To be disappointed in DD’s SATS results?

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I feel terrible for being disappointed, but she got 109 for maths, 109 for reading and 114 for SPAG.

She has historically always been greater depth. And I suppose I’m just concerned she’ll be streamed based on the “expected” results.

We didn’t do much prep at home at all, just looked at the odd question here and there for a week or so before.

I know these are good scores (before I get flamed)… she was just so close to greater depth and the scores aren’t that consistent with her ability.

I know I’m probably BU, but we all just want the best for our kids, don’t we? I don’t want this to hold her back in any way.

you don't feel awful, because if you did you'd let it go.

Clearly results are more important to you than anything else.

Honestly, being disappointed in your childs SATS results should be a real wake up call for you to address your own feelings around standards and results.

You should be celebrating her, not being disappointed.

Give yourself a wobble, you're being dreadful.

They don't mean a thing, listen to what everyone has said. Even if she isn't put into the top sets to begin with , the high school will do their own assessments throughout, if shes reaching GD at high school, she will be put in the top sets.

You are being unreasonable, she's 10/11 years old and it sounds like she has done amazing

There is lots of wriggle room in year 7 so if she was put in set 2 (God forbid!) she will soon be moved if she shows she is more capable.

Yabu, SATs mean nothing.

I hate SATs with a passion. Utterly meaningless twaddle. Save your concerns for exams that mean something.

Secondary schools run their own assessments to get a baseline of students' progress from Y7 onwards. Ds wasn't even streamed until Y8, and will be streamed again in Y10 looking back at the past 3 years in readiness for GCSEs.

My kids all did CAT tests in year 7 so this was taken into account too. Plus many schools don't set until further down the line. I think ours only set for maths in year 7.

SATs are totally irrelevant. Loads of children don't even take them.

I have an adult DD who got 5s in the days before schools gave out scaled scores. She had the label of greater depth (it was gifted and talented back then) from nursery to A-levels. I honestly couldn’t have cared less what her scaled scores at 11 were.

I don’t give a flying f*#% about the SATS scores but just to say, if you are already feeling ‘disappointed’ with your child’s academic performance (and voicing it) then she has a long and horrible journey ahead of her.

I’ll never forget a friend at school crying when she received her A level results, not because she’d got a couple of grades lower than predicted, but because she was afraid to go and tell her mum.

Seriously. Stop now before you get any worse. Don’t you think young people have enough pressure on them?

You mean you are "disapointed" you can't brag to your mum mates that your DD was top of the class.

SATS are a waste of everyone's time.

I completely agree with this. OP needs to let her DD be a child, not a data unit.

DD’s teacher was warning us that dd won’t pass reading based on previous results. She got 109. Wonder how accurate they are.

It's called trying to.push a square peg into a round hole ,the system is failing thousands of kids it needs to do better

It actually makes me so sad. And I say this as a parent of three older teens and a ‘high achiever’ myself at school. Thankfully I realised long ago that their worth is not determined by exam results.

Believe me, OP, your goal is to get your children through school with good mental health, life skills and resilience. Put your energy into that.

I'm pretty sure that nothing magical happens if they score just above 110 compared with scoring just below it.

On the other hand, if it mattered that much to you then maybe you should have done more prep at home rather than relying on 'luck'?ll

Humble brag or... 😉

A lot of high schools don’t actually set until after Christmas. My sons high school don’t set properly until yr9. The teachers told us that they all learn the same curriculum until they decide their options.

Most high schools do CAT tests and don’t rely on SATs results.

Doesn’t really matter. I got streamed into a lower set for English despite a good SATs grade. Was in extension set before GCSEs and now have an MA in the subject.

It all comes out in the wash.

They might be losely used with other factors when deciding on sets as well as a multitude of other factors but honestly they bounce them around sets whenever suitable. My DS has been bopped around top and second set loads based on how arsed he is at working.

What I would say is you need to have a real think about your reaction to this. It is incredibly unimportant. She's going to sit plenty of exams that are much more important. What if she doesn't do well in those?

OP is it worth asking her secondary school what they use?
I knew full well that my sons school didn’t give a flying fart what grades he got because they do “dynamic assessments” throughout the year and stream them according to these assessments, rather than basing their judgements on arbitrary results.

Has it hurt your ego?

Spot on. In a few years she’ll be on the Oxbridge thread, totally over-invested.

Poor child.

I've worked in several secondary schools. They're ignored apart from data generation for predicting grades as required by govt. Secondary schools don't trust they show anything about child ability due to the huge amount of in school drilling etc. YabmassivelyU to place any weight on them and their implications whatsoever, never mind to be disappointed by good scores