How many get all level 6?

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That's what dd would like to know. She got level 6 maths but not reading or writing.

in ds class, the school said it was the best results they had ever had (mixed intake area lots of fsm)

I think 4 or 5 of them got level 6 maths
no-one got level 6 reading (about 4 or 5 took the paper)
1 got level 6 SPAG

If 5 got level 6 maths, I'd guess that's about 16%. In that case I'm sure some of them would have been able to do a higher level.

possibly cheebame, I was really commenting on the original op about how many got level 6.

They had level 6 coaching every day for about 4 months, so that may account for the number of level 6s. I am not sure that any of them would have got higher.
They had coaching in english too.

DS got his results today all 5s in english and science, 6 for maths. For DS entering KS2 papers was a waste of time as he had already passed his entrance test for his secondary school back in January. Also I was very disappointed in how much time the school had spent last term trying to get the children to pass these papers at the expense of all other teaching. DS point blank refused to attend any of the breakfast clubs and after school things that the school had set up for passing these papers. After the papers had finished the school appears to have stopped teaching Year 6, instead spends time on the end of year activities such as the year 6 leavers play and school band etc etc. As a result DS lost all interest in school back in February and has just been looking forward to his summer holidays and September when he starts his new school.

Well my DS also got level 5's & 6's. He though is thrilled that they have basically been playing since Sats; school trips, loads of school play rehearsals, legacy book, extra playtime, sports day etc.

They worked hard pre Sats - he has worked hard all primary school - they deserve a break.

GreenKia - I think the last term of year 6 is like that absolutely everywhere. DD is at a private school where most children don't even have to take the entrance exam for senior school (they move up automatically unless they are struggling), and they don't do official Sats (they do last year's Sats papers as unofficial assessments, so although DD got all level 6s in maths/reading/SPaG, I don't think it really 'counts', certainly not as far as official statistics go).

They broke up for the summer over a week ago, and for weeks before that they were doing school play, whole-week PGL trip, sports day, special projects on the world cup etc etc. I think from long experience teachers have realised that children in their last few weeks of primary school are not going to buckle down and concentrate on learning new things when they are about to go through the huge shift to secondary school.

It is absolutely great that kids are achieving 5s and 6s. Well done to any child that has worked hard and achieves good grades or does well by passing or even just improves during the year.

But for DS the challenge or interest to do well in these tests was lost a long time ago. Don't get me wrong he really is academically minded and always wants to try, hence he did well for his entrance exams for his next school. Unfortunately he became fairly cynical about these particular tests because he felt that the only time his school made the effort to push him academically was when his school needed the results.

GreenKia:

I think you raise a really good point and many parents/ pupils feel that once they know they've got into the grammar school here (Birmingham where grammars are state funded & free to pupils) - how they perform on SATs is actual an anticlimax - whereas the schools are desperate to do as well as possible and suddenly put the effort in, including lots of homework when previously there was very little.

PastSellByDate:

You are lucky that you have state grammar schools in your catchment area, we unfortunately do not and it has been quite nightmarish going through the process of finding a decent secondary school for DS, in the end we have had to resort to the independent school route.

greenkia and pastsellbydate - ds has a place at grammar school. He worked really hard for his sats and was really pleased with his 5s and 6s.

No-one NEEDS sats to go to secondary, sats don't predict which group they will be in either, in fact, as far as the child is concerned, sats don't do anything. It is just a sense of scheivement for them.

My 9 year old dd (yr4) has just been assessed at level 4a for reading. Will the school be expecting her to get a level 6 then as it seems not many do with reading.

She's a 3a for both writing and maths just above average.

It would not necessarily have mattered that my BF's DD was not entered for the level 6, but it was the two girls who were not entered and the two boys were. She clearly had understood the work and was capable so she has continued to do well at secondary school. She did feel aggrieved that her work/talent was not recognised though. I thought all schools would want as many level 6 children as they could get.

DD got all level 6 when she took
Now in GCSEs and getting straight A's

My eldest is doing gcses at the moment, they got all level 5s since when they left primary schools weren't allowed to give out level sixes in the year six sats.

"It seems odd to me to have a second paper for 'above level 5' and not use it to test for levels 7 and 8 - they might as well. "

God, can you imagine amumsnet if they did?

"in the end we have had to resort to the independent school route."

My eldest is doing gcses at the moment, they got all level 5s since when they left primary schools weren't allowed to give out level sixes in the year six sats.

I'm glad you said that FeministStar, My little sister is waiting for GCSE results and middle brother is year 9, they didn't do level 6 either because they didn't bring level 6 papers back until 2012.