Y6 Sats results - are they out yet?

[Hottoday]

Wondering if schools will have received them yet?

I have one twin who got level 5's in English and Spag. and a 6 in Maths.My other got 3 level 4's and was very despondent ( recently diagnosed as being dyslexic) The sublevels showed he was 2. marks off a level 5 in Maths though.I was so buy trying to reassure him I forgot to say well done to his sister and she was upset .

Oh canny it's so hard to get it right, isn't it! Congrats to both your DC's. I've got a dyslexic DD who was sick during SATs so am preparing for her levels to be lower than predicted. Lots of reassurance is going to be needed. I'd love a 'heads up' from the school so I can prepare the ground but that's not going to happen.

DS has his results, but then our schools break up tomorrow, so they wouldn't wait to hand them out

He was put in to try level 6 for everything, and got 6 in maths and 5 in everything else. I did secretly expect his English to be a little lower, actually, he's always had a couple of difficulties, especially in writing, so I'm pleased for him.

OTOH his maths has always been good, and he actually enjoys it

Dd's class got theirs verbally from their teacher today. Dd got level 6 in maths, SPaG and writing (?part of the SATs test or teacher assessed, she said they did do a short piece of writing at the end of the SPaG, on recycling/waste, but is unsure if that was just part of it) and level 5 in reading. She's really pleased with her results, and so am I!

She was only 2 marks off a level 6 in reading and there was a note of disappointment when she told me but I reminded her how difficult this paper is. She also got full marks on the 3-5 maths paper which had been a personal goal of hers after the teacher said no-one in the school ever had, and only dropped 2 marks in the level 6 maths.

Mumsnet education threads are a strange hinter land of talented children, level 6 sats, all A* at gcses and Russell group universities as the only worthwhile option

I agree bikeandrun seems like it's all level 6s on mumsnet, if this is a snapshot of the country it must be an amazing SATs year Are there any average kids out there? The only ones admitting to level 4s are those that struggled because of dyslexia or some other issue.

There are a lot of reasons you might find lots of level 6 chat on here:

1. Bunch of loony fantasists
2. Mums can't talk about this at the school for fear of offending others and are looking for an outlet
3. Kids sitting level 6 tests have been under more pressure from the schools and therefore they and their parents are more anxious

Ds didn't cope well at all with the stress. He had hideous behaviour for the month before. Horrible to us & to his brother and not caring about any consequences. He couldn't even talk to his friends because they all told him it was easy for him. Sure 5 was, but he's worked for 6's & I'm not even sure he'll get it in other than maths and I don't know what affect that will have on him. He'll get his results on his report a week on Monday.

I don't see why there's any need for snark about this. He's at a school that not long ago was going to be closed it was so bad, in the middle of a deprived estate. The head worked wonders & didn't believe the popular theories that poor = thick.

I will not keep to myself if he gets any 6's because I will be proud of him even though I dislike that schools have to do this.

And I had no fucking idea what a Russell Group university was until mumsnet, my background is rough council estate and chronic underachievement.

But you know, I have another ds with autism who might not even cope in mainstream school so hopefully that makes the people feel better. Hey, maybe he won't even be able to live independently. That'll balance out a 6 or two in some SATs just in case I would be a tiny bit proud of my oldest's efforts in pointless tests.

I admitted up thread that my super ace DD got one 5 but otherwise 4's across the board. She's pleased, I'm pleased.

Ticks What's points:1 and 2.
Antiquity, I hear ya- parents that dwell in 'hinterland' should shout their DC's achievement from the roof tops- it bucks 'the trend', does it not?
Bikeandrun, DD has 3 L6 passes and would like to read English at Oxford. No doubt, this notion will change as she moves through the chapter that is 'Secondary Education'.
Given we 'have nowt', yet she has a passion for learning, is she 'wrong' (!) in choosing an option that she thinks is worthwhile?

Ticking box 2 here. I want to shout from the rooftops how proud I am of DD as she got 3 6s and was only 2 marks off in reading, but I feel like I'm not allowed to 'brag' and be proud of my child's achievements. Only told a couple of people who I know won't be 'offended' by it. So I'm shouting about it on here because no one will judge me in real life.
The exams might not be that important in the grand scheme of things but my daughter has worked hard all through primary school and has had a brilliant attitude from day 1. She strived to achieve this (no privileged background, no hot housing/tutors she just wanted to do it for her own sense of achievement) yet I'm not supposed to celebrate that? It's a strange world sometimes...

Sorry that should have said 2 6s and then 2 marks off in reading...

