Lowsonford Class
Age Related Expectations
Mrs White Mr Jones
Welcome to Lowsonford Class! Mrs White will be teaching Lowsonford this year. Throughout this year, Mr Jones will be supporting us with our learning.
We are looking forward to an exciting Summer term. As the oldest in school, the children will continue with their responsibilities and the obvious expectation to be exemplary role models to other children in the school. So far, they have proved themselves to be fantastic at this and we know they will continue this term.
Year six is an important part of the children’s educational journey. We will continue to develop their independence, organisational skills and personal responsibility in preparation for their transition to secondary school at the end of this academic year.
During this school year, we will continue to have high expectations of learning in school and when they are learning at home. In addition to this, we will prioritise the children’s mental and physical well-being. We will try and get outdoors to learn when we can, and enjoy sociable playtimes and lunchtimes together.
The children will take part in a number of transition activities to support their move to secondary school in September.
During our first week in the Autumn term, we have had some productive discussions about mutual respect, hard work, including perseverance, team work and having fun! We have decided that our new key class values will be …
We hope the children have great fun this year, work hard, and on the way, create some more great memories of their time in primary school.
Thank you for your continued support.
Mrs White
Each day your child will need to bring: -
· A water bottle. This will be sent home daily so a clean one can be sent in the following day.
· A reading book. The children are expected to read at home and at school every day.
· A reading record book. Now they are in year 6, we encourage them to sign these when they have read alone.
· PE kits should be worn to school on PE days and they can bring them on a Thursday for enrichment when they are doing yoga or PE.
· A coat. We will continue to encourage them to be outside as much as possible.
Our Summer 2024 Topic will be north america. Please see our topic overview below.
North America – Our Knowledge Organiser. We have put a copy in the children’s homework books.
PE
PE will be taught on a Monday and a Friday. The sessions will be based around Real PE and Real Athletics. Children MUST wear a full PE kit to school on these days. This includes black shorts and/or joggers, a white T-shirt and trainers. They can also wear their school jumper. We will be outside as much as possible so please dress for this.
In addition to PE, the children will continue to use the running track. We hope to continue to develop their physical health and see the benefits socially and emotionally from the break from the classroom.
PHSE
We will continue teaching the children the PHSE curriculum using the Jigsaw scheme of learning.
HOMEWORK
Each fortnight, the children in Lowsonford will be sent home on a Tuesday with a spelling task this will be related to our new spelling programme.
We would also like the children to have 15 minutes per week practising their rapid recall of times tables and other known maths facts. E.g. doubles and half of numbers up to 100 and beyond, number bonds to 20, 50, 100, multiples of times table facts. E.g. 9 X 8 = 72, 90 X 8 = 720, 9 X 80 = 720 and 90 X 80 = 7200. It may be helpful to use websites such as Top Marks (Mental Maths Tests and Games (topmarks.co.uk). You will find LOTS of games to help the children practise their mental maths skills.
Each week, the children will also be set Mathletics tasks. These will be set on a Monday and will need to be completed by the following Monday.
Also, the children will be set either a grammar task or a creative task (based upon our topic “Our Local Area”). The creative tasks cover a wide range of curriculum areas. This homework will be set on a Tuesday and needs to be completed and returned to school by the following Monday. The creative tasks will be stuck in the children’s homework book. See the copy below.
READING
It is vital the children read as much as possible. We have so many books in school and want ALL the children to develop a love for reading independently.
Last year, we were fortunate to have some parental support to improve the library. Since it has been reorganised, and the reading passports have been redeveloped and relaunched, we hope to enthuse the children to read a wider range of books.
We hope they will become absorbed in books and challenge themselves. We hope they will share what they have read with you – these discussions are important to develop the children’s understanding and help them question what they have read. It is also brilliant if they can read books by lots of different authors. Through regular reading of challenging books, the children will build a rich vocabulary and identify techniques authors use in their work to be able to apply this to their own writing. Please use the link below to find a list of some great books to read.
You will see below a reading list for year 6. We do have some of these books in the classroom and I will be encouraging the children to read a few of these during year 6. We are still building up the collection. IF any child would like to donate a book instead of bringing in sweets, we would be most grateful.
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Recommended reading list
It’s important for children to read as much as possible; to enjoy reading; to want to share what they have read with someone else and to challenge themselves to read different authors from different periods of time. In this way the children will build a rich vocabulary and greater understanding of the techniques authors use in their work to be able to apply this in their own writing. Have a look at our recently updated recommended reading list below!
This term, I will also be challenging the children to “The Big Summer Term Read” Below is a list of fiction books that come highly recommended and would be great for the children to read before leaving primary school. I would like the children to try and read four this term. It would be AMAZING if they could read more!
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