Curriculum meetings at Worple Primary School - September 2015

1. Welcome to the YearYear 44
Curriculum Meeting
Worple Primary School

2. School Staff
• Head Teacher – Mrs D O’Connor
• Assistant Head and Key Stage Two Leader – Mr L
Redman
• Assistant Head and Early Years Leader – Mrs R Millward
• Senco – Mrs R Millward Assistant Senco – Mrs Patton
• Key Stage One Leader- Miss H Joy

3. Basic Rules & Expectations
• In Class
• Around the school
• In the playground
• Of school Equipment
RewardsRewards – purple tokens praise, stickers, merits,– purple tokens praise, stickers, merits,
golden time, certificates, Team points , Dojogolden time, certificates, Team points , Dojo
pointspoints
SanctionsSanctions – being moved, missing minutes of– being moved, missing minutes of
playtime/golden time, being sent to anotherplaytime/golden time, being sent to another
class/member of senior staff.class/member of senior staff.
See AppendixSee Appendix

5. Expectations of Uniform
• School Sweatshirt
• Grey/black skirt/shorts/trousers/pinafore dress
• White polo shirt/ cotton shirt
• Black shoes (no heels, no trainers)
• In summer – purple dresses /shorts ( black or
grey)
• No Jewellery except small studs or sleepers
All Uniform MUST be labelled!

6. PE Kit
• PE Kit – These should be brought in on a
Monday and kept in school until Friday. It
is essential for your child's wellbeing that
they are fully equipped to take part in PE.
The kit must be black shorts, white t-shirt,
white socks, black plimsolls. For outdoor
PE, children can wear tracksuit bottoms
and trainers.

7. Timetable Year 5 Autumn 2014

8. Attendance
• Importance of regular attendance ( & rewards –
class trophy/certificates)
• When attendance drops below 95% Mrs
O’Connor becomes involved and you will be
contacted by letter.
• A home school agreement with targets will be
put in place if attendance continues to be poor
which can result in the EWO becoming involved.

11. Punctuality
Importance of punctuality – Non-uniform day
‘Every Second Counts!’
Did you know..?
If your child is late 10 minutes every day, then over the course of a year, they will miss out on
32.5 hours of learning time – which is the same as being absent for more than a full week of
school!
We want to work together with parents to provide children with the best possible start in life.
Part of our role as adults is helping the children we take care of to develop important life
skills. Attendance and punctuality are two very important life skills.

12. Cross curricular learning
• IPC has been updated in line with the new curriculum.
• Exit and Entry points.
• IPC involves Science, History, Geography, Computing,
Music, Citizenship, Art and Design Technology.
• This year, we will be linking all of our writing and some of
our maths to the topic we are studying.
• Other subjects will also be timetabled into the school
week, such as PE and RE.
• Any skills not covered will be taught at other times.

13. Physical Education
Wednesday - Swimming
Thursday-games and gymnastics

14. Date
Targets for Year 4
Target
1st
Achieved 2nd
Achieved 3rd
Achieved
I can use powerful verbs
Eg: sprinted instead of ran
Example of
Year 4
targets
I can use subordinate clauses with:
when, if, that or because
I can use coordinating conjunctions
or, and, but
I can write interesting sentences with fronted adverbials:
Place a comma after the fronted adverbials
Use effective conjunctions to join my clauses
I can devise useful questions
•Make effective use of who, how, why, what, when to
obtain the information that I need
• End in a question mark ?
I can write dialogue with inverted commas “ ”
I can make accurate use of pronouns
eg: he, she, it, his, her, my, I
I can make accurate use of determiners
a, an, the, this, that, my, their,
many, few, several
always followed by a noun
I can write an explanatory statement
I can write persuasive statements
Poetry
I can write phrases containing similes
Like, As, Similar to, Akin to, Approximately, In the vein of,
Reminiscent of, Resembling, Related to, Comparable to
Poetry
I can write noun phrases
Poetry
I can write rhyming couplets:
Using rhythm effectively and interesting adjectives
Writing Targets

15. Reading & Homework
• New Reading Journal – MUST be brought to
school everyday.
• Weekly – Reading (daily), Spelling, Times
tables, Maths, English.
• Homework will be given out ………….
Spellings: Given out on a Monday– Test Friday
Maths: Given out on a Tuesday – due in on Friday
English/IPC: Given out on a Friday – due in on Monday

16. Enrichment Activities
• Clarinet- Thursday afternoon
• Trips - tba

17. What needs to come to school
• Reading bag – each day – with books
and reading records in it!
• PE kit – must be in every day – leave in
school
• Water Bottle – can be left in school and
refilled each day home on a Friday or
come in each day

18. New Assessment Procedures
• There is a new curriculum and therefore a new way of
assessing the children.
• The new curriculum focuses on deepening understanding,
and not moving on before children have embedded a skill or
concept.
• Teachers will no longer be using levels. Therefore, your child
will no longer be given the label of 3a, 4c etc………..
• Teachers will now be able to tell you if your child is on track to
meet year group expectations.
• They will also be able to communicate to you which areas of
the curriculum your child needs to develop further in.
• There will still be formal assessments in years 2 and 6,
however the government are still finalising their eventual
layout.
• Mr Redman will be doing a ‘new assessment’ workshop for
parents on Tuesday 6th
October at 2.30pm.

19. Website and the Internet
• Our website has an on line calendar toOur website has an on line calendar to
keep you up to datekeep you up to date
• www.worple.orgwww.worple.org
• Parent mail – please make sure you areParent mail – please make sure you are
registered for parent mail.registered for parent mail.
• Safe use of the internetSafe use of the internet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IOOn2wR8bU
• Class Dojo- sign up to see how your child is
doing in class

20. Parent Help & Support
We would really appreciate youWe would really appreciate you
coming in to help with:coming in to help with:
• Reading with individual children
• Swimming
• Help with the PTA events
• Help on school trips
• Help making resources

21. Questions?