DS got 5's for everything. He was put in for level 6 maths and level 6 reading. He did not like having so little time for the maths. He didn't do the last 2 questions on each paper as he ran out of time...so, therefore, lost marks straight away. I am interested in finding out how far off a level 6 he was though as the school have always said he excels in maths. Only one boy got a 6 and his dad is a maths lecturer at a Russell Uni.

How do you all know how many marks they were off the next level?

We were not given the actual marks.
We got the grades yesterday, along with school reports.
Ds got 3 in spelling, 4 in the rest of English.
5 in all science and maths
He wasn't allowed to sit level 6, but wanted to.
Our school had the whole range, from W, 1-6
At least the high school have offered extra help,with his spellings.
He will be properly tested for dyslexia too.

We were given their actual scores and the score threshold necessary to pass or fail (or YES and NO as it quaintly puts it!)

I agree with some other posters, it's a sad world in many ways when people feel they can't celebrate their DC's achievements, whatever that level may be.

But I think the problem is that on these kind of threads, a large majority of posters seem to be parents of DC attaining level 6's which (a) skews the reality for most of us and (b) gives the thread an appearance of being a boastful bragging smug fest when it actually really isn't. At the end of the day comparatively few DC will attain L6 at the end of KS2, so clearly there's a disparity between 'reality' and what MN threads might suggest as 'reality'.

Here's my contribution, for what it's worth: my Y6 DS wasn't entered for any L6 papers, nor would I remotely have expected that he might be. He is not in that 'league' academically. We are over the moon with his achievements though: L5 in everything except maths, where he was teacher assessed as a 5 but scored a 4 in the test.

I know there have been comments earlier in the thread about how SATs are meaningless, pointless, only for the school's benefit and ignored from here on in etc etc. But I'd disagree with that. DS hasn't always found school easy (late summer birthday, some SEN, really struggled during the infants school years in particular). He is so bloody chuffed with his SATs results. And he so totally deserves them. He's a lovely bright capable boy who has never really believed it - partly because he's in a school with lots of L6 type high achievers, partly because of his SEN - but when he came out of school earlier this week, excitedly brandishing a near-clean sheet of 5s, I think the penny finally dropped. DS is walking tall this week and it's lovely to see.

So to all our brilliant DC - whether 'brilliant' means a L6 or a L3 or a L1 or a W - and to all their parents too.

Hear, hear dietcoke! We should celebrate all our kids who worked hard and achieved something.

We didn't get scores it was just that DDs teacher made a point of telling me she was two marks off in reading as she was chuffed for her.

It's interesting about parents not wanting to show off their Level 6s - I congratulated a Mum yesterday on her DD's across the board 6s and she did look a little embarrassed. But my DD was pleased that this girl was the only one to get Reading as she found some of the Level 6 group a little up themselves whereas this girl is nice and friendly.
DD herself got Level 5s in all the English and a 4 in Maths. She was disappointed in the Maths having got a 4a at the end of Year 5. However she does tend to litter her Maths with careless errors and I suspect this might wake her up a bit. My only worry is for setting next year.
Incidentally, do parents have a right to know the exact scores? I assumed we would get them in the end-of-year report but another parent told me she'd never be given them for her elder child. I do think there's a difference between a near miss for a 5 and just scraping over and would like to have this information.

It's just that it's hard to take people saying how disappointed the DCs were with a five when you know your DC will be lucky to get 4s (we get ours later today). I know people are right to celebrate their own child's results though and it's my problem not theirs.

I will be chuffed to bits if DS gets 4s by the way, still happy if it's threes as I know how hard he worked, but I just know I'm going to find it really hard at the school gate this afternoon with all the people whose DCs have got 6s.

I don't think anyone has said people shouldn't celebrate their kids level 6s, but obviously you'd want to think about your audience before doing so? Most people tell close family, but I'd probably not rush to tell people who might be worrying their child might not achieve a much lower result. There would be no need to. Most of the population doesn't have a child who recently took their sats, so it doesn't cut down celebration opportunities too much!

It's a thread about SATs results. If some parents feel too bad to share what their child achieved through their own hard work because it "wasn't good enough" then that parent needs to look at themself.

If I had your attitude I guess I should be going on all those funny toddler threads and start demanding people think of their audience when my child spent his toddler years understanding barely anything and speaking maybe 5 words in total and sitting immobile for hours at a time instead of delighting in how funny and lovely some kids are.

No, people should not "take a look at themself" for worrying about theit child's sat results. It's a thread about sat results.

Ah I get it. I shouldn't be allowed to worry whether ds gets a level 6 or not because it's above average despite it being just as hard for him as someone else managing to achieve a 4 or 5? Despite, the way the system is set up, it reduces expectation further down the line for him?