SCREAM!! I have 2 Dc going through them at the moment one in Y6 and the other Y2. If I see one more practice paper from years gone by or one more print out in 6 year old Dd's school bag putting pressure on to learn ASAP as if her life depends on it. If one more of my Dc come in extremely stressed because they can't get their writing perfect when their bodies can not physically do it I am going to declare a SATS strike at home!...and a strict diet of fun stuff only! 
I had Ds's Y6 CT tell me how worried she is about his SATS last week, it was so hard for me to bite my tongue because I know he will do just fine (I'm 100% confident) and they have been telling me for years that he is perfectly capable, their league table will not be affected what so ever, and all her hard work WILL pay off. Its the drilling that is causing the issues....sigh....and now for a nice 
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runningouttaideas · 09/02/2016 10:07
Same here. Dd is completely fed up. They've got her in for booster classes after school even though they do booster classes all week in school time 
. She's a bright pupil and they're pushing her so much (too much). I keep telling her just do her best and the tests are not the be all and end all. Op I'm in on the sats strike
I have a year 2 child. Parents were invited into the classroom after school yesterday for a little talk about this years SATS. Basically it came across like the teachers were not happy about it, will be 'teaching to the test' from now until May (at the expense of other things such as topic work, geography, history etc - their words not mine!) and the old 'Level 3' will now be the middly, average outcome expected of children.
There was lots of talk about what we need to do with our children at home, to help them through. The teachers showed us the sample papers and seemed very unhappy that they were expected to do them.
To me as a parent it didn't seem terribly different to when DS did year 2 SATS three years ago. I said to DH that of the nine months spent at school this year, it seemed wrong that a third of that time will be spent literally coaching them in the things they need to know to pass a test - his reply was that if this is stuff the children need to know, and they are following the curriculum then surely its a good thing that by the end of it, our children will know these things... 
But yeah I'm bored of it already not overly concerned about results as i get the impression DD is slightly above 'average' in most areas, so it feels a bit like punishment to have to wade through all the extra crap just to prove she can do it, on the day!
From the KS2 writing exemplification materials:
' Where pupils have a physical disability that prevents them from being able to write, the statements relating to handwriting can be excluded from the teacher assessment. Where pupils are physically able to write and meet all of the statements except for being able to produce legible handwriting, they may be awarded the ‘expected standard’ but cannot be awarded the ‘greater depth’ standard. This refers to the final statements within ‘Working towards’ and ‘Working at the expected standard’.
I think it must have been in the draft too, because there was a thread in 'Chat about it a few weeks ago. Obviously, there's still plenty of time to change it between now and May
I haven't looked that closely at the KS1 materials. I assume it would be the same but that's probably not a wise assumption.
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