Key Stage Two SATs

Parents meeting

September 2019

What are the SATs?

SATs (National Curriculum Tests) are taken during Year 6.

Year 6 tests assess performance in English (SPaG and Reading) and Maths.

Science and Writing is no longer assessed as part of the SATs. They are now assessed through teacher assessment.

Occasionally a sample test is administered in Science.

Writing is externally moderated once every 4 years.

Assessing Without Levels for SATs

As part of the new national curriculum, levels have been abolished.

Scaled scores will be used to report national curriculum test outcomes. 100 will always represent the ‘national standard’. However, due to the small differences in difficulty between tests, the ‘raw score’ (ie the total number of correct responses) that equates to 100 might be different (though similar) each year.

The scale will not be confirmed until after the children sit the tests. It will have a lower end point (80 last year) below 100 and an upper end point above 100 (120 last year).

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. The pupil’s raw score will be translated into a scaled score using a conversion table. A pupil who achieves the national standard will have demonstrated sufficient knowledge in the areas assessed by the tests. This will mean that they are well placed to succeed at secondary school.

You will receive your child’s raw score (number of raw marks awarded), scaled score and confirmation of whether or not they attained the national standard.

National Standard (scaled score of 100) is going to be about equivalent to an old 4B.

Example results

EnglishMathematics Science

Reading Writing SPAG

National Curriculum Test Raw Score (the number of

raw marks awarded)

19 65 91

National Curriculum Test scaled score

98 114 107

Has achieve ‘the expected standard’

No Yes Yes

Teacher Assessment (has achieved ‘the expected standard’)

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

What the tests involve

SPAG Short answers

Spelling

45 minutes

15 minutes

English Reading 60 minutes

Maths Paper 1 – Arithmetic 30 minutes

Paper 2 – Reasoning 40 minutes

Paper 3 – Reasoning 40 minutes

English Writing Teacher Assessed

Science Science Teacher Assessed

Examples of Test Questions SPaG

Examples of Test Questions SPaG

Examples of Test Questions SPaG

Examples of Test Questions Reading

Examples of Test Questions Reading

Examples of Test Questions Reading

Examples of Test Questions Reading

Examples of Test Questions Reading

Examples of Test Questions

Maths – Arithmetic (35 questions)

Examples of Test Questions

Maths - Paper 2 & 3 - Reasoning

Timetable 2019/20

We will have a mock SAT week two weeks before every half term.

We will do a practice test for every type of SATs test.

SATs week beginning 11th May 2020.

What can you do at home?

•Help children with ‘Big Talk’ on a Thursday night before the ‘Wow Write’.

•Revise and test spellings during the week (tested on a Monday).

•Encourage children to complete their homework under timed conditions, in silence and independently. Only help your child by checking through their answers and if necessary making corrections in another colour. (handed in on Monday).

•Help children to learn their tables.

•Listen to children read their guided reading book and encourage them to join in the Reading Race.

•Encourage children to work through their revision guides independently or with an adult if you choose.

•Numeracy Challenge Club

•After Christmas Challenge Clubs