1. Key Stage 1 Assessments March 2018

2. National Changes
At the end of KS1 (Year 2) and KS2 (Year 6) all children will be assessed against the National Curriculum.
From 2016, test scores have been reported as ‘scaled scores’.
The new curriculum (2014) is more rigorous and sets high expectations which all schools have had to work hard to meet.

3. Scaled Scores What is meant by ‘scaled scores’?
100 will always represent the ‘national standard’.
Each pupil’s raw test score will therefore be converted into a score on the scale, either at, above or below 100.
The scale will have a lower end point somewhere below 100 and an upper end point above 100.
A child who achieves the ‘national standard’ (a score of 100) will be judged to have demonstrated sufficient knowledge in the areas assessed by the tests.

4. KS1 Tests Children are assessed in: Reading
Mathematics – arithmetic and reasoning
Grammar, punctuation and spelling
No formal assessment for writing – evidence is gathered over the year.
All tests will take place over 2 weeks beginning 14th and 21st May
English reading Paper 1: combined reading prompt and answer booklet
English reading Paper 2: reading booklet and reading answer booklet
English grammar, punctuation and spelling Paper 1: spelling
English grammar, punctuation and spelling Paper 2: questions
mathematics Paper 1: arithmetic
mathematics Paper 2: reasoning

5. Types of reading questions
There will be a variety of question types:
Multiple choice
Ranking/ordering, e.g. ‘Number the events below to show in which order they happened in the story’
Matching, e.g. ‘Match the character to the job that they do in the story’
Labelling, e.g. ‘Label the text to show the title’
Find and copy, e.g. ‘Find and copy one word that shows what the weather was like in the story’
Short answer, e.g. ‘What does the bear eat?’
Open-ended answer, e.g. ‘Why did Lucy write the letter to her grandmother? Give two reasons’
The Reading Test consists of two separate papers:
Paper 1 – Contains a selection of texts totalling between 400 and 700 words with questions about the text.
Paper 2 – Contains a reading booklet of a selection of passages totalling 800 to 1100 words. Children will write their answers to questions about the passage in a separate booklet.
Each paper is worth 50% of the marks and should take approximately 30 minutes to complete, although the children are not being assessed at working at speed so will not be strictly timed.
The texts will cover a range of poetry, fiction and non-fiction.
Questions are designed to assess the comprehension and understanding of a child’s reading.
Some questions are multiple choice or selected response, others require
short answers and some require an extended response or explanation.

6. Sample Reading Question
Sample from the paper 1

7. Sample Reading Question
Sample from paper 1

8. Sample Reading Question
Sample from paper 1

10. Sample Reading Question

12. Sample Grammar Question
Paper 1: spelling (20 marks).
Paper 2: questions (20 marks).

13. Sample Grammar Question

14. Sample Grammar Question
To prepare for the grammar test the children are having weekly grammar lessons.
As the children learn grammar rules they are encouraged to use these rules in the writing.
See the grammar terminology handout.
Useful to correct grammar when speaking as our children often speak in the wrong tense
i.e I seen a good film on TV last night
I done a great piece of work.

15. Sample Grammar Question

16. Spelling
To prepare for spelling test children work through RWI spelling scheme daily for 15 mins, focusing on spelling rules reinforcing spellings learnt/sent home for homework.
Focuss on learnt spelling rules and common exception words. See handout which will be provided on parents’ evening.
Sentences dictated to the children with the missing word which they then fill in.

17. Writing is not formally assessed.
We use independent writing from throughout the year. We use evidence from extended writing books and other areas of the curriculum.
Children are given many opportunities to write at length, edit and improve their handwriting, spelling, grammar and sentence content.

18. What we expect to see in Y2 writing
Cursive script and correct joins– lower case size, consistent capital letter use, finger spaces
Spellings – many words spelt correctly using phonic knowledge, KS1 spelling rules and common exception words
Grammar – Past and present tense
Punctuation – . ? !
‘ for contractions and belonging and , for a list
Vocabulary – use adjectives to describe nouns
Sentence types - statement, question, exclamation, command
Read their work to check it makes sense and with fluency

19. Mathematics Paper 1 - Arithmetic
Children will sit two tests: Paper 1 and Paper 2:
Paper 1 is for arithmetic, lasting approximately 25 minutes and worth 25 marks. It covers calculation methods for all operations.
Paper 2 covers problem solving, reasoning and mathematical fluency, lasts for approximately 35 minutes and is worth 35 marks.
Pupils will still require calculation skills and questions will be varied including multiple choice, matching, true/false, completing a chart or table or drawing a shape. Some questions will also require children to show or explain their working out.
A big focus on arithmetic. Children are expected to add and subtract two digit numbers, recall facts for the 2,5,10 times table and be able to relate these to division,

20. Mathematics Paper 2 - Reasoning

21. Mathematics Paper 2 - Reasoning

22. Mathematics Paper 2 - Reasoning

23. Mathematics Paper 2 - Reasoning

24. Guided and shared reading – sample questions Practise tests
How do we prepare?
Test language
Guided and shared reading – sample questions
Practise tests
Daily maths fluency and counting lessons
Spellings
Grammar lessons
Children have been using the language from the tests all year.
In guided reading they have been looking at sample questions with their teacher.

25. Good attendance And punctuality
What can you do to help?
Read together every day and ask questions about the story to develop understanding.
Encourage writing at home – use adjectives, conjunctions, sentence openers, correct grammar – particularly when speaking. Write diaries, letters, shopping lists, postcards, scrap books. Encourage children to use correct letter formation – joined up handwriting.
Practise weekly spellings.
Use number problems in every day life, at the shops, on the bus, telling the time etc.
Don’t put an emphasis on the tests or add any pressure.
Good attendance
And punctuality

26. Teacher Assessment
Teachers have been keeping ongoing assessment records all year. These count towards the end of year level.
Children will be well prepared and the tests will be done as subtly as possible.
If children do not perform to the best of their ability in the test do not worry as teacher assessment is used towards the final assessment.
Children will be reported as:
Working towards the expected standard
Working at the expected standard
Exceeding the expected standard.
Children will not know that they are taking SATs, they will be done as subtly as possible.
There will be no added pressure for the children. They will be used to seeing the question types as they have been using them in lessons already with the teachers.