Year 6 SATs week information letter

A copy of the letter sent home from Gateway Base today, with all the information about next week's SATs and a timetable of events.

Re: Year 6 SATs Tests - Week Beginning Monday 9 th May

Dear Parents/Carers,

The SATS are nearly here, and all of the Gateway Base team are delighted with the hard work that our Learners have put in preparing for them. Thank you for all the support you are providing at home to help ensure your child is best prepared for the tests.

A timetable for next week is attached to this letter. Please share this with your child, but do not let them panic.  There will be plenty of revision opportunities in between the papers. All tests will take place in the Gateway Base and surrounding rooms. We have reassured the children that they will be run in exactly the same way as the practise tests they have been doing, please sent your child into school with a water bottle.  We will not be sending homework home this week, please encourage your child to spend some time using their revision books over the weekend, but also ensure they are outside getting plenty of fresh air and sunshine. Saturday School will be running this week for those wishing to attend from 9:00 - 11:30 on Saturday at Victoria Building.

Please ensure that you child attends school every day next week. Tests are timetabled nationally and if a child misses a test, this cannot be retaken at a different time. If your child is unwell, please call the school as soon as possible so we can see if alternative arrangements are possible.

As you are aware, due to the changes to the new writing assessment framework, children no longer sit a writing test during the SATs week. Instead they are completing several pieces of writing across Literacy and Topic to collate a variety of evidence. We have included a copy of your child’s most recent piece of writing - a diary entry from Romeo and Juliet.  This is one of many pieces of independent writing they have completed and we are seeing amazing progress in all the children.

I hope you enjoy reading their work. They will continue to work towards the writing assessment until June 30th.  Any questions please come and see any member of the Gateway Learning Base Team.

Kind Regards,

Miss Heppell   Miss Mills Mr Thorne

mheppell@ipaca.org.uk  amills@ipaca.org.uk kthorne@ipaca.org.uk