Marking sats homework.

[MegCleary]

DD is in year 6 and they are gearing up for sats. She is down to do advanced maths and English and her teacher gives them 4 pages of maths and English homework a week in a sats prep book and then parents mark it.

I find this strange and hard. Strange as I don't think it's looked at after we mark it, and she can get a fair bit wrong. After marking I go back through what she gets wrong with her get her to do it again and write down how many attempts it takes her to get it.
I also find it hard as I think English is so subjective, even with the answers in the back! As for me racking my brain to get the maths techniques I have to match hers is nigh on killing me.

What happens in other schools?
I think if they glance at the books she may look like she's coping with it, but I have no idea if she is.

Greater depth.

@MegCleary there is no 'advanced level' exam, that was known as 'level 6' and it was discontinued after 2015. You can read more about all that here.

Since then, they have blended the 'advanced level' questions into the standard tests that everyone takes. It's unfair if you ask me because a child that understands what they need to know (as laid out in the curriculum) cannot get full marks. Having said that though, it is taken into account with the scaled scores marks reporting system.

To vaguely answer your question - the curriculum is split into 'need to knows' and 'advanced knows'. I suspect what your child's teacher means is that your DD is comfortable with the 'need to knows' and so has moved on to the 'advanced knows'.