Understanding KS1 Statutory Assessment Exam and How It Differs from KS2 SATs

1. KS1 Statutory Assessment 2016-2017

2. KS1 SATs, how are they different toKS2 SATs? • Flexibility about when to administer the tests within the month of May. • More emphasis on teacher assessment regarding writing. This means the results that are reported are a better reflection of a child’s ability.

3. Why do the tests? • End of Key Stage Teacher Assessment is statutory. • All tests inform teacher assessment. • They help us to compare how well we perform as a school when compared to other schools.

4. What will children be assessed in? • Speaking & Listening • Science • Reading • Writing (including spelling, punctuation and grammar) • Maths – arithmetic and reasoning

5. Reading

9. What can children who are secure at Stage 2 do in their reading? Children can: • read accurately most words of two or more syllables. • read most words containing common suffixes. • read most common exception words (Tricky words where phonics doesn’t work). • Are aware of punctuation & often react to full stops and exclamation marks. In age-appropriate books, the pupil can: • read words accurately and fluently without overt sounding and blending, e.g. at over 90 words per minute • sound out most unfamiliar words accurately, without undue hesitation. In a familiar book that they can already read accurately and fluently, the pupil can: • check it makes sense to them • answer questions and make some inferences on the basis of what is being said and done. • Can talk about & discuss what they like and dislike about books they have read giving explanations. • Realise when they’ve made a mistake and self correct or stop if it doesn’t make sense. • Can retell stories, giving details of the main events and order events correctly.

10. Children may go further still… • Often chooses to read for pleasure • Sustains concentration • Can read silently for long periods • Reads widely but may have a favourite genre • Can make comparisons with other books read • May have a favourite author or series • Is beginning to recommend books to friends

11. WritingChildren are assessed on three different aspects of writing: • Sentence structure • Punctuation • Composition and effect

12. Spelling, Punctuation andGrammar.

16. What can children who are secure at Stage 2 do in their writing? SENTENCE STRUCTURE • Write sentences that make sense and that are grammatically correct. • Will read their own writing regularly to check that it makes sense and when they identify errors they can suggest how to correct them. • Use co-ordinating conjunctions to link two main clauses • Use subordination conjunctions to bind a main clause and a subordinate clause. • Can understand and use the terms “noun”, “adjective” and “verb”. • Use adjectives and adverbs. • Use powerful verbs. • Can sort nouns into proper and common nouns. • Can turn statements into questions, using a range of “wh” words and question marks.

17. What can children who are secure at Stage 2 do in their writing? PUNCTUATION • Can use capital letters and full stops accurately. • Can use exclamation marks and question marks. • Use commas in a list.

18. What can children who are secure at Stage 2 do in their writing? COMPOSITION & EFFECT • Write things that are relevant to the topic. • Structure information in a way appropriate for the task. • Show an awareness of the reader. • Handwriting – uses some horizontal and diagonal joins.

19. Maths - Arithmetic

20. Maths – ReasoningNumber and calculation.

22. Maths – ReasoningShape, measure, position and movement.

23. Maths – ReasoningData handling

24. What can children who are secure at Stage 2 do in Numeracy? Number & Calculation: • The pupil can partition two-digit numbers into different combinations of tens and ones. • The pupil can add 2 two-digit numbers within 100. • The pupil can use estimation to check that their answers to a calculation are reasonable. • The pupil can subtract mentally a two-digit number from another two-digit number. • The pupil can recognise the inverse relationships between addition and subtraction and use this to check calculations and work out missing number problems (e.g. Δ − 14 = 28). • The pupil can recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10 multiplication tables to solve simple problems. • The pupil can identify 1/3, ¼, ½, 2/4, ¾ and knows that all parts must be equal parts of the whole. • The pupil can use different coins to make the same amount

25. What can children who are secure at Stage 2 do in Numeracy? Shape, measure, position and movement: • The pupil can read scales in divisions of ones, twos, fives and tens in a practical situation where all numbers on the scale are given (e.g. pupil reads the temperature on a thermometer or measures capacities using a measuring jug). • The pupil can read the time on the clock to the nearest 5 minutes. • The pupil can describe properties of 2-D and 3-D shapes (e.g. the pupil describes a triangle: it has 3 sides, 3 vertices and 1 line of symmetry; the pupil describes a pyramid: it has 8 edges, 5 faces, 4 of which are triangles and one is a square). • Know what a right angle is and be able to understand and use vocabulary related to position and movement.

26. What can children who are secure at Stage 2 do in Numeracy? Data Handling: • Interpret data from pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and tables. • Present data in pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and tables. • Ask and answer questions about totalling and comparing data. • Be able to sort data.

27. What can you do to support? • Continue to read with your child every day. • Help your child to practise spellings regularly and work on their handwriting. • Encourage your child to follow up topics and to talk about them. • Keep up to date with what your child is learning at school and talk to them about it • Find opportunities for your child to use numbers in everyday situations • Encourage them to work out sums in their head and to practise explaining their reasoning and calculation.