To be disappointed in DD’s SATS results?

SATs results were important to me too OP. If you weren't in top set at DS's school then you missed out on things such as having the chance to do Further maths or Latin (which he ended up loving and choosing at GCSE). They do CATs too but their SATS results were definitely important - their GCSE predictions were based on them. She's very close to greater depth but I can completely understand why you're disappointed that she just missed it. DS missed getting an A in one of his A-levels by 2 marks (out of 300) - that was even more galling!

I remember doings SATs in 1993, the results were okayish. I then had good GCSEs. In 6th form I found my direction. I went on to 4 A-levels at A and a first-class degree at a top 10 world ranking university. SATs are not about depth. Congratulate and encourage your daughter, as my parents did with me. You have to be prepared to let her find her own way (and passion for learning).

Son had awful sats - just got a first from a top ten Uni.

To say they didn't matter however was untrue in our case. It was the only benchmark they had a secondary and so when he exceeded in his subjects we had to persuade them to put his grades up as they kept referring back to them.

Oh fgs. I don’t usually get irked by posts on here but yours has really riled me.

The current year 11s, who have just done GCSEs, didn't even take Sats as they were cancelled for covid and they have been absolutely fine without them.

Pupils move up and down in their sets sets due to termly test results, classwork and yearly exams. Even if sats results determine initial set groups they don't continue to be determined by one set of year 6 results.

Many schools don't even set, apart from maybe Maths, until yr 9 so by then sats results have long been superceded by performance in secondary school.

How awful for your DD to already be a disapointment to her mum. It is so disturbing when parents can't appreciate their children's efforts, regardless of the outcome. It will only lead to anxiety for the child and a strained relationship between the two of you.Pull yourself together and take your DD out for an ice cream to celebrate.

Whilst on the subject of sats…what does scaled score actually mean??

I've worked in several secondary schools. They're ignored apart from data generation for predicting grades as required by govt. Secondary schools don't trust they show anything about child ability due to the huge amount of in school drilling etc. YabmassivelyU to place any weight on them and their implications whatsoever, never mind to be disappointed by good scores

Spot on. In a few years she’ll be on the Oxbridge thread, totally over-invested.

Poor child.

Has it hurt your ego?

OP is it worth asking her secondary school what they use?
I knew full well that my sons school didn’t give a flying fart what grades he got because they do “dynamic assessments” throughout the year and stream them according to these assessments, rather than basing their judgements on arbitrary results.

They might be losely used with other factors when deciding on sets as well as a multitude of other factors but honestly they bounce them around sets whenever suitable. My DS has been bopped around top and second set loads based on how arsed he is at working.

What I would say is you need to have a real think about your reaction to this. It is incredibly unimportant. She's going to sit plenty of exams that are much more important. What if she doesn't do well in those?

Doesn’t really matter. I got streamed into a lower set for English despite a good SATs grade. Was in extension set before GCSEs and now have an MA in the subject.

It all comes out in the wash.

Most high schools do CAT tests and don’t rely on SATs results.

A lot of high schools don’t actually set until after Christmas. My sons high school don’t set properly until yr9. The teachers told us that they all learn the same curriculum until they decide their options.

Humble brag or... 😉

I'm pretty sure that nothing magical happens if they score just above 110 compared with scoring just below it.

On the other hand, if it mattered that much to you then maybe you should have done more prep at home rather than relying on 'luck'?ll

It actually makes me so sad. And I say this as a parent of three older teens and a ‘high achiever’ myself at school. Thankfully I realised long ago that their worth is not determined by exam results.

Believe me, OP, your goal is to get your children through school with good mental health, life skills and resilience. Put your energy into that.

It's called trying to.push a square peg into a round hole ,the system is failing thousands of kids it needs to do better

DD’s teacher was warning us that dd won’t pass reading based on previous results. She got 109. Wonder how accurate they are.

I completely agree with this. OP needs to let her DD be a child, not a data unit.

You mean you are "disapointed" you can't brag to your mum mates that your DD was top of the class.

SATS are a waste of everyone's time.

I don’t give a flying f*#% about the SATS scores but just to say, if you are already feeling ‘disappointed’ with your child’s academic performance (and voicing it) then she has a long and horrible journey ahead of her.

I’ll never forget a friend at school crying when she received her A level results, not because she’d got a couple of grades lower than predicted, but because she was afraid to go and tell her mum.

Seriously. Stop now before you get any worse. Don’t you think young people have enough pressure on them?

I have an adult DD who got 5s in the days before schools gave out scaled scores. She had the label of greater depth (it was gifted and talented back then) from nursery to A-levels. I honestly couldn’t have cared less what her scaled scores at 11 were.