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New Curriculum Information Evening 2015

In Writing do you know what a ‘conjunction’ is? What is 444 minutes in hours and minutes? Do children need to know how to spell experience by Year 4 or 6? Who wrote The Borrowers?

True or False?

Children have to know all their tables up to 12x12 by the end of Year 4. SATs at Year 6 have stopped. Schools can decide what to teach. Children can lose marks in tests if they don’t use the correct method or terminology. If children can ‘sight read’ they will be assessed as working at age related expectations.

True False True and False True False

The national context

Why? Standards in the UK fall below other countries When? New National Curriculum introduced September 2014 Current Year 3 (and 7) are following new curriculum for first year Who? Changes from Reception to GCSE What? A national Curriculum which sets out statutory content and Age Related Expectations (ARE) Levels ceased from 2014 except for the Year 2 and 6 tests in Summer 2015 How? Schools are trying hard to work together to develop consistent approaches; there is no national system other than at end of Key Stage tests. 2016 Teacher Assessment for Year 6 based on ‘interim expectations’

Is it really that different?

Old New Tables up to 10x10 by Year 4 Tables up to 12x12 by Year 4 Calculators No calculators Mental maths (20 questions) Written arithmetic (36 questions) Variety of methods Formal methods Plain paper for answer boxes Squared paper on answer sheets Connectives Conjunctions Speech marks Inverted commas Articles (the, it, a ) Determiners Spelling rules/patterns Statutory word list and rules/patterns Expectations by levels Expectations given as Year 3/4 and 5/6 Classic fiction and poetry

British Values Knowledge of UK and world facts Programming Statutory content Changes to historical periods covered There are statutory changes across a range of subjects in the new curriculum.

How are we implementing the changes at Heatherside Junior School?

Step 1

• Key expectations for the end of term have been identified based on NC expectations and

taking account of topics/units of work.

• National and HCC guidance has been used to ensure our expectations are in line.

Step 2

• Baseline assessments have been made using a range of evidence to help establish children’s current

attainment

• A range of assessment approaches will be used throughout the term to track whether each child is

independently secure in the key expectations. This will be through daily marking, observations, assessed tasks and some testing.

• Any aspects that children are not secure in will be retaught and identified in the following term.

Step 3

• Systems in school will be monitored and reviewed closely, including ways in which children can

be clear about their next steps and targets.

• Information will be shared with parents via Parents Evening in November, pupils’ reports in

Spring and throughout the year where there are concerns that a child is not likely to meet end of year expectations without further input and support

Writing, spelling, punctuation and grammar…the important bits!

• Accurate and consistent

sentence punctuation (Full stops and capital letters!)

• Understanding of subject

specific terminology

• Vocabulary and use of more

complex words

• Paragraphing
• Writing for audience and
• purpose. Formal/informal
• Accurate spelling
• Correct use of tenses

Year 2 SATs sample paper. Spelling , Grammar and Punctuation.

Year 4 sample question from Rising Stars assessment. Spelling , Grammar and Punctuation.

careful/careless natural messy dangerous beautiful Year 6 sample paper. Spelling , Grammar and Punctuation. Pupils had to spell all answers correctly in order to be awarded the one mark.

Maths…making it all add up

• Number bonds
• X and ÷ by 10,100, 1000
• Multiplication facts – quick,

accurate recall

• Methods of calculation
• Fractions, decimals and

percentages

• Units of measure
• Telling the time, reading tables

and calculating intervals

• Shape and angles
• Statistics (data/graphs)
• Algebra

Year 2 sample paper Maths Reasoning

Year 4 assessment from Rising Stars Maths

5 4 X 2 3 ______________ 1 6 2 1 0 8 0 ___________ 1 2 4 2 Year 6 sample Arithmetic Paper.

The correct method is required to be awarded one mark if the final answer is incorrect.

Year 6 sample Maths paper. Reasoning

Reading ….for meaning, for understanding and for pleasure

• Reading a range of books,

poems and stories.

• Strategies to word build.
• Sharing reading and listening

to others model reading.

• Talking about texts.
• Higher quality texts including

greater focus on classic fiction poetry.

• Themes within and across

texts.

• Reading and thinking!

Year 4 Rising Stars assessment for Reading

• Working towards

(Your child is not yet independently secure in all the skills required for that term/year group)

• Meeting

(Based on a range of evidence over time, your child is secure in the key expectations for the term/year group)

• Working at greater depth within the standard

(Your child is able to use and apply the relevant skills independently in a range of contexts outside of the direct curriculum.)

