1. Welcome to Year 6 Parent Meeting

2. SATs Tests and Arrangements

3. English reading
1 hour to read three texts (fiction, non-fiction, poetry) and answer related comprehension questions
Texts increase in difficulty but are age-appropriate in terms of content and difficulty
More of an emphasis on vocabulary

5. Maths paper 1: Arithmetic
Children have 30 minutes to answer 36 questions – context free
Requires children to work mentally and use standard written methods from the curriculum
Tested on multiplication, division, addition and subtraction with large numbers and decimals as well as with fractions
Percentages of amounts

7. Paper 2 and Paper 3: Reasoning
40 minutes to complete
Assesses pupils’ ability to understand and apply mathematics to problems and to reason
Questions linked to the specific strands of the Year 6 curriculum
Mixture of contextualised and context-free questions, and real life and abstract problems

10. English grammar, punctuation and spelling Paper 1: questions
Test covers the aspects of spelling, grammar and punctuation and language strategies from across the key stage 2 English national curriculum
45 minutes to answer short answer questions

13. English grammar, punctuation and spelling Paper 2: spelling
The paper consists of 20 target words, presented within distinct, contextualised sentences
Not strictly timed – minutes
The words could be from the “non negotiable” list or they might not- it is about the students learning the rules of spelling

14. Practice Assessments
Parent meetings
Homework
Spellings
Accelerated Reader
How can you help at home?
Boosters / interventions