KS2 Sats past papers

[honeybunny123]

Hi My son is just going into year 6 . Did anybody buy the past papers for Sats for key stage 2 ? If so where did you get them from ? Did you do them at home with your child or do the school do them with them ?
thank you

You can get them for free

www.emaths.co.uk/index.php/4-students/past-papers/ks2-sat-papers

You can get most of them online free. If you Google 'Joseph Pickering SATs papers' you can select the subject and year you want.

However, I would check with your son's school- they may well use them for their own assessment.

Your son will do soo many sats papers you don't need to worry!

I would agree ( as a year 6 teacher!) We use a couple of papers "whole" as test papers for levelling and also individual questions from a wide range of papers in lessons as "one -offs".

Yes, the school will be using them. It really will be SATs overload for your ds if you make them do them at home too.

As other have said you can get them for free on line. I find English a useful one rather than to do to talk about how you answer the questions.

Can I ask why you want him to practice the SATs when it makes no difference to is life in any way? I'm genuinely interested.

Please, please don't do this.

Year 6 teachers use past papers as assessment tools/exam practice throughout year 6, and if your DS has already worked through them he will end up with a very misleading level, possibly meaning that he will not get the level of support that he needs.

Last year one of my class scored 100% in the October Maths Assessment (the 2009 paper) and was placed in the small group doing the Level 6 syllabus. He struggled in the class, but when he got 100% in December (the 2011 paper), I put him down as one of those children who get distracted in class, but who pull it out of the bag in an exam situation.

It wasn't until February that we realised that his mum was doing a paper a week with him at home and marking it with him. He had an impressive memory, and was writing down the answers with no understanding of the reasoning behind them. We then had to try to extract him from the L6 set without destroying his self esteem and put in place a lot of support for the gaps in his understanding.

He ended up with a 5C (just), but I think he would have achieved higher if the gaps had been apparent earlier.