Preparing for Year 6 SATs in 2027? What would help?

[SparkyUK27]

Would you pay £7/month for an app that shows your child's SATs gaps AND gives you three conversation starters each week?

If you are selling that, you should be ashamed of yourself. You must be associated with education in some way, so must know that this isn't necessary or even desirable.

One of the reasons we moved our DD2 to the independent sector was to avoid the pressure DD1 experienced around SATs. DD1 goes to a very selective secondary and nothing she's done so far has been as hyped as SATs.

No way. Sats are a total waste of time and ruin the last year of junior school. They arent an accurate representation of how well kids learn at secondary level so they are not useful for that. I dont even know why they are still being done.

Nope. I’m a recently retired primary teacher and the SATs are of no value to children, merely a stick to beat schools with.

@SparkyUK27 is this a business venture or are you asking as a parent whether your DC needs something like this?

If the former - no I would not buy this. You would need to go down the free app route with advertising, however, I still wouldn't download this app.

If a parent - no you don't need this

Correct. You can't fail sats.
The school I am referring to managed to imply that if kids didn't achieve 100 (I think) they were a failure. 99 was a failure 101 was a pass. I can't remember the actual number. Parents became obsessed about getting over 100. In truth, only those in the bottom set were in danger of being below 100. The school kept hammering it home that the results would be used at High school to determine gcse groups and choices. Talk about propaganda.
Oh, and of course, some parents wanted their child to achieve 'greater depth' (Is that 110?). They simply had to prove that their child was better/more clever than the other parents' kids.
This was a few years ago. The useless head is still there, still not talking to parents or kids. The school is still getting top results. It gets mentioned in the local papers.
When you look back on things, you realise it's a funny old life.

Definitely not. They are supposed to measure the school not the child - and anything that gives a child a different impression or puts any pressure on them isn't a good idea imo. It also gives an impression of the school that's not really right.
One of the most annoying things about sats is the excessive focus on those areas in y6 to the exclusion (or at least reduction) of other things - so I'd probably be more tempted by something on other subjects.

Don’t do anything at all! Throughout most of year 6 and even prior the schools will be hot housing SATs work. It’s so boring for them, don’t start at home too. I actually sent back the revision books the school sent home with my son. Plenty of time for revision when they’re doing GCSEs!

I always thought the same until my ds was at high school. All their target grades are based on year 6 SAT results which can very easily lead to low expectations of children throughout high school as they are deemed to have met targets based on a formula using standardised scores from one week's worth of tests

Nope. However I will most likely be paying for atom ahead of 11 plus prep.

I think your premise is going to not be that helpful to be honest even if parents did want to do some additional prep. Eg you will probably have kids who are pretty bright and fine for maths and reading but will fail on spelling. They’re going to need spelling intervention or might just never be able to do that component well due to dyslexia. There will be other kids who might want to push for ‘greater depth’ and for them extra maths or just more reading would be more helpful.

This is how I read it