Have SATs for 7 year olds been scrapped?

[lagaanisace]

I know there was talk of it in the News some time ago, but I seem to have missed the outcome.

DS is in year 2 and there's been no mention of them, so I'm hoping he'll not have to do them.

[AngryFromManchester]

well they did them last year as ds1 did them, his former school was a no fuss school though and tbh we knew nothing about it

[lagaanisace]

That's annoying. That said, I never had any exams in school until the last week or so of Primary School. We were just herded into a room one day for an exam from which they setted us in Secondary school. There was no pressure, because we had no idea of the significance of it.

[Elk]

dd1 is in year 2 and we have had a letter saying they will be doing SATs but they won't be told what they're doing. I think a lot of it is teacher assessed rather than tests.

[trickerg]

I am a Year 2 teacher:

The National Curriculum levels given to parents at the end of year 2 are based ONLY on teacher assessment.
SATs tests and tasks are still done any time up until the end of June to advise these teacher assessments .

Therefore, as an assessment tool, no fuss should be made about them whatsoever. It has been like this for a few years, and your school should be informing you of things like this.