• Year 5/6 - Aspen Class
• Year 5/6 - Spruce Class
• Year 5/6 - Rowan Class

Welcome to Upper Key Stage 2

Meet the Team

Curriculum

• Writing: taught daily based around a class text
• Mathematics- taught daily
• Reading - 3 class guided sessions each week and two group sessions on Reading Plus
• Geography / History- taught weekly in half termly blocks
• Computing – taught once a week
• Science – taught once a week
• P.E – taught twice a week (P.E / Swimming / Forest Crew)
• P.S.H.E/R.E – taught weekly in half termly blocks
• French – taught once a week
• Music – taught once a week
• Art & Design/Design Technology – taught weekly in half termly blocks

Curriculum focus for Autumn 1

Homework

Weekly homework for UKS2 will be set on School Spider.

This will focus on basic skills in addition to TT Rockstars and Reading Plus. Homework will be set on Thursdays and will be expected to be completed by the following Tuesday. 

Typical Day

8.55am - come in to school and place belongings into their locker. Walk to the classroom and begin morning activity.

9.00am - Registration

9.00am-9:30am - Assembly

9.30am-10:00am - Guided Reading

10:00am-10:45am - English

10:45am-11:00am - Break time

11:00am-12:00pm - Mathematics

12:00pm-1:00pm - Lunch

1:00pm-2:00pm - Science

2:00pm-3:00pm - Art and Design

3:20pm - Home time

Beginning and End of Day Routines

• External gates are opened at 8.45am and locked at 9.00am.
• Children are welcomed into classrooms from 8.45am to allow a 10 minute settling in period each day.
• If late, always report to the main school office.
• At the end of the school day the middle side gate is opened to EYFS parents at 3.10pm and the main gate is opened at 3.15pm for collection of pupils in Y1-6.
• If anyone else is collecting your child please make sure the class teacher is made aware- please phone the school office in an emergency.
• Siblings must be 16 or over to collect children.
• Children that have not been collected by 3.30pm will be taken to After School Club at a cost of £9.75 per pupil.

Promoting and rewarding positive behaviour

House point system

The class is randomly split into 5 teams.  When children are noticed making positive choices, they are rewarded with a house point.  The house point is represented visually with a marble.  This enables us to reinforce and reward positive behaviours.  All staff have a responsibility to ‘catch children in a positive light’. Each Friday at home time, the pots are checked and the team with the most house points are rewarded by going in the prize box. 

Good to be Gold system

The Good to be Gold system will run alongside the House Point system, but this is used to support children in understanding their inappropriate behaviour choices. 

Each child starts every day with three stars – one gold, one silver and one bronze.  Having all three stars on a name card is a visual representation that a child is making all the right behaviour choices.

As the aim is to be gold, stars are removed in this order – first gold, second silver and third bronze.  For children that keep all of their stars all the time, there will be a weekly reward, hence ‘good to be gold’. 

Parents/ carers will be informed either verbally, or via Seesaw, if their son/daughter has lost any stars during the day.

Core Values

Communication

Working together in partnership

• School Spider is our school app for online communication between home and school
• Pupil app will be used for homework and class announcements
• Parent app will be used for whole school announcements and individual communications between family and school. Please remember that teachers will not be able to answer individual messages during the school day but will try to get back to you within 2 days.
• Members of SLT (Senior leadership Team) will be on gate duty each day if you have any questions or concerns
• Teachers are available at classroom doors at the beginning of the day, however if you need a longer conversation please make an appointment at another time
• If you have any urgent messages for school during the school day, please telephone the school office on 0161 445 6577
• At Broad Oak we believe that reading is the key to success in all areas of the school curriculum. Please make sure that your child reads at home for at least 10 minutes each day
• Please make sure that your child arrives at school on time each day, ready to learn