Disapply from sats

[Northann]

Hi school have recommended my son be disapplied, can any give advise to what happens in high school, ie target grades for GCSE’s. Or any advice if somebody has disapplied and what happened with set groups at high school. Thanks

I guess this will mean he arrives at secondary school with no data. This happens to pupils quite often for various reasons. The past 2 years we've had no official data on students.

We usually internally assess students and then put them in a suitable group.

A brief Google has told me disapplying is used for students that would fall beneath the assessed standard. Being brutally honest, if your ds is at this level, I'd think very carefully about what secondary school he goes to, and what provision may be more suitable for him.

Disapplying is usually used when children are very far below the standard and it is seen as unfair and unproductive for them to sit the exams.

We would only consider disapplying a child who would score extremely low marks on the tests, so they would be in bottom sets or often will be in a learning support base in year 7, depending on the school.

Echo what others have said here. Typically speaking, you disapply a child when they are working at a level which is pre-key stage and so they would not be able to access the content of the tests. For KS2 assessments, that would mean the child was working around the level of a Year 2 child or below. If the child is working within key stage and can score some marks, even if they are far away from 'the expected standard' then they should still be sitting the tests.

For secondary, this would mean that the child needed to be in a support group/set because of the distance between where they are and where a "typical child" of their age would be. This isn't mean that GCSEs won't be possible at some level but it does mean that significant progress needs to be made between then and now in order to make them accessable.

The key question is: why is he being disapplied?

Thanks for replies, have spoken to school, they are now going to enter him in for SATS with a scribe. School said it was incase he was too stressed. He wants to try and have a go after talking to him. He is under send for a delay in Phonics from early years. We have paid for private tutor for three years. School haven’t added him into an booster sessions which the nearly all children were invited to. I haven’t been contacted for most of the year. Had to have phone calls all week. Haven’t had much luck with the school, not sure if to put a complaint in as child does feel very segregated and not included in much since Xmas. His maths has now not been teacher taught but on maths watch, while other children get revision lesson. I’m aware not long till he finishes, so whether it’s worth the stress.

The booster sessions are really offered to children who the school thinks can have a score boosted. To be honest it doesn’t sound as though your child is fits into this criteria.

How is his work generally assessed? Does he normally have a 1-1 who scribes written work for him? In a test situation this can be very stressful, and often not very productive since for some tests using a scribe is inappropriate anyway. What happens with maths , does he understand mathematical concepts and apply them if the problems are read out for him, or is his level of understanding in terms of maths also below Y6 expectations?

Misapplication doesn't exist any more - instead, children who are working below the KS2 curriculum are teacher assessed using pre-key stage criteria. Do you think your ds is working at KS1?

If he is accessing the KS2 curriculum at all, it is a statutory requirement for him to access the tests.

Disapplication