So what do SATs for YR2 kids look like?????????????

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Can I see examples of SAT papers anywhere. DS 7 told us tonight that he was 'ashamed of himself' for getting some spellings wrong in a SAT test. Where did he pick that phrase up?

DS had his SATS test this week. A couple of weeks ago I bought a pack of tests from WH Smith. Personally, I found them quite difficult. Obviously, not as in I couldn't do them, but quite long for a 7 year old. Also much tougher than what I'd have done at that age. Mind you, I'd only been in formal education about 6 months by then, whereas the poor mites here have already had 2.5 years of that.

at your DS feeling bad about himself about a test. Too young for that...

I fucking at sats.

I have some example papers - I can send them to you or type in a few questions if you like.

not 'at' 'hate'

TBH if a child is using the phrase ''ashamed of myself' I would take it up with the school - this is loaded vocabularly and I would ant to know where he had learnt it.

Hee, hee, sounds like you didn't do very well in them yourself, DT.

My post referred to your typos, DT, not the comment about loaded phrases. I agree with that.

typos schympos can't spell for toffee but am good at swaering

It's plain to me: you just weren't tested enough in your spelling. That would have done the trick.

It's deffo not a phrase I use. I am no angel but too many memories of being a poor student. I do worry I have gone too far the other way in telling him how clever he is ( I used to be told how 'thick' I was) and now I think his expectations are too high.

His teacher says he is very bright and is expecting great things from him but he does struggle in a couple of areas and it looks like he has inherited my inability for spelling. He also struggle greatly with penmanship. She has been very tough on him lately and then the penny dropped with me - SATS. He likes to talk and I suspect had a short attention span.

I hated to hear him say he was ashamed of himself. Touched a nerve! I found some Science questions on the Net and I am shocked at the difficulty level. Grateful for a few literacy questions and maybe a few maths ones.

They don't do Scienec at this age.

Maths, levels 1-2:
Circle the sum that gives the answer 4. Choice of 18-5, 20/5, 4+2, 4x4

Tick the shape with 2 short sides and 2 long sides. Choice of rectangle, octagon, square, circle, pentagon

Graph with Our favourite playground games
skipping 3 smiley faces
bat and ball 2 smiley faces
hula hoop 6 s.f
draughts 5 s.f
Smiley face (drawn) stands for 1 child
How many more children chose draughts than bat and ball?

Complete the sequences
a) 1 5 9 ( ) 17 ( ) 25
b) 26 22 ( ) ( ) 10 ( )

Write the number which is 12 less than 50.

Write the answer: 13 + 8 = 9 +

Level 3

When I double my number and add 7 my answer is 23. What number is she thinking of?

Write the answer: 500-37=

Carl worked out the correct answer to 84/6. His answer was 14. Show how he could have worked out his answer. (Blank space provided)

TV1
7.00 pm Cartoons - Kids' funtime
7.35 pm News and weather
8.10 pm Eastdale street - soap
8.45 pm Live premiership football

How many minutes does "News and weather" last?

The Reading and the Writing & Spelling are more complicated because you use a couple of booklets 9for fiction or non-fiction) with a lot of faffing about between the booklet you write in your answers and the one you read from.

I guess they need a lot of practice just to get the hang of all this, how to go from one booklet to another. What with a separate one for parents to know how to mark and what it means and how to give instructions, it quite baffled me.

Thanks. I just realised it is KS1 isn't it? The level 3 maths look quite hard.

Yes, it's all KS1. They do levels 1-2 for everybody and then if they get more than a certain score they can take level 3 in addition (which is otherwise formally tested at KS2). I told you I got stressed only reading the parents' booklets, let alone the poor kids who have to sit the tests.

they look really quite tricky questions.

As far as I am aware the teachers at ds's school work alongside the kids doing the sats.. is not a sit and do test in silence thing.

I thought they weren't even sposed to be aware they're being tested?
'Tis wrong.

I don't know how they do the SATS at DS's school. I imagine it's not quite so stressful, it's worse for me as I read the instruction manual in these WHSmiths pack I bought and that was v clear about not helping out your child, not repeating the question (at mental maths) etc. DS is deaf so he will have had some modification for the tests, I imagine, as he wouldn't hear the words for spelling or the oral questions for the mental maths. I also found some of the language used quite difficult to grasp for this age. Much simpler in my day when 2+3 was just that, not some complex story where you had to work out that you needed to do an addition