Y6 Sats results - are they out yet?

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Wondering if schools will have received them yet?

I think Ds2's school will let us know the results today or tomorrow.

In anticipation that it might be today, i sat down with him this morning and tried to say that it doesn't matter if the results aren't what he would like because they won't change anything for him and he'll still be the same boy he was when he woke up. However, if he does as well as he hopes then we'll all be delighted. #mixedmessages

Does anyone know if there is somewhere to look up the local authority (or national) results? Been hunting on line fruitlessly!

As a parent of a Year 6 child I have no interest in what my son got in his SATS. Or perhaps I should rephrase that - I know that his SATS results have no bearing on his Secondary school or future academic life. We still have the 11+ round here and to me, and my son, that was far more important than SATS. When he goes to Grammar school he will have to sit the school's tests and that will determine streaming etc. But they are constantly reassessed. As a teacher I know that SATS are there for the all important league tables...

Those league tables are so awful, aren't they? And yet prospective parents do look at them and some of them extrapolate the wrong thing - eg 80% of kids at this school get level 4 and above and 100% at another school therefore by child has a 20% chance of failing at the former one.

My kids' school got over 20% maths l6 in the test so it's pretty good at stretching. However, the overall baseline figure is down this year because a couple more children than last year didn't get level 4. This has little to do with the school and a lot to do with the cohort.

The results were published on the department of education's NCA tools. However, this is not a public database ... you need to be a school to log in. I think the individual results should be private so I am glad that not just anyone can log in and look up any child's results.

National results for L6 were quoted up thread so I was hoping to see national/local overall results for other levels somewhere...

Wheresthebeach, the figures quoted further up the thread look like the 2014 figures, not the 2015 ones (unless these happen to be the same!) The 2014 stats are publicly available on the gov.uk website. Looks like they were published at the end of August last year, so I would guess that the 2015 stats are unlikely to be available much before then.

wheresthebeach - could that be last year's results? I thought the combined national results weren't published until next term?

The schools only got the results back yesterday, and the appeals won't come through until early September so I don't know how the department of education could know the final results yet.

This explains the timetable for the results:-

www.gov.uk/government/publications/key-stage-2-assessment-and-reporting-arrangements-ara/dates-and-deadlines-for-2014-to-2015#section-1

Thanks Stats and Var...and there I was being impressed by how quickly the results we're published!

wHat school year group are you all talking about?

Kandy - SATs are taken in Year 2 and Year 6.

kandy talking about Year 6

Haha, I'd completely forgotten we get told the results! Mind you, our school is very low-key about SATS - we hardly knew they were happening and they are very careful not to stress the kids about them.

Funny how people are getting so excited about SATs results!

Next you'll get excited about GCSE results!
(which do actually go on record so matter a little)

Then you'll get excited about A Level results!
(ditto)

Then you'll get excited about Uni result!
(which matter, kinda)

Then they'll apply for job. I remember helping HR sift through the gazillions of applicants we received at the City bank I worked for. So how did we filter? Started with what people's interests were, if they did something interesting with their life. Didn't even look at degree result, certainly not A Levels of below that. If they sounded like an interesting person - in the MAYBE pile. Had a stupid sounding name - OUT. Sounded foreign - OUT. Put a photo on the CV - OUT. First Class degree in a relevant subject but no outside interests - OUT. Prefect at school - OUT. Level 6 in SATS - WTF?

Well I'd prefer to get excited about ds's SATS that he worked hard for than admit I worked for a racist bank!

Waitingandhoping2015 - it would be very sad if anyone had done nothing with their life such that there was space on their cv for ks2 sats!

I've also sifted through CVs for a City Investment Bank and I didn't use your system. Nor did I work with HR ! That's not to say that looking at the whole person didn't count. FWIW, My first sift was looking for someone who might actually be interested in equities or fixed income...

However, that's totally irrelevant to the children who will get their results today. As much as the results do not matter after today, they matter to the children and so it can boost their self-confidence if they do well.

Waiting you've just proved that the job market is capricious and not always fair. Doing one's best with the opportunities presented at school is one of the few times people feel their hard work might influence the outcome. It's not the be all, end all; but unlike social class (interesting hobbies, right last name) everyone has a shot at it.

Dd got her results today ( they were told in class, will be in writing on Friday with school reports ), she got 2 5a's and a level 6 so she's very happy.

Why did the bank you worked for not want to employ anyone who sounded foreign Waiting?

Had a stupid sounding name - OUT. Sounded foreign - OUT.

Why even bother doing any work at all then? Go to Eton - IN??

I hope you were joking...

We will get them in report which should arrive on Saturday. DS did level 6 maths & spag. He has a good chance of getting the maths, but in any rate should get 5s. They get a teacher assessment too which is more relevant as counts all work over year.

Are you serious Waiting?!?!?!

Or well, waiting I have been working for the two absolutely top investment banking/trading houses (not HR, in sales/marketing) and we certainly did NOT filter cvs in the manner you describe. I cannot explain how you and your team managed to get away with doing it, but I can only conclude it was one shitty place to work, so all "OUT" people should consider themselves lucky.

Definitely no one that went to Eton!!

We were just giving HR a hand to filter all the applications for internships from graduates.