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This informative meeting for parents aims to provide an overview of how children are assessed in Year 6, including the end of year SATs tests and teacher assessments. Parents will learn what the 'results' will look like, as well as strategies to help their children.
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Aims • To inform Parents about: • How children are assessed • The end of year SATs tests • Teacher Assessment • What the ‘results’ will look like • What we are doing to help • How you can help
How the children are assessed • The End of Key Stage 2 is a National Assessment point • Every child is assessed in Reading, Writing, Maths and Science
How the children are assessed • Tests in • Reading • Maths • Grammar, punctuation and spelling • Science – for selected schools • Writing is Teacher Assessed • All the work they complete in Year 6 will be taken into account • Also Teacher Assessments for Reading, Maths and Science
What are SATs? • Standard Assessment Tests • Every school in England has to undertake them • Key Stage 2 tests are: • Externally set • Externally marked
Reading • The Reading Test consists of a single test paper with three unrelated reading texts. • (one 800-word text and two passages of 300 words) • Children are given 60 minutes in total, which includes reading the texts and answering the questions. • A total of 50 marks are available. • Questions are designed to assess the comprehension and understanding of a child’s reading. • Some questions are multiple choice or selected response, others require short answers and some require an extended response or explanation.
Reading – Question types • There will be a selection of question types, including: • Ranking/ordering, e.g. ‘Number the events below to show the order in which they happen in the story’ • Labelling, e.g. ‘Label the text to show the title of the story’ • Find and copy, e.g. ‘Find and copy one word that suggests what the weather is like in the story’ • Short constructed response, e.g. ‘What does the bear eat?’ • Open-ended response, e.g. ‘Look at the sentence that begins Once upon a time. How does the writer increase the tension throughout this paragraph? Explain fully, referring to the text in your answer.’
What’s tested? 32% 36% 2% 18% 6% 2% 4% 0%
D. Make inferences from the text using evidence from the text.
Spelling Punctuation and Grammar • A Spelling test is administered containing 20 words, lasting approximately 15 minutes. • A separate test is given on Punctuation, Vocabulary and Grammar • This test lasts for 45 minutes and requires short answer questions, including some multiple choice. • Marks for these two tests are added together to give a total for Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar.
What’s tested? 6% 16% 12% 26% 28% 10% 2%
Mathematics • Children will sit three tests: Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 3. • Paper 1 is for ‘Arithmetic’ • covering calculation methods for all operations, including use of fractions, percentages and decimals. • Papers 2 and 3 cover ‘Problem Solving and Reasoning’, • Pupils will still require calculation skills but will need to answer questions in context and decide what is required to find a solution. • Questions gradually increase in difficulty. Not all children will be expected to access some of the more difficult questions later in the papers
Paper 1Arithmetic • About 36 Questions • Total of 40 marks • 30 minutes to answer them all • Questions get harder as the paper goes on
About 20 Questions • Total of 35 marks • 40 minutes to answer them all • Questions get harder as the paper goes on
Writing teacher assessment • A range of writing over the year is assessed • Writing is assessed against a National Framework • Split into three standards – Working Towards, Working At and Working at Greater Depth • Children must demonstrate attainment in all the statements within the standard to achieve it
What the ‘results’ will look likeTest Assessment • A ‘Raw Score’ for each test • A ‘Scaled Score’ for each test • Raw scores are converted to Scaled Scores • Scaled scores run from 80 -120 • 100 is the ‘expected standard’ • 110 was deemed a ‘high score’ in 2016
How we help • We talk to the children • Each child will be treated as an individual and encouraged by us to do their very best • Practise papers and questions – last week • Mock SATs week – Last week of term • Easter Holiday homework set • 15-20 minutes work most days over the holiday • Maths and SPAG revision books • SATs Breakfast (including MOCKs week)
How you can help • Help your child with their homework, hear them read and learn their multiplication tables and spellings. • Encourage your child to do their best. • Ensure that your child has a good night sleep. • Let us know if they are worried
