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Good luck to Year Six this week

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popsycal · 09/05/2004 16:24

SATs week!
Good luck - it is never as bad as the weeks building up to SATs!

Mrs Popsycal
xxx

PS Jampot - level 6?!?!?!? PMSL!!

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Lisa78 · 09/05/2004 16:30

Not got anyone doing SATs this year
But lots of luck to all those who have - kids and exams, ugh!

carla · 09/05/2004 16:52

Oooooh, yes, we've just got back from a christening party where best friend's nephew was really worried about next week. It's not something I've ever appreciated as my dds haven't got to that stage yet, but he genuinely seemed very stressed.

mummysurfer · 09/05/2004 17:56

yes, i'm reading/translating(?) for a Y6 boy this week.
bit of a messy week but good luck to all those with dds/dss in Y6

Hulababy · 09/05/2004 18:42

Can I add my good luck too

Also, some of the GCSE start this week and next - so good luck to them too

And belated good luck to those who had Y9's doing their SATs last week!

roisin · 09/05/2004 18:45

... and good luck to all those yr6 teachers coping with all those stressed-out kids!

tigermoth · 09/05/2004 21:33

Good luck all those year 6s and their parents -and their teachers. Hope you all get a good night's sleep tonight.

mummysurfer · 10/05/2004 10:46

well, one down - what did you think Popsycal?
design your own experiment never goes down very well with my charge - EAL

dogwalker · 10/05/2004 16:09

Hi all. My eldest son doing his SATs this week. He's been quite anxious all weekend and woke up with tummy-ache. However, he came out of school saying it wasn't too bad, science paper A was harder than science paper B. He doesn't think he did very week in A and that designing an experiment was the hardest bit.! We've been trying to keep him calm and are just hoping he gets his level 4's. (he's been on track to get level 4's, teacher said maybe level 5 in science but after ds's comments today I'm not sure). Oh well, only 4 more days to go.

dogwalker · 10/05/2004 16:09

that should say "well in A". sorry.

jampot · 10/05/2004 16:10

Good luck everyone's kids and their teachers!!!!!

mummysurfer · 10/05/2004 16:19

yes -this afternoon's paper was very fair.

dogwalker · 10/05/2004 16:20

mummysurfer are you a yr 6 teacher then ?

mummysurfer · 10/05/2004 16:24

i am a teacher, but not of a Y6 class -i teach children who have recently arrived in the UK - 3 are Y6 but only one is able to access the SATS in English, I am allowed to support him.

dogwalker · 10/05/2004 16:49

so MS you can tell us exactly what is in the tests when our children say "dunno" when we ask then what the questions were like!

mummysurfer · 10/05/2004 17:04

cor, now then let's see what I remember (hope no one is doing them tomorrow)...easy stuff included 6 pictures of a female at various stages of her life 'put them in order beginning with the youngest', they were pretty obvious.
experiment re; dissolving sugar and in water.they were asked about the variants, what did they need to alter to make the test a success (the temperature) what had to stay the same ( the ammount of water). magnetism - train with magnets on front and bag, 'how could it pull the carriage?' if the carriage/truck was turned around the truck would move the engine awa. why?
on which surface would the engine and truck be able to pull most weight
a) carpet
b) gravel path
c) floorboards
d) fluffy mat

more?

Galaxy · 10/05/2004 17:30

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mummysurfer · 10/05/2004 17:38

if they need extra time this has to be applied for some weeks ago, they are then allowed an extra 25%, in this case 11.25 mins.

Galaxy · 10/05/2004 17:55

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dogwalker · 10/05/2004 18:35

Thanks mummy surfer it's nice to know what was in the tests.

dogwalker · 10/05/2004 18:51

Writing and spelling tests tomorrow, can you give us some info then?

mummysurfer · 10/05/2004 18:55

I have no idea what they will be - the tests aren't opened until everyone is there, ready and waiting. the seals are broken in front of all administering staff and children.
spelling - it isn't like we used to do - pupils have a passage in front of them with words missing, teacher reads passage including omitted words, pupil writes in the words, hopefully spelling them correctly.

dogwalker · 10/05/2004 19:03

Oh God yes I didn't mean can you give us info now . . but perhaps tomorrow evening we can ask you what was in there as I'm sure my ds won't be able to "remember".

mummysurfer · 10/05/2004 19:05

no problem dw - i'll try and remember a bit more too

dogwalker · 10/05/2004 19:07

cheers mummysurfer will "speak" to you tomorrow then. don't worry if you can't remember anything I'm just being a bit nosey really and I know it's not really that important.

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popsycal · 10/05/2004 19:55

i am a year six teacher if anyone would like to ask anyhthing..........

science wasnt too bad........lots of reading though and badly worded questions...

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