Our Lady and St. Paul’s R.C. Primary School Welcome to the Year 6 Parent’s Information Evening Through Love, Encouragement and Belief we grow in the footsteps of Jesus

Agenda: Update on national changes in assessment arrangements Explain school arrangements for KS2 SATs Opportunity to look at sample test materials Question and Answers

Test will take place during the week beginning Monday 9th May 2016. A new National Curriculum was introduced in 2014. As a result, the Standards and Testing Agency (STA) is changing the tests so that they assess the new curriculum. Pupils will take the new tests for the first time in May 2016. Test will take place during the week beginning Monday 9th May 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF1n1g4CePI

KS 2 Assessment Arrangements At the end of Year 6, children will take SATs in: Reading English Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling Maths Some schools will be selected to sit a Science Test between 6th and 17th June 2016 and will be notified.

Timetable for the SATs week Monday 9th May 2016 Tuesday 10th May 2016 Wednesday 11th May 2016 Thursday 12th May 2016 Key stage 2 English reading test, reading booklet and associated answer booklet. Key stage 2 English grammar, punctuation and spelling test, Paper 1, short answer questions. Key stage 2 English grammar, punctuation and spelling test, Paper 2, spelling. Key stage 2 mathematics, Paper 1 arithmetic test. Key stage 2 mathematics, Paper 2 reasoning. Key stage 2 mathematics, Paper 3, reasoning.

Writing – Teacher Assessed Writing will be judged by the class teacher as meeting age related expectation or not. Guidance for what age related expectations looks like was released as an exemplification unit in February 2016. This will be done by collecting a range different genres of writing from the children to make an overall teacher assessment of writing for each child. The government has just changed the date for these judgements to be handed in from 22nd May 2016 to 30th June 2016.

Reading The reading test for Year 6 pupils will be a text booklet and the children will have 1 hour in which they have to answer questions ( 50 marks) The texts in the reading papers will cover a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, questions will get progressively more difficult towards the end of the test.

There will be a variety of question types: 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.’ The children have been practising in class already. They are aware of how on 3 mark questions they need to give detailed answers in order to secure the 3 marks. Usually making at least 3 marks.

Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Children taking Key Stage 2 SATs will sit two separate papers in grammar, spelling and punctuation: Paper 1: a grammar and punctuation written task, taking 45 minutes, and worth 50 marks. Paper 2: a 20-word spelling test taking approximately 15 minutes and worth 20 marks.

SPAG Question types The grammar and punctuation test will include two sub-types of questions: Selected response, e.g. ‘Identify the adjectives in the sentence below’ Constructed response, e.g. ‘Correct/complete/rewrite the sentence below,’ or, ‘The sentence below has an apostrophe missing. Explain why it needs an apostrophe.’

Mathematics The new Key Stage 2 maths test will comprise two papers: Paper 1: arithmetic 30 minutes long (40 marks) Paper 2: reasoning 40 minutes long (35 marks) Paper 3: reasoning 40 minutes long (35 marks) Children will only be allowed to use pencils, rulers and protractors.

Maths question types Paper 1 will consist of fixed response questions, where children have to give the correct answer to calculations, including long multiplication and division. Papers 2 and 3 will involve a number of question types, including: Multiple choice True or false Constrained questions, e.g. giving the answer to a calculation, drawing a shape or completing a table or chart Less constrained questions, where children will have to explain their approach for solving a problem

Receiving results: 2016 Levels have been replaced by scaled scores The expected standard will be a score of 100. Scores of above or below 100 will show pupils exceeding or failing to meet the expected standard. Each pupil registered for the tests will receive: A raw score A scaled score Confirmation of whether or not he/she attained the expected standard