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P6 CURRI CULUM B RI EFI NG 2 0 19

2 6 J A N 2 0 1 9

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OVERVIEW

  • Introduction
  • Attendance
  • Attire
  • Programmes & Events
  • Communicating Student’s Progress
  • English Matters
  • Mathematics Matters
  • Science Matters
  • P

AM Matters

  • How Parents Can Help
  • Feedback
  • Be a Parent Volunteer
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ATTENDANCE

  • Punctuality

– Report to school in the Pavilion 1 by 7.30am

  • Silent Reading

– Mon/Tues/ Wed: English story book – Thurs/Fri: Mother Tongue book (students exempted from MT may read English story book)

  • Medical and other leave

– Medical Certificate – Parent’s letter or email

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ATTIRE

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ATTIRE

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Samples of unacceptable haircuts

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PROGRAMMES & EVENTS

  • Science Centre Learning J
  • urney
  • Level

VIA : Entrepreneurial Dare (ED) Fair

  • PSLE
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COMMUNICATING STUDENT’S PROGRESS

Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4

Mock Tests

Parent- Teacher Meeting

Mock Tests Holistic Report Card Report Book Report Book

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ENGLI SH M ATTERS

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Language Learning Area

STELLAR School-based curriculum

Reading and Viewing

  • Supported Reading
  • Retelling
  • KWL
  • Sustained Silent Reading (SSR)
  • Explicit teaching of reading comprehension skills
  • Newspaper in the EL class
  • Self-Selected Reading (includes school library

programme)

  • Reading & Writing Journal (RWJ)

Writing and Representing

  • Writing Process Cycle (WPC)
  • Text-Type Writing
  • Process Writing
  • 6 Traits of Good Writing
  • Text-Type Writing
  • Writer’s Journal / Notebook

Speaking and Representing

  • Effective and purposeful interaction and

group discussion embedded in all key strategies

  • Stimulus-based conversation
  • ICT-integrated EL lesson (Podcast)

Listening and Viewing

  • Listening and viewing skills for understanding and critical thinking taught through all key

strategies using audio and graphic stimuli

Grammar

Whole-Part-Whole Approach

  • Explicit teaching of grammar in meaningful context using STELLAR readers

Vocabulary

Text-Based Approach

  • STELLAR readers

Working with Words

  • Visual Vocabulary
  • Spelling (in context)
  • Text-Based Approach (children’s literature)

ENGLI SH PROGRAMME PRI MARY 6

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STELLAR STRATEGIES FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING AND READING

STELLAR aims to strengthen both language and reading skills as well as promote a positive attitude towards reading in the foundational years through the use of learner-centred and developmentally appropriate pedagogical approaches using authentic children's literature.

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EXPLICI T TEACHI NG OF READI NG COM PREHENSION SKI LLS

  • Through the use of authentic children’s

literature, What’s Up newspaper & STELLAR readers

  • Comprehension Skills & Strategies

– Inferring/Summarising etc – Surface & Deep Annotation – Question & Answer Relationship (QAR) – Supported Reading – KWL – Retelling

  • Reading & Writing Journal (RWJ)

– Connect pupils’ thoughts and ideas in

response to reading through simple writing tasks relating to text read

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EXPLICIT TEACHING OF READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS

U SI N G T H E A N N O TAT I O N ST RAT EG Y T O U N D ERSTA N D A N EW SPA PER A RT I C L E

M A KI N G REFEREN C E T O T H E SU RFA C E & D EEP A N N O TAT I O N M I N I P O ST ERS D U RI N G REA D I N G

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TEACHING OF 6 TRAITS OF GOOD W RITING

Traits of Good Writing

  • Ideas
  • Organisation
  • Word Choice
  • Sentence Fluency
  • Convention
  • Voice

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WRITER’S JOURNAL

  • Encourage students to develop

their repertoire of materials for individual writing based on given topics

  • Encourage students to write

extensively to activate schema before their actual individual writing based on given topics

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https://www.pinterest.com/deb040473/cafe- writers-notebook/? lp=true

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W ORKI NG W I TH W ORDS: VI SUAL VOCABULARY

  • Learning about a new word through:

– authentic setting, context or

reading

– understanding the

characteristic(s) of the word

– making inference about the

meaning of the word using contextual clues

– visual representation – expansion activities to learn

more about the word or other words associated with it

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ASSESSMENT STRUCTURE (PRIMARY 6 )

Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4

Formative Summative Summative Summative

Teachers will conduct formative assessments and provide students with constructive feedback via mock tests, checklists and rubrics. Formative assessments are not weighted.

Paper 1: Writing (55 m) a.Situational Writing b.Continuous Writing Paper 1: Writing (55 m) a.Situational Writing b.Continuous Writing

PSLE

Paper 2: Language Use & Comprehension (95 m) Paper 2: Language Use & Comprehension (95 m) Paper 3: Listening Comprehension (20 m) Paper 3: Listening Comprehension (20 m) Paper 4: Oral (30 m) a.Reading Aloud b.Stimulus-based Conversation Paper 4: Oral (30 m) a.Reading Aloud b.Stimulus-based Conversation

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ASSESSMENT STRUCTURE (PRI MARY 6 FEL)

Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4

Formative Summative Summative Summative

Teachers will conduct formative assessments and provide students with constructive feedback via mock tests, checklists and rubrics. Formative assessments are not weighted.

