5S

Mrs Smith Class TeacherMr Abbas Teaching Assistant

Miss Singh LSAMr Mills LSA

Mr Shafiq LSA

Welcome to Year 5

Mr Goodwin Class TeacherMr McHugh Teaching Assistant

Mr Bourdillen LSA

5G

Key Staff Members at Malorees

Mr Hulme (PPA Cover Teacher)Mr Cleary (PE Teacher)Ms Danz (SENCO)Ms Mannion (Music Teacher)Madame Rose (French Teacher)Monica Jato (SideBeSide Team Leader)

SEND Team Deborah ChouekaAmelia Hopkins

YR 5 Timetable

Curriculum Overviews

This half term we will be

Learning about:

• Topic: World War II (Links into English text)

• RE: Islam

• PSHE: Beginning and belonging

• ICT: Internet safety and spreadsheets

• Science: Forces

• MFL: French (Madame Rose) Tuesday

• Music: Ms Mannion from Brent music service

Important information:

• Homework will be sent

out on Thursday and is due back in on Wednesday

• Spelling tests will take place on Tuesday

• PE kit is a blue t-shirt with blue shorts and trainers. PE will take place on a Tuesday

Details of Core subjects/topics on autumn curriculum newsletter

What is Destination Reader:A new approach to teaching reading skills developed in Hackney. Destination Reader involves daily sessions incorporating whole class modelling by the class teacher before the children are give the opportunity to verbally apply these skills through partner work and independent reading.

What is the aim:The aim is to deepen children’s understanding of the texts they read through the use of a series of strategies and language stems. The approach encompasses the key principles of effective reading provision and fully meets the requirements of the National Curriculum. It also builds a culture of reading for pleasure and purpose.

Meeting Aims

• Develop positive communication between the school and parents.

• Offer support and guidance on what you can do at home to help your child’s learning

• Introduce the key learning and topics which will take place this term.

• A step by step guide to accessing the Malorees Junior School Book lists online.

• The school book lists can be found on a website called Lovereading4schools. Please find below instructions how to find and access them.

1. Go to the website www.lovereading4schools.co.uk2. Type Malorees Junior School into the 'Find your School' box on the left hand side of the screen and click the

Search button.3. Click on the red Malorees Junior School text.4. If this is your first visit to Lovereading4schools you will need to set up your own parent account to access

the school's book lists. This is free and all you need to do is enter a valid email address and a password you will remember.

5. Click the 'Click here to set up your parent account' button.6. When you come back to the site, after you have registered, you will need to enter your email and password

into the Existing 'Lovereading4schools' Parents area.7. You will be taken to the Malorees Junior School section of the Lovereading4schools site. The web address

of this is www.lovereading4schools.co.uk/viewschool/9713 and you can add this to your favourites to make it quicker to find the book lists in the future.

8. On this page you will see all the book lists that have been created by the school - click on any of them to see the book lists.

9. All the books on the lists can be bought at a 25% discount, off the RRP, and 5% of what you spend will be given to Malorees Junior School, by Lovereading4schools, for the school to spend on books for the library.

Key Dates

• Trips: Residential to Hampshire/Gordon Brown Centre (20-24 May 2019)

• Class Assembly:

5G- 01/11/2018

5S- 29/11/2018

• Other trips TBC

•Inset days (School Closed) 19th & 29th October

•Horizon Individual school photo’s5th Nov 2018

Parent Partnership – your help

Class Representatives

• Helps teachers -requests/questions/feedback

• Ensures parent voice from every class is heard

• Can be shared between two parents

• Needed ASAP

Parent Forum

• Termly 45 min meeting with Ms Davies/Ms Harris

• Class rep attends or finds a deputy

• First meeting 1 Oct, 2.45pm

Submitting key information

Refer parents to:

•Updated medical information•Breakfast Club interest•Home collection information/Home alone

Attendance and Punctuality

School Gates open at 8.40 am. Children should not come into school before this time unless they are attending a morning club. (gates open at 7.55-8.05 for club arrival. Please be punctual so the activity

can start on time)

The School bell rings at 8.50 am. Children are collected from the playground by their teachers.

LatenessArriving late after the register has closed (after 9.00 am is recorded formally on the register/SIMS)

Late after 9.20am (30 minutes late) is recorded as absence.

Collection at the end of the day is 3.35 pm (10 minutes later than the infants to allow you time to collect younger siblings before picking up in the juniors).

Please let the school know if you are going to be late. It is important that children are collected on time as there is no-one to supervise children.

Attendance

The Government's national expectation for attendance is 96%

Our overall average over the year for 2017-2018 was 95.5%

Many weeks in the year the weekly attendance fell below the national standard, falling significantly before and after some holidays.

