Y6 Sats results - are they out yet?

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Wondering if schools will have received them yet?

'sounded foreign'...really? Nice....

I never understand why people post on threads just to tell people they shouldn't care about the subject of the thread.

Our lot are away on their residential trip...so will get their results next week. To it's credit, the school seems to take care not to make too huge a deal out of SATS so - with luck - the kids will be happy with whatever they get, and feel confident going on to their secondary schools.

Which is what really matters to me.

Sadly, as we have a very high percentage of EAL and SEN, and EAL kids (who do very well in terms of their own learning) who spoke NO English at the start of Y6, the school stats are likely not to reflect the true picture. And even more sadly, a few misguided parents will object to that.

But most will celebrate, thank goodness

Ds's school got 100% at L4 or better this year for the first time ever. Anyone else experiencing unusually good performance at school level?

Gosh you all must have very high achieving DC's. DD reports x2 4A's and a 5C but no maths result yet as she hasn't seen her teacher. She wasn't entered for any L6 papers. The school were pretty low key about the SATS as was she and she seems happy enough with the results so far but I think I'm the first one on this thread to have admitted having a DC that 'only' achieved a level 4!

The primary school my youngest two attend is ready to give out the results, but most of Y6 are out tomorrow at their secondary school transition events, so the school is going to send the results (along with their reports) home with them on Friday.

Horrified at waitings story.
I work in HO for a very large international bank in the city and what is described is of course totally against the rules and I have and would never recruit like this. We look at skills and experience only. What waitings said is gross misconduct and you'd be sacked immediately if this is true and was exposed.

[no SATs results provided at DS's school yet. Reports come out next Weds so maybe then]

My DD just got her results got 5 in English overall, but got a 4 in her maths, the teacher assessment result for her maths is 5b, which is the real result? she was in the top set for maths in her above average primary school, so does it mean she just had a bad day on the assessment. She is upset I have told her the teacher assessment is the important one is this the case?

Hopefully teachers will come along in a minute bike to confirm but I think you are right. Teachers have a much better idea of your DD's ability. She might have just had an off day with the test.

Elibean - children who have been in the country less than 2 years results won't be included in the school stats. (Well the school can choose whether to include them or not.)

So if the results aren't brilliant, it won't be because of children who had no English at the start of Y6..... Their results will be excluded.

If the child moved from a county where English is an official language they will be counted even if they arrived the week of the tests ...

Ds2 got a 6 in reading from the teacher but only a 5 in the exam. I am interpreting that as he sometimes works at level 6 in class, but he didn't do it on the day of the exam.

It would be nice to think he'd got a 6 in the exam, but the important thing is that he's trying his best and he's quite able. That's what's important to take with him from primary school and use for the next 7 years (when the exams do start to count).

Bike - she probably did just have a bad day. I have spent three hours after school going through the papers of a couple of children who we predicted to get level 5 based on their classwork but didn't get it. When we checked, they had just made silly mistakes which they would have picked up if they had been working on the questions in class. Unfortunately, however low key you try to keep it, the stress just gets to some children.
Var123 - the level 6 reading test is TOUGH! You really have to be a secure level 6 reader to get the pass. None of ours did and actually I think that's fair. I would say that they are level 6 but not secure.

At the end of the day, the SATs are only important to the school but they are VERY important. It's sad that the children have to go through this because politicians won't accept the professional word of teachers. If the SATs results are bad, all hell can rain down on a school - this would be fair if it were an on-going trend but a set of good results and then one bad year can be disastrous.

A whole thread of level 6's!

My average DS will get his results on Friday. He'll probably get level 4s but I'm hoping he might get a level 5 in maths as that is his teacher assessment.

DD has left hers in school for the 2nd day running. Her teacher-assessed grades were 5c in Reading & Writing and 4a in Maths. She really is not an exam person so I'm not in a major hurry to find out the results!

What is important for an individual is the progress they have made from KS1. Everyone can be proud of their results if they have made expected progress, or exceeded it. For most children this will mean a solid 4 or 5. Most of those achieving L6 are just doing what was expected based on their previous performance.

No, they're not. Unless they all got level 4 at KS1 then they are making better than expected progress.

mcdreamy my DS has been assessed as a 4B for writing. I know that. He has a scribe and is only level 3 when writing physically himself. He's also likely to get a 3 for spag. He gets 40 ish on grammar paper but most he's achieved is 3/20 on spellings and he thinks he got 1 right on the actual SATS test. He's likely to get 4, maybe a 5 on reading - once again with a scribe but found this paper really hard so a 4 I'd most realistic IMO. He sat the level 6 maths paper. He was getting 32-35 right in practices so as the threshold is 34 this year I suspect a level 5 is more realistic. He has a reader and they transcribe the maths paper for him.
I don't have his results yet they'll come with his report at some point in next 2 weeks.
Well done to your DD.

var123 Wed 08-Jul-15 18:57:29

Ds2 got a 6 in reading from the teacher but only a 5 in the exam. I am interpreting that as he sometimes works at level 6 in class, but he didn't do it on the day of the exam.

I never understood why those with the highest ability were only expected to make the same amount of progress as those of the lowest ability i.e. 2 levels.

Surely, its an amazing achievement for one and a doddle for the other??

My son got his results back yesterday. I'm lucky enough to work there so know that his head teacher was up, logging on to get results before 6am. Results were issued to children and parents by the end of the day. This is the first year we've done this though. They have previously been sent out with the school reports, which will be sent out next week. We're all VERY happy with my son's results and I treated him to a special tea out to celebrate. He worked very hard to get all level 5's. Hope that all of you still waiting for results are happy when you get them, but don't forget that they don't define our children, only assess learning and give high schools a starting point. Our children are individuals and efforts should be celebrated, despite results in comparison to others. My son is lucky enough to find school and sports a walk in the park, but all children are different and shine in different ways. Well done to all the year 6's for making such an effort with some particularly difficult papers this year.

Var remember that level 5 was the expected level for a 14 year old so it's not a low expectation for an 11 year old moving from level 3-5

No results here, as yet.

DS3 is hoping for a L5 in everything.

DD is hoping for L4 in reading and writing, and possibly a L5 in Maths and SPAG if she had a good day on the test day. She was diagnosed with global developmental delay when she was younger and was significantly behind until Year 4, so has made outstanding progress.

I don't think DS is the slightest bit interested in what he got, I'll be very happy if he managed 4s across the board. Will probably get ours with the reports next week, haven't heard any other parents mention it at all yet.

mrz - I understand your point, but, I wonder what "expected level at age 14" actually translates as:

level 7 is roughly equivalent to C at GCSE (the secondary teachers tell me)
Level 8 equates to a B

< level 9 = A??>

So, if you've only managed to get a level 5 by the end of year 9, and you've only got two years left to get your GCSE, then its going to be a real struggle to get a good grade, surely? If you take 3 key stages to work through 5 levels, then you'd actually need to accelerate your rate of progress to get a C at GCSE, which is generally considered the lowest level worth talking about.

I think L5 is reasonably good for a year 6, but it wouldn't be much of an achievement for the majority of 14 year olds.