1. YEAR 6 17 th September 2015 Transfer to Secondary Schools 2016 Baxenden St John’s CE Primary School

2. The Process 2016 intakes - those born between: 1st September 2004 and 31st August 2005 On-line Applications – Deadline is 11:59pm 31 st October 2015

3. Applying On-line http://new.lancashire.gov.uk/children-education-families/schools/apply- for-a-school-place/apply-for-a-secondary-school-place.aspx You can amend until the closing date Supplementary Information Form Submit Notification of Offered School

4. ADVICE / SUMMARY 1. Open Evenings 2. Admissions Criteria 3. It is advisable that one choice is a Local Community Secondary School 4. Your Child is unique! 5. On-line Application

5. Welcome to Year 6!

6. Reminders Homework – please help your child in order to ensure they don’t complete it incorrectly (or check it the following week after being marked) and try not to leave it until the last minute! Reading is key – thank you for your support so far! Games kit (Wednesday) – coloured shirt & trainers – trainers taken home need to be brought back in. PE kit (Friday) – kept in school

7. Behaviour for Learning Passport To develop confidence, responsibility and resilience To develop independence ready for secondary school – take responsibility for their own learning To encourage your child to be the best that they can be – behaviour for learning both inside and outside of school

8. Year 6 SATs What are they?

9. What are the children tested on? The children are tested on all of the work they have covered in all year groups so far. Year 6 children are tested on Maths, Reading, Writing, and GPS (formerly known as SPaG!) In the summer term of 2016, children in Year 2 and Year 6 will be the first to take the new SATs papers. These tests in English and maths will reflect the new national curriculum, and are intended to be more rigorous. There will also be a completely new marking scheme to replace the existing national curriculum levels.SATs

10. Reading The reading test will be a single paper with questions based on three passages of text. Your child will have one hour, including reading time, to complete the test. There will be a selection of question types, including: –Ranking/ordering, e.g. ‘Number the events below to show the order in which they happen in the story’ –Labelling, e.g. ‘Label the text to show the title of the story’ –Find and copy (vocabulary), e.g. ‘Find and copy one word that suggests what the weather is like in the story’ –Short constructed response (literal retrieval), e.g. ‘What does the bear eat?’ –Open-ended response, e.g. ‘Look at the sentence that begins Once upon a time. How does the writer increase the tension throughout this paragraph? Explain fully, referring to the text in your answer.’

11. Grammar The grammar, punctuation and spelling test will consist of two parts: a grammar and punctuation paper requiring short answers, lasting 45 minutes, and a spelling test of 20 words, lasting around 15 minutes. The grammar and punctuation test will include two sub- types of questions: –Selected response, e.g. ‘Identify the adjectives in the sentence below’ –Constructed response, e.g. ‘Correct/complete/rewrite the sentence below,’ or, ‘The sentence below has an apostrophe missing. Explain why it needs an apostrophe.’

12. Maths Children will sit three papers in maths: –Paper 1: arithmetic, 30 minutes –Papers 2 and 3: reasoning, 40 minutes per paper Paper 1 will consist of fixed response questions, where children have to give the correct answer to calculations, including long multiplication and division. Papers 2 and 3 will involve a number of question types, including: –Multiple choice –True or false –Constrained questions, e.g. giving the answer to a calculation, drawing a shape or completing a table or chart –Less constrained questions, where children will have to explain their approach for solving a problem

13. What do the results of all the tests mean? The results show whether or not your child has reached the expected age expected standard for their year group. The previous national curriculum levels have been abolished, and instead children will be given scaled scores. You will be given your child’s raw score (the actual number of marks they get), alongside their scaled score and whether they have reached the age expected standard. The score needed to reach the national average has yet to be announced.national curriculum levels

14. Robinwood Residential In school time – Wednesday 29 th June to Friday 1 st July 2016 Part of PE curriculum & developing independence and skills needed for secondary school transition Great fun and a fantastic opportunity to try new things out! Letters with final details will go out next week – appropximate cost £225