1. Welcome to:
Abbey Gates Primary School’s SATS (Standard Assessment Tests) Information Evening

2. The tests… English Comprehension – Externally marked
SPAG (Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar)– Externally marked
Writing - Internally marked
Mathematics
Externally marked

3. Timetable

4. English Comprehension (Reading Test)
1hr to complete paper and read texts
Includes 3 texts with increasing difficulty (new this year)
Children can refer back to the text.
Reading for understanding is essential.
Children will be required to refer to text to justify their responses.

7. Quick Answers

8. More Complex Answers

9. 3 Mark Answers

10. How can you help?
Listen to your child read every day and ask questions about what they have read:
Why do you think Rosie acted that way?
What might Rosie have been thinking and why?
What do you think this character might have thought about what Rosie did? 

11. SPAG Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

12. Pronouns
substitutes for nouns in order to avoid repetition: I, you, he, she, it, we, you (plural), they, me, him, her, us, them

13. I or me? If you can take away the other people in the sentence,
which then makes better sense – I or me?
After we went cycling, I was very tired?
After we went cycling, me was very tired?
The teacher asked I to collect the books?
The teacher asked me to collect the books?

14. Commas

15. Writing Tests
Writing tests are now internally marked through ongoing assessments in the classroom.

16. Spelling Test Within a text. Fill in the missing gaps. 20 spellings.
Marks added to the overall writing score.
Only contributes at best 14% to the writing score.

17. Fill in the blanks

18. Maths Ma1 Using and applying mathematics Ma2 Number and algebra
Ma3 Shapes, space and measures
Ma4 Handling data

19. How it works There are three test papers:
Paper A which lasts 45 minutes and carries 40 marks (Non-calculator).
Paper B which lasts 45 minutes and carries 40 marks (Non-calculator).
Mental maths test which lasts approx 20 minutes and carries 20 marks.
Questions will test all areas but now focus an application, reasoning and problem solving.

20. Equipment
All equipment needed for these tests will be provided by the school. It changes each year according to the requirements of the questions.

21. Hints for Success Underline key words
Ask for questions to be read to you
Annotate diagrams
Show all the steps to multi-step problems
Ensure digits are legible – digit formation
Never overwrite a wrong answer

22. Question Example 1

23. Question Example 2

24. Question Example 3

25. Mental Maths Answer Sheet

26. In school Daily teaching / interventions Booster Sessions
Reading support

27. Homework

28. Top Tips
Don’t panic
Follow school’s revision programme/advice/be prepared to try
Read questions thoroughly
Get plenty of sleep
Try your best
Try not to leave an answer blank
Manage your time effectively
Don’t panic!

29. Websites http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/

30. Any questions…