Bloody SATS

[Ledkr]

I know they are important to schools but its madness at dds school. They've gone on and on at them a out it for months, extra homework, extra lessons and generally created a great deal of expectation and stress.
Poor dd gets migraines and they are currently rife due to her worry over sats. She thinks they will impact on her going to her already allocated secondary school.
Then yesterday she came out with a list her teacher had given them. Apparently it's bed early a d a good breakfast (preferably cooked) which obviously all children need everyday.
It seems ott to me but hey.
Anyone got any comparisons?

That's true Feenie. I am really shocked TBH, no idea what I would do.

Three of mine finished the maths paper after about 20 minutes and one promptly fell asleep

Bad for the children too as dd can't see it was wrong which isn't great.
It's one of those sought after schools too. Makes you sick doesn't it m?

Feenie, can you tell me if the students get a separate levels for Reading,
Spag and the spelling , or are all the marks combined?

Spag results are being published in their own right, I believe, as no one can work out how to incorporate them into the overall English level for this year!

What about the spelling Clam?

That's always been amalgamated into the overall score. Unless it's changed recently, which is unlikely. I moved out of Year 6 thank God a few years ago.

There's not even going to be an English level, after last year's debacle, clam! So just Reading and separate SPAG result, and a writing teacher assessment this year.

Spelling is part of 'spag' - spelling, punctuation and grammar, so the spelling mark is part of the spag mark.

Shows how out-of-touch I am then. Can't tell you how glad I am to be away from Year 6. Had 10 years of it...

Bit late for my year 6 - 'puberty' hit last year and she started her period this month smack bang in the middle of reading SAT on Monday. Cue a v coded discussion with male teacher about needing the loo (is it urgent? Oh yes ! Can it wait ? No sir, I need to go NOW !!!). Poor love has been on Nurofen all week, with a heat pad on her tummy. She is a trooper and has sat every blimmin exam going, although I have been told that her newspaper article yesterday was a bit contreversional - she ranted about SATS apparently and how they have made some of her year cry cos they are scary. She somehow got this in to the topic !!! She is either a trade union leader or prime minister in waiting

lol. same here. dd started hers in yr 5.

not been easy at all.

Oh and this is my 5th doing SATS and I've never had any of them sit so many stupid tests. Asked at senior schools today and teacher assessed marks are already at some secondary schools. No one is going to look at SPAG (Bol) results - ever !!! It amazing that my other kids have managed without ever knowing what the article in a sentence is.

Oh god, don't start me on the cheating. I know several parents from one particular local 'outstanding' school whose children have had TAs sitting next to them telling them the answers in KS2 SATS.

This was a few years ago - my friend's dd is now 17 and she witnessed it during her SATS tests - so no idea whether it's still going on.

Last day of sats -thank god!

Yay!! Ignores Science tomorrow the end is in sight.

Our school isn't doing science -tomorrow is own clothes day and charity sports event

Last ones here too, although I don't quite understand why DD did 1 maths paper yesterday and has 3 today! Surely would have made more sense to do 2 on each day.

Last day of tests today for all our Y6 kids - they are not doing science either.

DS is looking forward to today, more maths!

Sticklebug DD says it's because they have to finish L3-5 papers first before they can take the L6 for maths. But that's not how the various literacy papers were run, so don't ask me why the inconsistency.

They did maths A and mental maths yesterday, maths B today which is 45 mins and the 2 level 6 papers, which are 30 mins each. So not too bad.

I think DS2 has some KS2 and KS3 Science papers today (teacher assessment rather than externally marked SATs) and a level 6 Maths paper. This makes it his 'best day ever'.

He has been remarkably calm throughout. DD and DS3 have also had internal assessments this week and have been fine.

DS1 (Y8) has had one internally marked KS3 Maths paper and has been a total stress muffin. He didn't even realise he was sitting it until 2 days before. I have asked him to find out what tests he has next week.

Omg, just overheard the deputy head telling the yr 6 to stop running around incase they hurt themselves before sats -really???

Probably a joke. Calm down, people!