1. Year 6
Parents'
SATs Meeting
January 2014

2. Aims of the session To share important information about KS2 SATs
To answer any questions about KS2 SATs
Discuss / share ideas about how you as a parent can help your child at home

3. What are KS2 SATs? Standard Assessment Tests
All children have to be tested before they go to high school
Provide assessment information for high schools
Purpose – assign National Curriculum levels to children before they leave primary school

4. What level should Y6 children be at?
Level 2 – these children will not be entered for the tests
Level 3 – below age related expectation
Level 4 – age related expectation ( this is now a 4B )
Level 5 – above age related expectation
This is dependent on what level your child entered KS2 on.

5. What other information do high schools want?
SATs results
Teacher assessments
Tests administered by the high schools
It varies according to which high school your child is going to

6. What does teacher assessment involve,
and is it different from testing?
Teacher assessment draws together everything the teacher or teachers know about a child, including observations, marked work and school assessments.
Teacher assessment is not a ‘snapshot’ like tests and is therefore more reliable.
There can be a difference between teacher assessment results and test levels.
Teacher assessment only, is used for children who work below level 3 (children who don’t do the SATs).

7. How is SATs week organised?
A timetable is issued to school, telling us on which days/sessions tests must be administered.
All children must sit the tests at the same time.
Test papers can only be opened 1 hour before the tests begin.
Tests are completed in classrooms, with any displays that may help covered over.
Children are divided into groups for test administration to ensure they are properly supported and feel secure.

8. SATs Timetable Year 6 SATs Week 12th May – 16th May Monday 12th May
Tuesday 13th May
Wednesday 14th May
Thursday 16th
May
Friday 17th May
English - Reading Test
English – Grammar, punctuation and spelling test
Science test paper 1
Mental Maths Test
Maths Test A
Science paper 2
Maths Test B
Level 6 Maths paper 1
Level 6
Maths paper 2
English short writing test
English long writing test

9. Any questions?

10. How can parents help?
The best help is interest taken in learning and progress.
Supporting homework.
Good communication between the school and home.
Getting a good sleep on a school night!

11. English SATs English SATs consist of: A reading test
A grammar, punctuation and spelling test
A writing test ( this is now teacher assessed and then moderated by the local Authority )

12. THE READING TEST – 50 MARKS
1 hour
Usually three different text types; however, this is changing this year.
1 mark to 3 marks for a question
Biggest weighting – retrieval and inference

13. There are 4 main types of questions on the reading paper:
Literal – answer is there in the text
Deductive – look for clues
Inferential – read between the lines
Authorial intent – e.g. why does an author use a particular word

14. ‘A Day in the English Countryside’
Sentence from:
‘A Day in the English Countryside’
As the afternoon light started to fade, the cow stopped eating grass, stood instead with its head over the gate and gazed expectantly down the lane.
How light was it? (Literal)
What three things did the cow do? (Literal)
What time of day was it? (Deductive)
Where was the cow? (Deductive)
What do you think the cow was expecting? (Inferential)
What strategies does the writer use to give the reader so much information in a single sentence? (Authorial intent)

15. How can parents help with reading?
Ensure your child reads every night!
Encourage them to read fiction and non-fiction.
Try to listen to your child read and ask them questions about the text.
Help them with the different skills of reading especially ‘skim’ reading where they are looking for key words in the text.
Speed reading
Reading homework

16. Any questions?

17. How can parents help with writing?
Again, reading a variety of texts – the more children read, the more familiar they become with different text types
Reading homework – text analysis
Writing homework – is very rare - but getting your child to write as much as possible –even shopping lists help
Spelling – spelling lists / rules every week –make sure your child knows the high frequency words
Grammar and punctuation homework – work with your child on these
Examples of level 4 and 5 writing

18. Any questions?

19. SPaG – Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar test

20. GRAMMAR
National Curriculum KS2 expectations:
Pupils should know:
What the term ‘word class’ means and the jobs of different word classes – nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, connectives, articles.

21. PUPILS NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE TERMS:
QUESTION
STATEMENT
COMMAND

22. PUPILS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CONJUNCTIONS
although
because
however
Choosing the correct one for the context of
the sentence

25. Pupils are expected to have a sound grasp of subject – verb agreement and tense agreement:

26. PUNCTUATION!!
Pupils need to know how to use:
capital letters
full stops
question and exclamation marks
commas in lists
commas to mark phrases or clauses
inverted commas
apostrophes
brackets, ellipses, colons

27. SPELLING TEST = 20 MARKS
SPaG TEST = 50 MARKS
In the sample test, the distribution of questions was as follows:
Grammar 29 marks
Vocabulary 9 marks
Punctuation 12 marks

28. Maths

29. The Maths Tests There are 3 papers for all pupils:
Mental Test - Out of 20
Test A (No calculators allowed) - Out of 40
Test B (No Calculators allowed) - Out of 40
Some pupils will sit the Level 6 tests:
Paper A (No calculator allowed) – Out of 25
Paper B ( Calculator allowed) – Out of 25

30. The Maths Mental Test Wednesday 14th May 2014
A warm-up to the written tests
Approx. 20 minutes
20 questions/marked out of 20
Covers all the strands with an emphasis on number

33. To help your child in the mental test:
Times tables EVERY day
Number bonds up to 100
Measure – how many g’s in a kg?
Double and half
Quick addition facts
Division facts
Names of shapes

34. Test A – No calculator allowed
45 minutes
Tests pupils at Levels 3 to 5.
Up to 25 questions and worth 40 marks.
Covers all the strands in mathematics with number being more heavily weighted.

35. Test B – Calculator NOT allowed (this is a change from 2013)
45 minutes
Tests pupils at Levels 3 to 5.
Up to 25 questions and worth 40 marks.
Covers all the strands in mathematics with Number being more heavily weighted.

36. General Hints for Success
Underline key words
Ask for questions to be read to you
Annotate diagrams
Show all the steps to multi-step problems
Ensure digits are legible – digit formation
Never overwrite a wrong answer

37. The Facts- what children need to know
Number bonds
Tables facts
Division facts
Fraction, decimal and percentage equivalents
Names and properties of shapes
Measures

38. How You Can Help at Home Regular tables practice
Regular four rules calculation practice – caution please- children learn a variety of methods at school – let them use which one they find easiest!
Revision/Practice resources
CGP booklets
Websites
BBC Bitesize
Maths for Real
Ensure homework is handed in on time
Keep in touch via the planner
School calculation policy (website)
Encourage your child to ask for a question to be read to them if they do not understand.

39. What do SATs questions look like and some helpful strategies

43. Some questions are worth one mark and therefore accuracy is important.
Other questions are worth two marks and even if the answer is wrong, a mark may be given for correct working.
Teachers may read questions in both written papers to pupils if asked.

44. TIMES TABLES!!! How can parents help with Maths?
Support with homework – not just helping with the Maths but reading the question can really help.
TIMES TABLES!!!
Help your child to check their work through – this will help them to spot mistakes that can sometimes be easily fixed.

45. Any questions?

46. Special
Arrangements

47. Any questions?

48. What are we doing? Amazing teaching of course!
Vibrant curriculum – cross-curricular teaching
Setting for Maths and English
Teaching assistant support
Booster sessions
Homework
Test preparation
Fun – hard work but no stress on the children!

49. Any questions?

50. Useful
Websites