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Joining Year 7

Welcome to our information to support you in joining Shoeburyness High School in Year 7. Here you will find answers to many of the questions you may have before joining Year 7.

Our welcome booklet can be downloaded from the files at the bottom of the page.

Free School Meals 

If you believe your child is entitled to Free School Meals, you can apply directly via the Southend Borough Council website: www.southend.gov.uk/help-costs/free-school-meals-1

School Tour

Your child will get the opportunity to see around our school on the Borough Transition Day in July. If you wish to become familiar with key areas in our school before then, please click here

Preparing for Year 7

Below are some resources for the core subjects which will help prepare your child for moving into Year 7.

SPaG Placemat

Please click here for SPaG Placemat by SATS Companion

Maths Secondary Ready - Numerise

Secondary Ready is a free course within Numerise that is designed to prepare Year 6 learners for starting Year 7 in September.

It is available free of charge to learners in the UK until September 2020.

https://www.numerise.com/secondary-ready/

The Book Buzz

We love reading! 

Here are just five reasons why:

  • Reading is food for the brain.
  • Reading makes you more confident.
  • Books are the world's cheapest travel agents.
  • Reading reduces stress
  • Reading improves your focus, memory and makes your more likely to achieve success.

We would love you to read as much as you can and enjoy it just as much as we do.

At Shoeburyness High School we have The Book Buzz which encourages you to spend time reading.  

There are some amazing books to read and here are a few of our recommendations that you could maybe look at over the Summer.

Recommended reading books

SPaG - BBC Bitesize

Recapping on what you have done at primary school is a great way to get prepared for when you join us. Do not worry about what you will be doing at this point, just take some time to remember all the things you do know. 

We are preparing some resources to help you but for now, you can use the great resources on BBC Bitesize.

Let's start with spelling:

'ough' sound - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zt62mnb/articles/z9f2b82

words ending in -cious and -tious - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zt62mnb/articles/zp7dk7h

'shun' sound - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zt62mnb/articles/zyv4qhv

when is the 'sh' a 'ch'? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zt62mnb/articles/z8f3qhv

when is an 'i' a 'y'? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zt62mnb/articles/z3mktv4

when is the 'uh' a 'ou'? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zt62mnb/articles/zyq7v9q

when is the 's' a 'sc'? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zt62mnb/articles/zt932nb

words ending in -ture and -sure - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zt62mnb/articles/z3jpk2p

words ending with -sion - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zt62mnb/articles/zwwwfcw

Spelling quiz - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zt62mnb/articles/z7skdxs

 

Then there's punctuation:

Apostrophes 1 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvwwxnb/articles/zcyv4qt

Apostrophes 2 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvwwxnb/articles/zx9ydxs

Brackets - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvwwxnb/articles/zg6xb82

Bullet points - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvwwxnb/articles/z2yydxs

Commas - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvwwxnb/articles/zc773k7

Ellipsis - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvwwxnb/articles/zpgjy4j

Hyphens and dashes - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvwwxnb/articles/zg8gbk7

Inverted commas or speech marks - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvwwxnb/articles/ztcp97h

Paragraphs - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvwwxnb/articles/z9n73k7

Semi-colon - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvwwxnb/articles/zshfdxsT


Finally there's grammar: 

Verb - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/zpxhdxs

Pronoun - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/z37xrwx

Adverbs - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/zgsgxfr

Passive verb - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/zsx2b82

Modal verb - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/zps4pbk

Preposition - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/zw38srd

Relative clause - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/zsrt4qt

Subordinating conjunctions - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/zqk37p3

Coordinating conjunctions - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/z9wvqhv

Expanded noun phrase - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/z3nfw6f

Fronted adverbial - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/zp937p3