SATs Results

[EndOfPrimary]

Anyone else's DC get the SATs result you and they expected - and are desperately sad?

All that hard work didn't actually pay off after all :(

If she is in interventions at primary - surely they have informed secondary. My son has problems with spelling and handwriting but scraped a 4c in both. I wonder if the scribes spelled things for him! But his new school know about ths despite him having no interventions at primarybschool. They are going to do some computer test to work out where his phonic gaps are. Can you contact the senco directly?

I have never ever had a good experience talking to a SENCO.

I'd rather not talk to her new one than risk having an upsetting conversation where the SENCO trots out cliches and displays her ignorance.

DD will be there for 5 years. With 6 reports a year. Plenty of time to talk if I have evidence she can't cope.

And if she does cope and make progress then I don't need to talk.

Of course school can always contact me if they're concerned.

Ah. Well through gritted teeth I will point out that many of the interventions in secondary school are initiated and run by the department concerned and not by the SENCO. But hey, why not just let your dd go in without any prior discussions about what might be helpful for her, and without any support? Why not wait for the things she finds difficult to show themselves after she has bust a gut trying to do it on her own when there is help available? Then you can come on here and post about how crap the school is. That'll be helpful for her.

Surely school know more than me about what might be helpful to her in school. And school have already talked. They told sec what interventions she was on this year.

What do you think I'll be able to achieve? What do you think I'll be able to suggest?

Remember I'm just a parent. Not someone schools respect.

"I know what to do to help her. I need to continue the interventions I've been doing with her at home this year that have helped. "

Well, for a start, you could tell them about this.

Primary have already done so.

I don't want DD on interventions at school that I can do at home.

this is one of the most depressingly negative threads i have ever read

Gym - my experience of primary school has been 100% negative.

I truly am hoping sec will be better.

My dd is high achieving.

Her high achieving primary were oblivious to the fact that she needed help in certain areas.

After transferring to secondary but Christmas she had been picked up on, put on the sen register all staff informed of her specific difficulties.

At the end if year 7 we have a report suggesting she may be on the autistic spectrum

Secondaries can be better at giving support than primaries

Please, speak to the senior school SENCO, honestly they have far far more idea how to help than primary, where SENCO is often just a hat a teacher wears. Senior school special needs teachers and TAs choose to work in that dept. They actually understand what dyslexia is. DD got to Y6 before primary had a clue.

They can't work miracles, but they do care and they do try.

Also remember Ofsted is breathing down schools necks. Under the new rules progress counts for as much as results. Lower ability DCs not making progress and reaching their targets is a huge black mark.

Yes, there are still individual teachers who don't seem to get the need to help all their pupils and there are pupils who don't help themselves, but generally it's way better than we were at school.

How depressing, Ds got a 3 in the test. His reading is a five, but he simply cannot write at the speed they required him to.

It will come. Threads like these really bum me out though

I get the impression that you don't want 'help', you just wanted somewhere to vent your frustration and concern?

It's hard if an assessment implies your child is 'fine' but you know they struggle.

Just seen in her report that 'she is on ORT level 14 - which is at

Sorry. Posted too soon.

Report says 'she is at ORT level 14 - which is at national expectations' yet OUP site says level 14 is for 8-9 year olds.

Endofprimary is there a learning support unit at the secondary your dc will attend? Dd and indeed all year six have sat reading and spelling tests in anticipation of entry into secondary and it is these that determine whether they receive support from learning support rather than SATs results.
Dd has a statement and so will receive support as a matter of course even though she got 5s in her SATs and the results from the reading and spelling tests confirmed she won't need literacy support and the numeracy test she will sit will stream her and her peers for maths again rather than her SATs result.
I would really advise that you speak to secondary and ask what support your dc might get.

Is dd on the sen register? Has she ever been tested for dyslexia and dispraxia?

I used to teach secondary and sometimes the milder cases are not apparent until they are older.

Hello all:

I'm still waiting on KS2 SAT results for DD1 - strike has inevitably caused delay and I suspect based on school staff behaviour results aren't good generally.

What I will say about these test results - as others have - is it's a snap shot and children being children - they could have been having a bad day/ falling ill/ stressed out/ frozen/ etc... - in other words it's not the full picture - it's just a moment in time.

Having had bad results in the past (NC L1 on Teacher assessment across the board at end KS1) - can I sincerley say that having a bad result is not the end of the world - it's a warning shot - that there are troubles (for whatever reason) - and it's a good thing that you're alert to that fact.

It's not a foot race - it is a very individual mountain climb - and every child has their own 'hurdles' to scramble over - some may have attention issues/ learning difficulties, some may be battling illness, some may have had a run of poor teachers/ subsitutes, some may have been bullied all year, some may just be struggling generally, etc....

The hint is in the name - Secondary - it is a second bite at this apple and many places expend a lot of energy in KS3 bringing weaker pupils 'up to scratch' and working with struggling pupils to identify the underlying reasons.

It doesn't mean that every school will turn this around - but if as a parent you know that your child is struggling a bit - you now have to evidence to ask those hard questions at parent/ teacher meetings, to ask what interventions they actually are putting in place - in other words you have permission to 'push' on this.

Good/ bad/ otherwise - The result is one thing - but the effort is very definitely another. If the teacher is saying your DC couldn't have worked harder, if s/he is saying they're very proud of them and think they're starting to turn things around, if they're encouraging you to keep up with the reading and maths over summer - LISTEN..... and be proud.

Sure it means there is a mountain to climb - but with you backing them - my gosh they can give it a go - and just might do it.....

I would agree.
Ime primary's are dreadful at focused personalised intervention.
It can get better at secondary.