Expectations and Curriculum Overview for The Jaguars School

Welcome to The Jaguars

Meet the Team Class Teacher- Mrs Carberry Teaching Assistant- Miss Hutchinson

Example Timetable

Reading expectations Read a range of age appropriate texts with enthusiasm Ask questions to enhance understanding and recommend texts to others Use evidence from the text to answer questions Make inferences based on how a character is feeling from their actions Make accurate predictions based on what they have read so far Comments on choice of language and structures and make clear comparisons between two texts

Writing expectations Use paragraphs to develop and expand ideas and use a range of devices to link ideas between and within them Use appropriate choice of tense Know the terms expanded noun phrases, prepositions, adverbials and relative clauses and use them confidently in their writing Use commas to clarify meaning, colons to introduce lists and semi colons Accurate spelling of most prefixes, suffixes, homophones and words with silent letters Evaluate writing and edit to make appropriate changes to grammar, vocabulary and punctuation

Maths expectations Read, write and order and compare numbers up to 10 000 000 and determine the value of each digit Use negative numbers in context and calculate intervals across zero Perform mental calculations including mixed operations and large numbers Confidently know their time tables up to 12 x 12 Use efficient written methods for all four operations Identify common factors, common multiples and prime numbers Add, subtract multiply and divide fractions Explain the value of each digit in numbers given to three decimal places Calculate percentages of amounts Please note all arithmetic papers will be sent home and we would appreciate your support by working with your child on any areas in which they have found difficult. These will also be addressed in school.

Homework The children are expected to read for 20 minutes everyday. Maths homework and grammar homework will be set every Thursday using My Maths and Spag.com and is due in on the following Tuesday. Literacy or subject homework will be set every Thursday and children will be given a week or sometimes 2 weeks for longer pieces. This is also due in on a Tuesday. Dates will be clear.

Support for Parents Please refer to the Parent Support booklets for maths, reading and writing, which can be found on the Jaguars page on our school website. It is important that home and school work together to support your child s development. As such, please continue to keep me up to date with aspects of your child s learning or social development. We will be able to give you more formal feedback in our October parents evening and if you wish to make an appointment at other times, please don t hesitate to contact us.

Attendance Matters Following the pandemic, schools are continuing to work hard to plug relevant learning gaps and to support children s social development. We need your support to do this. If a child has an attendance figure of 90% in the year they miss the equivalent of day of school each week, four weeks over the year, and half a year over five years. 90% sounds good but it isn t! This has an enormous impact on a child s development. Research links low attendance to lower GCSE scores. 90% of young people with absence rates below 85% fail to achieve five or more good GCSE grades. There are 190 statutory days in one school year leaving 175 days available for holidays, family time, appointments, visits and so on . Please ensure holidays are taken during school holiday periods. The local authority fined more Acresfield parents last year than in any previous year. The school does not get the money! Please can you help to ensure our attendance figures are strong. Our target for the school this year is 97% We monitor attendance monthly and will write to you offering support. North West Academies Trust has a new attendance officer who will also be working with schools and families to support strong attendance.

Attendance Matters Lateness In addition, please can we ask for your help to ensure all children arrive at school for an 8.50am start. This is when the whistle is blown. Arriving just five minutes late a day equates to the following 25 minutes lost over one week, 1 hour 40 minutes lost a month, 5 hours lost a term [a whole day], 16 hours and 15 minutes lost in a school year. [equivalent to three days]. 10 minutes late a day equates to losing just over six full days of school a year. Children who arrive late, disrupt a smooth start to the day. It impacts on learning, as learning begins straight away. Punctuality and good attendance will greatly help your children prepare for high school and working life beyond. Thank you for your help with this.

Key events MacMillan Coffee Afternoon 29thSeptember Jaguar class assembly 20thOctober Parents evenings will be taking place on the 17thand 19thof October. International Slavery Museum Trip - 23rd November Tatton Park WWII Evacuees Trip - 12th January SATS are scheduled to take place in May. Further information will be shared in the spring term.

Finally We have been very pleased with how the children have returned to school. Thank you for your support with this. We are looking forward to a successful year. We appreciate your continued support and look forward to giving you further updates relating to your child s progress at next month s parents evening.