Boost Your Child’s SATs Success with Oxbridge Learning!

Is your child preparing for their Key Stage 2 (KS2) SATs exams? At Oxbridge Learning, we understand the importance of these assessments and the impact they can have on your child’s confidence and future academic journey. Our expert online tutors are here to provide personalised, engaging, and effective support, helping your child master the curriculum and achieve their full potential.

Why choose Oxbridge Learning for SATs preparation?

  • Tailored Learning: We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all. Our tutors create bespoke learning plans that pinpoint your child’s strengths and weaknesses, ensuring focused and efficient progress.

  • Experienced UK Tutors: All our tutors are highly qualified and experienced in the UK National Curriculum, with a proven track record of helping students excel in their SATs.
  • Interactive Online Platform: Our state-of-the-art online classroom makes learning engaging and convenient. With interactive whiteboards, live video, and shared resources, your child can learn from the comfort of their own home.

  • Confidence Building: Beyond academic knowledge, we focus on building your child’s confidence and reducing exam anxiety, equipping them with the mental tools for success.

  • Flexible Scheduling: We offer flexible lesson times to fit around your family’s busy schedule.
  • Progress Tracking: We provide regular feedback and progress reports, keeping you informed every step of the way.

Give your child the Oxbridge Learning advantage. Enrol them today and watch their confidence and grades soar!

SATs Course Outlines (Key Stage 2 – Year 6)

Our comprehensive online tutoring programs for SATs are meticulously designed to align with the UK National Curriculum for Key Stage 2 (Year 6).

English SATs Course Outline

Our English program focuses on developing strong reading, writing, and grammar, punctuation, and spelling (GPS) skills, crucial for both the specific SATs papers and overall literacy development.

Reading Comprehension

Word Reading:

  • Decoding unfamiliar words
  • Understanding root words, prefixes, and suffixes
  • Using context clues for meaning

Comprehension:

  • Retrieving and recording information
  • Summarising main ideas across paragraphs
  • Drawing inferences and conclusions, justifying with evidence
  • Predicting outcomes based on text information
  • Analysing how different parts of a text are related

  • Identifying and explaining the writer’s choice of words and their effect

  • Making comparisons within texts
  • Understanding different text types (fiction, non-fiction, poetry)

Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling (GPS)

Grammar:

  • Identifying and using different word classes (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, determiners, conjunctions)
  • Understanding sentence structures (statements, questions, commands, exclamations)
  • Recognising main, subordinate, and relative clauses
  • Using noun phrases and adverbial phrases
  • Linking ideas with coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
  • Mastering verb tenses (simple past, simple present, perfect form, modal verbs)
  • Understanding active and passive voice
  • Recognising Standard and non-Standard English, and informal/formal language

Punctuation:

  • Correct use of capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks
  • Using commas for lists and clarity, including after fronted adverbials

  • Punctuating direct speech correctly

  • Using apostrophes for omission and possession
  • Employing brackets, dashes, and commas for extra information
  • Correct use of colons, semi-colons, and single dashes
  • Using hyphens to avoid confusion
  • Applying bullet points for lists

Spelling:

  • Common spelling patterns and rules (e.g., adding suffixes, prefixes)
  • Homophones and commonly misspelled words
  • Words with specific endings (e.g., -ation, -ly, -sure, -ture, -shun, -ous)
  • Words with silent letters
  • Strategies for checking spellings (e.g., dictionary use)

Writing Composition

Planning and Organisation:

  • Generating ideas and planning content
  • Structuring narratives (plot, character development) and non-fiction texts
  • Considering audience, purpose, and context

Drafting and Writing:

  • Crafting clear, accurate, and coherent sentences
  • Using a range of vocabulary and grammatical structures

  • Employing literary devices

  • Maintaining consistent tense

Reviewing and Editing:

  • Evaluating and revising own writing
  • Proofreading for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors

Maths SATs Course Outline

Our Maths program covers all key areas, focusing on arithmetic fluency, problem-solving, and mathematical reasoning.

Number and Place Value

  • Counting in multiples and powers of 10
  • Reading, writing, ordering, and comparing numbers up to 10,000,000
  • Recognising place value of digits
  • Understanding Roman numerals
  • Rounding whole numbers to a given degree of accuracy
  • Using negative numbers in context

Calculations (Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division)

  • Mental arithmetic strategies
  • Formal written methods for all four operations (including long multiplication and long division)
  • Estimating and checking answers
  • Using inverse operations
  • Solving multi-step problems
  • Understanding order of operations (BODMAS/PEMDAS)
  • Factors, multiples, prime numbers, square numbers, cube numbers

Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages

  • Counting in tenths and hundredths
  • Finding fractions of amounts
  • Recognising and finding equivalent fractions
  • Converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions
  • Simplifying fractions
  • Comparing, ordering, adding, and subtracting fractions
  • Multiplying and dividing fractions by whole numbers and other fractions
  • Rounding decimals and comparing numbers with up to three decimal places
  • Multiplying and dividing decimals by whole numbers
  • Converting between fractions, decimals, and percentages
  • Calculating percentages of amounts

Geometry (Properties of Shapes, Position and Direction)

  • Properties of 2D and 3D shapes (including quadrilaterals, triangles, polygons, spheres, cylinders, cones, pyramids)

  • Identifying lines of symmetry
  • Recognising and estimating different types of angles (acute, obtuse, reflex, right)
  • Calculating angles on a straight line and around a point
  • Describing positions on a coordinate grid and plotting points to draw shapes
  • Understanding translations, reflections, and rotations

Ratio and Proportion

  • Solving problems involving relative sizes of two amounts
  • Solving problems involving unequal sharing
  • Using scale factors for enlargement and finding scale factors

Algebra

  • Using simple formulae
  • Generating and describing linear number sequences
  • Expressing missing number problems algebraically

Measurement

  • Converting between different units of measure (length, mass, volume, time)
  • Calculating perimeter, area (rectangles, triangles, parallelograms), and volume (cubes, cuboids)
  • Reading and interpreting timetables

  • Estimating and calculating measurements

Statistics

  • Interpreting and presenting data in various charts (tables, bar charts, pictograms, line graphs, pie charts)
  • Solving problems involving data
  • Calculating the mean as an average

Ready to empower your child for SATs success? Contact Oxbridge Learning today for a free consultation!