Year 2 SATsInformation Evening

Thursday 5th March 2015

• To share important information about the KS1 SATs and how they are administered.

• To answer any questions you may have about the KS1 SATs.

• To discuss/share ideas about how you as a parent can help your child at home

• To share how we are supporting them at school.

Welcome!Aims of the session

• Statutory Standard Assessment Tests

• All children have to be tested before they leave KS1

• They provide assessment information for the end of KS1 and identify progress made since leaving the Foundation Stage

• Purpose – assign National Curriculum levels to children before they enter KS2

What are the KS1 SATs?

• The national expectation is that all children are working at a level 2b by the time they leave KS1 but of course all children are different!

• Level 1 – below age related expectation

• Level 2 (c, b, a) – age related expectation

• Level 3 – above age related expectation

The National Expectation

• Teacher assessment draws together everything the teacher knows about a child so they can level a child based on a whole range of evidence rather than one test.

• There can be a difference between teacher assessment results and test levels.

• The teacher assessment is used as the final judgement and this will be submitted.

Teacher Assessment

• KS1 SATs will be administered throughout the month of May.

• All children must sit the tests at the same time.

• Please ensure that your child is in school every day during SATs week and that they are on time.

• Please don’t book anything during this week e.g. doctor’s appointments, holidays etc.

• If your child is ill, please let us know immediately.

• Feed their brain – breakfast is important!

How is SATs organised?

WritingLonger Task – Amazing Pebble

Children given a story starter

Planning time included

Shorter Task – What Am I?

Poster used for discussion

Handwriting – 3 marks

Spelling Test (have a go!)

Writing - how can parents help?• Encourage children to write for fun/enjoyment, praising

them for using their imagination.

• Practise basic skills including the use of accurate punctuation, checking their writing makes sense.

• Encouraging your child to complete all homework to a high standard and discussing their work with them.

• Spelling homework – spelling lists set each week, discuss these words with the children so they can create higher level sentences.

Reading

• Reading – includes both fiction and non-fiction

• Level 2 paper (all)

• Level 3 paper (some)

• Testing reading comprehension

• Work through practice questions

Reading - how can parents help?• Ensure your child reads every night!

• Encourage them to read fiction and non-fiction.

• Try to ask them questions about the text.

• Comprehension focus.

• Level 2 paper (all) and Level 3 paper (some)

• Includes both mental maths, written calculations and problem solving

• Staff can read questions out to the children but they cannot read operations/symbols

• Some practical resources can be used

• Showing working out encouraged

Maths

Maths - how can parents help?• Support with Education City homework

• Help your child with their times tables (in particular the 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10)

• Maths in context – use everyday examples e.g. shopping and money

• Daily counting/mental maths

• Range of resources on Education City

What are we doing?•Preparing the children in a variety of ways

•Covering all areas of Maths to ensure coverage of the curriculum

•Additional Maths and English support in the form of booster groups

•Timed questions – Big Maths. Let’s have a go!

•Encouragement and openness- a ‘you can do it!’ attitude!

• High attendance.

• Supporting homework.

• Good communication between the school and home - please let us know of any problems.

• Getting a good sleep on a school night!

• Don’t panic or stress! Keep things in perspective – please don’t use the terms ‘test’ or ‘SATs’ as we don’t want to worry the children – Special Challenges

How can parents help in general?

Useful Websiteswww.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/maths

www.topmarks.co.uk/interactive.aspx?cat=8

www.ictgames.com/resources.html

www.nrich.maths.org/frontpage

www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy

www.topmarks.co.uk/interactive.aspx?cat=40

Google – KS1 Maths/Writing/Reading/Spelling

Links on the class pages