1. Year 6
Parents'
SATs Meeting
29 November 2016

2. Aims of the session
To share important information about KS2 SATs – Particularly the recent changes!
To answer any questions about KS2 SATs
Explain how we are preparing children in school
Discuss / share ideas about how you as a parent can help your child at home

3. What are KS2 SATs? Standard Assessment Tests
All children have to be tested before they go to high school
Provide assessment information for high schools
Purpose – Assess whether children are working at Age Related Standards before they leave primary school

4. What level should Y6 children be at? ?
Working well below Age Related Expectation -
These children will not be entered for the tests
Below 100 – below age related expectation
100 Score – age related expectation
Above 110 – above age related expectation ?

5. How will this be reported?
You will receive your child’s
RAW SCORE (Actual number of marks they get)
SCALED SCORE (Based around 100)
AGE RELATED EXPECTATION ACHIEVED OR NOT ACHIEVED

6. What other information do high schools want?
SATs results
Teacher assessments
Tests administered by the high schools
It varies according to which high school your child is going to

7. What does teacher assessment involve,
and is it different from testing?
Teacher assessment draws together everything the teacher or teachers know about a child, including observations, marked work and school assessments.
Teacher assessment is not a ‘snapshot’ like tests and is therefore more reliable.
There can be a difference between teacher assessment results and test levels.
Teacher assessment only, is used for children who work well below Age Related Expectations (children who don’t do the SATs).
Writing level ….

8. How is SATs week organised?
A timetable is issued to school, telling us on which days/sessions tests must be administered.
All children must sit the tests at the same time.
Test papers can only be opened 1 hour before the tests begin.
Tests are completed in the hall
Children are divided into groups for test administration to ensure they are properly supported and feel secure.

9. SATs Timetable PROVISIONAL TIMETABLE
Year 6 SATs Week 8th – 12th May 2017
TESTS
Monday 8th May
English Reading Test (60min)
Tuesday 9th May
English – Spelling, (15 min)
Punctuation & Grammar Test (45 min)
Wednesday 10th May
Maths – Arithmetic (30 mins)
Thursday 11th May
Maths Paper 1 (40 min NO calculator)
Friday 12th May
Maths – Paper 2 (40 min NO calculator)
PROVISIONAL TIMETABLE

10. Science Sampling Tests
Monday 5th June – Friday 16th June
Biology Paper – 25 mins
Chemistry Paper – 25 mins
Physics Paper – 25 mins

11. Any questions?

12. How can parents help?
Children attending school – no appointments in school day (if possible.)
The best help is interest taken in learning and progress.
Supporting homework – Tasks set every night, to be returned following day!
Good communication between the school and home – talk to us!
Getting a good sleep on a school night!

13. Homework READ every night to an adult – (15mins minimum)
Set every night for the following day:
Literacy Based Piece
Numeracy Based Piece
Set every week:
Spellings
Times tables
Set every other week:
Grammar Hammer
Maths skills check
NO Learning Log

14. English SATs English SATs consist of: A reading test
A grammar, punctuation and spelling test

15. Writing Level Awarded using Teacher Assessment:
Writing Assessment
Writing Level Awarded using Teacher Assessment:
Children’s writing is measured against Age Related Expectation across the curriculum.
Children must demonstrate the level across a range of writing styles
This is moderated externally

16. Apostrophes for contraction/possession
End of Key Stage 2 Statutory Assessment – Working towards the Expected Standard
Uses paragraphs to organise ideas
Describing setting and characters
Using some cohesive devices within and across sentences and paragraphs
Using different verb forms mostly accurately
Using co-ordinating and subordinating conjunctions
Using mostly correctly
Capital letters
Full stops
Question marks
Exclamation marks
Commas for lists
Apostrophes for contraction/possession
Spelling most words correctly (year 3 and 4)
Spelling some words correctly (year 5 and 6)
Producing legible joined handwriting

17. Using passive and modal verbs mostly appropriately
End of Key Stage 2 Statutory Assessment – Working at the Expected Standard
Creating atmosphere, and integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the action
Selecting vocabulary and grammatical structures that reflect the level of formality required mostly correctly
Using a range of cohesive devices, including adverbials, within and across sentences and paragraphs
Using passive and modal verbs mostly appropriately
Using a wide range of clause structures, sometimes varying their position within the sentence
Using adverbs, preposition phrases and expanded noun phrases effectively to add detail, qualification and precision
Using mostly correctly
inverted commas
commas for clarity
punctuation for parentheses
Making some correct use of
semi-colons
dashes
colons
hyphens
Spelling all 3&4 words correctly
Spelling most words correctly (year 5 and 6)
Maintaining legibility, fluency and speed in handwriting through choosing whether or not to join specific letters

