1. SATs Evening for Parents

2. What are SATs?
Stress?
Anxiety?
Tension?
Strenuous?

3. SATs Myths Sats are a way of testing the children
Children cannot get into secondary school without them
Children will be put into groups at their new school based on their Sats results
Children are failures if they fail their Sats
They are the Be All and End All of school

4. What do Sats consist of? Maths Spelling (15 minutes)
1 Reading test
Maths
Spelling (15 minutes)
Grammar and Punctuation (45 minutes)
Writing is assessed by the teacher and moderated by the local authority

5. Maths Arithmetic test (30 minutes) Reasoning Paper 1 and 2
(40 minutes each)

15. Punctuation and Grammar (45 minutes)

18. What will we be doing? Smaller focus groups
Support in class to answer questions and misconceptions
Homework linked to Sats style questions
Sts sessions picking up on gaps
Differentiated work
Rounded curriculum
Pastoral care of the children

19. How can you help? Give your child time to wind down
Times tables, reading regularly, spellings
Attendance at school
Don’t pressurise them
Help them to understand the strategies rather than practise paper after paper – they will be doing lots in school
Pressure at this age often = messing up on the day

20. Sats are just a snapshot of your child on one particular week.