Key Stage 1 SATS

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Please forgive me - I can't find the definitive info on Google and had v little info from school.

When are they?

Would you expect to know in advance how they were going to be administered? That is, at least a week before? Not a day before? Are they continually assessed?

Thank you

Not true

Apologies this was what I was told on LA moderation for SATs (must be secure) however just been googling and found this which is interesting about level 3 <a class="break-all" href="https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=TnxVVZi-CIeY7gbGy4No&url=www.thegrid.org.uk/learning/assessment/generic/documents/the_3ness_of_3.doc&ved=0CC4QFjAE&usg=AFQjCNHCX5gGVaIS8ynsl6py4iEFNGPMTQ&sig2=wejS43bLVH_uCTzqh6dNZw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=TnxVVZi-CIeY7gbGy4No&url=www.thegrid.org.uk/learning/assessment/generic/documents/the_3ness_of_3.doc&ved=0CC4QFjAE&usg=AFQjCNHCX5gGVaIS8ynsl6py4iEFNGPMTQ&sig2=wejS43bLVH_uCTzqh6dNZw

Mrs - if a child had level 3 with year long teacher assessment but was under the weather during sats week, resulting in level 2 tests, what grade would the child have in the end?

Level 3.

The tests are there as part of the assessment conversation, to make sure teachers understand the process - that's why they may be done any time in the year.

Children may only be tested once. Testing a child at level 2 and level 3 shows a lack of understanding of the teacher assessment requirements. If a 2a scoring child scraped a level 3, there wouldn't be enough evidence to award it anyway. Similarly, a child who does not for some reason complete a level 3 test well, but works securely at level 3 in the classroom will still be awarded a 3.

Of course, all this will go next year and we'll be back to the bad old days of sending up children who scraped a mark in one test but who we know aren't secure, and children who didn't do at all well because their hamster died/they didn't feel well/or just because they are only 6/7 years old

If the teacher has assessed the child as level 3 all year and that is reflected in the work produced the test level doesn't matter.

Ergo having test seems pointless to me.

It's a small part of the assessment process and is there to support, not define. They're only a snapshot of the entire curriculum, after all.

Of course next year there will be new tests and the results will be reported.

DD1's school don't seem to do low-key either. For weeks now, she has been going out to a reading intervention group for those at level 3. I have no problem with that, but I do have an issue with them beinh told at the start that the group is to prepare for the important tests. And they've also been practising past papers. Not sure when the school are administering the tests though.

Our school are doing them the second week back after half term. They have all, in small groups, practiced one maths and one reading so they understand the format.