SATS A quick question???

[charlize]

My ds is in yr 6 and his sats are next week. Iam wondering how confidential are the exam papers??
Will his teacher have looked at them already? Or is it very strict that she opens them on the day in front of witnesses!!!!
I only ask because there is a very competitive girl in my ds class who does very usually in end of yr exams and always comes in the top 3. Her mother is a yr 6 teacher in another school. Does this mean her mother has acsses to the questions
How does this work.

Oh and just one more question does antone know when the results come back?

Hi you all - Popsycal which class do you teach? I work in a primary as LSA and my son is doing his KS2 sats next week so this thread is very interesting. Poor Charlize, I think it's dreadful that your school makes such a fuss of who has come 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. My son is expected to gain level 4's which I'm pleased about as at one point I didn't think he'd get level 4 in his maths. Literacy and spelling yes, science should be OK but with his maths he panics. He seems to be coping OK with the practice papers and has been getting level 4's so we're all pleased. I've been told they don't use SATs at secondary school to stream but I'm sure they must be used at some point. I'll be glad when it's over. DS came home with a test time-table tonight. The writing tests are all done on one day, so his arm will be dropping off bless him.

I am year six teacher and also head of year six
for my sins

Oh dear. I am really appalled by all this. I really had no idea this sort of thing went in - esp Charlize's experience. I think it's dreadful

I too am appalled the a primary school woudl do the first, second, third thing

ks, we don't just use sats, but they are part of what decides which set a child goes into. We also use the internal test scores from the first half term of Y7, and quite a bit of 'tweeking' goes on. We also set some children to split up known trouble makers/flash points and we sometimes will set a child in a high ability group if we think his/her behaviour will be better in that set. Sats give us some baseline data.

When I was a lass we were given an overall position at the end of year which was put on our report and the list was pinned up in the classroom for everyone to see. Great for me 'cos I always came 1st but my twin quite often came about 44-50th!!

Oh god what about the poor soul who came in last.
Its so cruel isn't it?
My ds came 1st out of 200 hundred kids who sat the entrence exam in january but the results are kept confidential(we only know cos the teacher told us)
So he won't get any recognition for that whatso ever on prize night, Just whoever comes 1st 2nd and 3rd out of these bleedin sats!

It's just not necessary, is it? I usually came top (or second) of the class at school, but the one result I remember was when I failed the end of year art exam third year (age 14). I have a vivid picture in my mind of standing reading the results on the door of the art room. ... And some children had to cope with that on a regular basis ... what purpose does it serve?

But for primary age children it must be so much worse. DS2 was 5 last week, and often comes home with 'scores' from 'games' in class. He knows his score and where he comes in the class, but he also remembers the scores of other children as well. Why?