Holymead Primary School
Information for parents on
Key Stage 2 SATS 2016
Important dates
The children will be sitting their
papers on
th
th
9 -12
May 2016
The timetable is as follows:
Reading paper
This is a one hour test where
children read the text and answer a
range of questions.
Maths papers
There will be two reasoning papers that last 45
minutes.
As well as this, there will be an arithmetic paper
consisting of 20 questions of varying difficultly.
This will be a 30 minute test
Changes:
There is no longer:
• a calculator paper
• mental maths paper
• a level 6 paper
Supporting your child in maths
• Times tables practice (VITAL!)
• Get your child involved in questions about money.
Shopping bills, change, tickets etc.
• Telling the time (analogue and digital -12 and 24
hour clock)
• Working out fractions and percentages of
quantities
• Measuring and weighing in everyday life
Some examples between the
arithmetic paper and the reasoning
paper
Typical arithmetic questions are:
Some examples between the
arithmetic paper and the reasoning
paper
Typical reasoning questions are:
Grammar assessment
(introduced in 2013):
The children will be assessed in the
following technical aspects of English:
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Grammar
Punctuation
Spelling
Vocabulary
Writing assessments:
There is no longer a writing test.
Writing will be assessed by teachers and
will be based on the work that children
complete in class and moderations
throughout the year.
Our ethos
Children cannot fail SAT papers. We encourage
children to think of them as a way to show what
they can do and what they have learnt in their
time at primary school!
Children will be encouraged to do their best and
will be supported by adults in the school in a calm
and reassuring environment.
What help can the children have?
• Reading paper – children have to read text
and answer questions independently
• Maths paper- teachers can read questions to
the children when they ask. Some children
will take the test in small groups. This is the
same for the grammar paper
Teachers can encourage but not guide or
correct
How is SAT week organised?
• You will be given a timetable of the week’s
events
• Breakfast club
• All children will sit the tests at the same times
and days
• The Local Authority monitor 10% of schools a
year
• Children are organised into relevant groups to
ensure that they are properly supported and feel
secure.
How have we will we be
preparing in school?
• Regular opportunities for children to experience the kinds of
questions they will find in the tests
• Grammar sessions
• Regular spelling lessons and assessments
• Revision sessions
• Practice papers
• Opportunities for children to reflect on their papers and self assess
their progress
• Informing children of their progress
How can you help?
• You can support your child by working through
their homework with them - checking spelling,
grammar and calculations are correct. Revision
books will be available.
• Check out some online learning resources
(suggestions will be given out on parents’ evening)
• Read with your child – even if they are a
competent reader! Perhaps they could read one
page and you read the next… This is a good way
of modelling expression and the power of
punctuation.
We will also be buying the children
revision guides to work on in class
• As well as this, we will be investing in buying
some revision booklets for the children to
complete to support revision sessions.
• This will also be useful for you to see the kinds
of questions your children will need to answer.
Some changes to how your child’s
results will be reported
As you may be aware, there are no longer
‘levels’ as you have come to know them.
The Government has changed this over the last
year
So, how will your child’s results be reported?
The information we have been
given so far is:
• From 2016, ‘scaled scores’ will be used to report
national curriculum test outcomes.
• A pupil’s ‘scaled score’ will be based on their raw
score.
• The raw score is the total number of marks a pupil
receives in a test, based on the number of questions
they answered correctly.
• They will use a statistical technique called ‘scaling’ to
transform the raw score into a scaled score.
• The pupil’s raw score will be translated into a
scaled score using a conversion table.
• On our scale 100 will always represent the
‘national standard’.
• The scale will have a lower end point below
100 and an upper end point above 100 once
the Dfe have set the national standard