1. KS2 SATs

2. What will help between now and May 13th 2019?
Completing homework on time
Multiplication facts - Reading Rock Stars
Learning spelling lists
Reading daily and reading at speed
Being ready to learn each day at school and do your best!

3. What we will do at school to help:
Teaching and learning
Test technique
Familiarise with style of tests and questioning
Practise previous test papers
Analyse texts
Plug gaps in learning
Curriculum coverage to access questions
Provide Revision Guides
Reading tests – scanning/skimming
Time management
Working out – showing calculations
Methodical – deduction skills
Checking CHECKING CHECKING

4. What do the Maths tests cover?
Arithmetic Test = 30 mins
Calculating using all 4 operations – some mental, most written
multiplication facts, place value
fractions/decimals/percentages
Reasoning 2 and Reasoning 3 = 40 minutes each
Both test children on ability to apply their knowledge and skills in all areas of maths:
shape and space, statistics, measures, number etc.

5. 1. 5. 2. 3. 6. 4.

9. Short division (Bus Stop)

10. What does the GPS(SPAG) test cover?
One paper testing grammar, punctuation and some spelling/vocabulary = 45 mins
Separate spelling test- 20 words approximately 20 minutes. Words given within context of a sentence and then repeated twice

13. Reading Between 3 and 5 text extracts = 1 hour
Extracts could be: poetry, range of fiction and non-fiction.
Each text immediately followed by questions testing:
Retrieve information – fetch!
Deduct – work it out like a detective
Infer – ‘read between the lines’, show deep understanding
Summarise – identify main events, themes and sum up
Predict – what might happen next, how do you know?
Compare – what do the texts have in common/what’s different? Text types, effects etc.

17. Writing is teacher assessed and NOT tested.
Evidence must be in students’ books evidencing that they are able to:
Apply all the spelling, punctuation and grammar knowledge.
Write for audience and purpose.
Organise ideas in paragraphs, use appropriate style and tone and be COHESIVE.
With joined, neat handwriting and secure spelling.

18. Additional support:
School can apply for certain arrangements.
Strict criteria has to be met.
Support could include: extra time, coloured papers, a reader or a scribe.
This has to be part of usual practice at school.

19. We just want your children to……
Maths, Reading, GPS Results Received by parents with summer annual reports. Have met OR Have not met expected standard (average test - scaled score – 80 – 120 (100 = average) Writing is teacher assessed and moderated Below expected standard Working Towards the expected standard At Expected Standard At Greater Depth
SATs are an indicator of the progress your child has made at school so far. They are not a measure of whether your child is passing or failing; they simply show what level your child is currently working to.
We just want your children to……