For parents

For parents: getting started, the weekly letter and progress

Remelia is for families preparing at home for the 11 plus or Year 6 SATs, with or without a tutor. Your child practises in a web browser on their own laptop, tablet or phone. You get a plain letter each week, progress shown honestly, a way to check the plan with school, and the controls, in Remelia Parents on your own phone.

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Remelia Parents

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Home
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Progress
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The weekly letter, practice papers and mocks, progress and the school page, for each child on your account. What you set once is behind the Settings button.

On your child’s device

For grown-ups

Behind a grown-ups’ check in your child’s app

Home
Practise
Progress
School

The same, plus linking the device and the children who share it, under Devices and data in Settings.

Two places to look: Remelia Parents on your own phone, and For grown-ups inside your child’s app.

Getting started

How to start practice at home: four steps.

The first three happen on your child’s device, with you beside them. The account comes when you want the letter on your own phone.

Set up your child where they will practise
Open Remelia in any web browser on their laptop, tablet or phone; nothing to install. Give a first name, year group and pronouns, and their school if you like.
Choose the schools
Next in the set-up: tick every school your child might apply for, grouped by exam, or choose “General 11+ preparation” for the curriculum with no exam date. None is chosen for you; skip it and This week asks again; you can change it at any time in Settings.
A first maths skills check
24 maths questions find where your child is, so practice starts in the right place. The English check, 16 questions, comes the next day.
Your account, in Remelia Parents
When you are ready, create it at parents.remelia.co.uk on your phone, add your child, and type the code it shows into their device.

Each exam plan is dated from your child’s year group: Remelia works to the sitting for the September they start Year 7. A school without a plan of its own may still have its test under “Can’t find a school?”. Tick it, then choose its school year and month; Remelia plans for that provider’s usual test at the sitting you choose. If it is not there, choose “General 11+ preparation” for the Key Stage 2 curriculum with no exam date.

Open the app Remelia Parents

Opens in this browser, so use your child’s device. No account needed to start. Linking is optional: without it, the record stays on your child’s device and For grown-ups is there to read.

Not ready to set up? Try a skills check first: your child takes it, you read what it found, and no answer is saved.

This week and the letter

The weekly letter to parents: one a week, and at most one thing to do.

The Home tab opens on This week, the page to open once a week, in Remelia Parents or in For grown-ups. It answers what a parent is really asking: are we on track, is my child all right, and is there anything for me to do?

The full letter then goes subject by subject, naming each topic that is not secure yet. Your child is compared with the curriculum and with themselves last month, never with other children.

After a session with a question wrong or left, Home leads to the questions your child got wrong or left in their last five sessions. Each opens to what they answered, the right answer and the explanation. On their device, a grown-up opens it behind the grown-ups’ check. In Remelia Parents it shows the same list only after you turn on “Send what they got wrong to my account” in Settings. That switch is off until you turn it on, and it is for one child at a time. The copy is kept in your account for 30 days after it was last sent, and deleted at once when you turn the switch off.

Read a whole sample letter, from a fictional child, Sam, after ten weeks, with the progress chart.

What This week tells you

The headline, in one sentence. “Nothing here needs your attention” is a finding like any other.
On track or not, with the assumption behind it written underneath.
How sessions have felt, from your child’s own taps at the end of each one.
At most one thing worth your attention, and where to help.

Progress, and the range

Progress towards the exam: an honest range, with its assumption next to it.

Progress is counted in secure topics: ones your child has answered correctly after a gap of about 20 days, remembered rather than just done.

“On current evidence, between … and … of the … will be secure by the exam.”

It counts the topics that became secure in each of the last four weeks.
It carries that pace forward to the exam date, and widens the range for how much the pace has varied week to week.
It never counts fewer than are secure now, or more than the exam’s list holds.

The assumption: that the recent pace holds. It is said every time, and a steadier pace narrows the range.

It is a range over how much of the syllabus will be covered, never over passing. Each school or council sets its own mark on its own scale, and some set it only after their test has been sat. A predicted result would be invented.

