Key Stage 2

Reading Challenge Foundation Subjects Health and Safety Number Challenge Writing Targets Healthy Eating Learning Objectives Reading Targets Clubs PE Maths Targets Web Sites for KS2

The beginning of a new school year is always an exciting time for both staff and children alike. We all have high expectations and a renewed determination to do well and achieve even greater things.

This booklet is to inform you of what is planned for the coming year.
I hope you find it useful and informative.

We are intending to implement a spelling challenge this term.
Details will follow once agreed by staff.

As we feel that reading is one of the most important things your children learn at school we are intending to continue our popular Bookworm Challenge.

Children in Year 5 and Year 6 will have to complete;

• 10 book reviews to receive a bronze certificate and a bookmark
• 15 book reviews to receive a silver certificate and a rubber
• 25 book reviews to receive a gold certificate and a book

The children will be given guidance on how to complete a book review. Book reviews will be read and discussed before a level is completed.

We are continuing the Number Challenge, which also proved to be very popular with the children.
Year 4: X2, X3, X4, X5, X10, Multiplication Challenge
Year 5 and Year 6: X2 to X12, Multiplication Challenge

• Bronze - to recite each table without long pause or error.
• Silver - to give the product of each table in random order.
• Gold - to give division facts relating to each table. (Inverse operation)

Awards
Bronze - Pencil
Silver - Pencil sharpener
Gold - Calculator/ Maths Book

Below are the topics for some of the foundation subjects and Science. Listed are also some of the targets which the children in each year group will be working towards in Literacy and Maths. These are meant only as a guide because all children work at different rates.

Y3; Most children learn to:

• Write with consistency in the size and proportion of letters and spacing in and between words.
• Compose sentences using verbs, adjectives, nouns for clarity and impact.
• Use beginning, middle and end to write stories.

Y4; Most children learn to:

• Begin to use commas to separate clauses within a sentence
• Write consistently with neat, legible and joined handwriting
• Organise text into paragraphs

Y5; Most children learn to:

• Adapt handwriting for specific purposes.
• Punctuate sentences accurately, using speech marks and apostrophes.
• Begin to write in different styles depending on the story type.
• Change the order of paragraphs to achieve different effects.

Y6; Most children learn to:

• Develop a consistent and personal handwriting style.
• Use punctuation to clarify meaning in complex sentences.
• Use varied structures to shape and organise texts.
• Use different narrative techniques to engage and entertain the reader.

Y3; Most children learn to:

• Infer characters' feelings in fiction.
• Identify how different texts are organised.
• Identify features that writers use to provoke readers' reactions.
• Extend the range of reading books.

Y4; Most children learn to:

• Deduce characters' reasons for behaviour from their actions
• Interrogate texts to deepen and clarify understanding.
• Explain how writers use figurative language to create images and atmosphere.
• Read extensively favourite authors or genres.

Y5; Most children learn to:

• Infer writers' perspectives from what is written and from what is implied.
• Compare different types of narrative
• Make notes and use evidence from across a text to explain ideas.
• Plan personal reading goals.

Y6; Most children learn to:

• Understand underlying themes, causes and points of view.
• Recognise rhetorical devices used to persuade, argue and mislead and sway the reader.
• Read extensively and discuss personal reading with others.

Y3; Most children learn to:

• Read, write and order whole numbers to 1000 and understand the place value of the digits within these numbers
• Find fractions of shapes and numbers
• Know by heart facts for the 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10 multiplication tables and inverse operations
• Identify right angles and lines of symmetry in simple shapes.
• Solve one and two step problems choosing and carrying out appropriate calculations.

Y4; Most children learn to:

• Solve one and two step problems choosing appropriate calculations.
• Recognise equivalent fractions
• Add and subtract mentally any pairs of two digit numbers
• Know by heart all multiplication facts up to 10x10 and inverse operations.
• Know and use the relationships between units of length, mass and capacity
• Organise and present and interpret data in various ways.

Y5; Most children learn to:

• Understand the effect of dividing by 10 or 100
• Use decimal notation for tenths and hundredths
• Calculate mentally a difference such as 8006-2993
• Quickly recall all multiplication facts to 10x10
• Draw lines to nearest millimetre.
• Read and plot coordinates in first quadrant.
• Solve one and two step problems involving whole numbers and decimals using all four operations.

Y6; Most children learn to:

• Use knowledge of place value and multiplication facts to derive multiplication and division facts involving decimals.
• Express one quantity as a percentage of another.
• Find simple percentages of small whole numbers
• Reflect, rotate and translate shapes.
• Convert metric units of measure to 2 decimal places
• Solve multi step problems

KS2 will do gymnastics and dance when they are not swimming. Swimming dates will be published at a later date. Children will require suitable outdoor clothing for games, including trainers for juniors. For gymnastics and dance they will need shorts, T shirt and plimsolls.

It is school policy that children do not wear jewellery during PE. If a child wears earrings and is unable to remove them please supply plasters to cover them.
Long hair must be tied back.

We are continuing to promote Healthy Eating. The School's Catering Service, in line with the new strict DfES guidelines, is ensuring that fruit and vegetables are available daily.
Kirmington School is continuing in the Fruit and Vegetable Scheme which is a national scheme that entitles every child aged four to six in LA-maintained schools to a free piece of fruit or vegetable each school day. This scheme is paid for by the Department of Health.
I would also ask parents of children who bring food to school, either packed lunches or snacks for playtime, to support this Healthy Eating initiative.
I would also like to remind parents that we have children in school with severe nut allergy. Therefore we request that children do not bring nuts into school as part of their packed lunch or morning snack.

We are to run the following after school clubs over the coming year.

These will not necessarily run all year in order to give a wider variety of clubs.
Other clubs will be available later in the school year. You will be notified by letter when the clubs are to start giving more information about times and dates of each club.

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