Year 6

We would like to welcome you to Year 6 at Quarry View Primary School.

 Class Teachers: Mrs Wright and Miss Johnson

Support Staff: Miss Bodham,

 

Please find below the information we share with our parents to enable them to support their children during this important year.

P.E. Information

  • P.E. is on Wednesday every week.
  • EVERY child needs PE kit (shorts, T-shirt, bottoms, top) for outdoors and indoors IN SCHOOL every week.
  • Children’s earrings should be removed for PE.

Punctuality & Attendance

The Local Authority (civic centre) monitor school attendance. The ESW will act upon:

  • Regular poor punctuality
  • 3 consecutive broken weeks (even authorised)
  • Regular unauthorised absence
  • Unauthorised attendance includes any absence without a written note or telephone call.
  • The overall target for school attendance is over 90% each week. 
  • If your child is absent, a written note or telephone call is essential for authorised absence (553 6847).

The school participates in the Every School Day Counts program – be involved!

Homework

 

  • Is set for literacy, Maths and Science every week.
  • In Year 6 there are no set days for homework – it follows where it fits the lessons.
  • No individual piece of homework should take more than 20 minutes-half an hour at most!
  • Staff check homework return.  
  • Weekly spellings are handed out most Mondays to be tested at the end of the week.
  • Home reading is regularly changed and your child has the opportunity to take home books as they need.

Support with homework

You can support your child with their homework by:

  • Checking what homework your child has been given and when it needs to be completed by.
  • Ensuring that your child understands what they are doing.
  • Checking through their completed homework to ensure it makes sense.
  • Spending 5 minutes a night helping your child learn their weekly spellings.
  • Listening to your child read each night
  • Signing the bottom of homework sheets please

Targets

 

  • National Government have introduced target setting as part of the drive to raise standards in schools.
  • As part of this school’s continuous effort to raise standards we have a system of target setting aimed at improving all children’s skills.
  • Targets exist for all children in reading, writing and maths.
  • Year six also have targets aimed at individual skill development

Maths targets

 

  • Children work daily to improve mental recall of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
  • Targets are displayed in classrooms and are referred to in lessons.
  • Children know their targets.
  • Parents should be aware of children’s targets too!
  • Teachers track each child’s progress.

Reading targets

 

  • Children work to improve skills in reading.
  • Skills range from decoding words to comprehension to authorial intent - these are skills which will be tested during SATs.
  • Children are aware of their own targets – are you?
  • Parents could be reading with their children every night.

Writing targets

 

  • Children work to improve their skills in writing.
  • Skills range from simple sentences and words to text ranges and grammar.
  • Group targets are displayed in classrooms.
  • Children know their targets – do you?

Individual targets

 

  • Some children may have individual targets as well as group targets.
  • These are designed to develop specific skills of individual children.

 

Curriculum Information for  Year 6 Autumn Term

Dear Parents,
This is information you should be aware of when supporting your child through the Autumn Term of Year 6.

View the Curriculum information for Year 6  autumn term

 

VLE – Virtual Learning Environment

 

  • School now has in place a VLE website.
  • School has given every child a VLE account, user name and password.
  • Before children can have access to this service, parents must sign a consent form to say they will monitor their children’s use of this site to ensure it is used responsibly.
  • Any child using the account inappropriately will have it taken from them

Spring term topics

 

  • The focus will be upon science skills for SATs – revision
  • Additional science - work will be Micro-organisms, Light, Forces
  • RE – Holy books and commitment, Jewish and Muslim worship, Easter focus.
  • ICT – Excel, web design and Story Maker.
  • PE – games and Gymnastics
  • Topic based curriculum incorporates all other subjects.

The all-important SAT week!

SATs week is 14th – 18th May – PLEASE don’t book holidays for that week.

Children need to attend EVERY DAY of SATs week.

If your child is ill – phone school as soon as possible

Revision Help

What can you do to help?

Support homework
Use internet sites to support learning
          www.bbc.co.uk/revision/bitesize
          www.bbc.co.uk/schools
          www.coxhoe.durham.sch.uk
          www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk


Out of hours clubs

 

  • Clubs exist to support your child to reach their potential.
  • Children are specially chosen to attend Rising Stars clubs according to need.
  • Attendance at clubs is VITAL – all children need to attend regularly. 

 

 Downloads

 Download assessment record for year 6 2006