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The good stuff! • Terrace • Ball Court • Class Rewards • Raffle Tickets • Reading Cinema • Life Skills • Activity Week

Our focus of inquiry: Pets for the future Through this inquiry, we will: Science Geography Art Discuss similar and different Learn about the living things • • Develop observational skills • characteristics within the on the Galapagos Islands and whilst drawing pictures of class and species of animals. understand how observations animals. Learn about scientists that of these living things are the • Create final designs for a new • have contributed to scientific foundations of evolution. pet and their variations theories, such as Charles Use maps and other online Consider if sculpture could be • • Darwin. resources to investigate a used, using a range of clay Investigate how evolution a range of islands. techniques. • process of change that takes Explore the conservation work • place of many generations, undertaken in areas of natural during which, species slowly importance. Computing change some of their physical Compare and contrast human • Use digital mapping • characteristics. and physical features of technologies to explore various Explore how animals have Galapagos Islands, Scilly Isles • geographical features adapted to survive their and Bristol. Collate and represent data • environments Understand the need for E- • safety.

SATs-What they are? • Tests for all Year 6 children in Britain • They are a chance for pupils to show what they have learned over the last 4 years

Attaining the right level Age Related Expectations End of Year 6 – Y6 Expected Standard (EXS). To be on track: End of Year 5: Y5 Expected, if lower than that, your child is at risk of not reaching Age Related Expectations.

When are they? Week beginning 11 th May 2020. Please make sure your child is in school! Activities Week will be the following week.

What we are doing now - Preparation • Building confidence • Having a go at practice tests- these will take place at the end of each term. • Addressing gaps in learning- keep up sessions within the school day. • Booster classes will begin after Christmas and will be invite only, this will be to support children who may need consolidation of certain skills.

How to help your child Discuss with them the importance of School. Make sure they get enough sleep. Make sure they come to school every day. Make sure they get to school on time – Key Skills. Set aside quality family and fun time. Encourage them to ask the teacher if they are unsure about anything. If your child wears glasses ensure they have a pair in school and that they wear them.

SATs: what happens? • Reading Test (1 hour) • Maths Tests consisting of: - Arithmetic Paper (30 minutes) - Two Reasoning papers (40 minutes each) • Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Paper (45 minutes and separate spelling test consisting of 20 spellings). • Writing: Teacher assessment – completed in Term 6.

Home support for reading • Children need to develop their reading stamina; this means they need to be able to read for at least 30 minutes in one go regularly. • Spend time talking about the book: Ask your child to summarise the story. Discuss connections they have made with experiences and other stories. Ask them what views or opinions the author may have been trying to make.

Homework • We also expect the children to read 3 times over the week for at least 20 minutes. • Spelling words need to be learnt and will be tested weekly- these can be found on the website. • Regular practise of times tables. The children must know up 12 x 12!

Times Table Rock Stars Heatmap • Your child will be bringing home their times tables heatmap. The heatmap shows the average time your child takes to answer each multiplication fact. • The quicker their response time, the more green the box will be, and the slower their response time, the more red it will be. • This shows which individual times table facts your child needs to practise. The Times Table Rock Stars programme will automatically include more of the red facts into your child’s practice, and these are the times table facts your child will benefit from practising at home.

Secondary school applications There is a secondary school meeting in the Dining Hall on Monday 23 rd September 3:30-4:30pm- this is an extremely informative meeting.

If you would like to come and introduce yourself and meet your child’s classroom teacher you are more than welcome to do so now.