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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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SeaHouses · 14/05/2012 16:01

I've probably given DD the wrong information on italics anyway. I was talking about using italics in fiction for emphasis. It was probably being used for some other purpose entirely in the stuff in the test.

It seems from what is being said on TES that the questions were easy but there were lots of them. I've been impressing on here the importance of reading the questions properly, and answering them fully with examples from the text when she is told to include them. She has probably spent so much time messing about with all of that and not had time to finish.

sphil · 14/05/2012 16:02

Ds1 came out grinning, saying the paper was about the Plague and he's knows all about it from Horrible Histories(eek!) Crossing fingers he wrote what was asked and not random facts from the vast encyclopedia of his brain

His class get 15 mins free time at the end of each day - the rest of the tIme it's revision, practice, warm-ups etc . He's another one who has changed from enjoying school to finding it dull beyond belief. And more worryingly, his self-esteem has really suffered. He doesnt seem to have benefitted at all from the relentless cramming - in fact in Maths he's gone backwards. I think it's probably a combination of burn-out, boredom, anxiety and his dyspraxia - he says the more he tries to force himself to concentrate, the more his brain 'scatters'. His teacher has a good line in being 'disappointed' and he is really affected by this too. When we've done practice papers at home, he has got between 10-15 marks more overall than he is getting at school - when I ask why he thinks that is, he says he's not 'relaxed' in the classroom. And this is a boy who, up to Christmas, was completely laid back about school .

Iamnotminterested · 14/05/2012 16:03

Bombarded her with all the usual questions, including "Did you answer all the questions? Did you check? There weren't some pages stuck together that you missed? You didn't miss a double-page set of questions???"

Her sarcastic response "Mum, we have been taught an ingenious way of making sure we don't miss any pages out; it's called looking at the numbers at the bottom"

sphil · 14/05/2012 16:13

Have just asked DS about the italics question. He said it was the lyrics of 'Ring a ring of rosies' that were in italics and the question was why. He put that it was because the following paragraph was explaining what the lyrics meant. Not sure that's right - surely it is because they're being quoted??? Not that I've said that to him...

On the positive side, he's just given me a long, detailed and accurate explanation of what the rhyme means in relation to the plague .

VivaLeBeaver · 14/05/2012 16:14

I took DD to Eyam, the plague village in Derbyshire last summer and dragged her round the meseum and cottages then. Hopefully some of that will have been remembered.

SeaHouses · 14/05/2012 16:17

Actually DD's school took them to Eyam on a trip. So maybe I should stop moaning about how the school never does any SATs preparation because they are always off on trips.

bizzey · 14/05/2012 16:32

Didn't get alot of response from my ds but having read your threads i have just gone and sung "ring a ring a roses " and asked him what answer did he put for the italic question !!!! It completly freaked him out .

Now they will have to believe me when i say"mummy knows everything!!!

ripsishere · 14/05/2012 16:41

I did the same thing. DD managed to drag her eyes away from Glee to wonder how I knew.
I did tell her about this thread. Bless her, she asked what tomorrows questions would be.

sphil · 14/05/2012 16:43

So why were the lyrics in italics do we think?

ripsishere · 14/05/2012 16:46

I asked DD - she looked at my very pityingly and said 'so they stand out der brain'.

bizzey · 14/05/2012 16:55

Aparrently it was just the line "they all fall down" and not the whole song. My ds said it was because they didn't fall down ....they died ?!

I think when you sing it that line is sung a bit louder ????

Maybe we will never know unless younger siblings get this paper as homework in a few years time !!!

Iamnotminterested · 14/05/2012 17:05

So have some of you got writing this week too? At my DD's school it's just reading and maths, the writing has been continual assessment over the past few months and DD's teacher has told me her level.

sphil · 14/05/2012 17:06

well we've certainly got a range of possible answers!

TheOriginalSteamingNit · 14/05/2012 17:09

dd says she put that the italics were used to show it was the poem - ie., a quotation, though she won't have used that word.

Whoopydofoxpoo · 14/05/2012 17:11

The 'writing' today is the 'reading' - basically a comprehension, not reading a book IYSWIM.

The written assessment - i.e write a story is teacher assessed.

hackneyLass · 14/05/2012 17:30

DS's school also has got its knickers in a twist. All they have done all year is SATs SATs SATs. DS reports a teacher told them the school will be closed down if they don't "do well". I asked teacher in February about PE and she said "there'll be plenty of time for that after SATs"

Children bored & disruptive. Teacher told off one child in class last week for not using sub headings and pupil told her to f* off (I managed to keep a straight face when told).

DS countered the school's stress by going into today dressed as Arthur Dent from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. He is planning other characters for the other days. But it seems a sensible strategy in response to school hysteria. Though they give them free breakfast all this week.

O2BNormal · 14/05/2012 17:35

Yes Hackney and on the flip side, DS1's teacher told me at Easter that there were only X teaching weeks left in yr6 I really don't think they expect to do any academic work between now and the end of term (I work in the school - it's not healthy for me to know what I know )

hackneyLass · 14/05/2012 17:47

Hmm O2, when I asked what they did after SATs she said "rounders". She may have been joking...

Whoopydofoxpoo · 14/05/2012 17:52

hackney - you mean he went in his PJ's and dressing gown !

annh · 14/05/2012 17:55

Sigh - just asked DS about the italics question on Ring a Roses and he is certain that there was no such question! Have tried to explain that if every other child in the country seems to have done such a question, then perhaps he should remember it too?!

sphil · 14/05/2012 18:01

Ds1 told me last week that he thought the teachers were using the SATS ' as a way of controlling us' ( he is in a fairly disruptive class).

bizzey · 14/05/2012 18:04

annh

Whoopydofoxpoo · 14/05/2012 18:04

I asked my DS about ' the question with ring a ring a roses' - he said they were all about ring a ring a roses

Anyway fellow MN's let's see how we compare notes on the Maths papers to follow this week

KitKatGirl1 · 14/05/2012 18:07

My ds (should be high level 5) came out saying 'I didn't answer two questions as they were too hard.' Then his friend (prob lowish level 4) said exactly the same thing to his Mum...Wonder if they were the same two questions!!??

bizzey · 14/05/2012 18:07

Are we staying on this one or is someone going to open a new one ......need to be ready

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