2. What are SATs?  SATs stand for Standard Assessment Tasks and Tests.  They are a national assessment process used by all state schools to give a snapshot of children’s attainment at the end of Key Stage One.  The results are used to judge the school not the child.  The tests are marked in school.

3. When do they occur?  Teacher assessment is ongoing throughout the year.  The tests themselves happen in May and are used to confirm the ongoing teacher assessment of the children.

4. What are the main changes this year?  Government led changes to school assessment.  New National Curriculum started in 2014.  Old assessment levels were abolished.  Schools were invited to design their own systems for assessment.  Totally new statutory tests in both Key Stage 1 and 2, with very limited information about their content and design  No longer additional papers for ‘More Able’ (previously Level 3)  No Writing Test  In Maths and Writing, there are a list of skills that a child must show they can do to reach the required standard. 

5. What subjects are assessed and reported?  There are tests for reading, spelling, grammar and punctuation (SPAG) and maths.  Teacher Assessment results are reported for reading, writing, maths and science.  The spelling, grammar and punctuation (SPAG) test result informs the writing teacher assessment.

6. Reading Tests PAPER 1  A selection of texts totalling 400-700 words with questions interspersed PAPER 2  A Reading Booklet containing texts totalling 800-1100 words Children write answers in a separate booklet.  Each paper is worth 50% of the marks.  Teachers may stop the test at any time if the test is inappropriate for a child.  The emphasis is on Comprehension.

7. READING PAPER - 1

8. READING PAPER - 2

9. Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Test (SPAG) There is no longer a SATS Writing Assessment, although teachers will continue to assess writing throughout the year. PAPER 1  Spelling Test eg – The Musician gave concerts all over the………………………. PAPER 2  Grammar & Punctuation Test

10. Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Test (SPAG) PUNCTUATION EXAMPLE Tick one box to show where a comma should go in the sentence below:  Aisha found some red blue and purple beads in the box. GRAMMAR EXAMPLE Circle the three nouns in the statements below:  A whale has an enormous heart that can weigh as much as a small car.

11. Arithmetic Paper  Allocated 20 mins - children will need to work quickly but not strictly timed. No resources allowed.  Will test - ‘Confidence & Mathematical Fluency with Whole Numbers, Place, Value & Counting’ e.g. ……………+ 5 = 9 46 + 7 = …………… 87 – 40 = …………. 65 + ………… = 79 1 of 21 = ……….. 3 12 ÷ 2 = …………. 3 x 3 = …………… 1 of 30 = ………….. 2

12. Maths – Reasoning Mathematical Reasoning Paper – allocated 35 minutes (not strictly timed) 5 aural questions included. No resources allowed. e.g.  Amy plants 4 rows of carrots  There are 3 carrots in each row  A rabbit eats 2 of the carrots  How many carrots left? e.g.  Sita put 2 shoes in each box  How many shoes altogether?

13. How are the test results arrived at? READING, ‘SPAG’, MATHS  Raw Score (marks awarded out of the total )  School sent a converter to scale the scores in June  Scale Score (indicates if child has reached expected  standard or not)  100 is expected to be equivalent to the‘Age Related Expectation’ with scores probably ranging from 80 to 130. PHONICS  Some children will also be retaking Year 1 Phonics Screening if they fell below the ‘pass mark’ whilst in Year 1.

14. READING, WRITING, MATHS  Below the standard of the pre-key stage (would not sit tests)  Pre-key stage foundation (may not sit tests)  Working towards expected standard  Working at expected standard  Working at greater depth SCIENCE  Working at expected standard  Not working at expected standard What are the possible teacher assessment outcomes?

15. What are the priorities in the New Curriculum?  Handwriting  Spelling – applying the spelling rules and spelling the identified key words ‘mostly correctly’  Reading – All about understanding. Ask questions, don’t just ‘hear’ reading  Punctuation - Must be ‘mostly right’  Grammar – Must know and identify the key terms

16. What are the priorities in the New Curriculum?  Vocabulary – read widely, model, talk about word meaning and alternatives e.g. What does exhausted mean?  Mental maths recall e.g. times tables (2, 3, 5, 10) and addition and subtraction facts  Fractions -whole, half, quarter and third

17. What can you do to help?  No pressure!!  Special Work, not SATs.  Continue with reading, Zappers and homework as you are.  Remember that we are here to develop the WHOLE CHILD.

18. When will I find out the results?  Results will be sent to you in a letter, either with your child’s report or soon after.  You will be given your child’s reported teacher assessment results and the test results.  At school, we use these results to track progress.