Year 7

[loopyloo87]

Hi my child starts yr 7 in sept does anyone know how I can prepare her in English ?
Any recommended exercise books please !😊

If she's done sats don't worry about it. Just encourage her to read. Her school might send home a summer reading list. From memory DD1 included Uncle Tom Midnight Garden, London Eye mystery, Mortal Instruments, Harry Potter. , Northern Lights.... year 7 literature is a jump up mine did exerts of Frankenstein, Jamaica Inn, Gothic fiction in the first months

How were her SATs?

If low then writing a diary or similar with you giving feedback on spelling, punctuation and grammar might help. Otherwise as above, keep her reading. She can still do the summer reading challenge at the library this year.

Read in the summer holidays. Write something in the summer holidays (eg a diary). If she does those two things, she'll be more prepared than many of those entering year 7, who will have done negligible academic work since the end of SATs. At least, that was our experience.

Thankyou so much for your replies , is it really enough to read over the hols
Looking at the school website they will be doing poetry , persuasion to name a couple of topics I thought that maybe she could get a head start but I'm not sure which exercise books to buy

I think it's enough to just read.
Read some things with her, if you like. Share a book where you each read a chapter.
Find poems to read and talk about.
Read some articles in newspapers and discuss them, look at adverts and billboards and talk about how they use words.
Talk about the lyrics in her favourite songs etc.

You don't need to buy exercise books. School provides.

Just get her reading - different media - and perhaps try to take in related events like author talks (Southbank Centre et al) , plays or exhibitions related to the theme or setting. Does your library offer any reading schemes or activities?

Maybe subscribe to The Week Junior newspaper to broaden reading - but otherwise enjoy her holiday and remember she will not be the best or the worst, but going in to a big pool. The work often sounds more daunting than it really is. My dd just did a homework project at the end of year 7 with an ok effort, but fairly brief and some mistakes, and got one of the higher awards for it (and she said the only girl that got the top award said her Mum had actually done the homework!) She could write a holiday diary as well if she wants to - but the key is wanting to, not having to. She could write a holiday ideas list and include 'read a newspaper' 'write a poem on a painted background', go to the theatre, borrow a poetry book from the library..

She should be spending the summer being 11. The kids need a rest from school. Don't sorry, she'll be busy enough from September

Worry !! Not sorry 😁

When she entered year 7 last year, DD2s new school set some holiday projects, which were optional, but prizes were on offer. She did one out of the three and did what I thought was an ok but not spectacular job of it. Decent content but a bit scruffy. She could have done a much better job.

Anyway, in the first week of year 7 she came home with a large prize and reported that 90% of the year group hadn't done anything at all. And her head teacher had raved about it.

So basically, yeah, keeping up the reading and writing will almost certainly be fine.

they actually need to do nothing for a while.

i agree with the pp who say just keep them reading. honestly.

As an example if you wanted to inspire and enhance her literacy skills , and live in/ near London, the V and A Museum of Childhood has a Michael Morpurgo exhibition this summer including puppets from the War Horse stage play.