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Good luck to Year Six this week

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popsycal · 09/05/2004 16:24

SATs week!
Good luck - it is never as bad as the weeks building up to SATs!

Mrs Popsycal
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PS Jampot - level 6?!?!?!? PMSL!!

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mummysurfer · 10/05/2004 20:52

yes, lots of reading, my Y6er would have struggled to do it without support. i wasn't allowed to read it to him but he needs to read it aloud to get a full understanding. he wouldn't have been able to do this if he'd had to do it with the others.

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Janh · 10/05/2004 21:14

I was able to stagger DS2 with my omniscience this afternoon thanks to this thread - "you had to design an experiment in one of your Science papers then?" He went very quiet - trying to work out if I'd been talking to his teacher again! (He was in trouble on Friday and I'd had to go into school about it...)

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charlize · 10/05/2004 21:50

My ds too is in year 6 and had his science today!!
Alls I got out of him was it was fine. Its english Iam worried about tomorrow. He not got the best handwriting. Hes brought home a spelling book tonight but I think its a bit late now. What ever will be will be and all that.
Did any of you actually revise with your kids for theses sats or just leave it too the school?
Can't say we have revised I've just given him a couple of practise papers .
also what time have you sent them to bed?
I've mamaged to get ds in bed by 9!

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popsycal · 10/05/2004 21:53

don't worry about handwriting...
if you have the neatest handwriting inthe world, you get 3 marks for it.

If youhave the most messy handwriting you get one mark

not worth worryng about

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popsycal · 10/05/2004 21:53

don't worry about handwriting...
if you have the neatest handwriting inthe world, you get 3 marks for it.

If youhave the most messy handwriting you get one mark

not worth worryng about

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Janh · 10/05/2004 21:54

charlize, are you kidding? Revise at home? Go to bed early? I don't think so!

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Galaxy · 11/05/2004 12:00

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charlize · 11/05/2004 16:11

How did everyone get on with english then?
Ds says it was good but english isn't his best so we will see.
He said the long writing was to write for and against a school timetable. I think a story would have sited him better.
What did you teachers thinK/ Popsy thanks for telling me that about the handwriting I will tell ds not to take his time over neatness tomorrow on the reading test cos time is his worry on that one.
Janh I feel better knowing ds is not the only one with no revision. to listen to everyone on the playyard I was starting to wonder

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jampot · 11/05/2004 16:24

DD thinks today's test was fairly easy, but she is prone to making rather careless mistakes so time will tell. She's done some practice papers over the last few months nothing really in the last couple of weeks other than school booster sessions.

DS (year 2) has come home today and told me that he got 2a for his maths - I am over the moon.

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Janh · 11/05/2004 16:24

English is DS2's best subject, but I'm not sure the timetable argument suited him either, charlize - from what he says he was fairly flippant about it and didn't really give any serious thought to the possibilities. (OTOH he can be very funny in his writing so who knows.)

He did tell me what the short paper was about but I've forgotten already - durrr!

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Galaxy · 11/05/2004 16:49

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mummysurfer · 11/05/2004 17:08

spellings were

biggest
fighting
stopped
festival
bodies
approximatley
encourage
extremely
original
follow
raising
symbol
highly
throughout
wrestling
transformed
judged
accuracy
audience
colourful



corr hope i've spelt 'em rayt

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Janh · 11/05/2004 17:20

approximately right, ms......

DS2 spelt it approximatly. He also put audiance and, he thinks, symbal (!!!). And he's supposed to be a good speller!

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Galaxy · 11/05/2004 17:22

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charlize · 11/05/2004 18:09

Just tested ds on those and he got two wrong he spelt aproximately and origanal!!!!
Is it right that you can get 2 wrong and still get the full 7 marks??

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charlize · 11/05/2004 18:12

Janh, I have the same worry over ds argument writing. He told me he thought of 7 reasons against the timetable and wrote a side and a bit of a4 But he can't remember his reasons so i imagine they too might have been flippant.

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charlize · 11/05/2004 18:13

Thanks mummy surfer!!
If you could remember any maths or memtal maths that would be great.

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dogwalker · 11/05/2004 19:21

Hi mummysurfer/popsycal. I've only just got a chance to get on the comp as kids have been on almost since getting home from school. My son seemed to be fairly happy with the tests today. He said the hardest word was approximately but he spelt it out to me correctly. I think the words on the list are quite hard though. Maths tomorrow? Thanks for keeping us up to date as the kids give very little away.

One of my son's classmates handed in the planning sheet today instead of the answer sheet and his teacher, who realised just in time, had to chase the postman up the street to hand it to him! That's what the kids said anyway but I don't know if the postman was actually there waiting to take them away.

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dogwalker · 11/05/2004 19:23

By the way girls - revision? dur . . not a chance. Before he was in yr6 I thought I wuld be giving him practice papers all the time and b on BBC revisewise but it just hasn't happened and to be honest I don't think the kids need all that at this point in their lives.

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popsycal · 11/05/2004 19:58

Hi there!!!

very bizarre!!!

Afew of our kids didn't #get't he long writing.....
why can't they just say write a persuasive speech using a formal style insteaad of making it all woolly.

One of my best writers wrote a fantastic narrative but will get minimum points

the short writing - we had done a similar practice 2 weeks ago

spellings - bery tricky - 20 spellings then a bizarre calcuation to make it out of 7!!

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Janh · 11/05/2004 20:04

Was it supposed to be formal? Suspect DS2 will have dipped out. What exactly did the paper ask for then, pops?

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Janh · 11/05/2004 20:09

Just asked DS2 - he says "it said write your views on the timetable as a speech in assembly" - not in those words but that's what it meant.

So I think his will have been quite jokey and not necessarily persuasive at all. They have done "persuasive" writing but if they weren't given that key word they're not going to realise, are they? tsk.

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mummysurfer · 11/05/2004 20:51

popsy, the school i'm at is very middle class, usually gets 95% level 5s - but 2 of them wrote STORIES, one included little pictures that they would hold up in the assembly, most did a balanced argument. my pupil almost wrote a list "I think....I think....I think...."
Plus just for good luck he went on to say how he would improve the timetable.

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mummysurfer · 11/05/2004 20:52

i'm not involved at all tomorrow....no help allowed with the reading, none for the mental maths so i'm a free woman until Thursday afternoon.

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popsycal · 11/05/2004 20:53

it said you need to write what you would say in assembly about the new timetable

we are a 'middle class' school too,......mummysurfer

why cant they just ve explicit abotu what the kids need to write!"!"!!!

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