Worried about SATs in key stage 1

[PreemieBlessing]

I have been looking at SATs papers for key stage 1 and I'm panicking that my DS wouldn't be able to understand a lot of it!
He is in year 1 and his literacy target tracker shows that he has 40% of targets still to achieve. He has mastered 10% of his targets in Maths though around 60% are targets he needs to achieve.
If you have been through this, how have you dealt with this? Do you do extra work with your child on top of their reading and homework? Would you recommend tuition such as Kumon?

Appreciate not every parent is like me..I'm sure some will feel offended that I am writing this though I want to be able to help my child to strive to do well.

Lots of time reading with him and to him. Practical maths stuff- cook with him, count and add when shopping. Get him to help share stuff out.
That will help him more than kumon or worksheets at this age.
If he learns to enjoy reading that’s half the battle.

Kids at this age can make massive progress between yr1 & yr2. KS1 SATs are really not a big thing, don't worry about it.

Given the SATS are a ear away, I'd not be worried about them now.

I'd be really concerned with only having met 10% of the maths target given there is only a half term left in a couple of weeks. Likewise, the literacy. Based on those percentages, it should likely he won't meet the end of year standard and I would be working with the teacher very closely.

I wouldn’t do a thing. It’s for the school to see what needs doing. Of course you support him with stuff but Y1? It reminds me when I was told my daughter needed remedial help with spelling - IN RECEPTION!- I said what more than her name are you expecting her to know how to spell?!? Too much too soon. She’s 14 now still a poor speller ... but top of her class.

It wasn't even on my radar to care about the first lot of SATS.

Im not even fussed about the Yr6 ones my boy is this week either.

He’s only tiny, he has years to stress
about exams. I really wouldn’t do anything extra, it’s more important they enjoy learning at this age, stressing about tests and targets will suck all the fun out of it.

I really wouldn’t even do any extra prep next year, let alone now. Y2 stats are all marked by the class teacher and very low key anyway.

Honestly don't worry about it - there's no way my daughter would have been able to do them at this point in year 1... which is logical because they're set for the end part of year 2! (and by the time that rolled around she was targeted for greater depth anyway)

They're done in such a low-key way that the kids often don't even know they are doing "tests" - my kid's come home saying she was doing a little workbook where all the answers were in the text and she just had to hunt them down! She liked that idea!

With the Maths thing - I wonder if it's the same issue we're finding in our school - with the way White Rose maths is structured there are still fair chunks of the Maths targets that they haven't covered yet - because they're a block right towards the end of the year (I think it's a lot of the Shape Space and Measures strands) - caused a lot of confusion last year when the school sent home a printout of all the child's current data for one of the reports and parents freaked out at a chunk not being covered at all... but it resolves itself by the end of the year. Likewise English a lot is just needing extra bits of evidence to confirm assessment judgements still.

SATs are a whole year away, he won't have even been taught some of it yet! most important thing to concentrate on at home is reading and comprehension, if you can throw in a bit of everyday maths then do, bits like let him pay for his own sweets every so often so he gets used to coins, measuring stuff while cooking, telling the time, that sort of stuff. I wouldn't recommend adding extra homework he would notice or tuition, he is very little and you don't want to put him off learning.