Essex Education Services Excellence in Year 6

Autumn 2014 Cathryn Howes [email protected]

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Ice Breaker

• What has been the best part about year 6 so far?

• And the worst?

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• The pursuit of excellence in all of the school’s activities is demonstrated by an uncompromising and highly successful drive to strongly improve, or maintain, the highest levels of achievement and personal development for all pupils over a sustained period of time. • OFSTED –outstanding Sep 2014 Clerking Agency | Education Consultancy | Education HR | Finance Support | Governor Services | Professional Development | School Library Service | Target Tracker

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  All teachers have consistently high expectations of all pupils. They plan and teach lessons that enable pupils to learn exceptionally well across the curriculum. Teachers systematically and effectively check pupils’ understanding throughout lessons, anticipating where they may need to intervene and doing so with notable impact on the quality of learning . Clerking Agency | Education Consultancy | Education HR | Finance Support | Governor Services | Professional Development | School Library Service | Target Tracker

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  The teaching of reading, writing, communication and mathematics is highly effective and cohesively planned and implemented across the curriculum. Teachers and other adults authoritatively impart knowledge to ensure that pupils are engaged in learning and generate high levels of commitment to learning across the school. Clerking Agency | Education Consultancy | Education HR | Finance Support | Governor Services | Professional Development | School Library Service | Target Tracker

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 • Consistently high quality marking and constructive feedback from teachers ensure that pupils make significant and sustained gains in their learning. Teachers use well-judged teaching strategies, including setting appropriate homework that, together with clearly directed and timely support and intervention, match pupils’ needs accurately. Clerking Agency | Education Consultancy | Education HR | Finance Support | Governor Services | Professional Development | School Library Service | Target Tracker

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Top Tips for year 6 SATs

• Become familiar with the ARA and time-line • Really know your starting points. Analyse last year’s assessments, what areas were stronger and weaker in reading, writing, maths?

• Analyse GPS ability by using a previous paper.

• Now you have analysed the gaps, use the knowledge to plan what you teach and set individual targets Clerking Agency | Education Consultancy | Education HR | Finance Support | Governor Services | Professional Development | School Library Service | Target Tracker

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• Don’t focus just on the tests-you and the pupils will be miserable and not perform well • Teach through topics and themes. Put the learning into context and make it interesting and enjoyable • Involve SLT, parents and pupils as much as possible • Use a positive mind set approach Clerking Agency | Education Consultancy | Education HR | Finance Support | Governor Services | Professional Development | School Library Service | Target Tracker

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• Ensure that you are sharing a range of different data representations. • Give the children the opportunity to verbalise their thoughts and explain reasoning • look at real life application for skills that will encourage the children that it is not just for a test Clerking Agency | Education Consultancy | Education HR | Finance Support | Governor Services | Professional Development | School Library Service | Target Tracker

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• Teach grammar in context when you can and ensure that the skills you teach can be used • You may need some discrete teaching, for example relating to terminology, but once it is learnt- keep using it • Use good quality model texts • Model and demonstrate how to write • Develop ‘book talk’ and book clubs Clerking Agency | Education Consultancy | Education HR | Finance Support | Governor Services | Professional Development | School Library Service | Target Tracker