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To be shocked at SATS loss

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Saintofsanto · 26/03/2022 06:03

DS has been doing mock SATS and we had the results this week. Although they're at or around the 100 mark they're still a way below the projected target. I know it was two years of disrupted learning and we've had a lot of other disruption in the family over the last 5 years (one thing after another it feels). I feel really shocked by it and don't really know what to do for the best in terms of my parenting support. When they say they predict GCSEs what does that actually mean?

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TooManyPlatesInMotion · 01/04/2022 10:13

@coffeeisthebest

Perhaps there has been disruption due to Covid, but they're all in the same boat so I don't understand the increased anxiety. Across the board all children have been affected. If we as parents fully understood that then we would ease off the pressure some what.

@coffeeisthebest

Not all schools and def not all children have been affected equally by Covid-related disruption. It will have hit the already disadvantaged kids more than many others.

Great username btw!

I agree the pressure should be dialled back.

coffeeisthebest · 01/04/2022 10:29

I just don't understand why any pressure is being applied at all. When I did year 6 (before it was called year 6 if that isn't too outing for my age) we spent a significant part of my school year making beautiful folders for our topic work. That appeared to be our main focus. I know sats didn't exist then but surely we as parents have a responsibility to dial down the pressure for our own children. I understand that teachers are under pressure from Ofsted, I fully get that, but what I don't understand is why on earth some parents are approaching this like it is GCSEs or something. When it clearly isn't. If we could ease off and just accept they are a marker for this one point in time for our kids, and not a future determiner, then our children can have a go and see how they get on. Or that's how I am approaching it anyway. One of my daughter's friends is being hot housed through the sats with extra tuition and we have had multiple conversations about not comparing herself.

coffeeisthebest · 01/04/2022 10:31

@TooManyPlatesInMotion, you're right, not all kids will have been similarly affected by Covid. That's very true and I shouldn't have made that sweeping statement.

I like your username too!

HSHorror · 01/04/2022 10:37

They are definitely not all affected the same.
Eg some kids just missed some that first year then went back in during the other lockdown.
Even my own 2 kids.
Dc1 y5 missed 50% y3 then 8w y4. Plus other random illness. But as dc could read well and we did the work at home. I think the only issue is they likely would have gone from met to exceeding in some subjects. And obviously any impact from.other kids getting behind.
Whereas dc2 y1 only missed the 8w in reception. But they hace been more affected as school gave 0 books in thst time but other kids in school carried on getting them. Then for whatever reason we carried on with the same easy phonic sounds that dc had in reception for basically a year! Now we have moved on dc is progressing very quickly. Hard to know if that has just been a school error or lockdown related. Imo dc could have been on these books a year ago. Dc writing has also suddenly got a lot better (without home work) so it seems over school issues and maybe the whole class being behind. Imo they split up the 'ability' groups and its fallen with the kids who were in in lockdowns. But that will likely be rejigged in the next year.

I think they do need the tests to try to get the kids back on track.

TooManyPlatesInMotion · 01/04/2022 10:39

@coffeeisthebest yes! My clearest and fondest memories from year 6 involve doing a topic book on the Netherlands. And another themed around the colour green. .

My son's school is running extra sessions for all y6 kids over Easter. It is madness. We aren't going as we're off to the seaside for a break. I just keep telling my son to do his best, as he would do any other day at school.

coffeeisthebest · 01/04/2022 10:54

[quote TooManyPlatesInMotion]@coffeeisthebest yes! My clearest and fondest memories from year 6 involve doing a topic book on the Netherlands. And another themed around the colour green. .

Foody8410 · 07/04/2022 13:41

My sons just done his mock sats, he scored 98 in maths, 102 in reading and 108 in the other one. We have been given zero information from the school about what this actually means.ive researched it myself to understand the scores but most of the other parents are clueless.
The whole year have been attending sats booster sessions after school twice a week for 3 months and will continue right up to sats. Tbh I'm sick and tired of it, that's all this year has been about. I don't think he's done much learning at all. I will be very proud of him regardless of the results because he missed so much school during covid. I have faith that if he is put into incorrect sets at high school they will see this and move him.

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