Welcome to Upper Key Stage Two

1. Welcome to Upper Key Stage Two

2. Aims • Introduce the teaching team • Routines and Expectations • Demands of the National Curriculum • - Reading • - Writing • - Maths • Assessment • Our Curriculum • Chance to speak with your child’s class teacher

3. Upper Key Stage Two Staff • Mrs Talbot - Teaching Assistant in Year 5 • Mrs Cooper – Teaching Assistant in Year 5 • Mr Durrani – Year 5 Teacher • Mr Harker – Year 5 Teacher • Mrs Burton– Year 5 Teacher • Mrs Shildrick– Year 6 Teacher and Team Leader

4. Our Routines • Our daily timetable • Early morning work- Sticky Learning Activities • Homework is set on Friday and is usually due in the following Wednesday • Additional support in school

5. Sticky Learning:

6. Successful Learners We want your child to enjoy coming to school so the following things are really important. • Attendance – anything below 90% is now below expectation. In a six week half term, this means anything in excess of 3 days is below national expectations. • Growth Mindset: • Independent, resilient and self-motivated learners • Active participants • Ask questions • Willing to take risks/step out of their comfort zones

7. Challenges of the English Curriculum • Increased emphasis on grammar and the understanding of key vocabulary • The Year 5 and 6 spelling list – very challenging • Increased emphasis on the origins of words and their meanings. • The application of key skills in independent writing. • Expectations on handwriting.

8. Year 5 and Year 6 Spelling List

9. Year 5 Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Expectations

10. So what are we doing to meet this challenge head on?

11. Strategies for Spelling During extended writing activities, we encourage the children to ‘Dot Don’t Dodge’ words which they find tricky, or are not confident spelling. This prevents children from interrupting their writing flow.

12. Strategies for Spelling Magic Spelling is a visual strategy which can be used to support the teaching of unfamiliar and complex words. This can be a highly effective strategy for children who find spelling particularly challenging.

13. Strategies for Spelling • Mnemonics- a useful strategy for the teaching of key words: Should, would, could- Oh U Lucky Duck Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants. • Personal spelling dictionaries/Classroom dictionaries • Rote learning linked to regular handwriting practice.

14. Meeting the Challenges…Writing • Talk 4 Writing/Read. Write. Respond approaches • Enables children to imitate orally keylanguage and patterns they need for aparticular topic • Reading and analysing the text • Lots of shared opportunities (innovating) • Successful and enjoyable! • Opportunities to perform their writing • Writing opportunities across the curriculum • Non-negotiables – capital letters, full stops etc.

15. Effective Marking and Target Setting

16. Meeting the Challenges… Reading Attitudes and Responses • Love of reading – reading for pleasure! • Reads and discuss a more challenging range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction. • Recommends books they have read to their peers, giving reasons for their choices.

17. Reciprocal Reading During these sessions, teachers model, then support children to guide group discussions using four strategies: summarising, question generating, clarifying, and predicting. Once students have learnt the strategies, they take turns assuming the role of teacher in leading a dialogue about what has been read.

18. Why Use Reciprocal Reading? • It encourages students to think about their own thought process during reading. • It helps students learn to be actively involved and monitor their comprehension as they read. • It teaches students to ask questions during reading and helps make the text more comprehensible.

19. KS1 – Learning to read KS2 – Reading to learn Meeting the Challenges… Reading • Dedicated session within the day for structured reading lessons/activities planned to address the challenging objectives • The promotion of a love of books and reading • Encouraging children to read daily and to read a wide range of texts with more challenge. • Class text • Discussion of vocabulary and promoting a love of words – word of the week • Structured intervention • Reading Plus

20. Huge Thank You! Reading Records

21. Why is it so effective? How can it help your child and improve their ability to comprehend challenging texts with increasing speed? Preparation for Year 6 SATS.

22. Challenges of the Maths Curriculum • In mathematics, an increased focus on formal written methods for the four operations (introduction of an arithmetic paper) • By the end of Y4, all children should be able to recall multiplication and corresponding division facts by heart up to 12 x 12 • Fractions, decimals and percentages • Roman numerals • Reasoning and application of understanding

23. So what are we doing to meet this challenge head on?

25. Place Value What is the value of the underlined digit? 673,826 7,897,004 Partition the following number: 6,797,930 = 6,000,000 + 700,000 + ________ + 90,000 + 7,000 + 4 Write these numbers in words: 56,271 4,507,076 Write this numbers in figures: One million, three hundred and twenty thousand, five hundred and sixty three

26. Place Value

27. Place Value What is the smallest possible number the splat could be? The largest? A number rounded to the nearest 10,000 is 190,000. What could the number be?

28. What does it look like?

29. Our Curriculum

30. Our Curriculum

31. Reported throughout the year. • Children will be assessed within their current year group. • Attainment judgements will now be measured against year group expectations as follows: • Working Towards (WT) Expected (EX) Greater Depth (GD) Assessment E.g. 5WT6WT 5EX6EX 5GD 6GD

32. All members of the team look forward to working closely with you to ensure that your child has a successful and enjoyable year. Thank you for attending. Questions? bfcshildrick@sbcschools.org.uk bfhburtonbfaharkerbfudurrani