Year 6 sats topics

[wilson1982]

Hi all. My ds is sitting sats in year 6 next week. He is doing the writing one. Has anybody else's ds done it yet? What was it about. I've heard something about diary and Atlantis. Thanks for responses in advance.

I really hope children are NOT given standardised tests several times a year from Y2 onwards - what terrible pracitice!

Children are, however, teacher assessed from the second they step in through the door in Reception until the moment they leave. We need to know what they can do so that we can plan what to teach next.

We do have lots of standardised tests in my school Feenie, along with continuous assessment and APP.
Reading, spelling, QCA, NFER maths... probably several others I've forgotten.
Several of them done 6 months apart to check progress and put it on the spreadsheets. MY SMT love data, the generation and recording analysing and then forming it into a big stick for walloping staff with.

What a crock! If even the SMT in your own school don't trust teacher assessment, you are in trouble.

It's why I refuse to call them SLT. They are managers.

Wave this in their faces, and point out most schools have been doing this since the document came out in 2005.

I am SMT - I would have a lot to say if they tried to start that caper at ours, I can tell you!

Dare I say ... we don't use APP

Wow if that's true (EYFS) my dd1 would be in trouble!
She couldn't read or write properly until she was 6.

Now in yr 7 and in top sets for all subjects

Fallen your schoool sounds like mine, we do 'optional' sats every term . It all goes on tracker sheets with graphs made of every group imaginable - our management like data too and yes it is also used as a big stick - we get teacher bashing from inside as well as out! :(

We seem to use everything.
Nothing is ever substituted, it just gets added onto the workload.
Good job you saved that shock until I'd learned to love you for yourself Feenie.

Mrz, we pay lip service to app but they don't take it into consideration - it all hangs on the tests.

On the up side for me I'll be on mat leave next term; I need a break but am sad for the time children spend taking tests - you don't fatten a pig by weighing it and all that.

We use AfL but not APP

We use APP for Maths and lots of moderation to ensure consistency for the rest.

@ FallenCaryatid

We use the criterion scale for writing, termly phonics screening in KS1 and those receiving support in KS2, times tables test each week, Big Maths Beat That every week and lots of moderation

Snap for criterion scale and termly phonics.