Year 6 SATs

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I’m a nosy (English teacher of a…) year 6 parent.
Any idea what was in this year’s SATs papers? Any of the spellings? Sort of thing in the reading paper? Child can’t remember and not going to pester on at them to remember just because I am so keen to know! :)

I am also wanting to know what's in them. I get very little from my DC, only what he had for breakfast at school that morning.

There used to be a Y6 teacher on X, that gave a daily synopsis of the test that day. It was super useful. Unfortunately it seems that he has left the teaching profession.

I was wondering if there were any other Y6 teachers on here or X or Insta that might be doing something similar

I don’t think you’re meant to post anything about the actual content as there will be some kids taking them late.

DD seemed fairly confident about the SPAG papers yesterday; haven’t had a chance to talk to her about the reading yet.

DD wants to know what books the stories are from because she wants to read them!

Does anyone know how I find out!?

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He didn't write anything specific about the test.
Just said things like 'Comprehension - the hardest I've ever seen. Some DC seemed confused but soldiered on - superstars'

When my DC1 did it a few years ago, his SATs comprehension made the national news. Some DC found it so hard, they cried during the test and made the rest of the class emotional. I didn't get any of this info from my child so it was useful to get a view from a professional.

If you google the character names that are in the fiction texts, with a brief description of what they did in the text it should bring up the book it’s from. I’m being deliberately vague because the test papers aren’t published yet, but it’s definitely just worked for one of the extracts from today when I did it.

My comment wasn’t referring to yours. Someone else on the thread posted details about this year’s SPAG and reading tests including specific spelling words (post now deleted).

I did tell her to put the details she remembered into ChatGBT! :)

Are Op's kids taking them late I wonder.... 🤔

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My boy did the test today and came back very sad. He said reading texts were very long and questions very difficult. Normally he has good reading marks in tests.

I won’t put specifics just in case. I can’t remember all the details anyway! The SPAG paper wasn’t too unkind imo, there really shouldn’t have been any surprises to anybody. The usual word classes, tenses, punctuation stuff. There were maybe 2-3 very tricky ones, same as the spellings, for spellings nothing came up that was too horrific! Reading paper started out trickier than usual imo and the final text was quite wordy, but the kids mostly said they found the subject matter interesting. Again nothing unexpected, all the usual skills that year 6 will have been prepping for were covered.

Stepson came home and said one of them was about one thing but another child has said it was about something else. It seems he’s misread the title which may have impacted his understanding of the whole thing. I won’t say the title but a bit like misreading ‘conservation’ as ‘conversation’. Worrying

Mine too. Said it was harder than the practice ones they’ve done.

My daughter was in tears when I met her after today’s comprehension test. She has consistently achieved nearly full marks in all of her five to six practice tests and usually even has some time left at the end to review her answers. Many of her friends were also very distressed. I strongly feel that tests like this can affect children’s performance in subsequent exams by lowering their confidence and morale.

She said this year’s paper was nothing like what she had been taught at school or practised in her mock tests. She did not have enough time to complete it. She is usually very strong in both maths and English and typically achieves full marks.

This morning, she even explained to me how retrieval and inference questions can be made more challenging by hiding or spreading out the answers within the text. However, according to her, this year’s comprehension paper went beyond that level.

She said it took much longer just to read the text, making it almost impossible to complete both reading and answering the questions within the time limit. She is confident about all her other tests, and we are not worried about maths at all.

However, for comprehension, she feels that a score of 40 or max. 42 out of 50 might be the highest realistically achievable in this year for any Year 6 student.

My dd said she gave up after the second text because she got so bored and confused and couldn’t get her head to work. She’s usually achieved greater depth in reading since year 1 so she was sad not to do her best.

My dd said she gave up after the second text because she got so bored and confused and couldn’t get her head to work. She’s usually achieved greater depth in reading since year 1 so she was sad not to do her best.

Poor kids, hearing some of these tales. Takes all the enjoyment out of learning in my opinion.

Your year 6 child said this? I'm lucky if I get a 'it was alright bruh' out of mine when I ask about them.

About half of my DD's class have just been through the nightmare that is the 11+. A plus side of that is that they are entirely unfazed by the SATs. And the parents aren't really bothered either as the important exam is done and dusted. The school is giving them pastries for breakfast so they're all loving it.

The only thing my daughter mentioned was that all three reading passages were about women or girls who had done amazing things. Her and her friends said they've all been easier than expected so far.

My year 6 thought the papers so far were all fairly in line with what they expected, based on the past papers they've been doing in class. Their teacher also commented the SPAG paper seemed fair. Let's hope there are no great surprises in maths!

Yes we are also 'lucky' that 11+ is done so the DC are quite nonchalant. We did a few bits of refreshers for the sats and we have told dd to push for greater depth as she deserves to get it but if she doesn't it's not big issue.

The biggest takeaway from the SATs will be that I still don't know what a fronted adverbial is (dd does thankfully!)

I was a governor observer on the reading test yesterday. The three texts, as expected, got gradually harder as did the questions, as the exam booklet progressed. The teacher I spoke to after said it’s far from the hardest paper he’s ever seen. All our kids seemed calm, no stress.

I mean, I still disagree with exam testing kids this way at primary in general, but if we’re going to I thought this was ok. The texts were good.