Year 6 SAT’s meeting
27/2/13
Year 6 SATs
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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
Breakfast club
* A relaxing, non-threatening
start to the day.
* A boost to concentration
levels.
Timetable
Mon 13th
May
Tues 14th
May
Wed 15th
May
Thurs 16th
May
Reading Test
Grammar,
Spelling &
Punctuation
Mental Maths
Maths B
45 minutes
(plus 15 minutes
reading time)
L6 Reading Test
50 minutes (plus
10 minutes reading
time)
45 mins
L6
Grammar,
Spelling &
Punctuation
30 mins
20 mins
Maths A
45 mins
45 mins
L6 Maths
papers
1 & 2
30 mins + 30
mins
Fri 17th
May
Format of papers
• ENGLISH
Reading test
(45mins + 15mins reading
time)
Grammar, Spelling & Punctuation test
(45mins)
English – Example Questions
Reading
These questions are about Pompeii Today
1. What was the unusual blanket that covered the town?
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1 mark
2. ... not all visitors treat the site with respect.
Write down two different ways in which they cause damage to the town.
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2 marks
3. ... trapped in time.
Why do you think Pompeii was described in this way?
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1 mark
4. Explain why the archaeologist believes that he is watching the second death of
Pompeii.
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2 marks
Grammar Test
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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.
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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.
Level
Description
Timing
L3-5
Grammar, punctuation and
Vocabulary
45 minutes
Short answer questions presented in order of difficulty
L6
Spelling
20 sentences from which targeted spelling words have
been left out
Around 15
mins (not
strictly timed)
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
Grammar, punctuation and
Vocabulary
Short answer questions presented in order of difficulty
20 minutes
Spelling
15 sentences from which targeted spelling words have
been left out
Around 10
mins (not
strictly timed)
Format of papers
• MATHS
Test A (non-calculator paper)
Test B (calculator paper)
Mental Maths test
Mental Maths Paper
20 marks
3 sections:
5 seconds – 5 questions
10 seconds – 10 questions
15 seconds – 5 questions
Multiply 5 by 9.
What is nought point
two six divided by
ten?
What is three
quarters as a
decimal?
What is half of eight
hundred and sixty?
A pencil costs 85p.
How much change
would I get from £1?
Add together fourteen, twentythree and forty-one.
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41
Look at your answer sheet. Put a
ring around the number which is a
multiple of thirty-five.
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800
900
1000
Maths Paper A
40 marks
45 minutes
No calculator allowed
Children MAY ask to have
words read to them but we
cannot tell them what
mathematical terms mean.
Here is a sorting diagram for numbers.
Write a number less than 100 in each space.
even
a square number
not a square
number
not even
Samir spins a fair coin and records the results.
In the first four spins 'heads' comes up each time.
1st
spin
2nd
spin
3rd
spin
4th
spin
Head
Head
Head
Head
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.
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Maths Paper B
40 marks
45 minutes
calculator allowed – provided by
the school
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.
How many biscuits did he make?
How we are preparing your
children in school
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Exposure to past questions
Encouraging extra detail to answers
Modelling answers
Teaching ‘tricks’
Setting timed work for speed practice
Revision drop-in sessions
BUT…………
We are:
• Still teaching normal lessons!
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
Useful revision sites
• www.bbc.co.uk/revisewise
Useful revision sites
• www.bgfl.org/bgfl
Useful revision sites
How you can help your
children at home
• Let them have fun!!!!
SAT’s levels and Teacher
Assessment
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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 3-5. 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.
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
L6 timetable
Mon 13th
May
L6 Reading Test
50 minutes (plus
10 minutes reading
time)
Tues 14th May
L6
Grammar,Spelling
& Punctuation
30 mins
Wed 15th May
Thurs 16th May
L6 Maths papers
1 & 2
30 mins + 30 mins
Fri 17th May
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.
Questions