How will I know if my child is achieving the expected standard?

Some me ways that you u can make a real differen erence ce

• Help your child learn their tables by heart and out of sequence.
• Be a positive role model…read a book, use appropriate vocabulary, try not to pass on your own

feelings about subjects.

• Read with and to your child….even as they get older!
• Buy a dictionary and encourage your child to use it before checking with you or the internet.
• Encourage your child to read texts which are more challenging..Horrid Henry and Jacqueline Wilson

are unlikely to appear on a SATs paper! Many classic texts are free to download.

• Use real life opportunities to reinforce learning; e.g money and telling the time
• Expect your child to complete their homework to the standard they are capable of and be strict

about basic punctuation, presentation and spelling.

Where can parents find more information? There is lots of help on our website in the Curriculum section accessed via the ‘Curriculum’ tab. Our Curriculum Overviews also show what we are covering as will your child’s homework. Remember, please just ask us if you are unsure of anything.

Not forgetting that we believe in a broad and balanced curriculum and wider opportunities…

Year 6 – The year ahead

‘We can’t give full information about what the scale will look like yet. We need to wait until pupils have taken the tests and the tests have been marked before we can set the national standard and the rest of the scale. We can’t set the scale in advance; this cohort is the first that has reached the end of key stage 2 having studied sufficient content from the new national curriculum. If we were to set the scale using data from pupils that had studied the old national curriculum, it is likely it would be incorrect. We do know the scale will have a lower end point below 100 and an upper end point above 100. Once we have set the national standard we will use a statistical technique called ‘scaling’ to transform the raw score into a scaled score. We will publish this after the first tests have been administered. A pupil’s scaled score will be based on their raw score. The raw score is the total number of marks a pupil receives in a test, based on the number of questions they answered correctly. The pupil’s raw score will be translated into a scaled score using a conversion table. A pupil who achieves the national standard will have demonstrated sufficient knowledge in the areas assessed by the tests.’ Department for Education July 2015

What tests will my child take next year?

Maths

• Arithmetic (36 questions in 30

minutes, pencil and paper)

• Two reasoning papers (40

minutes) There is no level 6 paper and no calculators allowed. English

• Reading paper (1 hour made up of

a reading booklet and answer questions)

• Grammar, punctuation paper (45

minutes)

• Spelling Test (Dictation, not timed)

No level 6 Tests

Year 6 sample paper. Spelling , Grammar and Punctuation.

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Year 6 sample paper. Spelling , Grammar and Punctuation.

The first t sentence ce tells ls you that t all l mango goes es are delic icious. . The extra ra clau ause e tells ls us where they are grown. . The second d senten ence ce means that t it is only mangoes

• es which

h are grown in hot countries tries that taste e deli lici cious,

• us,

not all l mango goes es. .

Year 6 sample paper. Arithmetic

4 13 1

1 5 .4 0

• 8 .8 8

6 . 5 2 6.52

2 6 4 1 3 9 2 6 0 0

2 3 2 232 Short method 2 3 2 13 3 0 41 26 Children must use an approved formal method to be awarded one mark if the final answer is incorrect.

Year 6 sample Maths paper. Reasoning

I Gentle, and small, and frail How do these words make the reader feel about the snail? Into your pitiful shell, so brittle and thin In this line, the word brittle is closest in meaning to…Tick

• ne.

shiny. soft. delicate. rough.

Interim Teacher Assessment for

• 2016. Children have to meet all

statements to be Meeting Expectations

What are we doing to prepare the children?

What will make the biggest difference?

• Knowledge, recall and application of table facts
• Use of formal methods of calculation
• Working at speed but checking reasonableness
• Understanding of correct grammatical terms
• Writing ‘to task’ using appropriate structure and

language choices.

• Reading more challenging books and talking about

them.

• Initial testing/termly

assessments

• Changes to maths groupings
• Additional groups/booster

earlier in school year

• Focus on higher order texts,

punctuation and spelling

• High expectations
• Changes to planning and teaching
• Book Group
• SATs Evening in early Spring

Our Commitment Working together with parents to help our 21st Century children to aspire to and achieve the expectations of the new curriculum…in readiness for the next stage of their learning and for adult life in an every changing and technological world. It’s a challenge but one that we will continue to work hard to meet!