The Progress page has the rest, in four views: Overview, By year, Mocks and Syllabus. It shows how many of each chosen exam’s topics are secure, the time left, every year and area of the subject, and what is not taught yet. It is in Remelia Parents on your phone and in For grown-ups on your child’s device.

The Progress page in For grown-ups on the device of a fictional child called Sam, on its Overview view with By year, Mocks and Syllabus beside it: how many of the exam’s objectives are secure, the range of them expected to be secure by the exam month on current evidence, and how many of all Key Stage 2 are secure. — Progress, in For grown-ups on Sam’s device. Sam is a fictional child.

School

In step with your child’s class at school.

Remelia teaches maths in the order your child’s school does. The School page is where you keep it that way.

The school your child goes to, chosen from the list of UK schools, so the pages can name it and fill in its term dates.
The maths scheme it follows: White Rose Maths, Power Maths (current edition), Power Maths (first edition, 2018), Maths No Problem! or Oak National Academy. Remelia is not associated with or endorsed by White Rose Education or Oak National Academy. The topic order for Oak National Academy is based on Oak’s published units, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
This half-term’s topics, to confirm, or to move if the class is somewhere else.
Topics your child says school has started, for you to confirm or decline.

Not sure what the class is doing? One tap drafts an email to the teacher asking for the half-term plan.

To your child’s teacher

Subject Year 5 maths: what is taught each half-term?

Dear teacher,

I am Sam’s parent. Is the maths long-term plan for Year 5 on the school website? If it is, could you send me the link?

If not, could you tell me which maths blocks Year 5 covers each half-term this year, and which scheme the school follows (White Rose, Power Maths or another)?

It helps me keep practice at home in step with class. Thank you.

Kind regards

The email the School page drafts, for a fictional child called Sam in Year 5. It opens in your own email app, and nothing is sent until you send it.

Settings

Parent controls: you set how the practice goes.

In both places, the Settings button opens Settings. On a phone it is the round button at the top right. On a bigger screen, such as a laptop, it is usually the last item of the side menu. The timed mock, the Year 6 SATs and the papers to print are on the Practise tab, with marking. Changes take effect from your child’s next session; made on your phone, they reach your child’s device the next time it is in touch.

Schools and exams: Every school your child might sit for. The plan covers what all of their exams set, of what Remelia teaches, and its clock follows whichever exam comes next. Where an exam tests something Remelia does not teach, Settings says so. With none ticked, the Key Stage 2 curriculum with no exam date. Find it in Settings, under Practice sessions.
Subjects: Maths and English for every child. Ten of the 249 exam plans leave out English or maths, and another 52 set reasoning only and leave out both. With only such exams open, what is missing is kept up to the national standard for Years 3 to 6, with core topics and practice papers. It is not counted towards those exams or included as a section of their mocks. Verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning and science are each added when a school you choose sets that subject, and only then. Reasoning starts in the autumn of Year 5: a child in Year 3 or Year 4 has none until then. Every session mixes the subjects unless you choose otherwise: your child can pick one each time, or you can keep to one. With three or more subjects, each has its own switch. Stop a subject and the letter still says when an exam tests it. Find it in Settings, under Practice sessions.
Timed mock: A timed mock of the exam of a school you have chosen. It runs the parts one after another, each with its own minutes, and a grown-up starts it. With no school chosen, its tile on the Practise tab asks for one first, in Settings, under Practice sessions. A mock on paper is printed and run from your screen, which shows the clock for each part. A mock on screen is started in For grown-ups, on the child’s own device. It is not always the whole exam. A mock is practice, never a rank. What a timed mock leaves out
Year 6 SATs: Year 6 SATs practice: printable papers in the style of the national tests, covering arithmetic, mathematical reasoning, grammar and punctuation, spelling and reading. A grown-up can run a timed mock using all six papers, mark the answers and see an estimated scaled score as a rough guide. Tick “Year 6 SATs” in the schools list in Settings, under Practice sessions, to choose them. With a school chosen, they also open on their own within a few weeks of the last chosen exam. A 13 plus test sat in Year 7 or Year 8 comes after the SATs week, so you choose them yourself. What Remelia practises for SATs
Session length: From 8 to 20 minutes. About 12 minutes by default. It is longer where a chosen exam sets four subjects or more (13 with four), so that each has its questions, and up to 15 minutes in the months before a chosen exam. With the scholarship switch on, a session can be up to three minutes longer, for a second puzzle. Shorter mixed sessions may not cover every subject. Maths comes first, so an 8-minute mixed session usually leaves no time for English or reasoning questions. In the last 14 days before an exam, 8 minutes at most, with nothing new. Find it in Settings, under Practice sessions.
Pace against school: Only what school has taught (the default: the next topic opens early once everything taught is secure), up to a term ahead, or the whole year at any time. Find it in Settings, under Practice sessions.
Year 7 head start: 29 early secondary maths topics, which open after the Year 6 SATs (straight after the last exam, for a child aiming only at independent schools), or earlier if a grown-up turns it on. Each comes in once the Key Stage 2 topics it builds on are secure. Part of every plan; you can also keep it off. Find it in Settings, under Practice sessions.
Breaks: Three fortnights off a year, around Christmas, Easter and August, following the school’s holidays unless you set the dates. Nothing is lost: topics wait.
A different day each week: After two days of practice in a week, one session takes a different shape, using reviews and never new topics. Find it in Settings, under Practice sessions.
Reading day: From the autumn of Year 5, when a chosen exam plan includes English, the different day becomes a reading day: an unseen passage and 9 questions on it. Find it in Settings, under Practice sessions.
Their world: The names in word problems: friends, a pet, a team, favourite places. These stay on your child’s device and are never sent. The row reads Her world or His world once you choose pronouns.
Pronouns: How the app speaks of your child to you, in the letter and on these pages. Find it in Settings, under Pronouns.

