Year 6 Parents’ Information Meeting

3:30pm Monday 8th September

Agenda

1. Welcome & Introductions (Miss Brown)

2. Year 6 – Expectations and Curriculum (Miss Brown)

3. Secondary Transfer (Mrs. Robinson)

4. SATs (Miss Brown)

5. Close of meeting – general questions

The Year 6 Team

• 6B Miss Brown (Year Leader) – Supported by Mrs Whiting & Mrs Felton

• 6M Miss Miller– Supported by Mrs Walker

• 6R Mr Redmill– Supported by Mr Bailey & Mrs O’Brien

• 6S Miss Sadler– Supported by Mrs Oakes

Pupil Expectations

• Behaviour• Uniform

– Jewellery– Appropriate clothing and footwear– PE Kit

• Mobile Phones• Punctuality• Homework Diaries

Maths Sets

• Set 1 – Mr Redmill• Set 2 – Miss Sadler• Set 3 – Miss Miller• Set 4a – Mr Yaxley• Set 4b – Miss Brown

• Set Changes

Spelling

• Taught in ability groups within each class• Focus on spelling rules• Taught twice a week• Children to learn words for dictation at the end of

each half term• Spelling lists will be sent home this week & be

available on the school website

The Curriculum• Literacy: Journalistic writing

MacbethPersuasive WritingPoetryWeekly SPAG focus

• History: The Vikings(Cross curricular links to Art, Music & Literacy)

• Art / DT: Links to the Vikings including making a Viking shoe

• Science: Living Things & Habitats plus Animals• PSHE:Feelings, Friends & Friendships

Financial Capability

Interventions

• One to One• Daily Interventions• Weekly Interventions

Homework ScheduleTask When given Context

Reading  

Daily

• School reading book, other books from the home and the library – encouraging a wide choice, talking to the child about their reading and their understanding of what they are reading; Children should be read aloud to an adult 3 times a week.

Spellings and/or other Literacy

activity 

Weekly

• Spellings - a list of words which are linked to class literacy lessons, a spelling rule or the child’s own work or a topic being studied in class. The child could be encouraged to look at each word carefully, say it, cover it up, write it from memory and then check it. This process is repeated several times. The words are assessed in class.

• Often the child will be asked to extend the spelling words, e.g. writing sentences and paragraphs including the words, finding out their meaning in a dictionary, etc.

Tables Weekly • Tables - 2x – 12x tables and related division facts.

Literacy and Numeracy

Weekly 

• Literacy: An extension activity to support classroom literacy;

• Numeracy: An extension activity to support classroom numeracy;

Research 

As appropriate• Cross-curricular based extended project making use of books, the library,

internet, own trips out etc.

Revision(Year 6 only)

 

Spring term and beginning of

Summer Term

• Weekly comprehension or SPAG activities. • Test questions in addition to homework.• Spellings linked to previous SATs papers.

Important Diary Dates

• 2014:– 19/09/14 – Bikebility Starts– 24/09/14 – Mayflower School Roadshow (19:00)– 03/10/14 – Harvest Festival (10:45 – 11:45)– 10/10/14 – Young Shakespeare Company – 15/10/14 – 6B & 6S to Wat Tyler Country Park– 16/10/14 – 6M & 6R to Wat Tyler Country Park– 20/10/14 – Year 6 Test Week

• 2015:– 19/01/15 – Mock SATs Week 1– 16/03/15 – Mock SATs Week 2– 11/05/15 – SATs Week– 18/05/15 – Year 6 Activity Week

Secondary Transfer

• 8th September 2014:– Information Meeting at Buttsbury Junior School

• 20th September 2014:– Test for selective schools (11+)

• September/October 2014:– Read the information in the pack– Find out about local schools - obtain their prospectus– Visit local schools - open evenings, appointments to visit– Submit your application form – ideally on-line

• 31st October 2014:– Deadline for common application form 

Secondary Transfer

• 2nd March 2015:– National offer date

•  March 2015 – Opportunity to lodge appeals

•  April - July 2015:– Appeals held

•  September 2015:– Your child starts secondary school

Important Dates

Mayflower High School

Mayflower High School Roadshow for Year 6 ParentsWednesday 24th September at 7.00pm at BJS

Mayflower High School Open EveningThursday 9th October 2014 – 6:30pm

Mayflower High School Open Morning13th – 16th October from 9am

Important Dates

The Billericay School

The Billericay School Open EveningMonday 29th September 2014 from 6:00pm – 9:00pm

Head Teacher talks at 6:45pm, 7:30pm & 8:15pm

The Billericay School Open Mornings2nd, 3rd & 7th October Tours at 9:10am & 10:10am

SATs

• The week beginning Monday 11th May 2015• Writing is a combination of teacher assessed

based on work covered in class.• There will be a grammar, punctuation and

spelling test (GPS).• Preparation programme (Jan. 2015 onwards)• Mock SATs – January and March• Booster Classes (start after the February half-

term) and Easter revision school (hopefully!)

Monday11th May

Tuesday12th May

Wednesday13th May

Thursday14th May

Friday15th May

Reading Test60 mins.

(am)

Level 6 Reading Test pm

English Grammar,

Punctuation and Spelling Test

(am)

Level 6 English

Grammar, Punctuation and

Spelling Test (pm)

Maths TestPaper 145 mins.

(am) 

Mental Arithmetic

(Taped Test)(am)

 

  Maths Test

Paper 245 mins.

Level 6Maths TestPaper 1 &

Paper 2

  

Draft SATs Timetable May 2015

Thank you for coming!

General Questions