SATs Information Evening Year 6

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SATs –Year 6

• • • • • • • • • • What assessments happen in Year 6?

What are the SATs?

When are the tests?

What’s new with the tests?

What do the tests involve?

Children with special educational needs (SEN) Children who are ill or injured on the day of the tests When parents will receive the results?

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What assessments happen in Year 6?

• • • • • • All children will receive a Teacher Assessment Levels which is passed on to their High School and shared with parents.

Level 3 and below represents achievement below the nationally expected standard for most 11-year-olds. Level 4 represents achievement at the nationally expected standard for most 11-year-olds. Level 5 represents achievement above the nationally expected standard for most 11-year-olds. Level 6 represents achievement significantly above the nationally expected standard for most 11-year-olds. SATs tests designed to assess levels of knowledge, understanding and skills gained in English and Maths since entering KS2 .

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Science

• • • This remains an important subject area given the opportunity for children to develop their investigative and communication and reasoning skills.

Science is only assessed through teacher assessment as with other subjects. There is no formal tests this year as part of the SATs.

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SATs Timetable 2014

Monday 12 th May Tuesday 13 th May Wednesday 14 th May Reading Test

(1 hour to read the booklet and answer the questions)

Afternoon

: Level 6 Reading

Grammar, Punctuation and spelling test

(45 min for grammar, vocabulary and punctuation Spelling approximately 15 mins)

Afternoon:

Level 6 Grammar, punctuation and spelling

Mental Maths test

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(20 min)

Mathematics Test A

(45 min)

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Thursday 15 th May Mathematics Test B

(45 min)

Afternoon:

Level 6 Maths Paper 1 and 2

Friday 16 th May

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Break down of SATs papers English, 3 papers –

Reading comprehension (1 hour) Grammar, Punctuation and Vocabulary (45 minutes) Spelling test (Around 15 minutes) @Stjohns_primary www.st-johns.stockport.sch.uk

English Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Test (GAPS)

The test will include questions that assess elements of the current National Curriculum in English. Questions will be on: • • • • Sentence grammar Punctuation Vocabulary Spelling @Stjohns_primary www.st-johns.stockport.sch.uk

Test 1- Grammar, punctuation and vocabulary.

• 45 Minutes long • 50 Marks • Short answer questions presented in order of difficulty

Test 2 – Spelling Test

• 20 marks for correctly writing 20 given words into unrelated sentences.

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1. Tick one word to complete the sentence below so that it is grammatically correct.

The window was ________________ by a ball.

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2. Find one word that can complete both sentences below.

Tomorrow, we are going to watch a _______________ at the theatre.

My friend Tomas is coming over to ________________ tennis later.

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3. Circle all the adverbs in the sentences below.

Excitedly, Dan opened the heavy lid. He paused briefly and looked at the treasure.

4. Write a question beginning with the words below.

How much___________________________

5. Circle all the nouns in the sentence below.

The leaves on our tree turned orange as the weather became colder.

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6. Circle the preposition in the sentence below.

She waited until 10 o’clock

7. Circle the article in each sentence below.

After the argument they all went home.

We saw a magnificent polar bear.

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Maths - 3 papers:

Paper A non calculator paper(45 mins) Paper B non calculator paper (45 mins) Mental maths (approx 25 mins) The written papers cover all the areas of maths – number, shape, space, measures, data handling and application of skills to problem solving.

Mental maths- recorded test consisting of 20 timed questions (ranging from 5 seconds to 15 seconds) @Stjohns_primary www.st-johns.stockport.sch.uk

Further Information

• • • • Children with Specific/Special Educational Needs.

Children who are ill or injured on the day of the tests.

Timetable variations.

Equipment for the tests.

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Results

• • • Marked scripts and results returned in early July to school Scripts carefully scrutinised SATs results and Teacher Assessment levels reported in the Annual End of Year Reports

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Supporting your child

• • • • • Web based revision support During the week of the tests Preparation for the test Revision guides Be mindful of the pressure they are under!

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