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How did the Year 6 children get on with their SATs today?

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RosaLuxembourg · 12/05/2008 21:49

DD1 said the Science was harder than she expected. She is relieved to have it over and quite looking forward to English tomorrow.

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edam · 13/05/2008 17:00

Blimey, Bellavita, that is really OTT. Is her ds the most brilliant child in a low-achieving school or something?

Polgara2 · 13/05/2008 17:05

Petetong - dd1 thinks the science questions were all 1 mark (she's not entirely sure - short term memory problems obviously ) - although to be fair she is working very hard!!

foofi · 13/05/2008 17:07

DD said science was easy yesterday - but didn't quiz her any more than that. Haven't seen her to ask how today went. Frankly I don't really care - it's not important.

GrapefruitMoon · 13/05/2008 17:12

We were also told that children should come in even if they were ill - surely there must be a cut-off point though...

BTW, does anyone know why some children would have the questions read out to them - apart from obvious reasons like dyslexia? According to dd around 8 children from her class were sitting their tests in separate rooms to the others and she thinks they were all having the questions read out to them - can't believe that 8 out of 30 are dyslexic...

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RosaLuxembourg · 13/05/2008 17:14

DD said the short writing was fun, spellings easy but she was unimpressed with the long writing task which sounded painfully tedious.

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foofi · 13/05/2008 17:16

In the maths, children are allowed to have questions read to them as it is a maths paper, not a reading paper, so they shouldn't be penalised for not being able to read the question.

foofi · 13/05/2008 17:17

(or science - not literacy though I think)

GrapefruitMoon · 13/05/2008 17:20

Yes this was science yesterday - but 8 out of 30?

foofi · 13/05/2008 17:21

The school will want to bump up its marks as much as possible, so they will get in as many readers as they think will help!

bellavita · 13/05/2008 17:45

Edam - no he is special needs.

Some children like the one I mentioned, would have questions read out to them because they are slow readers.

AbbeyA · 13/05/2008 18:53

The biography was a problem and 2 of the best writers wrote it as an autobiography, we really wanted to tell them but couldn't. The short one was easy. They all said that the spellings were difficult.

mrz · 13/05/2008 19:15

Some very odd questions (and answers) in yesterdays science. Year 6 thought it was easy Today's long writing was a biography of a fictional Victorian short writing was a memory for a year book. Definitely suited our children

mrz · 13/05/2008 19:20

leosdad yes it makes a difference to school league tables if a child doesn't take the SATs. Depending on the class size it can have a huge impact I'm afraid.

roisin · 13/05/2008 20:19

ds1 is cool and laidback with them so far. He says they've all gone well.

I'm delighted that he's showing no signs of stress. His teacher has obviously encouraged them to have early nights, so he's getting a good amount of sleep every day too, which helps.

He's just pleased he gets to take in a snack and a drink to have between the two tests each day!

IMO English is his 'best' subject, but he tends to get higher marks in Maths/Science. So he's pleased Maths is at the end of the week. (He was very tired after school today.)

roisin · 13/05/2008 20:45

Are KS2 SATs internally marked now?
I know last year we (secondary) got the results before the end of the summer term.

lumpsdumps · 13/05/2008 20:54

Science paper yesterday was ok, she didn't know about the babies question.
Today she was in her element, she loves writing and especially biographies and school memories, was very excited about it. She's not really looking forward to the Maths ones but she will scrape through it hopefully, she's not a fan of Maths but has always scored highly in her assessments.
DS2 is doing his SATs in YR2 and came home today and told me he had scored a Level 3, which considering he's the youngest in his year, I'm pleased about, but also that my 6.9 year old son is sitting SATS, he's still a baby!

clam · 13/05/2008 20:55

I have the papers here in front of me! All the science questions were 1 marks. There'll be plenty of 2 mark-ers in the maths, and some 2 or 3 mark ones on the reading tomorrow.

clam · 13/05/2008 20:56

Sorry, just before anyone reports me for cheating.... I only have the papers they've already done, not the ones yet to come!

clam · 13/05/2008 20:58

Spellings..... during, opportunity, precious, fibre, luxury, unusual, responsible........

unknownrebelbang · 13/05/2008 21:03

That'll be 0 out of 20 for DS2 then.

clam · 13/05/2008 21:10

Common, articles, delicate, exclusive, ordinary, currency.....

roisin · 13/05/2008 21:23

Clam. Are they internally marked now? Or do they all go away to be externally marked? Or just a few moderated? How does it work?

clam · 13/05/2008 21:51

No, the whole lot are bagged up and collected by an agency (although last year there was a big cock-up in our neck of the woods and it was over a week before they came). We are supposed to get them back mid-late June/early July, but again, last year they arrived late, after we'd sent out the reports. We are not allowed to look at the papers until they arrive back..........

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RosaLuxembourg · 13/05/2008 22:16

Blimey, DD1 told me the spellings were easy
She also said she didn't have enough time to finish her long writing and had to leave the last paragraph out. I tried to reassure her that it would be fine, but she is worried about it.
Damn SATS.

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