English
Reading
A guide to supporting reading for parents of Primary School children.
Writing
How do children learn to write? A link to the BBC Website.
Speaking and Listening
A leaflet for parents to help your child's speaking and listening skills.
Mathematics
Avenue Maths Help Desk
A parents' resource for helping your child with Maths.
Science
Planet Science
A parents' guide to answering any science questions your child may have.
SATs
What are Sats?
SATS (Standard Assessment Tests) tests are given at the end of Year 2 and Year 6. They are used to show your child's progress compared with other children in England.
Key Stage 1
Key Stage 1 SATs take place in Year 2 (at the end of infants) throughout May. Each child is assessed by their teacher in reading, writing (including spelling and handwriting), Mathematics (including number, shape, space and measurement) and Science. Your child's class teacher will set short pieces of work in English and mathematics to judge what level of ability your child is considered to be.
Key Stage 2
Key Stage 2 SATs take place in May and are more formal in format than in Key Stage 1. The tests are taken in Year 6 and cover the three core subjects, English, Mathematics and Science. The papers are sent away to be marked. High schools use the results of the Key Stage 2 SATs to place children in sets for subjects.
Results
The results of your child's SATs will be sent home to parents by the end of the summer term. (In the case of Key Stage 2 SATs this is dependent on the marked papers being returned to us on time.)
SATs papers 2000-2008
This link allows you to download past Key Stage 2 SATs papers in English, Mathematics and Science, together with the mark schemes.
The 11+
What is the 11+?
11+ papers
This links to the Chuckra Educational website. You can register free and access verbal and non-verbal reasoning tests. The site also gives details about resources to buy and tutor services.
Other Useful Links
Since 2008 we have been successfully using a virtual learning environment to allow children to continue with their learning at anytime, anywhere. Our MLE is an ICT website that allows every child, and every parent to access a whole host of resources and learning materials from home or at an after school club. The MLE offers brilliant opportunities to extend your child’s learning beyond the school day and personalises homework activities to meet every child’s needs.
Our new virtual ‘learning platform’ brings together all our existing ICT hardware, software and supporting services to enable more effective ways of working and learning within and outside the classroom. Children access learning materials on PCs and class Interactive Whiteboards through the learning platform and can then carry on using the same programmes and software at home totally free of charge! Every child has their own personal username and password to access the learning platform website. This then directs them straight to software, websites, personalised learning activities and work specifically prepared and aimed at them by their own class teachers.
Rather than pupils and parents spending their own money on software or spending hours searching the internet for educational websites, at Avenue they can access relevant material that has been approved by our teachers and has already been used by your child at school. If you do not currently have a PC with Internet access at home, your child will still be able to benefit from our learning platform through use within their class ICT lessons. We also provide lunchtime and after school clubs in which the children can use the learning platform to help with homework or to extend their own learning across all subjects.
We have been amazed at how successful our MLE has been and are sure that it will help raise your child’s attainment in all areas of ICT and the whole curriculum, both within school and beyond. In December 2008 we won a prestigious London MLE Innovation award for our implementation and use of a MLE at Avenue Primary.
For our learning platform, we chose the London Managed Learning Environment or MLE. The MLE gives every child their own personalised online learning space to save work at school, which can then be shown or opened at home. It also gives the opportunity to hold online votes, forums, discussions, videos and much more. Parents also use their own usernames to access an exclusive Parents Room on the MLE. By 2010, the MLE will be used to give parents access to assessment and attendance data as well as online pupil reports.
Parents at Avenue Primary use the MLE every day and can access the website at www.fronter.com/sutton/login.
The rest of our parent resources, learning materials and website links are now hosted on the MLE and not on our school website.
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