Year 6 SATs Tuition
Year 6 SATs Tutoring - Individual or Small Group
Learning is both structured and guided with each unique child through positive relationships and individualised training and study.
Teachers will advise, coach, guide and mentor each child, enabling them to build their confidence.
We aim to make learning enjoyable and fun whilst still providing challenge and success!
The National Curriculum outlines the expectations below as being the requirements for the end of Year 6 at Key Stage 2.
Year 6 SATs Saturday Workshops
We are offering a series of workshops to prepare for the SATs during the Spring Term. These are hour long sessions covering different aspects of the tests. Your child can attend any or all of them, and also take up the opportunity to sit a mock test in the Easter Holidays.
Workshop dates:- COMING SOON…..
READING
- Refer to text to support opinions and predictions
- Give a view about choice of vocabulary, structure, etc.
- Distinguish between fact and opinion.
- Appreciate how a set of sentences has been arranged to create maximum effect.
- Recognise: complex sentences with more than one subordinate clause, phrases which add detail to sentences.
- Explain how a writer has used sentences to create particular effects.
- Express a personal viewpoint and response to a text, giving reasons for choices and make comparisons.
- Skim and scan to aide note-taking.
- Apply knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes.
- Prepares and performs poetry showing an understanding of the text through the performance.
- Draw inferences from a text and predict what may happen.
- Begin to use quotes or references to support opinions.
- Refer to the text when answering questions to justify thoughts.
WRITING
- To choose an appropriate form of writing for a range of purposes and select language that shows awareness of the reader.
- Use a range of techniques in narratives to describe characters, plot, settings, atmosphere and to advance the action.
- Use a range of devices to build cohesion (conjunctions, adverbials of time and place, pronouns and synonyms).
- Select vocabulary and grammatical structures that reflect what the writing requires including accurate use of tenses.
- Effective use of modal verbs (might, should, will, must) to suggest a degree of possibility.
- Use subordinate clauses to write complex sentences and expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely.
- Use passive voice where appropriate.
- Accurate spelling of most words, including technical or scientific vocabulary.
- Use full range of punctuation matched to requirements of text type:
semi-colon, colon or dash to mark the boundary between independent clauses, colon to introduce a list and semi colon within a list, correct punctuation of bullet points and hyphens to avoid ambiguity. - Use paragraphs to signal change in time, scene, action, mood or person.
- Write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed.
- To confidently analyse and present writing orally using technical vocabulary; relative pronoun, parenthesis, bracket, dash.
SPELLING, PUNCTUATION & GRAMMAR
- Informal and formal speech and use of inverted commas.
- Use of dashes, hyphens, semicolons, colon and bullet points and ellipses.
- Understand synonyms and antonyms.
- Use of layout devices – headings, sub-headings, tables and paragraphs.
- Recognise: complex sentences with more than one subordinate clause, phrases which add detail to sentences.
- Effective use of connectives and collective nouns.
- Identify subject and object in a sentence.
- Use of similes, metaphors, personification, rhetorical questions and alliteration.
- Recognise and use fronted adverbials, noun phrases, pronouns, relative clauses, compound and complex sentences.
- Accurate use and identification of modal and auxiliary verbs. To identify determiners and generalisers.
MATHEMATICS
- Use all 4 operations to solve one and two step word problems.
- Utilise estimation effectively to check answers.
- Use negative numbers in context and calculate intervals across zero.
- Compare and order numbers up to 1,000,000.
- Identify common factors, common multiples, prime numbers and the Bidmas rule.
- Round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy.
- Identify the value of each digit to 3 decimal places.
- Use knowledge of order of operations to carry out calculations involving the four operations.
- Multiply & divide 4-digit numbers by 2-digit numbers.
- To solve calculations using fractions; add, subtract, multiply, order and find equivalents including mixed numbers.
- Calculate percentage of whole number.
- To understand the properties of shape; 2D, 3D and nets.
- Calculate unknown angles and identify parts of a circle.
- Use various strategies to calculate real life word problems involving units of measure, money, area, perimeter and volume.
- Describe position, direction and movement.
- Accurate use of statistics; graphs, charts, mode, mean, range and median.
- Express missing number problems algebraically and use simple formulae.