At the end of Key Stage 2 the Standards and Testing Agency have detailed information about the expected standard that Year 6 children should be able to achieve in Reading, Writing and Maths by the time they leave primary school. Please follow the link below to find out more information about the expected standard.
Children have now become repsonsible for their own reading. Children can change their books as often as they like and they can also select as many books as they wish. In Year 6 it is important that children still read frequently as this aides in the progression of comprehension and also children's writing ability.
Reading at school consists of small group Guided Reading sessions and whole class Reading Comprehension sessions. Children identified as needing intervention are targetted for Daily Reading. Children are assessed regularly to encouarge them to move up through the colour bands using PM Benchmark and Accelerated Reader and rewarded with certificates and prizes. Click on the link below to find out more about Accelerated Reader.
By the end of Year 6 the aim is that children will have become independent in their writing and rely less on scaffolding and formal structures delivered by the class teacher.
At East Garforth there a number of approaches we use to make writing fun and give children the skills they need to write to entertain, persuade, inform and discuss; in short, children are learning to write for a purpose.
Alan Peat has designed a range of sentence types that children learn to include in their writing. These sentence types give children a scaffold for structuring their writing.
Please click on the link below to see the Maths curriculum your child will be taught in Year 6.
These tests are both set and marked externally, and the results are used to measure the school’s performance (for example, through reporting to Ofsted and published league tables). Your child’s marks will be used in conjunction with teacher assessment to give a broader picture of their attainment. This attainment will go on to inform your child's high school of their ability to inform future planning.