Welcome to Upper Junior Key Information Parent Meeting
Meet the team at the Upper Junior Key Information Parent Meeting 1. Find out about the Year 5 and Year 6 teachers, teaching assistants, and uniform requirements. Learn about online safety tips and how homework is managed. Contact information is provided for further queries.
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Welcome to the Upper Junior Key Information Parent Meeting 1
Need to contact us? miss.moffitt@stjosephsderby.co.uk miss.dodd@stjosephsderby.co.uk miss.peake@stjosephsderby.co.uk mrs.tillett@stjosephsderby.co.uk mrs.marsh@stjosephsderby.co.uk
Year 5 Welcome and Meet the team! Mrs Tillet - Year 5 teacher and Assistant Head Year 6 Mrs Marsh - Year 5 teacher RE Lead/Geography Lead. Mrs Madden - was Miss Moffitt: Year 6 teacher/ Upper Junior Team Leader/ History Lead. Teaching Assistants: Mr Cafferkey and Mrs Hearne Teaching Assistant: Mrs Gallagher Miss Dodd - Year 6 teacher and Computing Lead. Miss Peake - Year 5 teacher and PE Team Member Teaching Assistant: Miss Burns Teaching Assistant: Miss Eccleston
Uniform: Mrs Madden - On PE days children come to school in their PE kits. PE days for your child are on the school website. Year 6: Wednesdays and Fridays. Year 5: Miss Peake (Tuesday and Wednesday) Mrs Marsh (Wednesday and Thursday swimming) For more information on uniform: https://www.stjosephscatholicpri.co.uk/uniform- information/ For health and safety reasons, children should not wear earrings/ jewellery on PE days. Year 6 children are welcome to wear a watch to school this year. Watches MUST not have the ability to take photographs or send messages. On colder days children can wear plain black/navy leggings or tracksuit bottoms and a plain black/navy hoody - - - -
Online Safety: Miss Dodd - - - - Children s Googlemail accounts Password Safety Contacting the teacher (8am-5pm) Social Media Age Restrictions https://www.internetmatters.org/resources/what-age-can-my-child- start-social-networking/ Gaming and spending significant amounts of time online -
Homework: Miss Peake English and Maths homework will be set on Century. It will alternate from English to Maths every week. https://www.century.tech/ . Set and due each Wednesday. https://ttrockstars.com/ Timetables help your child to succeed in Maths. Battles and challenges will be set regularly for children. Children will be informed about these and will know to look out for them! During week 1 of an English teaching unit (usually 3-weekly), your child will come home with a story map in their homework books (which we are teaching them in school). We invite them to use this map to get in some extra rehearsals at home. Look out for our recorded performances of the stories and texts on the school website! Spelling lists for children to revise at home are stuck into homework books. Children are asked to choose 5 per week to revise in a way which works for them - see the list of spelling strategies also stuck in. - - - -
Reading: Mrs Marsh - Your child will have 2 books: a reading scheme book (based on their reading ability) and a reading for pleasure book (which they have chosen to read for pleasure). The more your child reads aloud the better their reading fluency will become! We ask children to read at home daily. We are asking parents to hear their child twice a week at home and sign their record (back of their homework books). Children will be keeping a record of their scheme book at the back, and their reading for pleasure book on it s own separate page. Recommended Reads: We are always recommending books to children. Take a look in their homework books for a booklet full of Year 5 and 6 recommended books! Above all, we want our children to enjoy their reading and feel happy and confident! - - - - -
Charities and other opportunities - with Mrs Marsh - - - - Year group Charities Year 6 have chosen Upbeat Communities Derby Year 5 have chosen: Derby City Mission and Children First Derby Look out for information from us about the latest ways we re raising money for our chosen charities this year. Special Roles for Year 6 - - - Chaplaincy Team Year 6 Chaplain s Assistants Other roles and responsibilities for Year 6 are upcoming - look out for information from the teachers on this! Daily Collective Worship in our school - One of the things we re most excited about is starting to enjoy more collective worship together. The children start the week in prayer with Mrs Churchill and Mr Cafferkey, our School Chaplain for Monday morning Liturgy. They then have Key Stage assembly, an Extended Prayer Session and the Chaplain s Mission before ending the week with Celebration Assembly. -
Other useful information: Mrs Madden What can I do if my child can t login? In the Upper Juniors, we like children to start to take on more responsibilities as we prepare them for secondary education. They can email the teachers or simply let us know when they see us about any login/ technical difficulties and we will be sure to resolve them promptly. Need support with devices or time? We are setting up a weekly Homework club for the children to attend which will be led by one of the teaching assistants at lunch time. Year 6 Secondary application deadline: 31st October. Macmillan Charity Fundraising this week: Thursday 23rd September children are welcome to bring cakes in. Friday 24th September there will be a cake sale on the field for children to buy a cake.
Need to get in touch or ask a question? - Remember to check out our school website regularly for our newsletters and any updates. Our twitter account also often has updates about the wonderful things we get upto at our school! We will also use our parent text system to send you anything particularly important as well as occasional reminders on key dates. Got a query? Contact the school office or email the helpline on: helpline@jph.srscmat.co.uk - - -
To ask a question, please find the Q and A icon on your screen where you can ask any questions you may have.
Lastly We ask if you d kindly take a minute of your time to let us know by typing in the Q and A on this call what you d like us to focus on in our next Key Stage Parent Meeting? Maths? Calculations? Grammar? Spelling? Writing? Supporting your child at home? Reading? Online Safety? THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING! We look forward to meeting you again soon!
