Is it norml to be this "full on" re Sats revision?

[northcountrygirl]

My twins school has been practising for the Sats since just before Christmas.

There has been no games lessons for months now, only 3 lessons of French since September, no geography, history or Art either for months.

Just lots of practise tests, and focus on reading, writing and maths. A bit of science, a smaller amount of RE and one PE session per week.

My DD and DS are getting a bit bored of working through past papers and to be quite honest I can't say I blame them. Are all schools like this in year 6?

DVDs! Ours keep learning, there's almost a fifth of a school year to go! Yes they have a treat and the year six production but there is a lot more learning time!

I was a year six teacher forced to teach as described. I would have welcomed parental complaints about it to the head as it certainly wasn't my idea. Your dc have the right to a broad and balanced curriculum and it is really that there's no pe. I'll bet it's not the class teacher's idea.

Complain to ofsted.

Soooooo glad DS's school is not like this. They do a set of SATs papers at the beginning of the year as a benchmark, apparently they do occasional questions (often as an extension, from the Level 6 stuff) in a few classes as part of teaching and...er, that's it so far. Lots of topic, lots of D&T, trips etc as normal, LOTS of PE, secondary school Maths teacher in every fortnight to do extended project maths with them, plenty of high quality art work, music lessons as normal... proper education, in fact.

DD1 seems to be doing some SATS practice but in among quite a lot of other stuff. Proper education like wot teacher said.

I would complain, on the basis that they are not fulfilling their statutory duty to provide a 'full time education suited to their interests and aptitudes' (which is the legal requirement).

And do so to everyone - head, governors, MP and OFSTED.