Year 2 SATs, can anybody tell he what format they take?

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Just that really. My ds2 is doing year 2 SATs and I was wondering what to expect.

Tell ME, not tell he

Well, in a good school they will be told that today they are going to do some work in a special booklet. They do the booklet and go out to play.
Low key, low stress.

end of.

DD2 didn't even know she was doing them (and doesn't know what she got either).

That's what I'm hoping for!

I would strongly suspect that they've been done already!

DS has done his already. I only worked it out because he said they did Maths in a book rather than on a worksheet then after the teacher let them watch a movie for being good.

Well I did try to find that out but DS didn't think he had done them! But if he has, great - he obviously didn't notice! Are they all done at the same time nationally, like the ks2 ones?

Ours only started today.

Year 2 are given levels based on teacher assessment. As part of that assessment teachers use standardised tests to inform their assessment. These tests can be used at various times during the year (maybe between February and June but not sure). The level in the test isn't reported but the overall teachers assessment is.

These tests can be used at various times during the year (maybe between February and June but not sure).

Yes-they can be done at any time in the year, even in September, and then the outcome will be used to inform the teacher's plans for the year.

Thanks everyone. So maybe he's correct and he hasn't done them yet. If they aren't 'sent off' as such and it's teacher assessed then hopefully it will be low key.

My DS is doing his Y2 SATS this week. It's anything but low key - they've had revision clubs (before and after school), past papers and this week there's a SATS breakfast club with extra reward points for attending.

It's ridiculous, I've kept everything at home very low key, explained to DS that it's just a check to make sure the school have taught everyone all the things they're supposed to know, and luckily DS seems very relaxed about it all. He says he did 2 maths papers yesterday, a level 2 and a level 3, and he's doing reading on tomorrow. I'd much rather he was just asked to do some special booklet work, with no build-up, the way it's done in the school where I volunteer.

The school has a fairly poor reputation, bottom of the league table for SATS results, and I think they're desperate to improve that. I don't know any other school that has this kind of pressure for Y2s.

When I taught Y2 we did a few (and I mean a few!) practice questions so they got used to the format.

I then told them the week before that they would be doing special activities in small groups with me and explained about not talking and me not helping (they're a chatty lot at that age)

The next week we did them, no big deal, small groups and fun activities in between.

It was a very different week but at the end of the year they all seemed to remember it for the fun activities they did in class in between the sats! Pressure is no use for kids

My daughter did hers last week - we got an email from her class teacher telling us the format of the week. The first 3 days she did maths, Reading and Literacy level 2 papers. On thursday and Friday she also did the level 3 papers for maths and reading. Some of her class only did the level 3 papers, some did just the level 2.

It's very low key at DS's school too I think. My only concern was how he was expected to do the tests seeing as he's broken his arm. A teaching assistant has written down his answers for maths etc I think - but I presume he's supposed to do a writing test too? I guess he just won't be able to do that?!

My Ds has done them this year... they called them tests but he did them in booklets..

I can't say he was stressed by them at all.

Our school hasn't told the children or the parents when the Y2 SATs are. Perfect!

Well my update is that I think he's done one today and when I asked him if it was words or numbers he said 'both'! So who knows what that was!!!

Our school didn't tell the children they were doing SATS. On the Friday before we got a letter in the book bags telling parents that SATS would be taking place and explaining the children had been told they would be having a week of "challenges". They had made it sound like something really exciting so the children were really keen and enthusiastic. No one was stressed, no one was worried.

DD's school are doing them this week.

The teacher hasn't mentioned SATs; instead, she has told them they are doing special booklets this week and will have and no homework, apart from reading.

They are doing the SATs papers in the morning; they are having 3 morning breaks instead of the usual 1 and are also being offered sweets, biscuits and fruit during these breaks!

That sounds like a perfect way of approaching it. I love the idea of 'challenges'.