To think this all seems a bit much?

[Shutuptodd]

I'm not sure if things have changed alot on the 3 years since my eldest did sats but the pressure on my dc now doing them is crazy. They want them in 3 days a week after school to practice test papers and now for the holidays not only do they have a huge pile of practice tests to do at home they are also expected to go in for 3 days throughout the holidays to do more practice tests. My child is so stressed out and thinks they will fail if they dont go. It just seems a bit much.

My DC would not be doing this. No way. I’d be looking at changing schools. Absolutely bloody ridiculous.

Glad it's not just me. My child thinks if he doesn't go he will fail as of how they have put it to them. They being assessed for asd and takes things very literally but still the school are really pushing it.

Absolutely no way would DD be going in on hols to practise for a test which essentially shows how effective the school is at teaching and doesn't really reflect on the child at all!

FFS completely unreasonable!!!

DD has gone in for holiday revision days, 2 days optional but for her GCSES.

As a teacher if it's like this when my dd gets to that point in education, she wont be going in over the holidays and she may end up being sick on the day of the SATs.

What age? I'd definitely not do this either. My dd school kept it a secret from the kids and they got great results

What nauseous said

My dc is doing sats. We've been given revision homework which we won't bother doing. Older dc never revised and still did ok. I certainly wouldn't be letting mine go in over holidays, it's not compulsory so you can say no. It's hardly GCSE time. Year 6 is hard enough without the extra pressure.

Also remember that Sats are often used to predict GCSE grades. So high sats scores look great on paper, but can then backfire when dc gets to year 11 and has a ridiculously high predicted grade for a subject they're not actually very good at!!

They are horrific OP I really feel for you and your DC. My daughter now starts school 15 mins early to help with sats prep. All of Y6 do, it means me and DS have to wait in the car an extra 15 mins every morning. She has been given 30 mins homework a day this holiday that is taking almost two hours a day and she's predicted 118-120 in everything so its not like she's struggling with the content it's just stupidly time consuming. It has ruined her final year of primary and the whole thing is so meaningless. There is not a chance she d be giving up three days of the holiday to go into school!

YANBU that's insane.

Its yr6. When my eldest was doing it they only did breakfasts before the tests none of this. It's gone crazy.

Was discussing this at the weekend with BIL who teaches yr6.

His school don’t do holiday revision, but they’ve got optional extra tuition from 8am for those that want it.

The neighbouring school, which is in a less affluent area, runs the holiday revision/tuition classes.

I was 😮 and he explained that for most of the kids at that school they don’t have the support at home which is why the school are running the classes.

So that makes sense to me.

What doesn’t make sense is one of our local primaries sitting the Y2s down in exam conditions.

Our school is the same at the min. They want them to stay behind twice a week which is actually the days that ds does sports so they expect them to miss the sports that they have done all term (and have already been paid for). A few of us parents have told them no way! We’ve been doing the work at home but he’s not missing his sports. Says don’t mean a thing to the children, it’s all about results to make the school look good