year 6 after sats

[mumofsomeone]

Are your kids having any homework after Sats? I am only asking because for the past week did nothing relevant to curriculum and for the rest of week (off) have no homework; They only did auditions for a school play, drawing and play even more. Is this normal?

As a teacher I’ve always run auditions and as PP said there will have been class assemblies (where usually all kids say a bit) plus, you know, we hear the kids talk in front of a class each day. Very few children say very little, quietly, in class, mutter their way through a class assembly, audition badly then go on to perform spectacularly in the play (on the few lines they’ve been given). You can bet their parents are on here complaining they never get the chance to shine though.

If there are teachers out there who watch the children audition in reception and choose lead y6 parts based on that, or who look at the class and think “yes, Lucy is my favourite, I’ll give her the lead without an audition “, then I am sorry. That is genuinely rubbish. But every teacher I’ve worked with has tried to give everyone a shot and share out responsibilities, certificates etc, and that includes giving all the kids a chance at audition.

Same here. Not fussed about lack of homework but wish they would spend some time preparing them for secondary school eg a bit of French, which all our local secondary schools do but our primary doesn't

My dd is in Y9 now and still reminisces about her last half term in Y6
Says it was the best school time she ever had. They did loads of fun activities, a play, residential, fundraising sales etc

Art and school productions are both part of the curriculum but they are tricky to fit in before SATS. It not that they're not doing any learning, they're just doing different learning.

Enjoy the lack of homework. Its a waste of time anyway.

How would the teacher even know who is good if they don't give the kids a chance? Same faces all the time. This means that if you make a good impression in reception then you're set until year 6. That's a shitty way to run things.

Auditions, of course.
All of our year 6s auditioned last week in groups of 4, all doing the same scene. I, and the colleague who I was doing them with, neither knew nor cared what roles anyone had in previous years; we just judged them on how they performed in the auditions.

Dd was in year 6 last year, as soon as sats week is over they had a week of PE, then practice for the play, a week of Bikeability, prep for the summer festival. They also went into reception as did reading with the little ones, Dd especially loved this!
Then they have high school moving up days. The next seven weeks are really busy.

Pretty much. No homework, lovely! Also mainly just rehearsing for the school play, cycling proficiency, forest school and generally having a nice time.

Great end to primary if you ask me.