1. Key Stage 2 SATS Information Evening 2017
8th May-12th May 2017

2. What will your child be tested on?
Maths
Reading
Spelling
Grammar & Punctuation

3. Timetable for SATs 8th – 11th May 2017
Mon 8th
Tues 9th
Wed 10th
Thurs 11th
Fri 12th
Reading Test
Grammar and Punctuation
Maths Paper 1 – Arithmetic
Maths Paper 3 - Reasoning
Spelling Test
Maths Paper 2 - Reasoning

4. The Maths Tests There are 3 maths tests:
- Paper 1– Arithmetic: 30 minutes
- Paper 2 – Reasoning: 40 minutes
- Paper 3 – Reasoning: 40 minutes

5. Arithmetic No mental maths
Covering calculation methods for all operations, including use of fractions, percentages and decimals.
Questions gradually increase in difficulty. Not all children will be expected to access some of the more difficult questions later in the paper.
30 minutes to answer 36 questions – about 1 minute per question!!
40 marks available

6. Example questions: 1. 979 + 100 2. 48 / 6 3. 2. 5 + 0. 05 4
Example questions: / % of x 4 6. ¼ x 1/8

7. Sample Questions
Maths Paper 1: Arithmetic

8. Paper 2 and 3 - Reasoning 40 minutes to answer 20 questions
Problem solving and reasoning
Application of all maths knowledge
40 marks in total for each paper

9. Example Question:
Large pizzas cost £8.50 each. Small pizzas cost £6.75 each. Five children together buy one large pizza and three small pizzas. They share the cost equally. How much does each child pay?

10. Example Question:
A shaded isosceles triangle is drawn inside a rectangle.
Calculate the size of angle a. 38 a 38
Not to scale.

11. A bag of 5 lemons costs £1
A bag of 4 oranges costs £1.80
How much more does one orange cost than one lemon?

12. Sample Questions

13. Sample Questions

14. Reading Comprehension

15. Reading
The reading test consists of a single test paper with three unrelated reading texts. Children are given 60 minutes in total, which includes reading the texts and answering the questions.
A total of 50 marks are available.
Questions are designed to assess the comprehension and understanding of a child’s reading.

16. During the reading paper, a child’s inference and deduction skills are thoroughly tested. They will also be expected to answer questions on authorial choices: explaining why an author has chosen to use particular vocabulary, grammar and text features.
Some questions are multiple choice or selected response; others require short answers and some require an extended response or explanation.

17. Non- Fiction

18. Poetry

19. Fiction

20. Simple Retrieval Questions

21. Organisational Questions

22. Inference Questions

23. Sample Questions
Reading Paper

24. Grammar & Punctuation 2 papers Paper 1: Grammar & Punctuation
(45 mins) Score out of 50
Paper 2: Spellings - Score out of 20

25. Sample Questions
Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Paper 1

27. Sample Questions
Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Paper 1

29. Spellings
20 spellings
The sentences will be read out by the teachers and the spelling word repeated for the pupils to write down.

30. Writing
All writing is assessed through teacher assessment - evidence from throughout the year.
Evidence gained from all books.

31. Writing – Expected standard
The pupil can write for a range of purposes and audiences (including writing a short story):
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

32. using a range of cohesive devices
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

33. using inverted commas, commas for clarity, and punctuation for parenthesis mostly correctly, and making some correct use of semi-colons, dashes, colons and hyphens
spelling most words correctly, including common exception words* (years 5 and 6)
maintaining legibility, fluency and speed in handwriting through choosing whether or not to join specific letters.

34. What is a ‘scaled score’?
Each child will have achieved a ‘raw’ score for maths, reading and GPS (also known as SPAG) based on the number of questions they answered correctly.
This is then converted into a ‘scaled score’.

35. What does this mean for each child?
If a child has achieved a score of 100, he/she is working roughly at the expected national standard for a Y6 pupil.
Using the scaled score, the lowest a child can score is 80, with the highest being 120.
If a child’s score is close to 110, he/she is working beyond (or above) the expected national standard.
If a child’s score is closer to 80, he/she is working below the expected standard.

36. 2016 KS2 Thresholds
Mathematics 60 (110)
Reading 21 (50)
GPS 43 (70)

37. Results

40. How to Help Your Child
Support and reassure your child that there is nothing to worry about and they should always just try their best. Praise and encourage!
Ensure your child has the best possible attendance at school.
Support your child with any homework tasks.
Reading, spelling and arithmetic (e.g. times tables) are always good to practise.
Talk to your child about what they have learnt at school and what book(s) they are reading (the character, the plot, their opinion).
Make sure your child has a good sleep and healthy breakfast every morning!

41. Thank you for supporting your child by attending tonight. Any questions?