1. Key Stage One Statutory Assessment Mrs McGuigan – April 2016 The Gordon Children’s Academy

2. What are the SATs? Every school is legally obliged to assess each child as they approach the end of Key Stage One in Primary School. These results must be reported to parents and are used to inform the school of future targets and enable them to make predictions. SATs = Statutory Assessment Tasks Teacher assessment is the main focus at the end of Key Stage 1 and it is carried out as part of teaching and learning.

3. When do the SATs take place? Schools can choose when to assess the children for the Key Stage 1 SATs. Usually they are carried out over a 2 week period with normal lessons continuing alongside, so that pupil’s day-to-day routines are not interrupted too much. The children are made aware of this “Special Work” but as the importance of every lesson is stressed, pupil’s should not notice too much of a difference between this lesson and any other.

4. What do Teachers have to Assess? Teachers have to summarise their judgements on children’s attainment in relation to the National Curriculum level descriptors. The aim is to reach a judgement that: a. Is based on knowledge of how a child has performed over time and across a range of contexts; and b. Takes into account strengths and weaknesses of a child’s performance through the key stage.

5. Continued... Teachers need to assess: Levels for Reading, Writing, SPaG and Maths

6. English English Reading 1: Combined reading and questions (30 mins). English Reading 2: Reading booklet and reading answer booklet. There is no longer a written test for English writing. All writing is to be assessed by the teachers. English tests have an increased difficulty and there is a greater emphasis on comprehension.

7. Reading 1 Children will need to read the text independently and answer the related questions. Not all answers are explicitly written in the text.

8. Reading 2 Children will need to read the extended text independently. These texts are in a separate booklet to the questions and consist of up to 4 pages.

9. SPaG SPaG: Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar – Completely new KS1 test. SPaG 1: Spelling (15 mins) SPaG 2: Questions (20 mins) The newly introduced SPaG tests emphasise technical aspects of grammar and pupil’s knowledge of grammar, punctuation and vocabulary. *UPDATE April 2016 – These will now be teacher assessed as the DfE released these tests publically by mistake therefore making it null and void.*

10. Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar SPaG 1: Spelling SPaG 2: Punctuation and Grammar Spellings to be read orally by teachers. Children need to answer questions unaided and independently.

11. Maths Maths 1: Arithmetic (20 mins) - A completely new KS1 test. This has been introduced to assess confidence, mathematical fluency with whole numbers, place value and counting. Maths 2: Reasoning (35 mins) – This paper starts with 5 aural questions and assesses pupil’s mathematical fluency, problem solving and reasoning.

12. Maths – Arithmetic Pupils will not be provided with any other equipment but a pencil and a rubber. Pupil can have questions read to them upon request.

13. Maths – Reasoning As with the arithmetic paper, children will not be provided with any other equipment besides a pencil and a rubber.

14. Continued... Due to stringent teacher assessment throughout the year, the results of these tests should not be a surprise. If any child achieves significantly above or below predicted targets, the teacher must use their judgement to find a best-fit overall grade. The overall work for the whole year will be taken into account.

15. Assessment Children will be assessed against this criteria. Judgement will be based on a broads range of evidence.

16. Scaled Scores A pupil scaled score will be based on their raw score. The raw score is the total number of marks a pupil receives in a test based on the number of questions they answered correctly. The raw scores will be translated to the scaled scores once the standard has been set nationally. For the KS1 tests a scaled score of 100 will always represent the “expected standard” i.e.: the average.

17. Results The results of the Key Stage 1 SATs will be reported to you in the overall end of year school report in July. Remember that progress is not a fluid process and sometimes children will attain much quicker or slower than others.