My boy is in year 6 and taking his SATS next week, he has ASD and we had arranged for him not to take them with the senco but she left and weve got a useless one now. She’s insisted that all children must take them, DS didn’t have a meltdown about it so now theyve got his teacher sitting with him separately and he has to go later so that he doesn’t interact with the other kids beforehand. Fine... but I’ve been speaking to other parents and they have said thier kids are stressed to the max, even kids who don’t usually worry too much. It’s quite jarring all the pressure they put on 11 years olds when all the sats really do is help the schools statistics, they might help predict wat classes you need to be in when you start high school but is it really worth it. I went into high school with levels 4&4 of English and science and 5 with maths, and but the end of y3ar 7 was level 5 English, 6 maths and science. I really think they should scrap them. They don’t test who you really are, they don’t define you... it’s just a snippet of what you can do.