Paper 1: Writing (40 m) a.Situational Writing b.Continuous Writing Paper 1: Writing (40 m) a.Situational Writing b.Continuous Writing

PSLE

Paper 2: Language Use & Comprehension (60 m) Paper 2: Language Use & Comprehension (60 m) Paper 3: Listening Comprehension (20 m) Paper 3: Listening Comprehension (20 m) Paper 4: Oral (30 m) a.Reading Aloud b.Stimulus-based Conversation Paper 4: Oral (30 m) a.Reading Aloud b.Stimulus-based Conversation

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HOW TO SUPPORT YOUR CHI LD I N LANGUAGE LEARNI NG?

 Encourage your child to read books and other materials such as the newspapers and educational magazines.  Encourage your child to talk about the book or article that he/she has just read.

  • Ask him/her to explain his/her inferences and support them with

contextual clues.

  • Ask him/her to retell or summarise what he or she has just read.

 Encourage your child to look up the meaning of new and challenging words in the dictionary. Get him or her to construct his or her own sentence using the new word learnt to demonstrate his

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her understanding of the word.

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USEFUL LINKS

Ministry of Education English Language Syllabus 2010 http://www.moe.gov.sg/education/syllabuses/languages

  • and-literature/files/english-primary-secondary-

express-normal-academic.pdf Cambridge Dictionary http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ O xford Dictionaries http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/ Teaching That Makes Sense – 6 Traits of Good W riting (Steve Peha) http://www.ttms.org

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M ATHEM ATI CS M ATTERS

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Mathematics Curriculum Approach

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3 PHASES OF LEARNING

  • Readiness –
  • Prior Knowledge
  • Motivating contexts
  • Learning environment
  • Engagement

– Activity-based learning – Teacher-directed inquiry – Direct instruction

  • Mastery

– Motivated Practice – Reflective Review – Extended Learning

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I NSTRUCTI ONAL PROGRAM M ES ( OVERVI EW )

  • P6 MathsOlympiad-& E2K Programme

Math O lympiad and E2K training provide

  • pportunities for the High Progress students to be

stretched in their thinking capacity Throughout the year, they participate in external competitions and carnivals.

  • Improving Confidence and Achievement in

Numeracy (ICAN)

ICAN is an MO E programme to raise confidence and improve Maths achievement of middle and low progress learners

  • Remediation

Remedial is scheduled on Monday and it serve as a platform for teachers to work with students in a smaller group so any misconceptions can be addressed.

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P6 ASSESSMENT STRUCTURE 2 0 19

Overall Weighting (100% )

Level

SA1 SA2 Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4

P6 (Standard)

Mock test (0%) W ritten Paper 100 marks (0%) Mock test (0%) W ritten Paper (Prelim) 100 marks (100%) N A N A

P6 (Foundation )

Mock test (0%) W ritten Paper 90 marks (0%) Mock test (0%) W ritten Paper (Prelim) 90 marks (100%) N A N A

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20 19 PSLE STANDARD MATHEMATI CS: EXAM FORMAT

Paper Booklet Item Type N umber of questions N umber of marks per question N umber

  • f marks

Duration 1 A Multiple-choice 10 1 10 1h 5 2 10 B Short-answer 5 1 5 10 2 20 2 Short-answer 5 2 10 1h 30 min Structured/ Long-answer 12 3,4,5 45 Total 47

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2h 30 min

N ote: The use of an approved calculator is allowed in Paper 2.

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20 19 PSLE FOUNDATI ON MATHEMATI CS: EXAM FORMAT

Paper Booklet Item Type N umber

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questions N umber of marks per question N umber

  • f marks Duration

1 A Multiple-choice 10 1 10 1h 10 2 20 B Short-answer 10 2 20 2 Short-answer 10 2 20 1h Structured 6 3,4 20 Total 46

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2h

N ote: The use of an approved calculator is only allowed in Paper 2.

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RIGHT Strategy for Math Problem Solving

Read and underline

Have I read and understood the problem? Circle the numbers, Underline the keywords Bracket/ Box the Goal of the Q uestion (CUB)

Information gathering Have I gathered all the information? Goal of the question

W hat am I looking for?

Hidden information

Have I formed the correct relationships with the given information?

Try it out

Have I used the correct strategy?

