How did your year 6 find the reading SAT today?

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My DS did well in all his SAT practice papers, but said the reading paper today was tough.

I have heard they use the sats results in secondary school but not sure how true this is

DS is severely Dyslexic (has an EHCP), he has scribe and reader usually but this is the only SAT where he has to read it all by himself. Poor thing, he struggles so much as he’s concentrating so hard on sounding out the words that he misses the meaning. It’s a comprehension test, quite why he can’t have it read to him I don’t know.

DD is 16 now but I believe secondaries use year 6 SATS results to "set" the children in year 7. The school does do its own testing too, but the initial sets use SATS results.

My understanding is that secondaries are judged by OFSTED on how well the children progress from their year 6 point. So if a Hugh achieving year 6 leaves with bare minimum GCSEs, that reflects badly on the secondary. If a low achieving year 6, gets fab GCSEs, that reflects well on the secondary data.

Same here my son who is generally GD on all his papers said it was tough and he doesn’t think it has gone well. Strangely reassuring reading everyone’s comments here.

The SATs result forms part of the gcse target, but often prove to not be an overly great marker from what I've been told from secondary school teacher friends.

Some schools do initial sets based in them but increasingly many don't. All the schools dd and her friends went to didn't - they have MA sets initially and then did their own internal tests at the end of the first term. They reset accordingly in some subject areas, some stayed MA.

Even if SATs are used - in any even vaguely good school sets and groups should not be static. They should change based on work completed and test results, etc after half terms, etc,

I wonder why they have made it so much harder this year , our kids . Let’s hope tomorrows paper is ok !

Poor kids sorry

Y6 teachers at my school commented that lots of children were only part way through, with minutes to spare ☹️☹️.

General consensus here was that it was challenging. A few of ours didn't finish. I have a feeling that the maths reasoning papers will also be challenging.

There'll be a political motive. Government will blame the striking teachers rather than actually addressing the shocking underfunding in schools. Makes me so sad that government thinks it ok to treat children in this way. Exams that are way too hard at age 10/11. Shante on them.

DS said his teachers told them it was one of the hardest papers they’d seen. He is a bright boy and has done well in the mocks but wasn’t sure how it went today. He did say the teachers also explained that if lots of children were scoring lower then the marks are adjusted accordingly so not to worry if you found it tough.

DD reported it was Boring, but then she couldn't give two figs about SATS pressure and that's absolutely fine with me.

Ah this is interesting to read. DD said it was ‘quite hard’ too and she’s always been comfortably greater depth. It was the one she was especially looking forward to, she enjoys a good English test 🤣

My ds found it ok. He was a bit cross about a couple of questions that he felt were unclear and they were the same ones I’d thought were…but when I quizzed him on a few answers he’d put, gave answers that would get the marks so hopefully did ok overall (in last couple of mocks got full marks so generally a pretty confident reader).

SPAG was ok I thought but some of the spellings were tough (I didn’t like the last one!).

I’m definitely nervous for the maths tomorrow. Last year was pretty straightforward (they were meant to be the ‘2020 we’ve been in power for 10 years look how much we’ve raised standards’ tests…I don’t think we’re going to get the same this time round).

Ds said it was awful, he'd scored really badly and he didn't finish.

DD said it was fine.

She found the spelling one yesterday harder.

I saw her teacher yesterday who said the spelling one was "fair". Not seen her today to ask about this one.

One of the hardest papers I’ve seen in my 16 years of teaching Year 6, with many ambiguous questions. Even had a few children in tears during the test.

My DD is always GD in reading, she scored 118 in mocks and she says it was quite difficult, especially test about bats...? Maths is not her strength at all but she seems so fed up now she no longer care. All that revision has opposite effect on her it seems, she's no longer worried about score she just wants to put this behind her. I posted on another thread her school is making them revise AFTER exam is done; for next days exam. I think it's ridiculous. Secondary she will be going to is introducing grammar steam in September and she was hoping to get it but she's just too fed up now.

It was one of the toughest reading tests I've seen in a long time. Lots of ours didn't finish. Bloody cruel.

He said he did okay it was hard and the last passage was complicated and he missed answering a few questions.

Arithmetic he enjoys but reasoning he struggles with

DD found it hard and the teachers said it was difficult. Really worried about maths as DD below expected level but has worked really hard and has being doing well on mock papers.

What were the spellings? My daughter has dyslexia and struggles with the spelling test so was trying to get an idea of how she might have done, but she could only remember two of them!

My DS has been so anxious about these SATs, and the comprehension more than the others.

He came out of school today beaming, saying this was the first time he had answered every question and even had 10 seconds to spare! He is not great at reading the questions, so might well have have bombed. But, it was a good experience for him regardless of the results and I will take that as a win.

Dd is comfortably GD and said it was “fine”. She only had five minutes to spare though, which is unusual for her.

I’m taking “fine” with a pinch of salt though as if the questions were designed to mislead (which it sounds like they were) then she will very likely have been misled!

I asked my daughter how she found it and she said ‘good’! She also liked the SPAG and spelling test yesterday.