school teachers • SATs • Residential • Setting the 'best' example

  4. PSHE Relationships, Kindness, Valuing Difference • Geography – North America • English – Creating and understanding characters • DT – Burgers!

  5. Year 6 Opportunities Residential Dates- Monday May 21st– Friday May 25thth (the week after SATS and before the half-term holiday.) Abernant Lake Hotel Powys, Wales 55 acre centre between Brecon Beacons & Radnor Mountains Superb 5 acre lake 93% rebooking rate All outdoor pursuits on site Enormous outdoor climbing/abseil wall All rooms are en-suite £50 deposit by 25th September 2017. Full cost approx. £450 There will be a payment schedule

  6. Who will be teaching your child? • Class teacher – Becky Hayter • School Direct teacher – Ella Ferguson • Class teacher on Wednesday mornings – Ms. Sykes • Class teacher on Thursday afternoons – Mrs.Tucker

  7. SATs Key stage 2 The key stage 2 tests are timetabled from Monday 14 May to Thursday 18 May 2018. The reading test may be moving to later in the week…hooray!

  8. SATs The English reading test has a greater focus on fictional texts and on the comprehension elements of the new curriculum. The test consists of a reading booklet and a separate answer booklet. Pupils will have a total of 1 hour to read the 3 texts in the reading booklet and complete the questions at their own pace. Paper 1: arithmetic replaces the mental mathematics test. The arithmetic test assesses basic mathematical calculations. 30 mins. The questions will cover straightforward addition and subtraction, more complex calculations with fractions, long divisions and long multiplications Papers 2 and 3 are 40 minutes each.

  9. Homework

  10. WONDER TAKEAWAY HOMEWORK: Choose at least one task from the top section (Light Bites/Specials/Mains) as well as at least one extra task from the bottom section (Sides/Desserts/Extras.) Author Interview:Prepare 10 questions that you would ask the author if you could interview her. Song: Compose a song about how others are treated differently in society. You need at least 10 lines of lyrics with music. 3D/Animation:Create a scene from the book using video animation or build a 3D scene from the book using clay/ lego/cardboard etc. North America:Research one of the 23 North American countries. Prepare to share your findings with the class in a format of your choice (presentation, collage, poster, fact-file etc.) Bullying cartoon strip:Choose one of the scenes in ‘Wonder’ where Auggie is bullied. Create a cartoon strip of this scene. Inheritance: Investigate characteristics that you have inherited from your family. Prepare to share your findings with the class in a format of your choice. Choose Kind: Do something that demonstrates you being ‘kinder than is necessary’ then tell the class about your experience. Self portrait : Create a self-portrait of your face using a mirror. Create a second self-portrait using a bent/ fractured/water covered mirror. Write a summary of how you would feel if you had to come to school looking like your second self portrait. Book Jacket: Create a colourful and engaging book jacket for Wonder that includes a front cover (with illustration, title, author and student name) and back cover with blurb. Birth Story:Ask your family to tell you the story of your birth. Prepare to retell this story to the class in a format of your choice (song, presentation, written story, poster etc)

  11. Reading

  12. Maths

  13. Communication • Class Dojo – for behaviour management and communication – points awarded for showing Grow, Care, Serve, Share. • Friday News – a round up of the week. Do the Friday night rummage and check out homework book! • Either send me a Class Dojo message, call the school or pop in and see me • Always very welcome into school

  14. Key events • Class 6 Family Assembly 10.15am on Friday 22nd and Friday 29th September • Harvest service at St. Swithun’s Monday 25th September 9.30am

  15. Your help required • Tight budget, FOBS support very important • Thanks to Emma for taking on Class rep role

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