1. Information For Parents Aims
Year 6
End of Key Stage Assessment Tests
14th May 2018
Aims
What are SATS?
How will attainment be reported?
What do our Children achieve?
What are the Children tested on?
Additional Information for you.

2. Who sits SATS? That one’s easy to answer...
All Year 6 children who it is felt may achieve the Year 6 standard
Hang on…What’s the year 6 standard?

3. SATS 2018
One reading test (question paper and reading booklet are now given at the same time) - 1 hour
Two Maths reasoning tests [45 minutes] and an arithmetic test [30mins]
NO calculators are allowed in any of the tests
One Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling test – [45 minutes + 20 words]
All tests reflect the content of the 2014 curriculum.

4. Teacher Assessment Writing
Speaking and listening will continue to be teacher assessed
Science (unless we are chosen for sampling)

5. Key Stage 2 English Writing
The interim arrangements in 2018 will be similar to the approach at the end of KS1. A child’s English writing result will be a teacher assessment judgement of their work across year 6.

6. Assessing Writing
To achieve the expected standard the children need to spell most words correctly (this includes with the use of a dictionary), use a wide range of punctuation accurately, show ability to structure sentences in a variety of different ways and in a variety of contexts.
Working at a Greater Depth is all about style and maturity. Children have to be able to demonstrate the ability to control formality and use a wide range of punctuation and sentence structures for effect.

7. Reading
1 hr to read the booklet and answer the questions. The texts get progressively harder throughout the booklet.
No help allowed except care and support!
They need to read fluently with decent comprehension to achieve the Expected Standard.
For working at a Greater Depth in reading, it boils down to using inference and reading between the lines…
Maturity of understanding.

8. Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
A test of spelling, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary. Introduced in 2013 after trialling in 2012
Here are some sample
questions.

13. Maths There is an Arithmetic test
Calculations with all operations up to long multiplication and division
All operations with fractions
Percentages and Fractions of amounts

15. Maths Reasoning
There are two longer reasoning papers with no calculator
The questions are oriented towards problem solving and the children’s ability to reason, rather than just being knowledge based.

16. Maths

18. The Timetable 2018 Mon 14th May Tue 15th May Wed 16thMay Thurs 17thMay
Fri
18thMay
SPAG test
(45 mins)
Reading test (45 mins +15 reading time)
Arithmetic Paper
(30 mins)
Maths Reasoning 2
(45 Mins)
Spelling Test
(20 mins)
Maths Reasoning 1 (45 mins)

19. Special Provision
Some children are entitled to extra help, but this is well regulated:
Some children can have an adult reader (though obviously, not in the reading test)
Occasionally some children are entitled to extra time of 25% (usually if there is some physical, medical or learning condition that slows them down.)
Even when children are not entitled to the above there are provisions we can put in place. These include use of a classroom, with a higher ratio of adults, and regular breaks.

20. Higher Level Papers
There is no specific higher level paper. Some higher level questions are included in each test, to help assess children working at Greater Depth. Whilst there is a definition of children working at a higher level, this is not reported formally. However, it will be evidenced in their end of year report.

21. Reporting Attainment The tests we sit are for Y6 standards
Children are expected to achieve the expected standard by the end of the year
Each child will receive:
Raw Score
A scaled score out of a 120
Confirmation of whether Y6 standard is achieved or not.
Conversion tables will be published in July 2018.
Currently, no other standards will be reported.
Greater depth will be teacher assessed and reported in the child’s end of year Jesse Gray Report.

22. What Do Our Children Achieve?
Historically, a high proportion
of JG pupils AT and GDS.
Reading
Maths
Grammar and Spelling
Combined AT
GDS
Jesse Gray
95.4%
53.8%
49.2%
96.9%
55.4%
81.5%
26.2%
National
71%
25%
75%
23%
77%
31%
61% 9%

23. Ready Steady Go! To help prepare the children, we will:
Arrange booster groups to start from after Feb half-term for children we feel will get the most benefit. These are really just an opportunity to work in a smaller, more focussed group.
We will be doing practise papers in school.
Setting some revision and practise homework tasks.

24. Our advice to all concerned is to relax and do your best.
Do the homework as best you can.
View the tests as good practice for later on in life. See them as a chance to brush up on some important stuff you might have forgotten!
Please support us by NOT using the previous test papers at home.
Do not bribe your children to achieve a given result.
The results come in time for annual reports.

25. Thank You For Listening.
Questions