KS1 sats (year 2)

[angelstar]

How does a child do their SATs if they struggle to read and write?

My understanding is that it is much more teacher assessed now, and not a 'sit down exam'. But you are right, reading and writing are fairly fundamental, even in things such as maths, just to read the question. Hopefully a teacher would be able to see beyond that in a way that a formal exam marker would not.

if a child has a statement, or on the special needs register, special allowances would be made (more time, soemone reading the questions etc etc)

pretty sure there are SATS papers tho, it's not all teacher assessment.

Most of KS1 SATs are teacher assessment. There are paper tests as well which teachers use to supplement this information, but only for children working within L2 or above (so if a child is working within L1 they wouldn't have any sort of test). As for reading the test papers, at KS1 they only have to read the reading comprehension one by themselves - the maths paper can be read to them so that you are assessing their maths skills not their reading. HTH