Key Stage 2 SATs Welcome to our Information Morning

1. Key Stage 2 SATs Welcome to our Information Morning Please feel free to look at the test materials. Resources will be sent home for children at the end of the day. Please look through them and speak to your teacher on parents’ evening if you have any questions.

2. What are SATs? Standardised Assessment Test • All Year 6 children in the country take the same test on the same day • Attainment of all children in this group can be monitored and progress from KS1 can be measured. • Information used by Secondary Schools and the Government.

3. Test Timetable for May 2018The 2018 KS2 statutory tests will take place fromMonday 13th May to Thursday 16th MayPupils must take the tests on the following days:

4. What is assessed in English? • Reading, writing, grammar and punctuation; and spelling will be assessed. • Test will not be combined to create an overall English result. • These will be published separately. • Reading • Writing • Grammar, punctuation and spelling

5. Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling Test English grammar, punctuation & spelling test is made up of 2 tests • Paper 1 : Short answer questions • Paper 2 : Spelling task

6. Example grammar questions

7. Example of Spelling Test

8. Writing Assessment The children will not complete a writing SATs test. Teacher assessments in writing provide a rounded judgement that is based on our knowledge of how your child has performed over time and in a variety of contexts. There is a greater emphasis on spelling and handwriting and editing and re-drafting. We work with English Advisers from County and other Year 6 teachers across Hertfordshire to ensure our writing assessments are accurate.

9. Example of Year 6 expected writing: The Monster With fear and dread, I crept cautiously down the dark, damp tunnel. My hands were eyes, nervously seeking the way by tracing the slime covered granite walls. Though I strained to hear and see, there was nothing…nothing but the sounds of my own strained breathing and the soft pad of my rubber-soled shoes. Suddenly, an evil odour invaded my nostrils, like the rotting filth of a thousand corpses. I stopped, heart pounding. Was something there in the dreaded darkness? No longer able to stand not knowing, I pulled out my flashlight and switched on its harsh beam to light up the tunnel ahead. Silence, heavy and still, surrounded me. Reassured, I began to step forward… Out of the black depths came a sudden blood-curdling shriek as the great beast leapt towards me…

10. Expanding a sentence into a paragraph Example - Mr and Mrs Dursley woke up early on an ordinary day.  UPLEVEL TO THIS  When Mr and Mrs Durlsey woke up, it was an ordinary, dull, grey Tuesday morning. However, they did not know that things were about to change… “Is that boy Harry awake yet?” bellowed Mr Dursley. “No dear, but our darling Dudley is dying for his breakfast!” crooned Mrs Dursley, snooping sweet, soggy Weetabix into Dudley’s dribbling mouth. Chortling with pleasure, Dudley gulped the huge dollops of cereal down as if he had never eaten in his life before.

11. Reading Test Reading Booklet Reading Paper Answer Booklet

12. Reading Test • Greater focus on comprehension and understanding vocabulary. • 3 or 4 unrelated texts of increasing difficulty • Mixture of text types – stories, diary entries, reports, poems… • 1 hour (for reading the texts and answering the questions) • 50 marks • Children will be expected to: • retrieve information (sometimes from a variety of sentences for an answer) • infer meaning from a paragraph or from the texts as a whole • Summarise, compare and give an opinion • Explain why the author uses particular words and phrases • Know the meaning of words or predict them using their prefix knowledge

13. KS2 reading test – extract from ‘Giants’

14. Sample answers • It’s green and it’s small • It tells us what the frog looks like • It means the frog is little and worth nothing • Emerald shows the frog is green and scrap tells us that it is unimportant

15. Children are expected to read 150 words a minute…

16. This is why it is very important that you read as much as possible with your child at home…

17. Maths Tests • Arithmetic paper • 40 marks in 30 minutes • Questions will include: • Addition/subtraction (1 mark each) • Complex calculations with fractions (1 mark each) • Long division and multiplication (2 marks each) • Two reasoning papers, each paper: • 35 marks available • 40 minutes. • Problems will include: • Geometry (shape) • Algebra • Measures • All four operations

18. Example arithmetic questions

19. Example reasoning questions

23. Science • Teacher assessment considers: • Working scientifically • Knowledge of the national curriculum. • In-school moderation

24. SATs Support How we support your child in school: • Regular practice in a test environment has enabled driven focus of lessons • Discussion with children – how to improve and targets • Timed tests and practice questions • Regular guided reading • Exercise and practical activities, as well as our usual broad and balanced curriculum • Interventions in the afternoons • Free daily booster – Please ensure your children attend • Breakfast every morning of SATs week

25. Reporting outcomes

26. Scaled scores The child’s “raw” score is converted to a “scaled” score: Pupils’ test scores will be mapped onto the scale (conversion tables published in July). Some pupils may be working below the level of the test (i.e. below ‘80’) 80 (minimum) 100 (Expected Standard) 130 (maximum)

27. Example Reading Conversion Table

28. KS2 Reading & Maths Statutory Assessment 2018 Scaled score School accountability measures based on % of pupils scoring at least 100

29. KS2 Writing Statutory Teacher Assessment 2018 School accountability measures based on % of pupils at expected or greater depth

30. KS2 Science Statutory Assessment 2018 Not used in school accountability measures

31. Things we are trying to encourage the children to do are: • Continue good homework routines • Play an active role in lessons • Ask for help if they don’t understand • Understand that mistakes are how they learn • Be aware of targets. Challenge themselves to reach / better them • Realise that a page of correct answers means that they may not have picked the correct level of challenge • Try their best • Gain a perception of time

32. How you can support your child at home: • Sensible bedtime • Healthy diet – eat breakfast • Drink plenty of water at home and school • Encourage your child positively, without putting too much pressure on him / her • Support with homework – provide a quiet place for work, share the targets – children CPG revision books • Ensure children are on time and attend every day • Read with and to your child discussing the content and choice of words the author has chosen – Record in Reading diaries

33. Revision Websites https://diagnosticquestions.com/WhiteRoseMathsHub for daily maths quizzes https://thirdspacelearning.com/blog/2017/75-ks2-sats-maths-questions-on-place-value-fractions-addition-and-subtraction-new-for-2017 for maths papers. http://www.icteachers.co.uk/children/children_sats.htm for lots of questions. http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/z826n39 for explanations of maths topics. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/reading-owl/find-a-book/library-page for a variety of e-books to read.

34. Questions? Thank you for coming.