Broadoak Backpack Character Values
Respect - Perseverance - Ambition - Happiness - Kindness - Love - Honesty - Co-operation - Empathy - Courage - Resilience - Determination - Enthusiasm - Peacefulness - Creativity - Acceptance - Gratitude - Confidence - Humour - Optimism -
Welcome to Year 6
Welcome to our Year Six page!
Here you will find regular updates, throughout the year, relating to everything that is happening in Year Six. Please find below key information related to our class curriculum, along with news, dates and important updates. You will also be able to see photographs of the exciting things we have been doing and work that we have been producing via our window into the classroom.
Year Six Team
Mrs Dermody's Class
2023 - 2024
Mrs Comerford's and Miss Gavin's Class
2023 - 2024
The Year 6 Staff Team
Teaching Team: Mrs Dermody, Mrs Comerford, Miss Gavin, Mrs Oldroyd, Mrs Smith.
Health and Well-being Team: Coach Kim and Coach Vicki
Key Stage Leader: Mrs Dermody
SENDCO: Mrs. Manson / Deputy Headteacher: Miss Fairhurst / Headteacher: Mrs. Wild
Year 6 Teaching Team
Health and Wellbeing Team
Year 6 - Standard Assessment Tests (SATs)
The Year 6 SATs will take place from Monday 13th May 2024
Please click in the link below for information regarding the tests:
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Key Dates / Reminders / Homework
PE: Every Wednesday - children to wear PE kits on this day.
Homework: Children are allocated their Maths homework on a Wednesday using their Rising Stars books. These are to be handed in on a Monday. During a week, children are expected to complete at least three Reading Plus assignments. These will be checked on a Monday.
TT RockStars: Children need to access TTRS and practice all their times tables regularly. TTRS will be checked on a Friday.
Spellings: Spellings are taught weekly. Each week children will have a new list of spellings to learn. These may be challenge words or words which follow a particular rule. Each Friday, children will be tested on the spellings they have had for the week. Spelling assignments are set on Spelling Shed to support children learning their new spellings.
Children also need to learn to spell the Year 5 and 6 word list, which can be found below and also accessed on Spelling Shed. The list is a mixture of words pupils frequently use in their writing and those which they often misspell.
Reading: We ask that all children have their reading record signed by an adult each time they have read at home. We have adopted a traffic light system to encourage the consistency of reading at home across the school. On Friday, reading records will be checked and record either a red, amber or green traffic light:
Red : Read 3 times or less
Amber : Read 4 times
Green : Read 5 times or more
The children's names are put into a 'Traffic Light Treat' draw on a Friday, if your child has read 5 times or more that week and their name comes out of the box, they will choose a special prize from the Traffic Light Treat box!
Rewards and Celebrations
Class Dojo: Children can earn 'Dojo Points' for any number of positive reasons, such as: following our Golden Rules, demonstrating our character values, excellent attitude, effort and achievement.
Dojo Dip Winner: Weekly celebration for a child in each class who are awarded the most Dojo Points. The winner selects a book as a reward for their achievement.
Achievement Awards: Two children from each class are awarded an Achievement Award to reflect the excellent learning they have demonstrated that week These certificates are awarded to the children during Friday Celebration Assembly.
Sparkle and Shine Book: Each week, a child is selected from each class who has been demonstrating our focus Broadoak Value. This is announced in the Friday Celebration Assembly and children may receive a special postcard home for their efforts.
Reward and Celebration Day: Every half-term, each class takes part in Reward and Celebration Day - usually on the Friday before each half-term.
Star of PE: Our Health and Well-being coaches award 'Star of PE' to children who show a commitment to their physical and mental well-being.
Window into the Classroom - Twitter
To enable you to gain an insight into some of the learning and experiences that your child will have whilst in Year 6, we will tweet pictures, videos and work which you can use as a starting point for discussion at home with your child.
Head Bump Protocol
If children have a head injury when at school. they will be assessed by a First Aider. Should the injury be a minor bump, parents/carers will receive an email to inform them that their child has bumped their head in addition to a sticker and a first aid note being sent home. Parents/carers do not need to respond to this email – it is just another way to ensure parents and carers are informed. If a child has a head injury which the first aider believes need to be checked or the child is unwell after a head injury, a telephone call to parents/carers will be made and they will be asked to collect their child and advised to seek medical advice. In the most serious cases, medical assistance would be called to school.
Our broad and balanced curriculum aims to develop in children a curiosity and fascination of the world around us. It is our intention that our children will be inquisitive about the world- locally, nationally and globally; to have a sense of awe and wonder about the physical and natural world: places, people, processes, times, changes and development.
Our curriculum is focused on the development of children’s knowledge and skills across all curriculum subjects. We know learning is defined as changes in long term memory so we ensure children build upon and recall previous learning to enable them to know more and remember more in the long term. We aim for our children to become happy, resilient and determined life-long learners who are great thinkers, problem solvers and who are fully prepared for further learning and life events ahead of them.
We prioritise the personal development of our children through our curriculum. They will learn how to take care of themselves, and be healthy -physically, emotionally and mentally, knowledge which will stay with them throughout their life.
