SATs

[Nibblering]

DS is doing his SATs next week but we haven't really given it any thought. I was a bit thrown because some parents flagged up in a football group that the matches might not go ahead in the afternoons as it was SATs week. I then saw this on Xitter

Ashley Booth@MrBoothY6
My advice for any parent of a Y6 who wants to help their child prepare for SATs this weekend:

Go for a walk with them. Paint with them. Bake with them. Send them out with their friends. Read a silly book together. Watch a funny film.

You can't do 4 years of work in 2 days.

Now I'm a bit worried. Are we supposed to be helping them prepare? As I understand it, the significance of the SATs is that some (?) secondary schools use it to predict GCSEs and this might affect their progress 8 scores if the child isn't on track to get those GCSEs so they might be more inclined to support the child to reach those grades (and therefore scoring better in SATs might mean the school helping children reach better grades?) but I'm not sure if I've got that right.

Can anyone illuminate me as I'm feeling a bit lost!

Last of my 6 are doing SATS next week.

my advice is carry on doing what you are doing!!

for me SATS are for the school to see how the school is doing in teaching children.

my 4th child is doing GCSEs this year and his SAT results were awful however he is in top sets and predicted 8and 9 ‘s so I don’t think that the SAT results mean anything.

don’t stress about it

My DS also has SATS next week. The school are not making a big deal of it at all and it feels like a normal school week. For the past few months the teacher has been setting 30 min/day homework, practising exams in class. We have not been asked to do anything other than ensure they sleep well next week.

Mine came home with sats book, we had homework every night. Was all a bit much for something that’s just a tick box exercise for school.