Welcome to Year 7 Settling In Evening

1. Welcome to Year 7 Settling In Evening Programme Welcome by Sue Pryor, Headteacher Helping your daughter with Maths and English Homework and Sam Learning Internet safety Informal time with year team staff

2. Helping your daughter with Maths: MyMaths

3. What is mymaths? • It is an online resource – access via the school website • Log in and find a topic! • There are also ‘Booster’ packs which focus on progression e.g. moving from Level 4 to 5.

4. What is mymaths? Go to www.mymaths.co.ukor use the link via the Swakeleys School website Log in using the following information: Login: swakeleys Password: ruler This will bring you to the main screen where you need to find the topic area

5. What if we don’t have internet access at home? We can arrange special passes so that the girls can use computers in the library Maths is fun! Good luck!

6. Helping your daughter with English

7. Cracking the code! CHALLENGE! With a partner try to read the poem and write underneath what you think it says.

8. Kada pill a Ay furreyliddlkada pill ased “Omi, omi!” Owkananulglisluglikiyam Beer butaflaye? Snotwotyudekspektatall Spastmiow it wurkz! Dyafinkitz meta mawfosiz? Dyafinkitiz? Ovcawcitiz!! Aymoff! Gotwings! Byby!!!

9. Caterpillar Ay furreyliddlkada pill ased A furry little caterpillar said “Omi, omi!” “Oh my, oh my!” Owkananulglisluglikiyam How can an ugly slug like I am Beer butaflaye? Be a butterfly? Snotwotyudekspektatall It’s not what you’d expect at all Spastmiow it wurkz! It’s past me how it works! Dyafinkitz meta mawfosiz? Dyafinkitiz? Do you think it’s metamorphosis? Do you think it is? Ovcawcitiz!! Of course it is!! Aymoff! Gotwings! Byby!!! I’m off! Got wings! Bye bye!!!

10. Cracking the code! 1. How did you feel when you first looked at the text? 2. What clues did you use to get started? Which other features of the text gave you clues? 3. What did you do when you came to a part which didn’t make sense?

11. Why reading matters: what the literacy trust says: • It's the most important thing you can do to help your daughter succeed.Research evidence shows that your involvement in your daughter’s reading and learning is more important than anything else in helping her to fulfil her potential. • Books contain new words that will help build your daughter’s language and understanding. 3. Reading together is fun and helps build relationships. 5. Reading will help expand her imagination and knowledge of the world and all sorts of issues. 4. The impact lasts a lifetime. Readers are more confident and have greater job opportunities.

12. What we will do as a school to help • School Library • Booked-Up Scheme • Reading Lists • Hillingdon Book of the Year • Magazine Club • Paired Reading • Literacy Handbook • Word Power Book

13. What you can do to help: Make time for reading! • Encourage your daughter and her friends to talk about what they read and share good reads. • Cool-reads.co.ukprovides reviews of books for teenagers by teenagers. • Use your local library. • Suggest older children read with younger members of the family. 5. Read yourself. Set a good example by reading for pleasure and talking about the reading you do at work and home. 6. If she says she doesn’t have time, encourage her to read other materials or non-fiction books - for example, biographies, true-life stories in magazines and news reports.

14. What you can do to help: Make literacy fun! • Make time to talk – discuss anything and everything with your daughter. If not round the dinner table, then in the car or at the bus stop. • Play classic games like ‘Scrabble’, Pictionary or faster ones like ‘Double Quick’. • Try puzzle books for odd free moments. • Listen to the radio or to audio books. • Visit museums and castles; use the audio guides.

15. Online resources • Lots of help, information and ideas from the National Literacy Trust at familyreading.org.uk • Cool-reads.co.uk – blog about books for teenagers by teenagers • bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/english/ • The Poetry Archive – listen to lots of poets reading out their own work

16. Internet Safety

17. Quick quiz! • What is MSN? • Name as many different ways as you can to access facebook? • What does POMS stand for? • What is a tweet? • What is the definition of a “friend” on facebook?

18. Online safety What percentage of friendship problems start on the internet or mobile phones? 80%

19. ICT safety advice • Allow internet access only on computers which are in family areas. • Set up parental restrictions to prevent pupils from accessing inappropriate material. • Block chat rooms and social networking (MSN, etc) Pupils under 13 should not have facebook anyway! • Emphasise that pupils must keep passwords and phone numbers confidential. • Emphasis that screen names hide the identity of internet users. This can spell danger.

20. Helping your daughter with homework and Sam Learning

21. Have a go at filling in this questionnaire.Please do so on your ownYou have 3 mins

22. Learning environments • Does your daughter have an area to complete her homework in? • Is it an area free of distractions? • Do you check her homework and sign her Link Book? • Do you make sure that she is spending the right amount of time on each piece of homework?

23. Impact on revision techniques Style of learning Tend to think more in pictures Revise through visual aids such as diagrams, mind maps, pictures, video, colourful cue cards Prefer detailed notes with lots of colour (coloured paper and pens). Visual learn through seeing Written information can have little meaning until it is heard Revise through reading/repeating information out loud, recording, pod casts etc DO NOT listen to music with lyrics – this will interfere with your memory! Auditory learn through listening Revise using above combinations and use actions – key is to change ROOMS and have active breaks, walk around while repeating information Be creative with the space you are learning in Kinaesthetic learn through moving and doing

24. The brain! Short term memory Lasts a couple of minutes maximum! LEARNING Long term memory Lasts forever…but the key is RECALL!! ...but where is it?!

25. The basic process for revision First then next finally understand it condense it memorise it review it • Learning stage – start on memory curve process • Through SAM, Bitesize, past papers, self test, parental test etc • Through lessons and homework • Revision notes: • First letter triggers • Rhyming triggers • Mind maps • Cue cards • Tables/diagrams/pictures • Notes/post its around • room

26. Sam Learning www.samlearning.com See the Link Book page 21

27. Add information to get online

28. 1. Select the level (KS3 for Years 7 and 8)

29. The select which subject you wish to work on Choose a topic to revise or a test paper to check your knowledge and understanding

30. Then which topic

31. Then the sub-topic Generally it tells how you have done overall and gives advice on how to improve further

32. You can see how you are doing as you go Then have a go at the exercise. This one is a cloze procedure . It is clear how many pages/screens there are There is always a choice of answers

33. On this exercise you simply drop and drag the answers. It won’t let you put in a wrong answer!

34. At the end it tells you how you did .

35. Your scores are then recorded on your topic page

36. Check you overall progress by clicking on the tab. It shows how long they have spent on Sam Learning as well as their scores

37. Sam Learning • All subjects are on Sam Learning • It helps with knowledge and understanding • It’s a fun way to revise and consolidate learning • Homework may be set via Sam Learning • You can track your own progress

38. Communication Swakeleys School website

39. Year 7 Settling In Evening Please complete a Transition Questionnaire before you leave and take time to chat with the tutor team!