Our Broadoak Backpack character values encourage them to celebrate differences, be respectful, have empathy, to be tolerant and kind. They learn and appreciate Fundamental British Values and the Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural dimensions of the world as part of our curriculum, to ensure they are fully prepared for life in modern Britain.
Our curriculum aspires to develop a ‘Backpack’ for life for each Broadoak child, filled with knowledge, skills, experiences, personal attributes and ultimately, an understanding about the world around them which will enable them to thrive and have the confidence and courage to achieve their best in all they do, whilst at Broadoak and beyond.
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This year, the children will be exploring all aspects of the Year Six curriculum. We will consolidate learning from previous years and embed new knowledge and understanding. The Year Six Team will deliver lessons via quality first teaching. Our lessons will be engaging and accessible for all. We will also be challenging the pupils and encouraging them to tackle investigations and ask questions about the wider world. As the children begin their transition to high school, we will work hard to equip them with the academic and social skills they need for their 'backpack' to ensure a smooth transition for the next part of their academic journey.
Mental Health Provision
myHappymind is all based around helping children to understand how their brain works and to support them in developing positive skills and habits to
be their very best selves!
myHappymind is delivered in school by class teachers and the Health and Wellbeing Team through a series of interactive lessons and then the children apply these learnings throughout the day.
To further embed this learning and ensure that you are able to engage in these topics with your child, myHappymind has developed a set of resources for parents. These resources can be accessed online on your computer, or through an app on your phone. The resources allow children to continue to practise some of the habits they have developed at school, such as Happy Breathing, for you to learn more about what they are learning in the program.
Also included are activities for you to do together at home, to complement the in-school lessons.
To access these materials, just go to https://myhappymind.org/parent-resources and enter your name, email, and authentication code. Your authentication code has been communicated via email to all of our parents and carers.
Year 6 - Parent Curriculum Overview - Summer
Our Commitment to Embedding a Life Long Love of Reading to ALL children
What is Reading at Broadoak?
At Broadoak Primary School, we want all children to develop a lifelong love of reading that will become an integral part of their future. As a school, we believe that creating a culture of reading is a vital tool in ensuring our children are given the best life chances. Cultivating readers with a passion for a wide range of materials, will ensure that children’s love of reading will extend far beyond the classroom and allow them to build on their skills independently through a real curiosity and thirst for knowledge.
It is our aim that all pupils-irrespective of their needs, abilities or background- will be able to:
- Read with confidence, fluency and understanding
- Develop the pleasure of reading widely and often and appreciate our rich and varied literary heritage
- Use higher order reading skills including retrieval and inference through the use of text referral, assessment of author’s intentions, justifications of their opinions and judgements and in the pursuit of critical awareness
- Acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language.
We use individual reading books, author focus units, high quality key texts and Broadoak's 50 Brilliant Books to engage all our children in reading.
Reading at Home - Support for Parents
Parents play a vital part in their child's learning and progress. Below are some suggestion question stems that can be used by parents whilst completing reading at home.
Retrieval Questions
Children have to pick out information from a text in order to answer questions about it.
- Who is telling this story?
- When / where is this story set? Find evidence in the text to support your answer.
Word meaning and Effective Language Questions
Children have to explain how phrases / words have been used to add to the meaning of the text
- Find and copy one word that means the same as…
- What does the word …….. tell you about the character/setting/mood?
Summary Questions
Children have to summarise the main points or main events in a paragraph or whole text
- What is the moral message in the story?
- Sum up what has happened so far in less than 20 words.
Inference Questions
Children have to look for clues in the text in order to answer questions about how someone might be feeling or why something is happening. Encourage children to support their answers by finding evidence in the text.
- I think… Do you agree or disagree? Explain your answer using evidence from the text.
- Describe how …is feeling. Use two pieces of evidence from the text to support your answer.
Prediction Questions
Based on what children have read, they need to make predictions about what they think may happen next
- Based on what you have read, what does the last paragraph suggest might happen ____? Use evidence from the paragraph to support your prediction.
- What do you think will happen next?
There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.
Jacqueline Kennedy
Summer Author Focus
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist.
Summer Key Text
(Linked to Author Focus)
Summer Key Text (linked to Science)
Broadoak's 50 Brilliant Books - Year 6
Mathematics
This term, we will be focussing on:
- using the column method for addition and subtraction
- using short multiplication where numbers are multiplied by one-digit e.g. 56 X 8
- using long multiplication where numbers are multiplied by two digits e.g. 45 x 27
- using the short division method where numbers are being divided by one-digit e.g. 345 ÷ 5
- using the long division method where numbers are being divided by a two-digit number e.g. 850 ÷ 15
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TIME
Problems, Timetables, Telling the time, Time problems, 24 hour clock, Timetables
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NUMBER SEQUENCES
Algebra, Formulae, Solving equations
- applying the above through reasoning problems (reasoning in maths is the process of applying logical and critical thinking to a mathematical problem in order to work out the correct strategy to use in reaching a solution).
Year 6 Addition / Subtraction / Multiplication / Division Strategies
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Please visit previous year group class pages to revisit previous strategies.
Our Full / Wider Curriculum Offer
After School Clubs
Life Skills Curriculum
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