Year 6 Information evening Welcome back! Year 6 Information evening

Transfer to Secondary Schools 2017 Baxenden St John's CE Primary School - Year 6 Parents' Meeting - 1st October 2013Higham St John’s CE Primary School - Year 6 Parents' Meeting - Monday, 10th September 2012 Higham St John’s CE Primary School - Year 6 Parents' Meeting - Monday, 10th September 2012 Transfer to Secondary Schools 2017 Baxenden St John’s CE Primary School YEAR 6 September 2016

2017 intakes - those born between: Baxenden St John's CE Primary School - Year 6 Parents' Meeting - 1st October 2013Higham St John’s CE Primary School - Year 6 Parents' Meeting - Monday, 10th September 2012 The Process 2017 intakes - those born between: 1st September 2005 and 31st August 2006 On-line Applications – Deadline is 11:59pm 31st October 2016

It is advisable that one choice is a Local Community Secondary School Baxenden St John's CE Primary School - Year 6 Parents' Meeting - 1st October 2013Higham St John’s CE Primary School - Year 6 Parents' Meeting - Monday, 10th September 2012 ADVICE / SUMMARY Open Evenings Admissions Criteria It is advisable that one choice is a Local Community Secondary School Involve your child On-line Application

Go to the Lancashire.gov website: Applying On-line Go to the Lancashire.gov website: http://new.lancashire.gov.uk/children-education-families/schools/apply-for-a-school-place/apply-for-a-secondary-school-place.aspx Supplementary Information Form - For church schools, send separately - obtainable from the school itself You can amend until the closing date Submit Notification of Offered School 1st March 2017

Welcome to Year 6!

Reminders Homework – Please remind your child not to leave homework until the last minute. They should be able to complete it independently – only help if really struggling. Advise children to see me (Monday or Tuesday) if any issues arise. Spellings – Not sent home unless your child wants to bring them. Friday spelling test weekly. Games kit (Tuesday) – coloured shirt & trainers – trainers taken home need to be brought back in. PE kit (Wednesday) – kept in school

Reading Thank you for your support so far with reading Obviously, year 6 is a challenging year for the children and reading is key to their success Children have been allocated books matched to their ability and these books should provide a suitable level of challenge Reading every night; it is important that you hear your child read. Stamina and fluency is key. Pick up on any vocabulary unsure of – look up, review and use if necessary. Write in diaries if you wish to let me know.

Behaviour for Learning Passport To develop confidence, responsibility and resilience To develop independence ready for secondary school – take responsibility for their own learning To encourage your child to be the best that they can be – behaviour for learning both inside and outside of school Children will earn credits throughout the year and work towards bronze, silver and gold awards.

Year 6 SATs What are they?

What are the children tested on? The children are tested on all of the work they have covered in all year groups so far. Year 6 children are tested on Maths, Reading, Writing, and GPS (formerly known as SPaG!) In the summer term of 2017 (week commencing 8th May 2017) children in Year 2 and Year 6 will be the second cohort to take the new SATs papers. These tests in English and maths will reflect the new national curriculum, and are intended to be more rigorous. Marking scheme will be the same as this year - replaced the national curriculum levels.

Reading The reading test will be a single paper with questions based on three passages of text. Your child will have one hour, including reading time, to complete the test. There will be a selection of question types, including: Ranking/ordering, e.g. ‘Number the events below to show the order in which they happen in the story’ Labelling, e.g. ‘Label the text to show the title of the story’ Find and copy (vocabulary), e.g. ‘Find and copy one word that suggests what the weather is like in the story’ Short constructed response (literal retrieval), e.g. ‘What does the bear eat?’ Open-ended response, e.g. ‘Look at the sentence that begins Once upon a time. How does the writer increase the tension throughout this paragraph? Explain fully, referring to the text in your answer.’

Grammar The grammar, punctuation and spelling test will consist of two parts: a grammar and punctuation paper requiring short answers, lasting 45 minutes, and a spelling test of 20 words, lasting around 15 minutes. The grammar and punctuation test will include two sub-types of questions: Selected response, e.g. ‘Identify the adjectives in the sentence below’ Constructed response, e.g. ‘Correct/complete/rewrite the sentence below,’ or, ‘The sentence below has an apostrophe missing. Explain why it needs an apostrophe.’

Maths Children will sit three papers in maths: Paper 1: arithmetic, 30 minutes Papers 2 and 3: reasoning, 40 minutes per paper Paper 1 will consist of fixed response questions, where children have to give the correct answer to calculations, including long multiplication and division.  Papers 2 and 3 will involve a number of question types, including: Multiple choice True or false Constrained questions, e.g. giving the answer to a calculation, drawing a shape or completing a table or chart Less constrained questions, where children will have to explain their approach for solving a problem

What do the results of all the tests mean? The results show whether or not your child has reached the age expected standard for their year group. You will be given your child’s raw score (the actual number of marks they get), alongside their scaled score (used to compare performance over time – expected score is 100) and whether they have reached the age expected standard.  It is not currently known how many marks the children will need to get to achieve age expected; this information is likely to be released after the tests have been sat.

Robinwood Residential In school time – Wednesday 28th June to Friday 30th June 2017 Part of PE curriculum & developing independence and skills needed for secondary school transition Great fun and a fantastic opportunity to try new things out!

Letters with final details will go out next week – approximate cost £235 I would expect all of the children to attend, as it is fantastic for broadening their skill set in teamwork, tackling challenges, organisation and logic.