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So here we are- KS2 SATS Week...

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ampere · 14/05/2012 08:15

Feeling more nervous than DS2!

He's 'borderline', particularly in Literacy. He'll be so happy if he gets a 4 (as will I!) so off he went just now with me offering my last minute bon mots ('Read carefully! Most of the answers are in the text! If it doesn't make sense, you've not read it properly' etc).

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Feenie · 15/05/2012 22:20

The DFE are due to release that soon here - but no news as of yet Confused

simbo · 15/05/2012 22:34

My ds still awake. Doesn't bode well for maths (his best subject). Meet for more tomorrow?

EllenJaneisnotmyname · 15/05/2012 23:04

Wild horses won't drag me away. I'm a reader for maths for a child with a statement of SEN, so will know the paper intimately! Grin

startail · 15/05/2012 23:08

The talent show, the hot air balloon and the spellings are about dragons - here too!

DD2s verdict, easy we've done a couple of things a bit like that in class, spellings yuck, BF liked them.

Balloon ride fine.

I'm hopping she hasn't written a lot of illegible hot air because it sounds like she did a long writing test and a very long writing test and went on to sheets of extra paper.

littlelegsmum · 15/05/2012 23:17

In that case Ellen, I'm definitely coming back tomorrow to see how you felt it went Wink

Good luck all!

busymummy3 · 15/05/2012 23:23

My older DC's did KS2 SATS 4 years ago and 2 years ago when there were no level 6 papers - could only get level 6 on Teacher assessments which they did. Do they have to sit these level 6 papers and what advantage is there in them doing so?

TooManyJobs · 16/05/2012 00:24

DD did the Atlantis spelling test and mentioned this included:
Famous
Neighbourly
Honour
She couldn't remember any others but said her teacher told her she got them all right :o

bigTillyMint · 16/05/2012 07:50

Sunny here today - DS is excited as they may actually get to go outside in the afternoonGrin

ripsishere · 16/05/2012 08:02

Sunny day here too. Hopefully mine will get to go outside.
She is all ready for her brainy breakfast. It's fruit and toast, DD doesn't like either so she's had some cereal here.
Main problem for her is the fruit being doused in OJ to stop it going brown. She has the apple but won't 'chance' the bananas.
Only today and tomorrow thank goodness.

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ampere · 16/05/2012 08:11

seahouses "If you are of lower ability in a state school, you probably won't be in a set with other people who are all of lower ability. Half the class will actually have a middle or high ability but ended up in a low set because they have failed to learn much due to their behaviour.

In the private school, those children would simply be expelled.

People worry about setting partially because they don't want their child to be in a room full of chair throwers, or at least not in a room full of constant low level disruption."

Which is why I moved to a leafy MC area with a leafy MC high achieving comp!

No chair throwers in our school.

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bigTillyMint · 16/05/2012 08:12

DS goes to breakfast club W/Th/Fr - when I go to work. It's the highlight of his weekGrin

bigTillyMint · 16/05/2012 08:15

DD is in the top set, surrounded by other high acheiving MC kids, in her not-so-leafy comp. No chair throwers, but plenty of precocious, full-of-it, smart-Alec's - woe-betide any lack-lustre supply teacher, as one found out yesterdayHmm

littlelegsmum · 16/05/2012 08:42

My dd goes to an Ofsted rated 'outstanding' school, where there are a high proportion of 'problem families'. Dd is very lucky as we live in a half decent area, no problems in life at all and doesn't cause the school any problems! Although where we live she doesn't see her school friends outside school. Her class is generally chair throwers, swearing at each other and teachers and I think the school are extremely happy to have her Wink

She didn't sleep very well last night at all but said it wasn't due to her being worried.

Good luck to all our dc Brew sorry I'm not a Wine drinker!

bigTillyMint · 16/05/2012 08:46

Littlelegs, I bet she is a ray of sunshine in the teachers daySmile

And Brew for me too - can't face Wine at this time in the morning!

Iamnotminterested · 16/05/2012 08:56

Well, here we go; maths, not DD's favourite Sad

startail · 16/05/2012 09:01

DD2s just bounced off smugly announcing she's got 100% in the last few practices.

Hope she isn't being too smug and listens carefully.

I've done the odd one at parents meetings and practicing with DD1 and I make mistakes. However, DD2 knows her tables Envy

littlelegsmum · 16/05/2012 09:05

Thank you BigTilly Thanks

She most certainly is Blush

Note: Whilst at school only!

startail · 16/05/2012 09:21

Bigtilly that sounds like my top set, we were very "unforgiving" of teachers who weren't very good.

One poor soul, who was very boring and let us riot, disappeared to a non teaching job at county hall. I hope he was happy because he was a sweet chap and we were horrible. The best of us used his very good notes to get our As and still made his life a misery Blush

It's nothing new DMILs class gave their teacher a nervous breakdown and that was late 1940s, again bright girls not the chair throwers. She says their HT told them not to do it again.

Voidka · 16/05/2012 09:29

This is DS's favourite day - he loves mental maths and is good at it, so he has cheered up a thousand percent on the last two days with no tears, no stress and no rituals!

Joy!!

TheOriginalSteamingNit · 16/05/2012 10:03

More anxiety here this morning - maths more of a worry. dd has been getting 19 and 20 in mental maths recently, but you never know what nerves will do. Especially if she hits a tricky question in the longer paper.

She woke up in a right mood, dunno how connected it is but I hope she shakes it off!

SeaHouses · 16/05/2012 10:08

Ampere, you said, in response to people complaining about testing and setting:

'This is why we have a culture of state school underachievement in the UK.'

I don't see what your children being in a middle class school has got to do with that. In fact if we actually had a state school system based on your preferences, it wouldn't be possible for your children to go to a school based on class and ability to afford a house, they would be sent to a school based solely on ability.

Unless your argument is that you want children segregated by ability within social class groups.

seeker · 16/05/2012 10:16

Only one chair thrower in 11 years of state education here. Could be that we're lucky. Could be that we actually don't read the Daily Mail........

RustyBear · 16/05/2012 10:32

I have just done the Maths paper A while invigilating! I think I got them all right....

simbo · 16/05/2012 10:37

So come on, spill the beans - how hard was it compared with the last couple of years?

simbo · 16/05/2012 10:42

My ds got 100% in last practice paper in mental and maths A but I don't expect a repeat performance under test conditions.

He is doing L6 as well and someone said on here that they can only be awarded a L6 if they got a L5 in the other paper. As the one will not have been marked before they take the other does this mean that the L6 results will simply be disregarded if they only get a 4a in the L3-5 paper? I'm a bit confused. We haven't been told much other than that a group of them has been entered.