Welcome to Eucalyptus Class
Top Tips for Year 6 Parents
- Encourage and help your child to become independent and responsible for organising themselves for school. Stepping back just a little more than in previous years.
- Encourage and help your child to be self-sufficient and proactive in sorting out friendship issues without adult intervention first.
- Encourage your child to develop routines and identify a regular time for completing home learning each week such as independent reading, homework and additional learning.
- Spend time finding books that promote pleasure for reading and interest your child. Encourage them to read books at the appropriate level for them and complete the Accelerated Reader quiz at school.
- Visit the library and museums regularly.
- Look for opportunities to recall well-known mathematical facts such as times tables, relationships between fractions, decimals and percentages, shape vocabulary and properties, time and measure etc…
- Talk as a family about your day.
- Talk to children about their use of technology and remember that most social media websites require children to be 13 or older.
Year 6 SATs
Year 6 SATs (Standard Assessment Tests) are national tests taken by children in England at the end of Key Stage 2 (May). They assess your child’s knowledge and understanding in Maths, English Reading, and English Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling (SPaG)12.
The children will sit the following papers:
Maths: Three papers (one arithmetic and two reasoning).
English Reading: One paper testing comprehension.
SPaG: Two papers (one on grammar, punctuation, and spelling, and one spelling test).
In school we continue to teach a broad and balanced curriculum but within that we ensure that we are preparing the children for SATs and providing them with all of the skills and knowledge they will need. We also look at past SATs questions throughout the year so that the children are used to the format of the papers to ease the pressure during SATs week.
For more information please see the download below.
