Miss Dootson, Mr Metcalfe, Mr Noon and Mr Davies. Preparing for Year 6 and how you will help your child to do well at school. Miss Dootson, Mr Metcalfe, Mr Noon and Mr Davies.

The year 6 team Class teachers = Miss Dootson and Mr Metcalfe Support Staff = Mr Davies and another TA (TBC) Maths support/extra tuition = Mr Noon (assistant head) Reading & Writing support/extra tuition = Miss Dootson Support at home = Our Year 6 families (Mums / dads / siblings / private tutors)

Teamwork makes the dream work

SATs Monday 14th May Reading Test Tuesday 15th May Grammar paper and spelling paper Wednesday 16th May Arithmetic and maths reasoning Thursday 17th May Maths reasoning

The Basics…. Children in school on time every day 8:50 in line. Healthy breakfasts and lunches. Fruit and veg! No appointments AT ALL during the school day Read with your child! EVERY DAY if possible but at least 3 times each week. Sign and comment in the Reading Record. Provide a quiet space for children to do their homework Help with homework that they don’t understand No absences. Attend parents’ evening YOU make sure homework is completed and in on time. Praise!

The icing on the cake… We encourage extra tuition! Especially for reading and maths Make sure children have time to relax and enjoy themselves properly at weekends – swimming / zoo / trampoline parks / picnics / beach visits / museums / children’s gym / library visits / go to the park

Reading This year, most primary schools in the UK had 77% of children pass reading. At St Thomas’ 61% of children passed. How school will teach How you will support 30 minute reading lesson each day Purchasing the revision guides Quality home reading and library books Signing the reading record 3 times a week with comments on how your child read with you Class novels Talk about what your child has read 2 hour Cracking Comprehension each week Give them lots of praise when they do well! We will do past papers to help test technique Extra tuition with Miss Dootson Lunch and break times

Maths 75% of children passed maths. 72% of St Thomas’ children passed maths. How school will teach How you will support 1 hour of maths each day Purchasing the revision guides Carousel lessons Sitting with your child when they do My Maths Extra tuition from Mr Noon Praise them when they do well! Past papers for test technique Conferencing We will set homework to match what we teach After school and lunch time sessions

Over the summer holiday Start now! Still read three times each week Revision guides from W H Smiths Use the library section on My Maths 3 times each week Tuition

Key messages

Thank-you The tests are tough. We need to face this challenge together! YOUR role is so important! By forgetting the reading, not checking up on homework or not making time for it to be done - you will be failing your child! Really working at it together, will make sure your child is a success.