Is Michael Rosen right? Is the sample SATS online the actual test

[KnotNora]

He's just posted that the KS1 test sample on the gov website is the actual test they are using?!

According to The Telegraph it has been! I hope so. Shame so much of the year has been given to teaching the children to sit the test.

I can't cope with the lows and highs of tonight - first Prince, now this! It's like a bloody rollercoaster.

The dfe owe me and my y2 class hours of our lives back.

Yep. SchoolsWeek are saying the same.

I don't think they had much choice though.

Why do it this late at night? This couldn't have waited until tomorrow morning because...

On BBC to; says SPaG test too, not just the spelling part.

Yep so fellow year 2 teachers get checking those books as that's all the evidence you have unless you have purchased tests!

You couldn't make this shit up.

Plenty of evidence in books, in the way that SPAG should be taught and assessed - by actually using it for a purpose!

Year 2 teachers (I am no longer one but my DD is year 2), I hope many of you have been able to continue providing the rich and exciting curriculum that my DD's school has managed to and have not been forced to waste hours of precious childhood on nonsense.

6.4 Reporting test results
Schools are not required to report test results to their LA or the next school when a pupil moves. However, where the school has recorded this data it can choose whether to include these results in any data provided to the LA or next school (see section 10). LAs do not give test results to the DfE.
Schools are not obliged to report test results to parents in an annual report (see section 9). However, parents must be allowed access to their child’s results on request

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So I did some reading today and according to the government website they do have to give the test results!

Er....according to the bit of the ARA you just quoted (which is the document on the website you are referring to), schools do NOT.

Schools are not obliged to report test results to parents in an annual report

Schools do have to do this on request, but it is not statutory to do so.

On the today program today, confirmed that the test was on the DfE website, so is now useless, so that test cannot be administered this year.

Yes, we know

What a bunch of useless arses. How lovely that they continue to grind the teaching profession with their demands for data but can't actually administer the system effectively themselves.

Lucsy . It's one thing after another. Makes me want to emigrate. Preferably to Scandinavia.

Not quite all the time. And it may well have less rain than where I live (Lake District ). But that wouldn't be hard...

Anyway, the education system there sounds bloody brilliant (particularly in Finland). I keep meaning to start a thread to see if anyone has first-hand experience of it. Apologies for my Scandi-thread-derailment .

The tests in schools always must remain sealed until just before they are given out to the children - at my school we open then in front of the children.
If any moderators come in to check how the tests are administrated they ask to see all tests and expect to see them still fully sealed and intact.
Not worth opening them.

That's what should be happening anyway:

Test packs should be opened in the test room when the pupils are ready to start the test

www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/509074/KS1_TAG.pdf