Curriculum Evening

1. Curriculum Evening Welcome! Thursday 19th September Year 5

2. Aims To inform parents of expectations for Our Mission Statement and House System Knowledge/topics covered Educational visits Timetable Uniform Homework Websites FSM

4. St Joseph the Worker St Cecelia St Francis of Assisi St. Teresa of Calcutta

5. How does the House System work? • Rewarded for Good Behaviour • Good Manners • Being a kind friend • Showing respect to others • Lunchtime behaviour • Displaying Virtues and Values • Being resilient • Child receives a token for good behaviour • Token placed in a special box under the Saint • Number of points celebrated each week • End of Term prize for the winning house • Inter School Competitions

6. The Merit System – Progress and Attainment • Years 1 to 6 • 10 merits – bronze certificate • 20 merits – silver certificate • 30 merits – gold certificate • 50 merits – platinum certificate • 70 merits + Principal’s certificates • Teachers and Teaching Assistants to award for Good Learning Behaviours: • Homework • Preparation for lessons • Attitude to Work • Contributions in Class • Resilience • Effort

7. Knowledge By the end of year 5, the children should be able to recall all times tables facts and solve problems applying their knowledge of number. Times tables and number facts will be a focus for homework throughout the year. The children should be able to join all handwriting, spell and use homophones in accurate context, spell words with silent letters and words adding a range of prefixes and suffixes. The topics covered through the Thematic Curriculum during are, The Tudors, Africa and The Industrial Revolution. In English are reading a child friendly version of Macbeth and using this to plan our writing. We will look at a explore a range of fiction, myths and legends, biographies, autobiographies, poetry and information texts throughout the year. During R.E. the children will learn about Creation, Miracles and the Sacrament of the Sick, Advent, Christmas, Baptism, the Parables and the sayings of Jesus, Lent, Holy Week, Easter, Pentecost, The Work of the Apostles, Marriage and Holy orders and Judaism.

8. Science Curriculum in Year 5 During Year 5 the following topics are covered: Forces The Earth in Space Life Cycles (This topic is linked to the ‘All that I Am’ scheme from the Birmingham Diocese which aims to inform children about the physical and emotional changes that will happen to them in the coming years) Chemical Changes and Separating Substances

9. Educational Visits Year 5 will attend their residential trip to Alton Castle on Wednesday 26th to Friday 28th September. The whole school will visit the Bedworth Civic Hall, to see the production of the pantomime before Christmas. The children will visit Safeside. Children will visit the Space Centre during the spring term, as part of their Space topic in Science. We will join with the children and staff of St. Gregory’s School, in the Parish Centre, to celebrate a Seder Meal during the first half of Spring term. To support our Thematic curriculum, the children will visit Tudor World during the summer term. A trip to the synagogue in Solihull is to be arranged for the Summer term.

10. Timetable

11. Uniform Winter – to be worn from October half term until Easter • Grey skirt/trousers • White shirt and tie • School jumper with logo • Black school shoes (not trainers) • No jewellery apart from plain studs as ear-rings and a watch • No excessive hair accessories Summer – can be worn after Easter until October half term • Polo shirt with logo • Red and white gingham dress • Black school shoes (not trainers) • No jewellery apart from plain studs as ear-rings and a watch • No excessive hair accessories

12. P.E. White PE kit can still be worn Plain black shorts Plain burgundy t-shirt (or with school logo) Plain black pumps Hair must be tied up if below collar length No ear-rings or jewellery Trainers may be worn for ‘morning mile’ After school activities – separate appropriate kit from home

13. Homework All children from EYFS up to year six should read a little of their school reading book each night. All children from year two to year six will have a set of weekly spellings to learn for a written test (a strip a night and learn meanings). Homework is recorded in homework books/worksheets/Mathletics. Homework will be set on a Monday and handed in the following Monday. Sometimes homework projects may be given for longer pieces.

14. Websites Oxford Owl – great selection of free ebooks and an increasing selection of comprehension activities to accompany the books www.oxfordowl.co.uk (select ‘find a book’ tab, click on the ‘go to the library’ on the owl logo, narrow down your search using the drop down lists, choose a book by clicking on the ‘e’) SkoolboDBPrimary – link from our school website. All children should have a username and password. Speak to Mrs Edge

15. FSM All children in KS1 are entitled to a free school meal Please inform the office if your child is entitled to a free school meal (whether or not they decide to use it) as the school receives money for each child.

16. Caterlink School Dinners are now provided by a new catering company - Caterlink. All food is cooked from fresh each day. New menus are delicious! After ½ term Caterlink will be taking over the responsibility of managing payments for dinners and also contacting parents for outstanding balances. Therefore, we would appreciate if all dinner money is paid up to ½ term for a smooth transition to the new way of working. Any money already paid in advance will be credited to Caterlink.

17. Questions?