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Welcome to the Year 7 Curriculum Evening The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. Dr Seuss Year 7 Book Swap Making Learning Stick Supporting Your Child to Learn More

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Welcome to the Year 7 Curriculum Evening

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“The more that you read, the more things you will

  • know. The more that you

learn, the more places you'll go.” Dr Seuss

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Year 7 Book Swap

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Making Learning Stick

Supporting Your Child to Learn More Effectively and Develop Greater Memory Retention

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Learning is a change in long term memory

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‘Learning is a change in long-term memory’

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Vocabulary and Knowledge

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Gold Standard Strategies for Strengthening Long Term Memory

  • Retrieval Practice
  • Study new topic – self-test – self-test – self-test –

self-test – class-test.

  • Spaced Practice
  • Revisiting content spread out over time
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English

Year 7: Supporting Learning and Literacy

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What do we do?

✓ HGS Reading Challenge ✓ 19th Century Literature ✓ A+ Spelling App ✓ Author Visits ✓ Writing Workshops ✓ Classroom Support ✓ Literacy Support Materials ✓ Paired-reading

✓ Common Assessment Tasks – Reading Writing Speaking and Listening ✓ Shakespeare ✓ Poetry ✓ 19th Century literature ✓ Modern fiction ✓ Literary non-fiction ✓ Creative writing ✓ Poetry writing ✓ Narrative writing ✓ Writing to argue and persuade ✓ Writing dramatic scene

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Set 1 Set 1 Set 5 Set 5 Set 2, 3 & 4 Set 2, 3 & 4

  • CAT stanine
  • Teacher-

Writing level

  • SATs grammar

and reading test

Left ab Right cd

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Did you know?

  • Outside of the classroom, text messages

(71.4%) are the most commonly used written form, followed by messages on social networking sites (48.6%) and instant messages (47.1%).

  • Children who read for pleasure are likely

to do better in Maths than those who rarely read in their free time.

(Institute of Education Study 2013)

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Did you know?

  • To comprehend a text, we need to know an

estimated 95% of its vocabulary

  • After the age of 5, we acquire most new

vocabulary through reading

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Whole School Aim For all students to have a reading age above their chronological age Why? To access ALL GCSE exams, students need a reading age of 14 years minimum

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What can you do?

▪ Encourage your child to read – including non-fiction ▪ Ask them to tell you about the book they’re currently reading - ask questions! ▪ Expose them to challenging literature (could you read with them?) ▪ Have a family book club/challenge ▪ Listen to audio books in the car ▪ Support literacy in all subjects by encouraging them to take the time to use capital letters, full stops, correct spellings

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What can you do?

▪ Keep a list of mis-spelt words (across all subjects) - use an app or a book to test them ▪ Listen to radio and current affairs programmes together and/or read newspapers ▪ Encourage discussion and debate ▪ Take them to the theatre/cinema to watch performances ▪ Most crucially, model a positive attitude towards reading (if they see you reading, instead of using your phone and iPad, they’re more likely to do the same)

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Our book recommendations…

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Mathematics

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Aims of f mathematics curriculum

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“become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics, including through varied and frequent practice with increasingly complex problems over time, so that pupils have conceptual understanding and are able to recall and apply their knowledge rapidly and accurately to problems reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, and developing an argument, justification

  • r proof using mathematical language

solve problems by applying their mathematics to a variety of routine and non-routine problems with increasing sophistication, including breaking down problems into a series of simpler steps and persevering in seeking solutions.”

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Since September:

  • Year 7 have been placed into 2 bands based upon SAT and CAT scores. The

top 64 students in each population are in band 1 with all other students being in band 2. Coming up…

  • Skills Checks after each topic
  • Unit Assessments (1 per term) and a final end of year exam.
  • Continual teacher assessment
  • Effort grades (OGCU) will be available to parents every half term, and

progress grades every term.

Assessment of Mathematics

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Teachers assess your children in the following ways:

  • Homework
  • Formal Assessments
  • Classwork
  • Responses e.g. verbal, written
  • Investigations and projects
  • Group work

As a result of the tests and teacher assessments, band changes may occur at the end of every term. These are not just based upon test scores and only occur after consultation with staff. All lessons are designed to cater for a range of ability, with challenge and support work available.

Continual Assessment

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Home Learning

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  • Home learning tasks will be given regularly, recorded on ‘Homework4’ on

the iPad.

  • Home learning should usually take 20-30 minutes per week. Students will

have at least two nights to complete it. However sometimes staff may give

  • ut longer tasks with longer deadlines or optional elements that may take

longer.

  • Students will be provided with a mix of both verbal and written feedback.

Students will often be encouraged to mark their own work in class when appropriate to do so for them to see instantly how they have done rather than waiting for the teacher to mark their work.

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Learning Maths with Expectations and Support

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High expectations, Resilience and ‘Stuckness’

Silent Time

  • School wide policy to spend approximately 10 minutes each lesson

having silent time.

  • Used to allow students to reflect and develop on their prior

learning.

  • We will be using this time to help students build the resilience

required for success in the new GCSE.

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  • www.funbrain.com/math-zone
  • www.1000problems.org/
  • www.cgpbooks.co.uk/pages/interactive_ks3_maths.asp
  • www.emaths.co.uk
  • https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/subjects/zqhs34j
  • www.transum.org

Useful Websites

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Reporting

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An introduction to the iPad for learning

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Homework4 Parent Portal

  • Home Learning Tasks
  • Attendance
  • Behaviour data
  • Timetable
  • Teacher’s names and subjects
  • Reports

Search ‘Red Kite’ in the App store

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Showbie: Teacher – student work area

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Jamf Parent app

  • Apple (ios) compatible
  • Home control
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Tips for managing the iPad

  • 1. Decide on set timings when they can be used at

home

  • 2. Always charge downstairs, not in a bedroom
  • 3. Start conversations on a positive – show me what

you’ve been doing in…

  • 4. Ensure the case is always on and stress the need

to take great care of it

  • 5. A discussion about social media use is important
  • 6. Use ClassCharts and Homework4 to track school

activity