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Timetable for SATs 2014

Timetable for SATs 2014. MATHEMATICS. A taster of the Year 6 Maths SAT. Assessment breakdown:. Pupils will be questioned on all areas of mathematics covered in school. These are:. Number Calculating Place value Reasoning Shape and space Measures Data handling

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Timetable for SATs 2014

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  1. Timetable for SATs 2014

  2. MATHEMATICS A taster of the Year 6 Maths SAT

  3. Assessment breakdown:

  4. Pupils will be questioned on all areas of mathematics covered in school. These are: • Number • Calculating • Place value • Reasoning • Shape and space • Measures • Data handling • Using and applying (problem solving)

  5. An example from Paper A 2006

  6. How can you help? • Be enthusiastic mathematicians yourselves! • Encourage your child to explain their methods and their thinking. • If you feel your child is not clear on an area, let us know so that we can reinforce methods taught in school. • Visit revision websites and play maths games with your child. • Praise their efforts!

  7. Key Stage 2 English Assessment 2014

  8. How many papers? • Punctuation, Grammar and Vocabulary Test (45 minutes) • Spelling – 15 minutes (approx) • Reading – 1 hour (reading and to answer questions)

  9. The Grammar test has replaced the previous writing tasks set during SATs week. • Children’s writing level will be based on teacher assessment and these levels will be reported based on the assessments from the whole year.

  10. Example questions from the new Grammar, Punctuation and Vocabulary test. • Fill in the gap • Tick boxes • Rearrange sentences • Match • Circle or underline words or phrases • Short explanations • Add punctuation to sentences

  11. Knowledge and skills that are tested. • Understanding of different punctuation • Types of sentences and sentence structure • Word classes- noun, verbs, adjectives, adverbs etc. • Understanding of vocabulary • Tenses • Singular and plural forms

  12. Spelling Test • Takes form of dictation. • The children write in ‘correctly’ the missing word. • There are 20 words to fill in. • The spellings will be based on key spelling patterns taught across KS1 and KS2.

  13. Reading • Reading Booklet is no longer based on a theme as it has been on previous years • Different types of texts within the booklet • Different types of question to answer

  14. Examples of Questions How can you tell that Lisa would like her brother to try caving? ____________________________________________________________________ 1 mark

  15. Lisa goes caving with other people. Give two reasons in the text why she does this. 1 ___________________________________________________________________ 2 ____________________________________________________________________ 2 marks

  16. Look at the text on page 10, starting from And I was struck by the beauty … to the end of the article. Explain the writer’s thoughts and feelings. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3 marks

  17. How to support your child at home – Writing • Encourage neat joined handwriting. • Help them check to see if their work is grammatically correct and that punctuation is accurate. • Talk about word classes and use of punctuation when the child is reading. • Encourage improving word choices to expand use of vocabulary.

  18. How to support your child at home – Spelling • Help children learn their spellings each week. These may be past SAT words. Majority of the words set are taken from the KS2 spelling bank for Year 5 and 6.

  19. How to support your child at home – Reading • Talk with children about the books they are reading. • Discuss characters, information, events and ideas. • Encourage them to think about the language used and why it has been used.

  20. Useful Web Sites • http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/ • http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/revision/engindex.html • http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0882902.html • http://www.gamequarium.com/punctuation.html

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