KS2 SATS 2019

Parents’ Information KS2 SATS

Wednesday 13th March

KS2 SATS WERE OVERHAULED TO BE IN LINE WITH THE NEW NATIONAL

CURRICULUM IN MAY 2016

IN THE SUMMER TERM OF 2016, CHILDREN IN YEAR 6 WERE THE FIRST TO TAKE THE NEW SATS PAPERS. THE NEW-STYLE SATS FOR ENGLISH AND

MATHS REFLECT THE NEW NATIONAL CURRICULUM, AND ARE MORE RIGOROUS THAN

PREVIOUS YEARS' TESTS. THERE IS ALSO A COMPLETELY NEW SATS MARKING SCHEME AND

GRADING SYSTEM WHICH HAS REPLACED NATIONAL CURRICULUM LEVELS.

The tests help measure the progress pupils have made and identify if they need additional support in a certain area. The tests are also used to assess schools’ performance and to produce national performance data.

What is the purpose of the tests?

WHAT WILL BE ASSESSED?ASSESSED BY TESTS

MATHS READING

3 papers 1 paper

SPaGSPELLING

GRAMMAR & PUNCTUATION

* No Calculator Paper

These tests are both set and marked externally, and the results are used to measure the school’s performance.

Your child’s marks will be used in conjunction with teacher assessment to give a broader picture of their

attainment.

ReadingThe English reading test focuses on the comprehension elements of the national curriculum and includes a mixture of text genres. The test is designed so that the texts increase in their level of difficulty.

The test consists of a reading booklet and separate answer booklet. Pupils will have one hour to read the 3 texts in the reading booklet and complete the questions, which are worth 50 marks in total.

There will be a selection of question types, including:

•Ranking/ordering/summary 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.

Grammar, punctuation and spellingThere are 2 papers:

• Paper 1: questions

• Paper 2: spelling

Paper 1: is a combined question and answer booklet. Pupils will have 45 minutes to answer the questions which are worth 50 marks in total. The 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.’

Paper 2: spelling consists of a test transcript to be read by the test administrator and an answer booklet for pupils to write 20 spellings. The test is expected to take approximately 15 minutes, but is not strictly timed. The questions are worth 20 marks in total.

MathsThe mathematics test comprises of 2 components, presented to pupils as 3 test papers:

•Paper 1: arithmetic

•Paper 2: reasoning

•Paper 3: reasoning

Paper 1: arithmetic assesses mathematical calculations. The questions cover calculations involving all 4 operations, including calculations with fractions, decimals and percentages. They also cover long divisions and long multiplications. Pupils will have 30 minutes to answer the questions which are worth 40 marks.

Papers 2 and 3 assess mathematical fluency, solving mathematical problems and mathematical reasoning. Pupils will have 40 minutes to answer the questions which are worth 35 marks per paper. They 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

WHEN ARE THE TESTS?

Date Paper to be written

Monday 13th May 2019

English grammar, punctuation and spelling Paper 1: questions

English grammar, punctuation and spelling Paper 2: spelling

Tuesday 14th May 2019 English reading

Wednesday 15th May 2019 Mathematics Paper 1: arithmetic

Mathematics Paper 2: reasoning

Thursday 16th May 2019 Mathematics Paper 3: reasoning

The Year 6 SATs will be administered in the week commencing 13th May 2019. If your child is absent, in which case they may be able to take them up to 5 school

days afterwards.

How will Key Stage 2 SATs be marked?

The previous national curriculum levels have been scrapped, and instead children are given scaled scores.

You will be given your child’s raw score (the actual number of marks they get), alongside their scaled score and whether they have reached the expected standard set by the Department for Education (‘NS’ means that the expected standard was not achieved and ‘AS’ means the expected standard was achieved).

The range of scaled scores available for each KS2 test is:•80 (the lowest scaled score that can be awarded)

•120 (the highest scaled score)

The expected standard for each test is a scaled score of 100 or more. If a child is awarded a scaled score of 99 or less they won't have achieved the expected standard in the test.

Access ArrangementsSome pupils with specific needs may need additional arrangements to be put in place so that they can take part in the key stage 2 tests. Access arrangements are adjustments that can be made to support pupils. We must consider whether any of our pupils will need access arrangements before we administer the tests.

Access arrangements should be based primarily on normal classroom practice and they must never provide an unfair advantage. The support given must not change the test questions and the answers must be the pupils’ own.

Access arrangements might be used to support pupils:•who have difficulty reading•who have difficulty writing•who have difficulty concentrating•who have processing difficulties

These children may benefit from:• additional time• scribes• Transcripts• Readers• Prompters• Rest breaks

How are we preparing?

• Practising SATS papers from previous years

• Continuous assessment• Booster classes• Focused maths lessons• Focused spelling lessons• Focused grammar Lessons• Guided and independent reading

WRITING 2019There is a greater focus on the progress children make

throughout the school year, as opposed to a test-day snapshot of what they know.

• Children’s results for English writing will be a judgement of their work across Year 6.

• Schools will moderate their judgements with other local schools and may be moderated by their Local Authorities too.

• As there is no test for English writing, this will be reported as a teacher assessment judgement. This is a judgement teachers will make, based on your child’s work at the end of key stage 2. You will also receive teacher assessment judgements for English reading, mathematics and science.

• Support with homework and targets that have been discussed at

Parents Evening.

• Read regularly and discuss a variety of texts – not just ‘listening’

to your child read.

• Short bursts of arithmetic, times tables and problem solving,

use the correct method of calculation etc.

• Brain food! E.g. Breakfast and drink – water especially (both in

and outside school)

• Help unpick problems the children have for homework and

encourage them to ask if they do not understand.

How can you help?