Papers to print at home

Also on the Practise tab: practice papers to print, for your child to work through with pen and paper. Papers come in the subjects your child studies: maths and English papers need no exam, and a chosen exam adds papers in its own style where Remelia has one.

10, 20 or 30 questions in the maths and English papers that need no exam: multiple choice with ovals to shade on a separate answer sheet, or short written answers in boxes.
In a chosen exam’s style: GL-style papers in maths, English, verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning for a GL Assessment test; a Quest-style reading paper for a Quest Assessments test or the ISEB Common Pre-Test; a GL-style spatial reasoning paper for a GL Assessment test that sets spatial reasoning; a Quest-style non-verbal reasoning paper for a Quest Assessments test sat on paper; a writing paper of 15, 20, 30 or 45 minutes where the exam has a written task; and the SATs papers when the Year 6 SATs are chosen. Each style has its own lengths, up to 80 questions. The SATs papers have a row of their own, Year 6 SATs, above; the others are made under Papers to print.
From the whole exam plan: the Years 3 to 5 maths in the plan for the Trafford grammar schools (FSCE) test, spread across the areas of maths and ordered by year.
English in sections: a short text with questions, synonyms, opposites, writing for a reader and grammar, each with its instructions and a worked example.
Made again from its code, printed on every part. The device asks our server for the paper by its code; nothing about your child goes with it.

English papers are multiple choice or short written answers, with a timed writing task where a school sets one. Every paper holds Remelia’s own questions: none is a past paper or a test provider’s own. They are best once your child has met everything they cover.

Part 1

Question booklet

Part 2

Answer sheet

Part 3

Answers, for you

Each part starts on a new printed page, with the paper’s code on every one.

Independent schools

Interview practice and a scholarship switch: two things for independent schools.

Interview practice and the scholarship switch both come after you have chosen a school. Neither says how a child will do.

Interview practice

When it is offered. In Remelia Parents only, for a chosen exam that has an interview. It is listed on the Practise tab from the autumn of the year the exam is sat until about the time of the school’s offers.

Which schools. 136 of the 174 independent schools with an exam plan have an exam with an interview.

What it does. A grown-up leads it. You read a card out, and your child answers aloud. You tick what you heard from a list of five, such as “Answered with a reason”. The cards come in six kinds, from talking about interests to reading a short text aloud.

