Welcome everyone and thank you for looking at our blog. This week is an extremely busy week in school as our Year 6 children take their SATs. Please see below important information on how to help your children throughout this week.
This week at Copthorne
Key Stage 2 SATs
As you will already be aware, children in Year 6 have to sit very important end of Key Stage 2 tests. These tests will start today and will run upto and including Thursday. The tests will cover mathematics, reading, spelling, punctuation and grammar. We want all our children to achieve their best and would ask that you support us by:
- Ensuring they attend school every day to take the tests
- Ensuring they get a good night’s sleep before the tests
- Ensuring they have some revision time and relaxation time, it is important to do both
- Ensuring they have had a good breakfast
In order to help we are offering all Year 6 children a free breakfast at Breakfast Club this week. We also ask that all Year 6 children arrive at school for 8.15am from Monday to Thursday of this week. This will allow us to register the children and settle them so that they are calm and happy before the tests begin.
Thank you in anticipation of your support and we would like to take this opportunity to say to each and everyone of our children – YOU CAN DO IT! All the staff are behind you and willing you to do your very best. Good luck everyone!
Year 1 Phonics Screening
During the week beginning Monday 15th June, children in Year 1 will undertake a short phonics screening check. This check is a statutory assessment of your child’s progress in phonics and is designed to ensure that your child receives appropriate support with phonics and reading at school. Your child will work with their class teacher to read a set of 40 words using their phonics knowledge. The results of the check will be reported to the Department for Education and results will also be reported to Parents/Carers in your child’s end of year report.
A meeting was held in school last week about this but unfortunately not all parents were able to attend. We have arranged for an alternative date and hope that you will be able to attend this important meeting on Wednesday 13th May at 3.10pm. Although your child is not expected to do any additional preparation at home, to support your child with their phonics and reading skills please access Phonics Bug as often as possible and encourage your child to continue to complete the homework. Thank you for your continued support.
Magic Moments
Working a
t Copthorne we experience many ‘magic moments’ with our children. A special moment for me this week was over-hearing a conversation between a Year 2 child and a Nursery Nurse as they walked down the corridor together:
Child: I’m a learner aren’t I?
Nursery Nurse: You are indeed a learner
Child: I’m learning all the time aren’t I? We’re all learning aren’t we?
Nursery Nurse: Definitely. We are all learners here.
How wonderful that our children are so proud to learn and want to celebrate this at every opportunity.
Words of the week
In order to extend our children’s use and understanding of vocabulary I will be posting a Word of the Week for each Key Stage in our blog. Please encourage your children to find out what the word means and then to use it correctly in a number of sentences throughout the week. This will help our children to become more fluent readers and writers. Thank you.
Key Stage 1: Demand
Lower Key Stage 2 (Y3 and 4): Distinctly
Upper Key Stage 2 (Year 5 and 6) : Vulnerable
Have a lovely week everyone and remember Year 6 – You can do it!
Mrs Shepherd