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Year 6 Meeting for Parents

Year 6 Meeting for Parents. Hankham Primary School. Wednesday 28 th September 2011 Class R. Introduction.

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Year 6 Meeting for Parents

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  1. Year 6 Meeting for Parents Hankham Primary School Wednesday 28th September 2011 Class R

  2. Introduction • Whilst we recognise that our parents do support their children in the following ways, we do feel that it would be useful to highlight the various ways that parents can further support their children’s development in the year ahead. • This is a very important year for the children, both in developing their maturity and their academic capabilities. A significant part of the year is spent helping them to prepare for secondary school. This is something that needs to take place at home too. • There will be a range of tests throughout the year. These are designed for assessment purposes, to assist our planning and to develop confidence in the children. They will complete past SAT (Standard Assessment Task) test papers under test conditions and with appropriate guidance. This enable us to see areas that need further work as well as familiarise the children with the test layout. • Whilst we do prepare the year 6s for SATs this is not to the detriment of other subjects. The children will sit a Maths & English SAT; there is unlikely to be a Science SAT again this year. • The revision work starts now. A large majority of the work that is planned is designed to assist the children in preparing for and revising for their tests. • We do expect the children to try their best with everything we ask them to do.

  3. What we promote • Mature attitude • Responsibility for themselves, their belongings and their actions. • Monitor responsibilities. • Contributing to the life of the school. • Working with the community.

  4. Quality education A variety of approaches and methods. No areas of the curriculum are ‘squeezed out’. An excellent, ‘all-round’ education that is ordered and happy. To achieve to the best of our ability – that is our chief commitment.

  5. Homework • The year 6 children may occasionally have some additional homework on a Tuesday. This is mostly if they are required to take a past SAT test paper home to complete. We will let you know if this is meant to be done independently or whether they are allowed some help. • This will obviously mean 2 hours a week not 90 mins, but it is all good practise for secondary school! • We do expect the correct amount of time to be spent on homework and for it to be high quality. Children will be asked to do it again if it is not of the correct standard and may miss part of break times or Golden Time as a sanction for this. • Again, this is helping them in preparing the correct attitude for secondary school.

  6. Important Year • This year is all about development for the Year 6 pupils. They need to develop skills at organising their belongings and getting their homework done on time. • They will need to take responsibility for their own learning and organisation. It is no longer just your responsibility! • Please try and encourage your child to prepare their own equipment for school, make their packed lunch, get their homework done, read to you and ensure they have all the correct equipment for school. • You will be helping them enormously if you let them take responsibility for their own mistakes. • It could be a good idea to give your children additional jobs to do at home. • Please encourage them to spend their time wisely at home – continue to save games consoles and televisions for treats when everything else is done!

  7. What you can do to help • Literacy • Reading – 20 minutes aloud every day is the ideal. • Discuss television programmes / films – why did that character respond that way? What might happen next? • Read anything and everything and discuss it. • Look at posters/adverts – how are they laid out, do they catch your eye? Why? • Listen to commercial radio – consider advertising. Are the adverts effective? How? • Watch the news, read the newspapers. Consider the reporting style. Discuss the content. • Oral reports about days at school, trips, evenings out etc. • Work on improving/extending sentences in their writing including Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation (VCOP)

  8. What you can do to help • Maths • Times tables must be known up to at least 12 x 12 • Estimating, weighing, measuring are all good to discuss and do practically. Must use metric measures. • Money – using it in the shops, working out change, adding up bills, questions e.g. if 1 bag of sugar costs 56p, how many will 7 cost? • Mental addition, subtraction, multiplication & division • Reading and writing numbers to 100 000 • Doubling and halving, including decimals • Solving number puzzles e.g. Sudoko

  9. Levels • Level 5 + • Level 4a • Level 4b • Level 4c • Level 3a • Level 3b • Level 3c • Below level 3

  10. Support • Children who will not reach nationally expected levels by the end of year 6. • Extra support – small group work. • ‘Making good progress’ intervention. • Confidence • Personal achievement throughout the year.

  11. Papers

  12. ICT We have regular access to the laptops as a year group. This allows us to use them in a variety of ways to support and enhance the learning opportunities for the children.

  13. Transition • Eastbourne and Hailsham schools • Taster Days • Communication during the year • Pastoral records

  14. What you can do to help Other areas to consider • Watch nature programmes and documentaries and discuss. • Encourage your children to do extra work for their topic area. • Spend time talking to your children about their day, the news, what they feel about different areas of their lives etc. Talking is a great way to develop relationships, develop skills and enjoy each others company. • Please continue to ensure your children eat, drink and sleep healthily. It makes an enormous difference to their achievements in school. • Go to the library and borrow a range of books. • Spend some time together looking at new and interesting information – broaden their general knowledge. • Learn the names of countries and capital cities etc. • Please inform us of any changes in home circumstances that may affect your child and their progress.

  15. Useful websites • http://www.hankham.e-sussex.sch.uk/ • http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ • British museum/Birmingham museum web site • http://www.loxley.warwickshire.sch.uk/pages/ - links to many other websites • http://www.icteachers.co.uk/children/children_sats.htmhttp • There are many others for KS2 SATS if you search for them using your search engine.

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