What it is not. Nothing your child says is recorded: there is no microphone, no clock and no score, and the ticks stay on your phone. The cards are not counted towards the exam, and they do not predict how an interview will go.

The scholarship switch

When it is offered. For a chosen independent school, and only after a grown-up turns it on. It is off until then.

Which schools. The switch is offered for 172 of the 174 independent schools with an exam plan. It is not offered for a state school, the Year 6 SATs or a school you typed in yourself.

What it does. A grown-up turns it on for each school with the switch “Also aiming for an academic scholarship”, in Settings, under Practice sessions. Once the maths in that school’s plan is secure, your child’s sessions have a second puzzle; until then nothing changes. A session holds one puzzle, not two, on a break day and in the last 14 days before an exam. It also holds one at a session length you have set that cannot hold two puzzles and the day’s set of questions.

What does not change. Nothing changes while the Puzzles switch, on the same page, is off. Your child never sees the word “scholarship”.

The time. Remelia allows three minutes for the second puzzle. At a session length you have set, the session stays that length and the set can be shorter. At the default length, the session can be up to three minutes longer, and the set can be shorter too.

What it is not. Most schools do not publish their scholarship papers. We practise unfamiliar, multi-step problems on the maths your child knows. We cannot practise a school’s own paper. The switch does not say whether a school will award your child a scholarship.

Children, devices and data

One account for the family, and none of your child’s record sent until you say.

Several children

In Remelia Parents, add each child with a first name and a year group; nothing else is asked for there. Each has their own letter, plan and controls. Up to 6 children can share one device, each with their own record.

Linking a laptop, tablet or phone

Remelia Parents shows a code. On your child’s device, open For grown-ups, press the Settings button and choose Devices and data. Then type the code in. A code works once, for 10 minutes. Linked devices share one record; unlinking keeps everything on the device.

What is sent, and what is not

The app asks our server for each session’s questions, by topic, level and year group. It asks about schools too, with the words a grown-up types and the school chosen. It sends an anonymous device number with each request: never a name, never the child’s answers. Nothing else about the child leaves the device unless a grown-up links it to an account. Then only the child’s answers, the grown-ups’ settings and the device’s name go, and only to that account. So does the plan of a travel pack, if one is asked for. So does the list of questions the child got wrong, if a grown-up turns that on.

Never sent, linked or not: your child’s world (their name as typed on their device (except when a grown-up signs in on it and chooses to add them to the account, as the list of what is sent says), and their friends, pet, team, places and hobbies) and how sessions felt.
Your email address: for signing in, with a password kept only as a one-way hash by Remelia’s own sign-in service; it is emailed only to check it and to reset a forgotten password.
Deleting: A deleted child or account is kept for 30 days in case of a change of mind, then deleted for good; the service’s own backups are overwritten within 35 days after that. The list of questions a child got wrong, if switched on, goes at once with the child or the account. It is kept 30 days at most from the last time it was sent.

Privacy, in full

Plainly

What Remelia does not do.

So you can plan the rest of the year around it.

No ranking against other children

There is no score that places your child among other children: no standardised age score, no percentile, no leaderboard. The children who sit a practice test are not the children who sit the exam, so a rank from one says little about the day. Progress is counted against the exam’s own topics instead.

No hall, invigilator or room of other children

Everything happens at home, on a device or on a printed paper. For the feel of the real thing, a hall, an invigilator and a room of children they do not know, book a mock exam near you a few months before the test.

No marking of writing by a teacher

A grown-up at home ticks what each piece of writing shows. If you would like a teacher’s view of a piece, your child’s class teacher, or a tutor if you have one, is the person to ask.

No tutoring

There is no person on the other side of the screen teaching your child. Remelia plans the practice, marks it and shows the method; when something needs explaining another way, that is a job for the class teacher or a tutor.

Questions parents ask about 11+ practice

Your first weekly letter starts with one practice session.

Open Remelia on your child’s device, then create your account in Remelia Parents to follow along on your phone.