Year 6 SATs Maths Revision - daily

This bundle combines daily Maths revision for Year 6 pupils facing the SATs tests in May 2019.

Maths has been a severe weakness in my class over the past two years. The retention of my pupils was poor and it led me to develop different teaching methods to expose pupils more frequently to the Arithmetic and Reasoning questions they were going to face.

To target my problems, I developed two resources to support me:

1. Terrific Tens
2. Maths Rocks

Terrific Tens: Arithmetic revision

I found that pupils were forgetting the methods taught for Arithmetic, even though we had spent a long time learning them. This was because pupils did not often enough have the opportunity to revisit and use the methods. To target this, I developed something called ‘Terrific Tens’ - a set of ten questions which the pupils complete every day independently. These questions - which I have made up myself - focus on all areas of the arithmetic paper and enable pupils to apply methods out of context.

How I run the terrific tens: Every morning I give my pupils 10-15 minutes to complete the questions. Pupils who score “terrific tens” choose music to listen to the following day. I do not collect the scores in, but what I have found is that pupils love to share their scores with me anyway!

Maths Rocks - Reasoning revision:

As arithmetic improved, reasoning remained low. To target this, I give my pupils a selection of reasoning questions every morning for them to work independently on. The questions are a complete variety of everything pupils may find on the Reasoning papers they willf ace in May. We then mark the questions together and myself or confident pupils model the answers.

Both of these resources have had a significant impact on my pupils’ learning. This bundle results in 38% off the original price.