Year 6 SAT’s meeting

1. Year 6 SAT’s meeting 25/2/16

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 results & 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

6. Format of papers • ENGLISH Reading test (60mins) Grammar, Spelling & Punctuation test (45mins)

7. KS2 Reading - a reading booklet containing three texts which increase in demand throughout the booklet.

10. English – Grammar Test

16. Maths SATs

17. Format of papers

18. Paper 1

19. Paper 2

21. Paper 3

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

24. 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…………

25. We are: • Still teaching normal lessons!

26. 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 school website • Revision books

27. Useful revision sites • www.bbc.co.uk/revisewise

28. Useful revision sites • http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/7.cfm?p=1961

29. Useful revision sites

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

31. How will the tests be marked? • KS2 tests will continue to be marked externally, with the exception of Writing which will be teacher assessed. • Expect to receive scaled scores for the test, and not levels.  It seems likely that this scaled score will be based, like international tests, on 100 as the norm.  The expected standard will be a score of 100, and scores of above and below 100 will show pupils exceeding and failing to meet the expected standard.

32. SAT’s results and Teacher Assessment • Single set of tests for each subject to cover a wider range of attainment. Tests will have a higher ‘expected standard’ and will include a small number of questions designed to assess the most able pupils. • externally marked on screen and results as scaled scores with 100 as the national expectation • In reading, mathematics and science, one standard statement for ‘working at the expected standard’ and a yes/no judgement only – not used for accountability • In writing, three defined ‘standard statements’: working towards the expected standard; working at the expected standard; working at greater depth within the expected standard • Pupils must consistently demonstrate attainment of all statements within the standard (and of preceding one/s)

33. Reporting at the end of KS2 in 2016 – Pupil X

34. 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.

35. Questions