SATS Papers

[marcyr]

I'm looking for old SATS papers online for Key Stage 2. My daughter sits them in May and I'd like her to have a go at some old ones first.

I found some maths ones online
from 2000 to 2005

www.satspapers.blogspot.com/2007/01/key-stage-2-maths-papers.html

I'm now looking for English ans Science.

Can anybody help??

Cheers
marcyr

Why would you want her to do them? If she practises for them, it will distort her results (which don't really affect her anyway - they are used more to measure the school's performance).

I would be tempted to ignore the fact that she has to take them and just let her get on enjoying her childhood.

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Please, please, please do not subject your poor dd to any more SATS other than what she has to do at school anyway.

SATS year is often a year of stuff other subjects and an all round education, lets learn to pass useless tests instead so my advice would be to extend her wider knowledge. Find something she is interested in and foster that interest. Take her to a museum, art gallery, theatre show, wildlife park, introduce her to classic children's literature, anything but don't make her sit down and study SATS papers.

Totally agree with Julienetmum

I love you julienetmum.

I was getting so worried for my DD who is just 3...

I want her to have a fun filled childhood - not one with her nose stuck behind a test paper...

I want her to have a stress free childhood, when her hardest decision she has to make is whether to eat weetabix or cornflakes...

I want her to do well at school (of course I do), but I want her to do well because she is a well rounded, intelligent invidual.. not because she has studied how to pass whatever test is flavour of the month that year..

It is really nice to hear from someone who shares the same believes as me, and it makes me very relieved that I am not the only one.. as much as I hate the idea of her studying to take tests at such a young age, I wouldn't want her to be the only one not and therefore suffer. there is hope for me in that there will be other parents (and hopefully schools) out there that won't be...

marcyr - please don't think we are accusing you of being a pushy mum or anything, I am sure you just want the best for your DD, it is just that sometimes it can get silly.

Take Juliemumsnets advice - give her a broad, enjoyable, fun education. I am sure she would benefit far more than swotting for a test...

Agree completely.
I so want dd to enjoy life and have time to be a little girl. Not to be pushed constantly to achieve. I think happy children achieve if they are given the right environment and support, not if they are constantly working to a test.
This came up when we were trying to decide between carrying on with music or starting dance - decided to ask dd who instantly said she wanted to carry on going to music even tho her best friend was going to dance. Am now completely happy in our decision. But was beginning to feel myself panic when I realised most of dd's friends are doing 2-3 extra activities per week - and we were worrying about one music session (not a lesson - just banging instruments to singing really!) Don't know how others fit it all in really - what about going to the park, walking the dog, shopping, library, visiting friends?... Sorry, have rambled a bit!

Thanks for all the replies. Reading some of them you'd think I had her doing them every day

She has a wide interest. She loves nature and animals. She says she wants to be avet when she is older - although we all know how childrens minds change.

I started doing old maths papers with her twice a week. Since the Summer this has brought her average mark up from 80% to 95%.
She dis the latest one available Saturday and reached over 95%. She has also gone top of the class in maths.

This has changed a child who hated maths - to someone who loves it. I guess the better you are at a subject the better you feel. Can this be a bad thing??

I take on board what has been said here and will not increase her workload anymore but I will spend a couple of hours a week going through old sats papers and 11plus papers. It obviously works. Other people get tutors as well. This seems quite an emotive subject on here.

Regards
marcyr

Are you in an 11+ area? It can be useful to do old 11+ papers because they are very particular and it is frightening to meet this type of paper for the first time. It makes sense then to have a child practise these to familiarise themselves with the format and type of question posed.

The same is not true of SATS. Their main purpose is to place the school in its appropriate slot in the league tables. it doesn't really add anything to the child's education.

Agree with Freckle, yes do practice the format of 11 plus and also do extra maths with her, nothing wrong with that, it's only the same as me doing Jolly Phonics with my dd which has dramatically improved her reading.

It's just that SATS are such a useless waste of time there must be much better and more interesting maths resources out there than SATS papers.

So much good sense...

I'd definately give the SATs a miss. They don't show your childs understanding, just if they can answer the questions IYSWIM.
Following your childs interests can never be wrong, or giving them confidence in a subject by supporting their learning in many ways, this is what every good parent would want to do. BUT I just feel that the formality of old test papers is a bit too much too young - they will have years ahead of old A-level stuff (hopefully!) when it really does matter.

Although this does assume the school are doing SATs revision from old papers already?! If not then I take it all back and would support the idea of familiarising your child so it is not a terrible shock! Guess it depends on the circumstances

Oh and I think you can get old sats papers through Waterstones etc...HTH

Parents in Touch might be a site that you find useful.

Try again Parents in touch

but they charge - try www.freepastpapers.co.uk

You don't need KS2 Science papers as this is now assessed by the teachers not a written exam - that hasn't stopped the shops from stocking them though!
Most schools run booster classes for SATs anyway so doing extra at home may not be worthwhile.
My dd was in year 6 last year and found that there was so much testing at school that she needed a rest at home. HTH