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
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
•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
What other information do high
schools want?
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SATs results
Teacher assessments
Tests administered by the high schools
It varies according to which high school
your child is going to
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).
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.
Year 6 SATs Week 12th May – 16th May
Monday
12th May
English Reading
Test
Tuesday
13th May
Wednesday
14th May
Thursday
16th
May
Friday 17th
May
English –
Grammar,
punctuatio
n and
spelling
test
Mental
Maths Test
Maths Test
B
Maths Test
A
Level 6
Maths
paper 1
English
short
writing test
Science
test paper
1
Science
paper 2
Level 6
Maths
paper 2
English long
writing test
Any
questions?
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!
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 )
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
•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
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.
1. How light was it? (Literal)
2. What three things did the cow do? (Literal)
3. What time of day was it? (Deductive)
4. Where was the cow? (Deductive)
5. What do you think the cow was expecting? (Inferential)
6. What strategies does the writer use to give the reader so
much information in a single sentence? (Authorial intent)
How can parents help with
reading?
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Ensure your child reads every night!
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Encourage them to read fiction and non-fiction.
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Try to listen to your child read and ask them questions
about the text.
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Help them with the different skills of reading especially
‘skim’ reading where they are looking for key words in the
text.
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Speed reading
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Reading homework
Any
questions?
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
Any
questions?
SPaG – Spelling, Punctuation and
Grammar test
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.
PUPILS NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE
TERMS:
• QUESTION
• STATEMENT
• COMMAND
PUPILS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
CONJUNCTIONS
although
because
Choosing the correct one
for the context of
the sentence
Pupils are expected to have a sound grasp of
subject – verb agreement and tense agreement:
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
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
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
The Maths Mental Test
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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
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To help your child in the mental
test:
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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
Test A – No calculator allowed
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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.
Test B – Calculator NOT allowed
(this is a change from 2013)
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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.
General Hints for Success
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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
The Facts- what children need to
know
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Number bonds
Tables facts
Division facts
Fraction, decimal and percentage
equivalents
• Names and properties of shapes
• Measures
How You Can Help at Home
• Regular tables practice
• Regular four rules calculation practice – caution pleasechildren 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.
What do SATs
questions look like
and some helpful
strategies
•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.
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.
Any
questions?
Special
Arrangements
Any
questions?
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!
Any
questions?
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/sats/index.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/