1. 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.

2. 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)

3. Teamwork makes the dream work

4. 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

5. 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!

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Key messages

11. 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.