Year 2 and Year 6 SATs meeting

20th January at 6.30pm

Y2 SATs Meeting

Purpose of this meeting

•To explain the SATs process for Year 2 pupils

•To give ideas for helping your child

• To answer any questions

Purpose of the SATs

• To inform teacher assessment • To identify areas of strength and

weakness in order to aid planning• To provide data for the Local Authority

and Government!

Year 2

• 2 writing tasks – a short and a longer one• Spelling test• Reading comprehension test• Maths test

Informal in KS1

No set week to carry them out – they occur throughoutMay and June

Children can return to the test the next day

Activities to support Year 2 writing task

• Write a postcard to a friend to describe a book character you have met.

• Write about your favourite character from a story.

• Write some facts they have learnt about a non-fiction topic ( famous people, parts of the body)

Year 2 Reading Comprehension Test

Questions about a story or non-fiction piece of writing,e.g. How many bowls did Goldilocks find in the bears’ house?

How do you think the bears felt when they found a stranger in the house?

Homework tasks

Year 2 Mathematics TestExample questions:

• 23 10 more

• Look at the numbers 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Draw a circle around each even number

Mathletics tasks are great too!

Level 2 and Level 3 papers

• Children will take the Level 2 papers. • Children who are working at a higher level

will take a Level 3 paper in maths and reading.

Levels

• National expectation for the end of year 2 is a 2B

• Above average is either a 2A or a Level 3• Slightly below average is a 2C• Below average is a Level 1

However this is the last year of levels – these levels are transferred into the terms; below, expected, exceeded ready for Year 3.

How the SATs are taken

• Small groups• Part of the usual daily activities• Children have taken past papers to

become used to the format• Adults can read the questions to the

children in Maths and give a description of the writing task

Marking

• The tests are marked by the school staff

• Results are moderated by the Local Authority

Any Questions?

• This presentation will be available on the website.

• 2 maths papers and mental arithmetic test• 1 reading comprehension paper• 1 spelling, grammar and punctuation test• Writing levels are now being teacher

assessed• Level 6 papers take place in the

afternoons of the same week

Year 6

Timetable for Levels 3-5 tests

Year 6 Maths test

Here is a grid made of squares.Shade 10% of this grid.

Example task:

Imagine that your class are making a book of memories of the year at school. A copy of the book will be given to everypupil in the class. Everyone in the class will write a page of the book about their

memories. Your task is to write your page of the book.

Year 6 Writing Task

• Second week in May (11th – 14th May 2015)• SATs police• Set timetable• Tests sent away for marking• Illness• Results received in July• League tables published in November

Year 6

What can you do to help your child?

• Make sure your child has plenty of sleep

• Breakfast • Water• Reassurance and support

Question Time