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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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JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 17/05/2012 13:33

Brew for iamnot Grin

bizzey · 17/05/2012 13:34

Ellen.... where are you??? We are all here waiting (while looking at the ironing I should be doing !!)

Iamnotminterested · 17/05/2012 13:34

Thanks JMHPG. But I'd prefer a Wine

snice · 17/05/2012 13:37

consensus from our school was that it was quite hard-first half not too bad but later on the children got bogged down in lengthy questions and didn't all finish.

Merrylegs · 17/05/2012 13:40

bringback - I think if you have a very laid back child, or a confident child, or a non-stressy child, it is very easy to Hmm at other's angst.

I have had two such laid-back DCs - I can't even remember their SATS, such a non-fuss was made.

I have no idea why my 3rd child is so intense and sets herself such high standards. But she does.

And yesterday she wanted to talk through what a balls up she had made of the whole thing. So we did. And it helped her.

I cannot wait for this week to be over though so we need never speak of it again!

snice · 17/05/2012 13:42

so it was fine for the confident L5s but tricky for the borderline L4s-they could have done with another 10mins!

simbo · 17/05/2012 13:42

Come on, stop squabbling! We are supposed to be supporting one another, remember? If you don't like this thread start your own.

Anyway, I've spent so long on forums today that I have no idea what's for dinner, nor shall I be hungry, as I am eating cake and there are only grapes in the fridge...

JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 17/05/2012 13:47

There's brandy in it, iamnot. Too early for open Wine quaffing. Certainly not at one's desk, anyway.

Thank you for the paper B info, simbo, snice and Sea :)

littlelegsmum · 17/05/2012 13:48

Simbo . . I have also spent way too much time on here this week. Although, tbf it's because dd can't remember what questions were asked by the time she's got home!! Therefore, purely for the sake of keeping up with dds education, I'm happy to have a fridge that is purely full of juice and milk!! Shock

bizzey · 17/05/2012 13:51

Merrylegs I agree with you reguarding other people not understanding how some dc's can get worked up. DS1 has been fine but...he is an able ,laid back one. Our biggest worry has been that there would be a traffic incident this week that would makke us late !!!.

BUT.. in two years time I think ds2 will have a completly different outlokGrin

bizzey · 17/05/2012 13:59

Forget cooking....We are having a takeaway tonight to celebrate getting to school on time every day

singersgirl · 17/05/2012 14:04

I am a bit surprised at all the anxiety on here. I've just asked DS 2 every day whether the test was ok and what he had for lunch. Then he's told me about the science (fun) and the topic (boring) that they've been doing in the afternoons. He hasn't volunteered anything about the questions and I haven't asked. Can't remember asking DS 1 any more either.

bizzey · 17/05/2012 14:06

singersgirl ...we are not anxious....just NOSEY Grin

jepa · 17/05/2012 14:08

I've just got over writing to DS's teacher and calling them STATS ! Confused
However question for the collective. My DS,who's 7, came home yesterday and said he had got through to the final - what's that all about then ?
OR has he been watching too much Strictly ?

startail · 17/05/2012 14:18

DD2 seems to have liked the mental maths and paper A,
Any further info on whether she's going to be fit to speak to tonight would be appreciated.

She's inclined to huge moans at the end of school even when there is no reason at all.

bizzey · 17/05/2012 14:27

startail...... I am worried ellen has noy been on yet Confused....maybe it was soooooo horrible even she has gone for a lie down Grin

simbo · 17/05/2012 14:33

Sorry, but that seems to be the overwhelming conclusion. The latest post on TES said that even her most able didn't finish. I'm only nosing so that I can anticipate bad mood when ds comes in.

EllenJaneisnotmyname · 17/05/2012 14:51

Hello, sorry had to do some shopping! Blush

This one was a little trickier. Lots of having to invert the question to find the missing number. Eg, 152 + something = 213. One really tricky one using brackets where the answer was a decimal. Having the calculator means that the numbers can be made harder, and it's the maths logic that's being tested.

Some money questions where you had to remember that pence aren't pounds when using the calculator. Buying some apples and pears, given the price of one apple in pence and the total price paid in pounds, and working out the price of one pear.

A bar graph question, fairly easy. The 'why do you think this?' question was about one number being twice as big as another or not, using the words twice as many, rather than double. A graph showing length of your shadow at different times, with x as the points, but no line to join the points, then having to estimate the time at a particular length of shadow. A coordinates question where you had to give the coordinates of a point on an extrapolated line, which started at (0,0) (but you had to work that out.)

One where you were given a number and had to find the 3 single digit numbers which gave it when multiplied together. A taxi chart showing times, number of passengers, distance and price with a couple of questions. A mirror line reflection question. An area question with a house shaped pentagon on squared paper.

One athletics themed question, working out how long someone took in a race in seconds, given that they took a few seconds longer than someone whose time was given in minutes. Working out how far someone jumped given they jumped a few cm further than someone whose distance was given in meters.

Having to argue whether three numbers, when added to make a particular even number had to be themselves even, or not.

More that I can't remember now...

KitKatGirl1 · 17/05/2012 14:59

Eek, they do sound if not exactly hard, then easy to mess up with conversions in answers etc. My ds has often got 38 or 39 in practice on the calculator paper; seems unlikely he'll have done that today (he insists he got 56/60 yesterday because he left 4 unanswered and 'obviously' got all those he did answer correct!)

EllenJaneisnotmyname · 17/05/2012 15:02

Having a multiple of £10 to buy as many yoyos costing something like 75p each as possible, how much left? Parallel and perpendicular lines on a shape, having to choose which pair for each. A square made of 4 triangles, which ones has right angles, which ones had 2 sides of equal length. A 3D shape question, given the number of faces and their shapes, what 3D shape was it?

EllenJaneisnotmyname · 17/05/2012 15:04

Oh yes, the bar graph question was about children's favourite season.

KitKatGirl1 · 17/05/2012 15:07

Yep definitely sounds harder than last year's paper when ds only dropped 3 marks out of 80 but he's not necessarily a level 5a.

bubby64 · 17/05/2012 15:08

This would suit DS1, but DS2 is prob having fits! Not home til 7pm, so they are with childminder-will have to give DH the heads up for when he collects them!!

SeaHouses · 17/05/2012 15:17

DD generally avoids using the calculator, so hopefully she will not have got pounds and pence confused as it is easier to avoid that if you write it out on paper.

JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 17/05/2012 15:18

OK, well that sounds like the kind of thing ds is rather good at but can be useless at if he gets in a tizz.