Any advice for help to give my daughter who did not get expected standard in sats

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Has anyone any useful resources/sites I could use over summer to help my daughter with her Maths and English.
I have been looking on schoolrun and top marks. Has anyone any other useful ideas I could look at.
Thanks xx

My children will all do a little bit of Maths most days over the summer. It will be an hour maximum a day. So there will be lots of time to have fun. I will be encouraging them to read as well.

I had to stage a bit of an intervention with my son last summer when he didn't seem to have learnt any maths during the year.

Learning how to do it boosted his self confidence and has made him happier at school. Maths is like a building. You have to stick in good foundations!

I also have a going into Year 2 child who is just completing the Year 1, 10 minute CGP maths tests at the moment.

They quite like maths so might start the year 2 one over the summer. Plus the ks1 Schofield and Sims mental arithmetic books.

Then I have a going into year 8 child who is confused by algebra. So planning to try and sort that out.....

Term time there always seems to be too much other stuff going on.

Do your local libraries run a Summer Reading Challenge?

summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/

I couldn't agree more with noble said about the maths.

For some reason it seems impossible to convince people how important the key numeracy bits from primary school are. If you don't know your timestables (I mean really know them not by counting up) and the 4 basic operations it impacts on almost every topic you ever do.

If you can make sure these are all spot on , then she has every chance of success at secondary school.

Marking place for general reading later as looks like there’s some good tips on here

Daft thing is say geography is insufficient
And way below target
Doesn’t actually give us any clue whatsoever of what this child is currently achieving
Would be more helpful to say this child has a target of say an 8 but at this current progress is currently a level 4 or whatever

As to us this is no information at all
Regarding what levels this child is actually currently achieving

I woudn't worry about her SAT tests either and you really need to giver her a break or she will start high school stressed out. You really don't want that as other children will notice her lack in confidence and you don't need a lack of confidence when you are trying to make new friends. BUT one thing I would do is look at the wonderful suggestions some of the other posters have mentioned to you and do some bits and pieces in the last week or two of the holidays. I do this as a general rule each school holiday as a way of boosting my children's confidence before they go back. Everyone would forget things after 6 weeks - so just jog her memory before she starts and she will naturally do better in testing when she is tested in September and this will help her confidence. Don't over cook her or you are giving the school a false impression of her abilities and you don't want her to be put in a stream that is going to demotivate her if she can't cope.

Daft thing is say geography is insufficient
And way below target
Doesn’t actually give us any clue whatsoever of what this child is currently achieving

Most state primary schools don't teach Geography as a separate subject and it's definitely not examined in the SATs, so is your DC at a private school? If so, demand your money's worth and and ask the school to explain.

I just dont understand the idea that you will damage a child's self confidence or give a school a misleading idea of a child's abilities by teaching them more maths over the school summer holidays.

I think some people have very different ideas about education from me. I think that any child (special needs or learning difficulties aside) is quite capable of mastering the ks2 maths curriculum with sufficiently good teaching and practice.

By doing this the child will actually become better at maths and so no one will be misled. Their chances of keeping up in class will actually be massively improved as they wont be missing key building blocks that will let them access new mathematical concepts.

A lack of ability in Maths (whatever this actually means) is not the only reason a child could fall behind. All it takes is for a child to misunderstand or not pay attention to a few key things and they can become trapped in a cycle of not understanding and not paying attention. It's easy enough when a teacher has 30 children to teach.

But it's a cycle that can be broken and not necessarily with expensive tutors. Time, patience and some appropriate workbooks are often all that is needed.

No it’s a state secondary and primary
Was an excellent primary with amazing teachers and not as good s secondary
With a lot of subs and stressed and unhappy teachers
This child saidvrecently when they asked a question about maths because they didn’t understand it
Got a bollocking for not listening
So it doesn’t really encourage a culture to ask questions