year 2 SATS coming soon - do you do any extra work with them at home?

[CristinaTheAstonishing]

Just wondering how much time to put into this. DS's tests are in a couple of weeks. I am not used at all with exams in such little children and I don't want to overdo it because the only exam practice I have is from when I was much older. I don't want to burden him with 2 hours a night or something like this. How much revision time would be appropriate for a 7 year old? Do I just focus on his weaker areas? Do I give him practice at everything? I bought a SATS pack from WH Smith, it's quite worrying how much stuff they have to go through.

Absolutely not to revising. (and I'm speaking as both teacher and parent).

My ds's school called the Sats tests 'puzzle books' and the children (and most of the parents) had absolutely no idea they were doing anything out of the ordinary.

In fact the kids kept asking when they could do more of the puzzles.

Reading out marks is wholly absolutely totally unacceptably bad.

Nope

Surely that would go against the whole idea of them anyway?
They are supposed to be a snapshot of the school and it's teaching aren't they...not how much you can cram into them at home

I can't see any point in doing any extra work as so much of the grade is determined by the teacher's assessment. If he doesn't do as well as usual, ds's teacher will show evidence of the previous standard of his work to put his grade up.
And equally, if he does better than expected this backlog of work could also bring his grade down.

We are completley keeping it low key here. Imo, it's more to evaluate the school than my child.

No way, they're only used for streaming for the first term at secondary school and they do their own assessments to refine that anyway.

Besides, our school is too small to publish their results, so why the h*ll are the poor kids doing them???

P.S. sorry - misread title - my DS is doing KS2 SATS in Yr 6.

Still disagree with them though!!

DD1 bis very excited by them , about the only thing she has told me about school this year !
We haven't done anything specific at home but she does workbooks off her own back any way.
She has started testing dd2 though which doesn't go down well

cristina agree with others, please don't do any revision or cramming or anything.

They are to test how well the school and teachers are doing and nobody will ever produce them to show how well yr ds did or didn't do.