How long your children revise each day?

[Turefu]

My son is in Year Two and just had his mock SATs. He met expected standards, but I hoped he’ll exceed maths. How long your children spend on revising each week? My son does his homework, but other then that we only play educational games with him, say how much is this added this.

[Hermagsjesty]

Are you sure @norestformrz? I know they aren’t used in league tables per se but my understanding was that OFSTED could look at them as part of an inspection.

[Feenie]

Nope. Not true.

[Hoppinggreen]

Absolutely none.
Dd didn’t do any any DS won’t either

[Norestformrz]

"Are you sure @norestformrz? I know they aren’t used in league tables per se but my understanding was that OFSTED could look at them as part of an inspection." Absolutely sure. They are only used by the teacher

[RaggieDolls]

We have the CGP 'SATS buster' books from school. School have suggested spending 20 minutes per day on them. DD seems quite happy with this so we are doing it. It's been helpful with maths to help her on the bits where she seems less confident.

That said I haven't pushed it on the occasions where she says she doesn't want to do it.

[ineedaholidaynow]

Raggie is that for Y2 SATS?

[RaggieDolls]

ineedaholiday yes. DD is in Y2.

[ineedaholidaynow]

Wow, didn't realise they did books for that. DS did not know he took SATS in Y2 they were so low key

[careerchange456]

Year 2 teacher here - do not make your child revise!! My class have been set some Easter maths activities to keep them ticking over but they do not need to revise.

Your school have clearly got a bizarre interpretation of KS1 assessments. Yes all Y2 pupils have to sit the maths and reading papers but the judgement submitted is a teacher assessment of the child's ability. The evidence for this judgement can come from all different sources. The test is one piece of evidence but the teachers should also/mainly be using work completed in class.

My class haven't even seen a test paper yet because they don't need to. They've seen questions as part of maths lessons but not a full test. Testing itself will be very low key and hopefully most of them will hardly notice what's going on!

[avocadochocolate]

My DCs did not revise, nor were they asked to. Personally, I don't think primary school kids should be doing homework, apart from reading and learning times tables.

[Oblomov19]

None. Never. In primary. Are you serious?

[BikeRunSki]

1 - Y2 children are only 6 or 7!!!!
2 - The schools are not scored/ranked etc on Y2 Sats
3 - Cramming will only mask what the school had taught the child, which kind of defeats the point
4 - The children in question are only 6 or 7!!!!’
5 - see points 1 and 4.

[RedSkyLastNight]

Here are some great ideas of how to revise with your 6 year old

• read ( both them to you and you to them). Talk about what you've read
  
• bake cakes. Let them weigh and measure
  
• play board games
  
• go for walks or play in the park
  
• visit a museum or art gallery
  
• (If your child wants to) write or draw about what they've done. Write a postcard to a grandparent
  

I'm assuming the school's idea of "revise" means doing these or similar activities? Because doing anything more structured, as everyone on this thread agrees is, frankly, bonkers.

[stayingaliveisawayoflife]

Another year 2 teacher. We sent home some bits for the holidays but daily revision is not appropriate. Practice if they want to but don't push it. My class aren't bothered by sats and that is how it should be. I am shocked at a school asking for daily revision. They must be panicking about their results!

[BikeRunSki]

RedSky that’s perfect.i’m not a teacher, just the mum of a Y2 child.

[unlimiteddilutingjuice]

None.
DS is 6 and has a few academic struggles.
I insist on reading and spelling every night. But we don't do the rest of the set homework never mind extra revision.
He's progressing and I'm picking my battles.

[stucknoue]

He's 6 or 7. None! But do encourage daily reading and to be curious eg go bug collecting, leaf prints, a local museum, visit a farm.

[Zinnia]

KS1 SATS are used to measure progress against KS2 SATS, so that progress score is what's shown on league tables. Having said that, our school barely tells the kids they're happening and keeps it as low-key as possible. We got a letter a couple of weeks before the tests urging us not to make a big deal about them but to make sure the kids had plenty of sleep that week. That was it.

Admittedly I did a bit of maths with DD2 last year when she took them, but that was because she was worried about her maths in general (yes she was only 6 and this did not come from me or the school!) so it was to show her there wasn't anything to be scared of. Major at school telling kids to revise in Y2!

[applesarerroundandshiny]

Play educational games? Go to the library and read book of their choice; do puzzles.

I used to use those numeracy and literacy work books you can buy in book shops / supermarkets/ wilko etc during the school summer holiday (about 30 mins - not all day!) because 6 weeks is a long time for young children to retain stuff but would never have done extra homework during school term .

[Babynamess]

None.

Saved themselves for exams that matter like GCSEs and A levels - not exams designed to make the school look good.

[Hersetta427]

They shouldn't be revising for anything in yr two - it means nothing except you can brag that he got exceeding

[Feenie]

Exceeding (actually called Greater Depth) can't be awarded from the tests in Y2.

That is also only possible from teacher assessment.

[Feenie]

KS1 SATS are used to measure progress against KS2 SATS, so that progress score is what's shown on league tables.

Again, those are from the teacher assessments, not the KS1 tests.

[Norestformrz]

"KS1 SATS are used to measure progress against KS2 SATS, so that progress score is what's shown on league tables. " the test marks are only used by the teacher as a single piece of evidence towards their teacher assessment which is what is reported and used to calculate progress. The test marks are not reported anywhere.

[Norestformrz]

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