Welcome to Year 6

Ventnor Class and Osborne Class

Who is Who

Ventnor Class

Teacher: Mr Lines

Teaching Assistant: Mrs Hippolite

Osborne Class

Teacher: Mrs McQueen

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Teaching Assistant: Mrs Speer

�Key Times

• Arrival: 8:30am - 8:35am at the double doors by office.
• Playtime: 10:00am – 10:15am
• Bring a small healthy snack i.e. fruit
• Lunch time: 11:45am – 12:30pm
• Packed lunches – NO NUTS
• Finish: 2:50pm - children to walk up the drive to meet parents or have permission to walk home

Uniform

• All black school shoes
• Plain grey trousers, shorts, skirts or pinafore dress.
• White or grey socks.
• Plain hair accessories (green, yellow, white or black)
• No jewellery (except small stud earrings).
• No wristbands / festival bands.
• No nail varnish.
• Please LABEL EVERYTHING!

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Equipment Needed

• Water bottles
• Reading books
• A piece of fruit for break
• Appropriate clothing for weather.

Key Days

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PE for Year 6 is on Wednesdays and Thursdays (swimming until Thursday 1st December 2022)

• PE kits are to be worn to school on these days.

PE Kit:

• School PE shirt or sweatshirt with their PE shorts, skort or tracksuit bottoms and plain black trainers.
• Earrings need to be removed by yourself or the child OR they should be covered with tape.

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Afternoons

• Each afternoon in key stage 2 we have subject specialists teaching the children. The teachers are:

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• Geography - Mrs Gregory
• Music - Mrs McQueen
• Computing - Mr Berryman
• Design Technology - Mr Dickinson
• PE- Mr Lines/Mr Strickland/Miss Shaw
• PSHE - Class teacher

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• RE- Class teacher
• History- Miss Studd
• Art- Miss McLuckie
• French-Ms Thomas
• Science - Mrs Loizos

Homework & Spelling

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• Times Table Rock Stars (if your children would like to play this at home they can, however this will not be set as homework)

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• All homework is set online and is used to inform teaching and learning during the next week. Completed homework will be recorded and children that have not completed it will have to stay after school to do this.
• Spelling Shed (Friday to Friday)
• Eedi (2 tests per week)

EEDI updates…

Assessment

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• Class Track – used to monitor progress in every lesson. This will be used to inform you at parents’ meetings of how your child is getting on.

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• Individual parent meetings to be held in November & February.

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• We will be doing previous SATs papers throughout the year to help us assess where the children are in terms of their understanding of the Year 6 curriculum. Please do not do old SATs papers at home.

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If you wanted to go over SATs style questions at home then these are some great resources…

Behaviour Policy

• Be ready
• Be respectful
• Be safe

• Praise in public
• Reprimand in private (wherever possible)

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Recognising and acknowledging positive behaviour:

• Verbal praise
• Postcards
• Recognition board (class / whole school)
• House points/dojo points

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• First reminder - verbal warning – yellow card – red card (phone home)

Communication

• Telephone the school office on: 01983 295713 and we will return your call
• Contact parents@gurnardprimaryschool.co.uk
• Email the team on: year6@gurnardprimaryschool.co.uk
• See the school’s website – general information/blogs.
• Letters/newsletters will be emailed to you.
• Facebook – regular updates.
• If worried about something please talk to class teacher first.
• If needed, can arrange a meeting with Deputy Head

(then Head, then formal complaints procedure).

Enrichment

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Clubs are in the process of being organised and offered after half term.

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The clubs will run from 2:50-4:00pm. Most clubs will be £2.00 per child, per week. A letter will be out in due course.

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�Key dates to keep free

• UKSA test the water session: Ventnor Class Friday 14th October 2022; Osborne Class, Friday 21st October 2022
• SATS week: Monday 8th-12th May 2023
• We are planning lots of amazing activities for our Year 6s, we will keep you informed as soon as we know more information.

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Questions…