1. KS1 Meeting Rebecca Brown Assistant Head teacher
Monday 12th March :15am + 3pm
KS1 Meeting
Rebecca Brown
Assistant Head teacher

2. Individual children will not be discussed.
Outline
What are SATs?
An outline of the tasks and tests
Teacher assessment
Assessment reporting
The results
What you can do to help
Individual children will not be discussed.

3. What are SATs? Children are assessed in; Reading Writing Mathematics
Grammar, punctuation and spelling.
All are tested except for writing, which is teacher assessed across all of the subjects.

4. Tasks and Tests Assessment Area Reading Paper 1
Paper 2 (slightly harder)
Writing
Teacher assessment
Grammar, punctuation and spelling
Paper 1: Spelling test
Paper 2: Grammar and punctuation test
Maths
Paper 1: Arithmetic
Paper 2: Reasoning
Chn can have help reading questions.

5. Reading Children will be tested on their reading comprehension.
Children will have a booklet containing a story and some information writing, which they will read and then answer questions about.

10. Reading Paper 2 will be longer.
Children will read a booklet and then use this to answer questions in a separate booklet.

11. Writing
Your child will be assessed by their teacher, who will look at a number of pieces of writing they are completing independently in class.
Teachers will be looking for consistency.

12. Things we will be looking for:
Capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.
Different forms of sentences: questions, statements, commands, exclamations. (?!)
Adjectives (clap clap things)
Past and present tense consistently.
Connectives (and, so, but, because etc.)
Good spelling
Contractions spelled correctly (I’m, won’t, didn’t)
Adding suffixes (-full, ing)
Neat, joined up writing.

13. Exemplification Materials (DFE) Descriptive writing

14. Spelling Children will be asked to spell 20 words.
These will be put into sentences so that they understand which word to spell (their, there, they’re)
The class teacher will read the spellings to the class.
The Wednesday spelling test that we have been doing has the same format.

15. Grammar and Punctuation
This paper will focus on the children’s knowledge of grammar, punctuation and vocabulary.
The grammar homework that we send every week should be really useful!

18. Maths
Children will work through 2 booklets of maths questions covering work they have learnt this year.
The first will be a mental arithmetic paper, where they will be asked to answer questions using their number facts (number bonds, times tables, knowledge of inverse)
They will be allowed a ruler.

21. Maths The second will be a reasoning paper, covering things like:
Number
Shape
Time
Problem solving
Measure
They will be allowed a ruler to help them.

24. Assessment reporting
Scaled scores are given, the expected standard is 100. The marks will be released in June.
If children are slightly below, they will be Working towards the expected standard
If children are in line with age related expectations, they will be Working at the expected standard
Children working above their peers will be Working at greater depth

25. The Results
Results are reported to the Local Education Authority (Lewisham).
An overall result will be made available with yearly reports.

26. What can you do to help?
Read together every day and ask questions about the story.
Use number problems in every day life, at the shops, on the bus, telling the time etc.
Encourage your child to do homework when it is given.
Encourage your child to practise spellings for Friday’s spelling test.
Help your child to be ready to learn and not tired when they come to school – early to bed on school nights and a healthy breakfast each morning.
Good attendance and punctuality.
Continue to work on targets set at parent’s evening.

27. Possible Reading Books
SATs practice questions
Year 2/KS1 revision books
Read chapter books, eg books by Roald Dahl and Dick King-Smith.
Read Traditional Tales, eg Fairy Tales to practise comprehension skills.

28. Useful Websites: www. bugclub. co. uk www. mathletics. co. uk www. bbc
Useful Websites: (KS1 Bitesize)