18. Reading
60 minutes to read AND answer questions. Children are allowed to refer to the reading booklet during this time
There are a variety of different questions to be answered in different ways
Children cannot have any adult help in this test

19. There are 4 main types of skill required on the reading paper:
Literal – answer is there in the text
Deductive – look for clues
Inferential – read between the lines
Authorial intent – e.g. why does an author use a particular word

20. ‘A Day in the English Countryside’
Sentence from:
‘A Day in the English Countryside’
As the afternoon light started to fade, the cow stopped eating grass, stood instead with its head over the gate and gazed expectantly down the lane.
How light was it? (Literal)
What three things did the cow do? (Literal)
What time of day was it? (Deductive)
Where was the cow? (Deductive)
What do you think the cow was expecting? (Inferential)
What strategies does the writer use to give the reader so much information in a single sentence? (Authorial intent)

21. questions on the reading paper:
There are 5 main types of
questions on the reading paper:
Ranking/ordering, e.g. ‘Number the events below to show the order in which they happen in the story’
Labelling, e.g. ‘Label the text to show the title of the story’
Find and copy, e.g. ‘Find and copy one word that suggests what the weather is like in the story’
Short constructed response, e.g. ‘What does the bear eat?’
Open-ended response, e.g. ‘Look at the sentence that begins Once upon a time. How does the writer increase the tension throughout this paragraph? Explain fully, referring to the text in your answer.’

22. How can parents help with reading?
Ensure your child reads every night! (Min 15 minutes)
Encourage them to read fiction and non-fiction.
Try to listen to your child read and ask them questions about the text – Support for this is in their Diaries.
Help them with the different skills of reading especially ‘skim’ reading where they are looking for key words in the text. Look for the stickers in their Reading Diary
Speed reading
Reading homework

23. Any questions?

24. Grammar
The grammar, punctuation and spelling test will consist of two parts: a grammar and punctuation paper requiring short answers, lasting 45 minutes, and an aural spelling test of 20 words, lasting around 15 minutes.
The grammar and punctuation test will include two sub types of questions:
Selected response, e.g. ‘Identify the adjectives in the sentence below’
Constructed response, e.g. ‘Correct/complete/rewrite the sentence below,’ or, ‘The sentence below has an apostrophe missing. Explain why it needs an apostrophe.’

25. Any questions?

26. How can parents help with writing?
Again, reading a variety of texts – the more children read, the more familiar they become with different text types
Reading homework – text analysis
Writing homework – very rare!!!
Spelling – spelling lists / rules every week – booklet sent home.
Grammar and punctuation homework

27. Any questions?

28. Two written test papers
Mathematics
Mathematics SATs consist of:
A mathematics arithmetic test. (30 min)
Two written test papers
Paper 2 & Paper 3 (40 min each)
Focus on mathematical fluency, solving problems & reasoning

29. Papers 2 and 3 will involve a number of question types, including:
Paper 1 will consist of fixed response questions, where children have to give the correct answer to calculations, including long multiplication and division. 
Papers 2 and 3 will involve a number of question types, including:
Multiple choice
True or false
Constrained questions, e.g. giving the answer to a calculation, drawing a shape or completing a table or chart
Less constrained questions, where children will have to explain their approach for solving a problem

30. Some questions are worth one mark and therefore accuracy is important.
Other questions are worth two marks and even if the answer is wrong, a mark may be given for correct working.
Teachers may read questions in both written papers to pupils if asked.

31. TIMES TABLES!!! How can parents help with Maths?
Support with homework – not just helping with the Maths but reading the question can really help.
TIMES TABLES!!!
Help your child to check their work through – this will help them to spot mistakes that can sometimes be easily fixed.

32. Any questions?

33. Special
Arrangements

34. Any questions?

35. What are we doing? Amazing teaching of course!
Setting for Maths, English, Grammar & Reading
Teaching assistant support
Booster sessions
Homework club
Test preparation
Fun – hard work but no stress on the children!

36. Any questions?

37. Useful
Websites

40. Any questions?