Transcript How to support your daughter
Welcome to Year 7 Settling In Evening
Programme
Welcome by Sue Pryor, Headteacher Helping your daughter with Maths and English Homework and Sam Learning Internet safety Informal time with year team staff
Helping your daughter with Maths: MyMaths
What is mymaths?
• It is an online resource – access via the school website • Log in and find a topic!
• There are also ‘Booster’ packs which focus on progression e.g. moving from Level 4 to 5.
What is mymaths ?
Go to www.mymaths.co.uk
or use the link via the Swakeleys School website Log in using the following information:
Login: swakeleys Password: ruler
This will bring you to the main screen where you need to find the topic area
What if we don’t have internet access at home?
We can arrange special passes so that the girls can use computers in the library
Helping your daughter with English
Cracking the code!
CHALLENGE!
With a partner try to read the poem and write underneath what you think it says.
Kada pill a
Ay furrey liddl kada pill ased “Omi, omi!” Owkana nulgli slugli kiyam Beer buta flaye?
Snotwot yud ekspek tatall Spastmi ow it wurkz!
Dya finkitz meta mawfosiz? Dya finkitiz?
Ovcawcitiz!!
Aymoff! Gotwings! Byby!!!
Caterpillar
Ay furrey liddl kada pill ased
A furry little caterpillar said
“Omi, omi!”
“Oh my, oh my!”
Owkana nulgli slugli kiyam
How can an ugly slug like I am
Beer buta flaye?
Be a butterfly?
Snotwot yud ekspek tatall
It’s not what you’d expect at all
Spastmi ow it wurkz!
It’s past me how it works!
Dya finkitz meta mawfosiz? Dya finkitiz?
Do you think it’s metamorphosis? Do you think it is?
Ovcawcitiz!!
Of course it is!!
Aymoff! Gotwings! Byby!!!
I’m off! Got wings! Bye bye!!!
Cracking the code!
1. How did you feel when you first looked at the text?
2. What clues did you use to get started? Which other features of the text gave you clues?
3. What did you do when you came to a part which didn’t make sense?
Why reading matters: what the literacy trust says: 1. It's the most important thing you can do to help your daughter succeed.
Research evidence shows that your involvement in your daughter’s reading and learning is more important than anything else in helping her to fulfil her potential.
2. Books contain new words that will help build your daughter’s language and understanding.
3. Reading together is fun and helps build relationships.
5. Reading will help expand her imagination and knowledge of the world and all sorts of issues.
4. The impact lasts a lifetime. Readers are more confident and have greater job opportunities.
What we will do as a school to help
• • • • • • • • School Library Booked-Up Scheme Reading Lists Hillingdon Book of the Year Magazine Club Paired Reading Literacy Handbook Word Power Book
What you can do to help: Make time for reading!
1. Encourage your daughter and her friends to talk about what they read and share good reads. 2. Cool-reads.co.uk provides reviews of books for teenagers by teenagers.
3. Use your local library.
4. Suggest older children read with younger members of the family.
5. Read yourself. Set a good example by reading for pleasure and talking about the reading you do at work and home.
6. If she says she doesn’t have time, encourage her to read other materials or non-fiction books - for example, biographies, true-life stories in magazines and news reports.
What you can do to help: Make literacy fun!
• Make time to talk – discuss anything and everything with your daughter. If not round the dinner table, then in the car or at the bus stop.
• Play classic games like ‘Scrabble’, Pictionary or faster ones like ‘Double Quick’.
• Try puzzle books for odd free moments.
• Listen to the radio or to audio books.
• Visit museums and castles; use the audio guides.
Online resources
• Lots of help, information and ideas from the National Literacy Trust at familyreading.org.uk
• Cool-reads.co.uk – blog about books for teenagers by teenagers • bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/ • The Poetry Archive – listen to lots of poets reading out their own work
Internet Safety
Quick quiz!
1. What is MSN?
2. Name as many different ways as you can to access facebook?
3. What does POMS stand for?
4. What is a tweet?
5. What is the definition of a “friend” on facebook?
Online safety What percentage of friendship problems start on the internet or mobile phones?
80%
ICT safety advice
• • • • • Allow internet access only on computers which are in family areas.
Set up parental restrictions to prevent pupils from accessing inappropriate material.
Block chat rooms and social networking (MSN, etc) Pupils under 13 should not have facebook anyway!
Emphasise that pupils must keep passwords and phone numbers confidential.
Emphasis that screen names hide the identity of internet users. This can spell danger.
Helping your daughter with homework and Sam Learning
Have a go at filling in this questionnaire.
Please do so on your own You have 3 mins
Learning environments
• • • • Does your daughter have an area to complete her homework in?
Is it an area free of distractions?
Do you check her homework and sign her Link Book?
Do you make sure that she is spending the right amount of time on each piece of homework?
Style of learning Impact on revision techniques
Tend to think more in pictures Revise through visual aids such as diagrams, mind maps, pictures, video, colourful cue cards Prefer detailed notes with lots of colour (coloured paper and pens).
Written information can have little meaning until it is heard Revise through reading/repeating information out loud, recording, pod casts etc DO NOT listen to music with lyrics – this will interfere with your memory!
Revise using above combinations and use actions – key is to change ROOMS and have active breaks, walk around while repeating information Be creative with the space you are learning in
The brain!
Lasts a couple of minutes maximum!
Lasts forever…but the key is RECALL!!
The basic process for revision
• Through lessons and homework
Revision notes:
• First letter triggers • Rhyming triggers • Mind maps • Cue cards •Tables/diagrams/pictures • Notes/post its around room • Learning stage – start on memory curve process • Through SAM, Bitesize, past papers, self test, parental test etc
Sam Learning
www.samlearning.com
Centre Number
UserID
UB10SS
Date of birth followed by your initials ie: 010885DJ (Diane Jones born 1 st August 1985) Password Same as your user ID, although you should then change it
See the Link Book page 21
Add information to get online
Choose a topic to revise or a test paper to check your knowledge and understanding
Generally it tells how you have done overall and gives advice on how to improve further
Sam Learning
• All subjects are on Sam Learning • It helps with knowledge and understanding • It’s a fun way to revise and consolidate learning • Homework may be set via Sam Learning • You can track your own progress
Communication
Swakeleys School website