1. Weald Rise Primary School
Year 6 SATs Parents meeting
2017

2. What are SATs? SATs stands for Standard Assessment Tests.
Many children will have completed Key Stage 1 SATs at the end of Year 2.
KS2 SATs are taken in the week of 8th May in Reading, SPaG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar) and Mathematics.
Writing will receive a Teacher Assessment level.
Results are received by the school in July and parents are then informed.
SATs results have no effect on High School entry.

3. Year 6
All pupils in Year 6 are entered for the test, unless there are exceptional circumstances.
Absent children are included in the school’s percentage results.
There may be cases where children are eligible to have extra time allocated, have some tests read or scribed.
The school has already made all the necessary arrangements for this.

4. SATs Timetable 2016 Date Tests Monday 8th May
English reading test 1 hour
Tuesday 9th May
English grammar, punctuation and spelling test 45 mins and 15 mins
Wednesday 10th May
Arithmetic 30 mins
Mathematics test A
40 mins
Thursday 11th May
Mathematics test B

5. English Speaking and listening – teacher assessment only
Reading (50 marks) – marked externally
Grammar, Punctuation and spelling – marked externally
Writing – teacher assessment only with external moderation
A score for each test is awarded- children either meet or exceed national expectations.
An overall level is awarded, although children may achieve different levels for each paper.
Children receive a reading level, a writing level and a third, overall English level.

6. Teacher Assessment
In addition to the test results in Reading and Mathematics your child will be given a teacher assessment level.
This may be different to their test result as teacher assessment covers areas of the curriculum that the SATs do not, for example, speaking and listening.

7. How we are preparing in school
We carry out Mock SATs weeks so pupils will know what to expect.
We have been working in sets for Mathematics to target specific areas for improvement.
Extra English and Mathematics lessons will take place in the lead up to the tests. These will target specific areas for example, extra guided reading sessions.
Teachers will be giving some revision guides to the children to help them prepare.
Booster classes

8. Key Stage 2 Reading
The reading test is a single paper with questions based on three passages of text. Your child will have one hour, including reading time, to complete the test.

9. What’s tested? 2a 2b 2c 2d
Give/explain the meaning of words in context.
Retrieve and record information / identify key details from fiction and non- fiction.
Summarise main ideas from more than one paragraph.
Make inferences from the text/ explain and justify inferences with evidence from the text. 2e 2f 2g 2h
Predict what may happen from details stated and implied.
Identify/explain how information/ narrative content is related and contributes to meaning as a whole.
Identify/explain how meaning is enhanced through choice of words and phrases.
Make comparisons within the text.

10. Key Stage 2 Reading
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.’

11. Have a go!

14. 2 mark questions

15. 3 marks questions

16. How can you help?
Ensure children complete their homework and hand it in on time.
Listen to your child read every day for at least 20 minutes.
Encourage children to summarise what they have read.
Look through and practise sample papers online.
Purchase revision guides.

17. Maths - What does the maths paper entail?
Paper 1 – Arithmetic paper – 30 minutes (40 marks)
Paper 2 – Reasoning paper – 40 minutes (35 marks)
Paper 3 – Reasoning paper – 40 minutes (35 marks)

18. New expectations Knowing Roman numerals 1-1000
Using the order of operations to carry out calculations (BIDMAS)
Expressing or solving missing number problems algebraically
Bigger emphasis on fractions – including adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions with different denominators
Division – showing remainders as fractions or decimals
Knowing parts of a circle
Finding the area of parallelograms and triangles
Finding volume of cubes and cuboids
Interpreting and constructing pie charts

19. What’s changed?
The new arithmetic paper has replaced the old mental maths paper. It will include basic calculations but will have no word problems. The test will include:
Addition and subtraction of up to 4 digit numbers, including decimals
Long Multiplication and Division of up to 4 digit numbers, including decimals
Complex calculations with fractions, decimals and percentages
Basic algebra
BIDMAS
The reasoning papers will be similar to those from previous years and will require children to apply their knowledge in all areas of maths through word problems.

20. Arithmetic Paper – have a go…
10 questions
You have 7 minutes to answer them
See how you do…

21. Answers…
1. 97, , /7 or 9/7 9. ¼ or /32

22. Reasoning paper – have a go…
3 questions to try
money, weight, angles
You have 5 minutes… good luck!

23. Answers…
25p 30
a) b) 20

24. Calculation methods we teach…

25. What you can do to help…
Agree to your child, if selected, to attend all additional Booster sessions we ask them to attend
Encourage your child to do all homework set
Ensure they know all their times tables up to 12x12
Useful websites – see list
Useful sats revision books – see list

26. Thank you for coming.
If you have any questions or concerns, please speak to a member of the Year 6 team, who will be happy to answer queries.