When are Year 2 SATs taking place?

[ExpectoPatronum]

My DD is in Yr2, so SATs are coming up.

Her school takes a very, very laid back approach to SATs - absolutely nothing, nada, not one jot of information about them has been provided to parents.

In many ways I support this - they're 6 and 7 year olds for heaven's sake, I'd rather the whole thing was low key and no huge fuss was made about it.

However, I do feel I'd like to know if my 7 year old was sitting tests in a given week. Is there a set week in which they take place? Do schools get to do them whenever they like? I heard some dark mutterings about the week commencing 9 May, is this the case?

What do you know? Please spill the beans!

No you are not being stupid far from it you haven't given up searching for answers

I DO teach all my children but even so some will not achieve level 4, no matter how much I try or how much they try simply because not all children are the same. For some, level 4 is just too difficult for them AT THIS STAGE. They may get there, then again they may not. But for all of them it is NOT for want of trying or of teaching.

Is it perhaps - and I'm only saying perhaps - that schools also differ in the children who walk in the school to begin with, as well as in what they do with them?

I mean, there is a covertly selective school just down the road from here which does get pretty much 100% Level 4+ - but it also has almost no children with SEN, none on free school meals, and none with English as a second language. Their 'added value' - as in the progress kids make between the end of Year 2 and the end of Year 6 - is one of the worst in the area, because they take in very bright kids and churn them out 7 years later having worked not that hard to teach them.

A school which has over 50% on free school meals, 25% traveller children, several children in each year with English as a second language and an extremely high number of children from very challenging and deprived backgrounds may not get that 100% figure - but can you really say that the teachers in this school 'teach less well' than the teachers in the other? Individual children - for example my lad with brain damage - may make astounding progress (and take an enormous amount of teaching effort / worry / expert advice and training) without reaching some arbitrary benchmark