Maths interventions Yr 6 I don't want my dd to do it

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My dd, age 10 in Yr 6 at school has been struggling with mh to the extreme I've found suicide notes, notes saying she's useless at everything and notes saying she's fat and ugly. I struggle to get her in school.

She's come out of school today upset because she's been told she has to miss lessons one afternoon a week (probably art or PE, lessons she enjoys) to do extra maths for SATs. I'm angry.

I've told her Sats mean nothing, in 5/6years time college, apprenticeships or sixth form won't ask about sats.

I intend to tell school tomorrow that they are failing to offer her a broad and balanced curriculum, that they are failing to support her mental health and this intervention consolidates her belief that she's useless.

For all those that will say secondary school groups based on sats our local doesn't, it using CAT tests.

Am I missing something? Primary school should be about enjoying learning I don't care what she gets in her sats. I just want her to be happy.

Nbu...tell school she will not benefit from missing lessons etc

Bu..support school, make her do it.

If you don’t want her to miss the sessions I would get her some extra tuition to catch up. Being being in maths all through secondary will not be fun!

*behind

The reason that I mention the terminology is the fact that your school will have been using that terminology for their data management and progress tracking (as they have no choice about this) for the last 8 years. The fact you don't know this suggests that you may not as knowledgeable about how the data is used in your secondary school as you are presenting yourself here.

Internal tests may well impact upon setting in your school but your progress scores, from which your performance as a school and a department is judged, are based solely on the SATs as a baseline. This is fixed and not the choice of the school.

I'm not sure how you think I've made your point. You claimed that high scores in Maths do not indicate a child's ability to learn the secondary curriculum but, in truth, a child getting "Greater depth" in their Maths SATs could reasonable be expected to get a 4 or 5 in a Maths foundation GCSE at 11 years old considering only 56% is needed for a 4 and 72% for a 5. If that isn't ready for the secondary Maths curriculum, what is?

I'm not saying that SATs are supremely important or anything like that. But I absolutely will address the misconceptions and misinformation posted repeatedly on here. They are not a school only measure and they do have implications for a child's journey through secondary school.

She’s not behind. She’s average. It’s ok to be average at maths - the school just want to push her - given the state of her mental health does she need to be pushed from average to exceeding? Just so their stats look good. And she misses PE to do this - we know exercise is great for mental health.. Many children don’t get enough exercise as it is - schools should not be taking away PE and art (again good for creativity and mental health.