Rewards for completing SATs

I agree with your attitude and that of your parents. Making a big thing of SATS by linking it to a holiday at Centre Parcs is over the top, in my opinion. That was my point.

No. My grandchildren don’t and I wouldn’t have either.

My DD’s school has said SAT’s results on 7th July. I thought we might go into town after school for coffee & a slice of cake or fancy milkshake/ ice cream sundae or similar. That would be regardless of result and about the limit of any reward. Can’t help but think that the families who rewarded with center Parcs/ Laptop etc were planning on doing/ getting those things anyway so it’s a bit disingenuous to frame them as a reward.

In what way is celebrating something not bestowing resilience? I was raised to celebrate the big and small, it’s just enjoying life. I guarantee I’m more resilient than 95% of bloody MN from half the stuff I read on here! You don’t get to live the life I lead without being resilient, and my kids aren’t soft either, such a weird comparison to draw?

Couldn't agree more. Maybe a bar if chocolate or an ice cream on the day exams finish.

If you haven't got into your children how vital success is and motivated them to be self reliant in their studies and ambitious for themselves then I am sorry but you are not doing a great job.

There are threads elsewhere on here bemoaning the lack of job opportunities. Unfortunately there is no sign of that changing soon. Surely it's better for your children to do well because they want to do well rather than being bribed. What message does bribery send?!

This used to happen when our children were at school. They are 43 now. They have done brilliantly academically to MPhil level and are both city lawyers. We have praised and supported them as they worked hard from first starting school. We are proud of their achievements and hard work.
it baffles me that parents reward children for completing necesssry steps in life. Resilience is underrated.

I bought mine a bubble tea and he got to choose the family take out and film. Feel mean now!

DD had two friends over for a sleepover on the Friday night & PIL took us out for a meal on the Saturday but that was also to celebrate their wedding anniversary. So pretty low key here.

I got my DS a bottle of Prime, back when Prime was a massive thing. So you’d probably be able to work out his age now 😂

He thought I was the best mum ever 😂

His school handed out their leaver hoodies after SATS which I thought was nice

Dc has just done SAT'S and we have given a small gift of money for doing them for dc to spend on whatever.

Predicted results from mocks were 3 at expected and 1 at greater depth. For each area dc scores greater depth we will be giving dc £50. This money is to be used towards a pc and some other tech thay dc has been saving for since last year.

Any achievements should be rewarded imo. We don't go to work for free and most of us will have some sort of commission, bonus or target incentive as part of their every day jobs. Why shouldn't we reward our children in the same way?

My mother really poisoned this for me so mine got laptops for Christmas and Birthday but ever exam success. We expressed our pleasure at results in other ways

Nope.

School did a "party on the park" opposite the school, their kitchen staff made sandwiches and they order ice creams for the kids. But that was more done as decompression after the stress of it.

I have told my DD I’ll get her a little gift. Not because she’s done them as such but because over the past couple of years she had terrible EBSA and at one point we questioned wether she’d ever be able to go back to her small mainstream setting.

it’s more for her overcoming that than sitting the SATs themselves.

Have you had a child go through SATs recently? Maybe our schools were different, but they absolutely made them a big deal (tbh they were a big deal when I did them in the 90s! I remember it all clearly!) They talked about them constantly since year 5, they had extra revision sessions, they had the kids go in early, given breakfast, a party at the end. I don’t know why parents try to minimise it. The kids are prepared for months, it’s their first exams, the results are still a measurement and often used by secondary schools.

If nothing else, it’s their first taste of how the British educational system will define them, as much as I don’t agree with it, their entire education will be summed up by some exams at 16, so for me as a parent I took SATs as an important opportunity to lay the ground work for exams, some revision, build respect for them and absolutely the joy of a reward at the end!

We went for dinner out and got DD1
a Lego set she wanted for her SATs. We didn’t care what results she got as long as she tried her best.

My brother passed the 11plus in 1963 and I passed it in 1964. Not bad for two council estate kids . My parents bought us a record player between us as a reward . That’s the only reward we ever had for educational achievements 😂😂😂.
As a previous poster says, the SATS are about the school not the pupils .

one of my son’s friends have been promised a play station if he gets greater depth in all of his SATS! Both my children do well academically but I don’t reward them for what grades they get I give them small reward for trying their best. My son was happy with some v bucks for Fortnite.

I took my son to the local Turkish on the Friday after SATs week. He was happy with that. What you mentioned other people are doing seems like nonsense to me.

Nope
the school put on a picnic for them
I got dc a takeaway pizza!

I do think end of GCSEs merit some kind of treat/reward but SATS not really

We have a payment schedule for SATs and in secondary school end of year exams.

the maximum payout for SATs is £400 if they score top marks across all four assessments (Science is evaluated by the Teacher).

We want to reward them for taking the time to revise, and to ensure that they feel rewarded for their efforts.

We will be paying for GCSE & A-level results too!

My eldest Daughter converted her SATs money into Euros for her holiday, and this year my youngest daughter is eagerly awaiting her results next month.

We feel that this is a more positive way to motivate them rather than nagging them!

Didn't do anything for SATs - both dds liked doing them more than normal lessons and didn't do any work for them apart from going to school. Might have gone out for a meal to celebrate end of exams or something (I can't really remember) but definitely didn't offer any rewards for grades, or rewards in general.

Yes. Whilst I wouldn’t do anything different in relation to SATs, the ‘not important/only a measure of the school’ has unfortunately not been the case for my child. This is as the secondary school used them to set a minimum expected grade. This is set at the start of year 7 and is never adjusted. It is used to identify underperforming children for intervention to boost their grade to predicted or above. Every parents evening is fabulous for us as the teachers are so impressed my
child is two grades above predicted but the predictions were so low to begin with (was undiagnosed adhd during sats) that’s no reassurance. Yes, in theory their final grade is up to them but they will not be identified for additional help in the same way pupils who scored highly in SATs but are performing below their minimum expected grade, will be.

just editing to add that the SATs are used to set minimum grades in ALL subjects, PE, Art, languages… the whole gamut, most of which aren’t even taught at primary let alone assessed in SATs

I like to celebrate lots of events big and small.

This !

Many years ago I let my DD choose 3 new reading books after she worked hard to do well in her SATs.