In the hell of sats, make one lesson a week a joy. Do Scratch, art, just run around, put on Just Dance. They bloody need it.
Prepare them. Give them a clear plastic folder/pencil case with their equipment and force them to learn to look after it. There will be no mercy for ill equipped kids in Year seven and no pots of pens.
Agree with prior posters: jobs, jobs, jobs.
Teach them the exam technique but show them that you value, and other people value, their other skills as well. Teach resilience. That is really important. Teach care. Ask them to buddy younger students. In lessons, let them share and teach.
Secretly know that sats mean duck all.
Be prepared to spend a lot of time on a leavers assembly, and cry.
Watch for dark horses. They do emerge. Children that have been coasting that the massive amount of sats questions smoke out and you realise they have been.hiding.
Celebrate small successes.
Use the morning task. I swear mine has totally nailed levelling sentences and clauses this term. Make games for everything.
Remember they are ten and eleven. Smelly stickers, badges, wristbands, still work.
I love year six, I hate it. High pressure but large return.