We need to significantly improve our weekly attendance,• Reduce leave at starts/ends of term• Ensure that children return to school promptly when there health improves following illness.

• As part of ongoing school improvement we will have to actively demonstrate how we are going to improve attendance this academic year.

• Absence

Please report all absence on the first day by 9.00 am at the latest (by telephone/you can leave a voicemail or email) Giving details about the nature of the sickness/reason for absence and the anticipated length of the absence (not always known).

The attendance officer is Ms Susie Shackleton attendance@maloreesjnr.brent.sch.uk

If we don’ t receive any communication/contact with you reference your child’s absence then we will continue to call/text, including ringing other numbers listed in your contacts. We have a duty of care to account for all absent children’s whereabouts/reason for absence by 9.30 am.

• Request for leave during term time

• We cannot agree to holidays during term time.

• Requests for leave have to meet exceptional circumstances and will need in most cases supporting evidence will be needed to authorise the request. Late return to school after a holiday/early leaving at the end of term before a holiday will need to show the reason meets exceptional circumstances to be authorised. Forms can be requested from Ms Shackleton. Please note that Unauthorised Leave can result in the issue of a warning letter and in some cases a penalty notice.

• We ask that you try to book non urgent appointments out of school hours. If you request leave for an appoint you will need to show the details of the appointment to Ms Shackleton. (letter/appointment card/text message)

• We work closely with Paul McGhie (Education Welfare Officer Brent) around the monitoring and mangement of attendance.

My performance Learning www.myperformancelearning.com A programme of support through teaching a Performance Learning Curriculum (some whole class sessions and some targeted small group lessons) to help children overcome any key barriers to learning identified in the assessment. This programme over time has shown (in other schools) to improved the assessment results of children and build on the development of key skills and habits to support learning to learn and life

• Children will begin by completing an assessment called a PLOA (Performance Learning Online Assessment). This will be analysed to identify individual barriers.

• Parents will need give consent for their children to participate in the assessment and follow up interventions.

Secondary School Applications

• Key Dates• Deadline for applications for children transferring to Y7 in September

2019 is 31st October 2018• The application is online at www.eadmissions.org.uk• You need an email to apply• Preparation• Read the handbooks at www.brent.gov.uk/admissions• Myths/Look at statistics for applications last year.• Visit the school for an open evening/morning and a tour (see purple

leaflet/look on individual school websites) QPCS 20.9.18 (open evening/tours by appointment from 24.9.18 see website for further details)

• List 6 preferences-please note listing only 1 school does not improve your chances

Secondary School Admissions 2018

SEND

Information for Parents and Carers

What does SEND mean?

SEND stands for Special Educational Needs and Disability. All children are individuals and have different abilities and ways of learning. A child may have a special educational need if they require additional or specialist support with their learning.

Please take the SEND leaflet which gives you more information along with contact details.

Malorees Inclusion Team Vanessa Danz – SENDCO/Assistant Head

Amelia Hopkins – SEN assistant

Deborah Choueka – Specialist teacher

What is the No Nonsense Spelling Programme?

• The No Nonsense Spelling Programme is a comprehensive framework to teach spelling

• The focus of the programme is on the teaching of spelling, which embraces knowledge of spelling conventions –patterns and rules; but integral to the teaching is the opportunity to promote the learning of spellings, including statutory words, common exceptions and personal spellings.

• The programme delivers a manageable tool for meeting the requirements of the 2014 National Curriculum

• has a clear progression through blocks of teaching units across the year

• comprehensively explains how to teach spelling effectively.

• Teaching sequence• The programme has been

written broadly following a teaching sequence for spelling, whereby each new concept is taught, practised and then applied and assessed. Frequently there is also a ‘Revise’ session before the teaching session. A typical teaching sequence is as follows:

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Children will be taught spellings, practice them in and out of school before being assessed in different ways.

• Tips for learning spellings at home • Learning at home needs to be an extension of the practice in school.

Consider • limiting the number of words to 5 key spellings a week to ensure success

and enable deeper learning • making sure pupils and parents have access to the range of learning

strategies which have been taught in school, to use in home learning • assessing spellings in context, for example: learning spellings in a given

sentence, generating sentences for each word, assessing through unseen dictated sentences

• keeping an ongoing record of words learnt and setting very high expectations of correct application in writing once a word has been learned.

• The learning strategies on the next two pages are introduced incrementally throughout the programme and can then be used to support learning spellings at home. (Copies available)

Wider school information

• Packed Lunches-Healthy Snacks/Fruits/Vegetables (No Nuts)

• School lunches ‘Oasis catering’ – Menus on the school website

• Attendance and Punctuality

• Contact numbers please keep us informed of any changes. Need 2 contact numbers for each family on record

• Year 5 prep/research for secondary school

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