The children can use their evaluations to identify targets for improvement that they need work on in the next school year for both academic and social skills. You can share the children’s selected targets with their next class teacher so that there is continuity between year groups.

Work Errors
The children can spend some time at the end of the summer term checking back over their previous work in English, Maths, Science and the Foundation Subjects. Get them to identify consistent errors that they have made across a range of subjects such as incorrect spellings of words that are plurals, wrong use of possessive apostrophes or weak understanding of place value when performing written number calculations. Get the children to make a list of any errors in their work to identify which of the mistakes occur the most in their work. They can write an action card to stick to the inside of any work books in the next school year listing their main errors and recording how they can be corrected. The action card can be attached using sticky tape to make a flap which can stick out of a book as the children are working so that they can be reminded to check for their consistent errors.

Topic Questions
The class can also spend time reviewing the topics that the class have studied across the school year. Work with the children to make a list of questions to help them review the skills that they have learnt across a range of topics. Split the class into small groups so that they discuss the answers to the questions for a specific topic such as which part of the topic did you find the most confusing or which different ways could you show your understanding of a topic. Bring the class back together so that the children can share their responses to the identified questions. You can use the children’s answers about the different questions to update and change the knowledge and skills connected to a particular topic for the next school year with your new class.

Review Presentation
Get each of the children to make a short presentation about their progress in a range of skills and subject knowledge across the school year. The class can spend time making notes about their progress in one subject using a range of selected skills such as learning all of the times tables in Maths. Get the children to make some notes to use in their presentation to describe how well they have progressed in a specific skills and suggest ways of developing the skills further for the new school year. During the presentations, get the children to identify the most important skills to develop as a class and suggest techniques to make further progress in different subject areas.

Target Setting
During the class’ review of their past school work the children can set some targets in different skills and subjects for the new school term in the autumn. Remind the class to select targets with small and not giant steps to make them easier to achieve. For example, instead of selecting a target to learn all of the times tables the children can choose some of the tables to learn by heart by a certain date in the school year. You can share the children’s selected targets with their next school teacher so that there is a link between the year groups. The class could write a letter to their new teacher outlining some of their achievements in the past school year and listing their selected targets to work on during the autumn term.