1. Year 6 SAT’s meeting
27/2/13

2. Year 6 SATs Welcome Breakfast club SATs week timetable
Format of SATs papers
Example questions
How we are preparing your children in school
How you can help your children at home
SATs levels & Teacher Assessment
Illness & unforeseen circumstances
SATs information letter
Questions

3. Breakfast club

4. Purpose:
* A relaxing, non-threatening start to the day.
* A boost to concentration levels.

5. Timetable Mon 13th May Tues 14th Wed 15th Thurs 16th Fri 17th
Reading Test 45 minutes (plus 15 minutes reading time)
Grammar,
Spelling & Punctuation
45 mins
Mental Maths
20 mins
Maths B
L6 Reading Test
50 minutes (plus 10 minutes reading time) L6
30 mins
Maths A
L6 Maths papers
1 & 2
30 mins + 30 mins

6. Format of papers ENGLISH Reading test (45mins + 15mins reading time)
Grammar, Spelling & Punctuation test (45mins)

11. English – Example Questions
Reading
These questions are about Pompeii Today
1. What was the unusual blanket that covered the town?
1 mark
not all visitors treat the site with respect.
Write down two different ways in which they cause damage to the town.
2 marks
trapped in time.
Why do you think Pompeii was described in this way?
4. Explain why the archaeologist believes that he is watching the second death of Pompeii.
Give out On Dangerous ground booklet & how much have to read in 15mins.
Text covers range of genres
Reading booklet left with them
Encourage to text mark & refer back to
Switch to Spinners Flipchart

12. Grammar Test
A new statutory test of English grammar, punctuation and spelling will be introduced for children at the end of Key Stage 2 from May 2013.
The test implements an important recommendation of Lord Bew’s independent review that writing composition should be subject to teacher assessment only, with the more 'technical' aspects of English - such as grammar, punctuation and spelling - assessed via an externally marked test. The introduction of this new test reflects the Government’s beliefs that children should have mastered these important aspects of English by the time they leave primary school, and that appropriate recognition should be given to good use of English throughout their schooling.
The test assesses levels 3-5 of the current statutory KS2 English National Curriculum programme of study for English. A separate level 6 test is available.The level 6 test samples additional content from the Key Stage 3 programme of study for English. Both the level 3-5 test and level 6 tests assess children’s abilities in the following technical aspects of English:
grammar;
punctuation;
spelling; and
vocabulary.
2003 shorter writing
Mix of genres – advert/persuasion
Marked for Sentence Structure, Punctuation & Text Organisation (4 marks)
Composition & Effect (8 marks)

13. Grammar, punctuation and Vocabulary 45 minutes
Level
Description
Timing
L3-5
Grammar, punctuation and
Vocabulary
Short answer questions presented in order of difficulty
45 minutes
Spelling
20 sentences from which targeted spelling words have been left out
Around 15 mins (not
strictly timed) L6
Extended task
An extended response to a writing prompt through which children are able to demonstrate precision, choice and accuracy of punctuation, syntax and vocabulary when writing
30 minutes
20 minutes
15 sentences from which targeted spelling words have been left out
Around 10 mins (not
2007 longer writing
Marked against Sentence Struc & Punc (8marks)
Text Struc & Org (8 marks)
Composition & Effect (12 marks)
Handwriting – (3 marks)
Note – 2 genres are combined – explanation and persuasion
Handwriting is judged in longer writing – usually in 1st paragraphs

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…stopped during the Games
…religious festival
….their bodies
..took place approximately
…. Developed to encourage

16. Maths SAT

17. Format of papers MATHS Test A (non-calculator paper)
Test B (calculator paper)
Mental Maths test

18. Mental Maths Paper
20 marks
3 sections:
5 seconds – 5 questions
10 seconds – 10 questions
15 seconds – 5 questions

19. What is nought point two six divided by ten?
Example 5 second questions:
Multiply 5 by 9.
What is nought point two six divided by ten?
What is three quarters as a decimal?

20. Example 10 second questions:
What is half of eight hundred and sixty?
A pencil costs 85p. How much change would I get from £1?

21. Example 15 second questions:
Add together fourteen, twenty-three and forty-one.
Look at your answer sheet. Put a ring around the number which is a multiple of thirty-five.

22. Maths Paper A
40 marks
45 minutes
No calculator allowed

23. Children MAY ask to have words read to them but we cannot tell them what mathematical terms mean.

24. Example Paper A questions:

25. Here is a sorting diagram for numbers.
Write a number less than 100 in each space.
even
not even
a square number
not a square number

26. Samir spins a fair coin and records the results.
In the first four spins 'heads' comes up each time.
Samir says,
'A head is more likely than a tail'.
Is he correct? Circle Yes or No. Yes / No
Give a reason for your answer.
…………………………………………………………..

27. calculator allowed – provided by the school
Maths Paper B
40 marks
45 minutes
calculator allowed – provided by the school

28. Example Paper B questions:

29. Sunita has two rectangles. Each one is 8 centimetres by 18 centimetres.
She puts one rectangle over the other at right angles to make this shape.
Calculate the perimeter of Sunita’s shape.

30. How many biscuits did he make?

31. How we are preparing your children in school
Exposure to past questions
Encouraging extra detail to answers
Modelling answers
Teaching ‘tricks’
Setting timed work for speed practice
Revision drop-in sessions
BUT…………

32. We are:
Still teaching normal lessons!

33. How you can help your children at home
Encourage reading
Quick fire/fun mental maths
Encourage discussion e.g about a text or a TV programme
Mental Maths tests on CD
Revision books

34. Useful revision sites

35. Useful revision sites

36. Useful revision sites

37. How you can help your children at home
Let them have fun!!!!

38. SAT’s levels and Teacher Assessment
Reading , Grammar and Maths SATs papers are sent away and marked by an external marker.
We report 1 Grammar plus 1 Reading and 1 Maths (which will be an aggregate of all tests taken).
We will report a ‘pure level’ e.g. L4 (not 4a,b or c)
Children are tested at Level Level 5 is the highest children can achieve on the papers.
We will also report our teacher assessment – this may be higher or lower than the SATs score, as appropriate. We will report teacher assessment showing sub-levels for Reading, Writing, Speaking & Listening, and Maths.
Writing will be teacher assessed in school and moderated across schools.

39. Level 6
A small group of high achieving children will be put forward to sit these papers. These children will be registered with QCDA and will begin to look at L6 papers and questions.
Children will be required to achieve both a L5 in the L3-5 test and pass the L6 test in order to be awarded an overall L6

40. Grammar,Spelling & Punctuation
L6 timetable
Mon 13th
May
Tues 14th May
Wed 15th May
Thurs 16th May
Fri 17th May
L6 Reading Test
50 minutes (plus 10 minutes reading time) L6
Grammar,Spelling & Punctuation
30 mins
L6 Maths papers
1 & 2
30 mins + 30 mins

41. Illness/Unforeseen circumstances
If your child is unable to attend school due to illness, please phone school by 9am.
We leave the decision as to whether a child attends school if unwell to parental judgement.
A child who does not take all of the tests does not get a final level for that subject.
If, due to unforeseen circumstances, your child is going to be late please phone school ASAP before 9am.

42. Questions