1. Tuesday 5th March 2019
KS1 SATs Meeting

2. Outline What are SATs? An outline of the tasks and tests
Teacher assessment
What you can do to help

3. What are SATs?
Children are assessed in; English-Reading (Grammar, punctuation and spelling) Mathematics- Arithmetic and mathematical reasoning.
In KS1 the emphasis is on teacher assessment, the tests support this judgement.

4. Tasks and Tests Subject Test paper English reading 2 papers
Short text and questions
Longer text and separate questions
Paper 1 consists of a selection of texts (usually 3) totalling 400 to 700 words, with questions interspersed.
Paper 2 comprises a reading booklet of a selection of passages totalling 800 to 1100 words. Children will write their answers in a separate booklet.
The texts in the reading papers cover a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, and get progressively more difficult towards the end of the test.
There are 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’

5. Examples of Questions – Paper 1

6. Examples of Questions – Paper 2

7. Tasks and Tests Paper 1: arithmetic, worth 25 marks.
Subject
Test paper
Mathematics
2 papers
Arithmetic
Mathematical reasoning
Paper 1: arithmetic, worth 25 marks.
Paper 2: mathematical fluency, problem-solving and reasoning, worth 35 marks. There are a variety of question types: multiple choice, matching, true/false, constrained (e.g. completing a chart or table; drawing a shape) and less constrained (e.g. where children have to show or explain their method).

8. Examples of Questions - Arithmetic

9. Examples of Questions - Reasoning

10. Marking and Results
KS1 SATs are marked internally by the teaching staff.
The scores from the tests are added together and reported as something called ‘scaled scores’.
Scaled scores are set by the government and are based on the test for that particular year – it is to allow for comparison across different years.
It is planned that 100 will always represent the ‘national standard’
Each pupil’s raw test score will 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 judges to have demonstrated sufficient knowledge in the areas assessed by the tests.

11. Timetable (approx) Week 1 Wed 3rd– Thursday 4th May Maths arithmetic
Week 2 Tues 7th – Thursday 9th May
English Paper 1
Week 3 Mon 13th – Wednesday 15th May
Maths Reasoning
Week 4 Mon 20st May – Wed 22nd May
English Paper 2
The children will be in groups of approx. 10 children when they do the tests. They will be done in the classrooms and the multi purpose room. The children who are not doing the tests that day will be taught in the hall.

12. Teacher Assessment
Teacher assessment is the most important and reliable form of assessment.
Teacher assessments are carried out throughout the year.
As much as possible children will not know that they are taking SATs.

13. What can you do to help?
Read together with your child and ask questions about the story.
Use number problems in every day life, at the shops, on the bus, telling the time etc.
Continue to work on targets discussed at parents evening.
All areas of the national curriculum have covered in school this year.
Explicit revision is not necessary [teacher assessment].
Children already familiar with question format through subtle teaching.
SATs papers (relevant from 2016 onwards) This link and this PowerPoint are on the Y2 page on the website.

14. Thank you for your time. Any questions?