Miss McCann
Miss Dunne
Mr Ashman
Miss Manning
This is our school, let peace be
found here.
Let the rooms be full of
happiness.
Let love abide here, love for one
another, love for God.
Let us remember that as many
hands build a house so many
hearts make a school.
Amen
• What are SATs?
• An outline of the tasks and tests.
• What you can do to help?
Individual children will not be discussed.
•SATs = Standard Assessment
Tasks (May 2016)
•KS1 SATs papers are taken by
pupils in Year 2 as part of the
National Curriculum assessment
programme.
•SATs inform Teacher
Assessments
• Children are assessed in;
Reading
English (New Grammar, punctuation and
spelling)
Mathematics.
• In KS1 the emphasis is on teacher
assessment, the tests support this
judgement.
•If children do not perform to best
ability in test teacher assessment
can be used.
•Children will not know that they are
taking SATs, done as subtly as possible.
English
Maths
• 2x 30 minute Reading paper.
• 15 minutes Arithmetic
test.
• 3 x 20 minute spelling,
punctuation and grammar
tests.
• 35 minutes Maths test
focussing on fluency,
• Writing- Teacher Assessment
problem-solving and
throughout the year.
reasoning.
• Speaking and listeningTeacher assessments
throughout the year.
Children will complete two papers:
• The texts will cover a range of fiction, non-fiction
and poetry
• Paper 1 consists of a selection of texts, with questions
interspersed.
• Paper 2 comprises a reading booklet of a selection of
passages.
Children will write their answers in a
separate booklet.
There will be a variety of question types:
•Multiple choice
•Ranking/ordering -Number the events below
•Matching –’Match the character to the job that they
do in the story’
•Labelling -‘Label the text to show the title’
•Find and copy -‘Find and copy one word that shows
what the weather was like in the story’
•Short answer - ‘What does the bear eat?’
•Open-ended answer -‘Why did Lucy write the letter to
her grandmother? Give two reasons.’
Ants are insects that you can often see in a
garden, in a park or just on the pavement.
They usually live underground. The Queen ant
spends all day laying her eggs.
1. What kind of animal is an ant? ______
1. Find and copy two places you might see
ants? ___________ ___________
1. What does the queen ant do?
Keeps her nest clean
lays eggs
Children will complete three short papers
• Paper 1: Grammar and punctuation written task
Provided with a prompt and stimulus for a short piece
of writing, with a clear text type, audience and
purpose.
• Paper 2: Grammar, punctuation and vocabulary test
• Two sections of around 10 minutes each (with a break
between, if necessary), This will involve a mixture of
selecting the right answers e.g. through multiple
choice, and writing short answers.
• 1 spelling test of 20 words.
Mathematics SATs consist of;
Arithmetic test (15 minutes)
This will focus on the four main calculations.
Mathematical fluency, problem-solving and
reasoning test (35 minutes)
• variety of question types:
• multiple choice,
• matching,
• true/false,
• constrained.
• The Year 2 children are set Maths, English and Spelling
homework on Friday. SPaG will be gradually added to the
homework. In addition to this they may be set a Topic project
or Religion work. ALL homework is to be returned to their
teacher on the following Wednesday.
• Also, we ask that you sign your child’s reading record every
day to show that they have read. At the end of each week
children who have had their reading record signed 5 times will
receive a reward sticker. Children who can show they have
read 5 nights a week consistently throughout the year will be
rewarded with a special trip.
• We do expect homework to be of a consistently high standard
and we aim for the child to complete it independently.
•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!
•100% attendance as far as possible.
•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 –Sentence structure
•Spelling – spelling lists / rules every week
•SPaG homework
•
Ensure your child reads every night, and let them see you
reading.
•
Encourage them to read fiction and non-fiction.
•
Try to listen to your child read and ask questions about
what they are reading.
•
Help them with the different skills of reading especially
‘skim’ reading where they are looking for key words in the
text.
•
Speed reading for fluency
•
Sharing books with siblings
•
Reading homework
•Support with homework – not just helping with the
Maths but reading the question can really help.
•TIMES TABLES!!! (2,5,10 and 3)
•Number Bonds to 20
•Counting forwards and backwards in 1s, 2s, 3s,
5s and 10s (from any given number).
•Help your child to check their work through – this
will help them to spot mistakes that can sometimes
be easily fixed.
Maths
1. Times tables must be known.
2. Estimating, weighing, measuring are all good to discuss
and do practically. Must use metric measures.
3. Money – using it in the shops, working out change,
adding up bills, questions e.g. if 1 bag of sugar costs
60p, how much change will I get from a pound.
4. Mental addition, subtraction, basic multiplication &
division
5. Reading and writing numbers to 100+
6. Doubling and halving,
7. Solving number puzzles