1. Welcome! GPS Parent Workshop
While you are waiting please take a moment to look at the example tests on the table

2. Spelling Punctuation and Grammar
Parent Workshop
(KS2)
8th March 2018

3. Session Aims Outline our approach to the teaching of GPS at Brookburn.
Outline what the GPS test is.
Highlight some key areas of knowledge with strategies for helping your child.
Share useful websites and materials

4. Year 6
Maths test
Reading test
GPS test
Writing – teacher assessment

5. Our approach to teaching writing
Exciting context
Cross curricular
Units of work 1-3 weeks
Spelling taught discreetly every morning ( )– No Nonsense Spelling
Grammar starters in daily writing lessons
Handwriting lessons

6. https://brookburn.wordpress.com/parent-info/handwriting/

7. Regular GPS assessment at each year group. Y6 Sats – GPS test.
GPS coverage Y3-Y6
Terminology taught at each year group
Regular GPS assessment at each year group. Y6 Sats – GPS test.

8. GPS Test – why?
In July 2012, in response to Lord Bew’s independent review of Key Stage 2 assessment, the Government announced a new statutory English grammar, punctuation and spelling test for all children in Year Six. This would be introduced during the academic year and was only signed off on the 20th December 2012.
The test includes:
sentence grammar (identification & grammatical accuracy);
punctuation (identification & grammatical accuracy);
vocabulary (grammatical accuracy) and spelling.

9. GPS Test – why?
The test puts an additional focus on essential English. Children should have mastered these skills by the time they leave primary school, so that they can enter secondary school with the basic skills in place.

10. GPS test
Test Format…
The test will be administered on paper with the spelling component administered orally by a test administrator. The total testing time will be approximately1 hour.
Component
Description of component
Timing
Component 1
Grammar, Punctuation and Vocabulary
45 mins
Component 2
Spelling
Around 15 mins
(not strictly timed)

11. Content: Spelling
This component consists of 20 target words, presented to children aurally by a test administrator within 20 distinct, contextualised sentences:
to sound out phonemes
to analyse words into syllables and other known words
to apply knowledge of spelling conventions
to use knowledge of common letter strings, visual patterns and analogies
to check their spelling
to revise and build on their knowledge of words and spelling patterns.

12. How do we teach it? Daily spelling lesson
No nonsense spelling programme
HOME
Spelling homework
Spelling in everyday activities
Use of dictionary
Key word practice
Proof read and edit writing

13. How would you punctuate this sentence?
Focus on punctuation
How would you punctuate this sentence?
a woman without her man is nothing

14. A woman, without her man, is nothing.
Focus on punctuation
Two possible ways to punctuate the sentence giving two different meanings:
A woman, without her man, is nothing.
A woman: without her, man is nothing.

16. How do we teach it? Shared and guided writing
Specific punctuation activities
Success criteria for writing tasks
School marking policy
HOME
Re-read any writing. Proof read just for punctuation.

18. “Grammar to a writer is to a mountaineer a good pair of hiking boots or, more precisely, to a deep-sea diver an oxygen tank.”

19. Content: English Language.
word classes and the grammatical functions of words, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, articles
the features of different types of sentence, including statements, questions and commands, and how to use them for example, imperatives in commands.
the grammar of complex sentences, including clauses, phrases and connectives

20. How we teach it Daily grammar starters in English lessons
Within shared and guided writing, using correct terminology
Morning Work
Marking Policy – CL/P/G/Sp
Practise tests

21. Activity!
When the music stops pair up. Each read your card. If you have the same word class – swap cards. If you don’t – keep your card.

22. Adjective
Noun
Adverb
Verb

23. Activity!
Rally Robin Word classes. In partners: Say as many nouns as you can from the picture. Now say as many adjectives as you can to describe the picture

24. Content: Vocabulary/language
strategies
to broaden their vocabulary and use it in inventive ways
to proofread – check the draft for spelling and punctuation errors, omissions and repetitions.

25. Sample Test Questions
Discussion and Feedback

26. Preparation for the Test
SCHOOL
High quality English teaching
Test techniques
Practice tests
Booster groups
HOME
Any writing done at home - ensure children complete to a high standard. Make sure children proofread their writing.
Use correct terminology with children
Games and activities (find on useful websites page).

27. Useful websites – games/activities
junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy2.htm
_grammar/
Super-Heroes-Complex-Speech-2485

28. Useful Websites- past papers
apers.aspx

29. Docs for tables Sample test questions/papers Glossary
Curriculum overview for each yr group
Spelling – common exception words 3/4 & 5/6
Copy of ppt
Put all docs into a plastic wallet. 1 pack per person

30. Thank you!
Any Questions?
Evaluation Sheets