Year 5 Exams

Your Year 5 exams take place in the week before the Summer half term. They help your teachers to know what you have understood from Year 5 and will help you get into good revision and exam habits for the senior department and future schools.

For the next three weeks, you should use your prep and reading time to do some revision. You don't need to do more than 20 minutes of revision a day, which might be first thing in the morning when you get to school, during school prep time or in the evening. You might like to do some revision at the weekend, but this doesn't need to be more than two half-hour slots across the weekend.

We won't collect reading records or home learning journals in this half-term to give you time to focus on your revision.

As well as using walhampton.org to help with your revision, there will be allocated weekends to take your books home to have a look through.

• 27th/28th April French & History

• 4th/5th May Religious Studies & Science

• 11th/12th May Latin & Geography

• 18th/19th May All subjects

(maths & English ongoing)

Please make sure that ALL books are back in school for the appropriate lessons

Top Tips for Revision and Exams!

1. Don't panic!

2. Plan ahead when you're going to do revision for each subject. Remember to allow time for other commitments and time off as well!

3. Different people revise in different ways. Find a method of revision that works for you.

4. Try to do something active rather than just read your book or your notes. You could make mind maps, flashcards, posters, quizzes, Kahoots...

5. Don't worry if there's a question you can't do on the exam. Have a go, and focus on the ones you think you can do.

6. Read the questions carefully and make sure you answer what it's actually asking. See how many marks it's worth. A five-mark question needs five points; a one-mark question just needs one point.

7. Don't rush and try to finish quickly. There are no extra points for early finishing.

8. Focus on your own revision, plan and exam. Don't worry about what everybody else is doing.

9. Bring a water bottle to school and make sure you drink regularly.

10. Keep doing the things you enjoy: hobbies, clubs, playing, reading... There is more to life than exams!

Good luck, and remember: you are each special and wonderful, no matter how well you do.