Have I check my working? Reasonableness of answers O perations and Transfer errors (ROT)

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File Item

Dark Blue File TopicalWorksheets & Practice Paper Light Blue File Problem Sums Worksheets Yellow/O range File Maths Workbook(if detached)

Acronym

Description CE Calculation error FS Final Statement for word problem MS Missing steps SF Simplest form SU Standard units (cm, m, km, cm2, m2 , $, g, kg …) TE Transfer error

ANNOTATED MARKING FILES

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Remind your child

  • Maintain a positive mind

set

  • Learn from mistakes
  • Practise daily with

understanding

  • Ask when in doubt

TIPS FOR YOUR CHILD

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SCI ENCE M ATTERS

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STANDARD SCI ENCE

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SCIENCE PROGRAMME

Dates for all P6 Science Field Trips: 5, 9, 17, 23, 24 Apr & 3 M ay (T2)

Do join us as a Parent Volunteer

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Environmental Education

World W ater Day Mozzie W ipeout Earth Week Recycling

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Topics for P6 Std Science 2019

Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Energy

  • 1. Energy in food
  • 2. Forms and

uses of energy

  • 3. Sources of

energy Mock T est Interactions

  • 1. Forces

Interactions

  • 2. Living

together

  • 3. Food chains

and food webs

  • 4. Adaptations

SA1 Interactions

  • 5. Man’s

impact on his environment Mock T est Prelim PSLE

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Assessment

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HOW TO SUPPORT YOUR CHILD IN THE LEARNING OF SCIENCE?

  • Carry out simple fun experiments together to develop interest in
  • Science. (Refer to Google search:

simple Science experiments for parents and kids)

  • Revise past Science topics in P3 and P4. (Refer to activity books,

textbooks and Science files)

  • Reading of Science articles/literature. (Refer to Science M agazines –

Young Scientist, Science Spy… , Straits Times, non-fiction library books)

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FOUNDATI ON SCI ENCE

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Environmental Education

World W ater Day Mozzie W ipeout Earth Week Recycling

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Topics for P6 Fdn 2019

Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4

Energy 1.Energy from the Sun Interactions

  • 2. Forces

Mock T est 1 Interactions 1.Living T

  • gether

2.Food chains

  • 3. Adaptations

SA1 1.Man’s Impact on the Environment Mock T est 2 Prelims PSLE

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Assessment

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  • Similar to PSLE assessment format

SA1 & SA2 (1h 15minutes)

Section A - 18 MCQ (36 marks) Section B - 6 to 7 Structured questions (14 marks) Section C - 5 to 6 O pen-ended questions (20 marks) Total marks = 70

Assessment Format

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  • Carry out simple fun experiments together to develop interest in
  • Science. (Refer to Google search:

simple Science experiments for parents and kids)

  • Revise past Science topics in P3 and P4. (Refer to activity books,

textbooks and Sci files)

  • Reading of Science articles/literature. (Refer to Science M agazines-Young

Scientist, Science Spy… , Straits Times, non-fiction library books)

HOW TO SUPPORT YOUR CHILD IN THE LEARNING OF SCIENCE?

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PAM M ATTERS

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TANJONG KATONG PRIMARY SCHOOL PAM VISION

A community of individuals with a love for active lifestyle and the Arts

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Primary 1 – 3, strong foundation are built Primary 4- 6, broad exposure to sports and games Primary 4- 6, further development of skills and interests through House Games and CCAs

National Physical and Sports Development Framework

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Ph ysi cal Edu cat i on Pr ogr am m e Pr i m ar y 6

Annual Sports Day -

  • Games On! in

Term 2 Annual Sports Day -

  • Games On! in

Term 2

P6 NAPFA IN TERM 2

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National Art Framework

Spiral Approach P1 to P6

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A r t Cu r r i cu l u m @ TK P

Skill-based A rtwork

LEVELS TERM 1 TERM 2 TERM 3 TERM 4 PRIMARY 1 Design using Lines and Shapes Self portrait inspired by James Rizzi Family Portrait inspired by Piet Mondrian Drawing PRIMARY 2 Warm and colours design inspired by Kandinsky 2D Design inspired by Pollock 3D Portrait using recycling items Drawing PRIMARY 3 Paper weaving Ethnic Art Photo frame inspired by Anthony Poon Drawing PRIMARY 4 3D crepe paper sculpture (Animals) Poster painting on Singapore icon Ethnic Art Drawing PRIMARY 5 Digital Art (vendor-based)

  • Poster painting inspired

by Pablo Picasso

  • Clay art

Batik Painting Drawing

PRIMARY 6 Composition drawing Oil on canvas inspired by Vincent Van Gogh (fruits) Poster painting – Places

  • f Interest in Singapore

(prior art photograph) Drawing

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Framework for Teaching & Learning of Musci

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  • Ukulele
  • Cajon
  • TK Spotlight!
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HOW PARENTS CAN HELP

  • Routine to Reinforce Acceptable Work Attitude

– Completion of homework daily – Learning from corrections

–Daily Homework File for Worksheets and Letters

  • Close Monitoring of work

– Parents to sign off acknowledgement having seen the Kidz O rganizer/reply slips/workbook/worksheet/assignments

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Fundraising for non-standard items

Support us by…

Register for Golf & Dinner Event OR register for dinner only Buy the book!

Donate via cash

  • r cheque!

Booths are located at the back of the school hall and at Pavilion 1

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