URGENT - dd1 on my kneee crying, please help her to stop worrying about SAT's

[Orinoco]

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keep her off school, these tests will not benefit her at all, the opposite in fact.

Reception shouldn't be aware of SATs, year 2's shouldn't see them as anything special. I can see that with a sensitive DC you would have to get them done but the school shouldn't have sent them home IMO.

Orinoco - I almost posted before but deleted it as remembered that dd was on your lap! Now she has gone to bed... This is WRONG. Dd should not even be aware that she is doing SATs. Ds is also in Y2 and was off school sick today. Popped in at home time as they have also finished today for the hols to collect PE kit, his cress plant (!) and any homework. His teacher who I rate HIGHLY said "ooooh, no, I'm not sending home any homework".

When ds was 11 we were in England, from Ireland, for SATS term. He had been in school there 4 days when they began, and got 4s in them - am I right, where you should be but not super fantastic? They played soccer a lot, is his memory. So a bright girl who has covered the syllabus will be fine.

DS is doing Sats in May.

They did a test paper, the expected children scored highly. The teacher praised them, and said and the rest of you should pull your socks up, you never know when you could see a "test" like this again.

His teacher hates the idea of SATs, so they will not even know what is going on.

Something similar happened to the dd of some friends in her Yr2, orinoco. Except that she was blatantly told by her class teacher that "the school was relying on clever children like you to do your very best"
I think SATS at seven are a disgusting and completely unnecessary experience and I am really sorry your poor dd1 has been made worried by them.

Something that might help is to explain to her that they are not expected to get everything right in the tests.
When they are doing ordinary classroom work, often the teachers will come round saying "have another look at this sum", or "try that question again" until everything is correct, the the DCs get the idea that everything HAS to be perfect all the time. Whereas in grown up exams (and I'm sure in SATS too) they are expected to get some wrong, or just not understand some questions.

And anyway, its absolutely fine if they get it all wrong because it's the SCHOOL that's being tested not the children.

My dd did her Sats last year - I didn't do any test papers with her and the school tried to keep it pretty low-key.

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DS's teacher told me that she would seriously consider taking them out for the day, if she thought she could get away with it.

She can be a pain in the ass, but I like her style.

The school is absolutely out of order putting pressure on children in your DDs class. They should barely even be aware of the tests-my DS certainly wasn't when he did them.

Grrr, this post has made me feel . Sorry I have not read it all. When my DD was that age they were not aware that they were being tested. Bless her. Test papers WTF!

She will breeze them and they really are not important to the children.

Orinoco, I'd be asking some carefully phrased questions along those very lines, frankly. I would also check where they are setting the bar for your dd
My friend's dd was being steered into KS2 territory to boost the school's predicted poor performance
(school is now in Special Measures, borough is bottom of London)

it's really not important to parents but is to schools, which sucks

well done mrsatinventor

I'm a teacher and also think SATs are the most ridiculous thing ever. To be honest SATs in Y2 should be more low key than ever as the teachers can now use teacher assessment rather than relying solely on how a child performs on the day. Having said that I know most will do a test as teachers prefer to be sure they are marking the levels correctly.

Sending 4 test papers home to practice. Just plain wrong. These children are 6 and 7 years old, for goodness sake. And your daughter's teacher should surely know her pupils well enough to know if this kind of thing would unduly worry them. Grrr, it makes me so mad. They should be playing outside, having fun because they are children.

One day they might just ban them altogether.

I hope that they will ban them altogether. I can see she is the sort of DC who will have to do them but I would complain to the school very strongly when you go back.

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Bonkers amount of homework. I know this sounds really silly but what about a work-life balance? Children work hard at school, apart from a bit of reading do they really need to do more work? And then to work during their holidays. Crazy.

is it a posh school

is it a posh school

Heavens above
What kind of school is this?

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My brother's partner is a Year 6 teacher and said when SATs were first introduced it was not uncommon for children to cry whenever they saw someone with a clipboard, as they assumed they were being assessed. It makes me so

neither of my boys (now y6 and y3) had any idea they were doing SATs in y2 and that's just how it should be - you really should complain to the head/governors/LEA as children of 6 and 7 should not under any circumstances be put under that kind of pressure