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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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foofi · 13/05/2008 22:26

Rosa - My dd didn't finish her writing either. In fact, she said she was still writing when they were told to stop so the teacher scribbled out her last paragraph!!!

OrmIrian · 14/05/2008 10:49

So many of you have communicative children! My DS didn't want to talk about the literacy paper. And I had a one word answer about the science paper. TBH I don't want to delve more deeply

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RosaLuxembourg · 14/05/2008 10:56

My DD is more stressed by this than I expected Ormirian, that is why she wanted to talk. Your DS might be taking it in his stride, which is great.
She is good at English and wants to excel, so frets about it. In the long writing task they had to write a biography of a Victorian fairground ride inventor . DD said she was annoyed because they specified so much stuff such as his wife's name and what she did and his date of birth and place and date of death that it left no scope for her imagination. I hate to tell her that the sodding system is not geared up allowing children to HAVE imaginations

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Bridie3 · 14/05/2008 10:58

Sigh. Yes, I'd hate to have to write something where SOMEONE ELSE had filled in so many bits for me. Kinda takes away the fun.

OrmIrian · 14/05/2008 11:02

Imagination, rosa? Go and wash your mouth out with carbolic! Spelling ,vocab and neatness - that's all that matters.

I think he really messed up his literacy TBH. He's not neat at all and writes fantastic stories - but no-one can read them

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RosaLuxembourg · 14/05/2008 11:08

I was assured they don't get many points taken off for handwriting OrmIrian. DD is dyspraxic and has handwriting like a spider crawling out of an inkwell.

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Bridie3 · 14/05/2008 11:10

My son's is like two spiders dancing a tango.

OrmIrian · 14/05/2008 11:16

It has to be legible though . But I hope that is right rosa.

Actually my handwriting is appalling, as is my Dad's and DBs. I am convinced there is/was some mild undiagnosed dyspraxia in our family. And my nephew too - but he has more problems with fine motor control.

GrapefruitMoon · 14/05/2008 13:34

do all schools get the same papers?

AbbeyA · 14/05/2008 14:06

Yes- they are all the same with the date on the front. They come in official sealed packets. The children all sit in their places ready to start and they are brought in and opened at that point.As a teacher you only see them at the same time as the children. They have to be administered in a set way, with very precise instructions read out, for example they are told how long they have and that they will be told when it is half time and they will be given a five minute warning before the end. Yesterday the task was to write a biography and it was very hard to see that two of the best writers were writing an autobiography and we couldn't tell them. The whole country has done the reading paper today- I thought it was quite a child friendly one.

GrapefruitMoon · 14/05/2008 14:09

I just wondered because dd claimed not to remember any science question about melting metal...

AbbeyA · 14/05/2008 14:23

She has probaby forgotten! I read it through quickly and I have forgotten! I think that it was only a very small part of a section on solids, liquids and gases.

roisin · 14/05/2008 14:57

In English there are only 3 marks (out of 100) for handwriting. DS1's is fairly wild but legible, and he generally gets 2 of the 3 marks. (He resents that loss of a mark, just because he's not very neat.)

smartiejake · 14/05/2008 15:03

Reading paper was very hard IMO. A story, 2 poems to compare and some factual information about extreme weather.

Lots about the effect of the author's use of words and loads of inference. Not much for the level 3 reader to be able to do at all (which is where my pupils are.) Hopefully the base line for the level 4 will be lower than usual.

AbbeyA · 14/05/2008 15:13

I liked the reading extracts but I agree that the questions were hard, smartiejake.I didn't like to look too closely in case it put them off but I could see that a lot couldn't answer the questions about the effects of the author's use of words. We have a lot of level 4 and higher but no one had much time to spare at the end and some didn't finish.

bellavita · 14/05/2008 15:33

Can't get much out of DS1 either. I ask him about what he has done and it is just one word answers, like yesterdays "what did you have to do DS1?" "Biography" he replied and that is it.

He doesn't seem phased though which I am glad of. He is really good at maths which is a subject he does not like, but comes very easy to him. We have said for him to do his best and not to worry.

unknownrebelbang · 14/05/2008 16:57

DS quite calm this week.

One of the children had an accident on his bike on the way to school this morning, and ended up at A&E. Some of the children saw him on the floor and/or the ambulance and it unsettled the class, but DS says he feels ok about everything.

Rather a drastic way to get out of the test I thought.

bellavita · 14/05/2008 17:06

unknown - If you see my earlier post - our Head has sent a teacher out today to a friends DS who is off sick

PrincessPeaHead · 14/05/2008 17:12

thank god we don't do SATS
no benefit for the children, just a heap of stress for nothing.
eurgh. hope yours have all survived!

RustyBear · 14/05/2008 17:20

Grapefruitmoon - the question about melting metals was in a year 4 'optional' SATs paper, not in the Year 6 paper.

One of the Year 6 teachers at our school was talking about a science question that said something like 'Research has shown that babies eat/sleep (not sure which he said)when they have been in sunshine. How would you test this?'

I only came into the staff room halfway through, so I didn't hear properly -does anyone know what the question actually was, as the teacher was a bit at suggesting unethical testing to 11 year olds!

roisin · 14/05/2008 17:24

ds1 today said the Reading Paper was OK and he had answered all the questions and finished.

He said there were lots of 2-point questions, which he doesn't like. (He prefers 3-point and 1-point questions.)

Phew! Just Maths to go now, I think, tomorrow and Friday.

mrz · 14/05/2008 18:47

Did anyone else think the reading booklet rather smelly?

Tinker · 14/05/2008 19:26

Only 3 marks out of 100 for handwriting? Phew!

clam · 14/05/2008 19:57

RustyBear.
Sleeping babies.....
"Scientists have found out that babies who spend more time in daylight sleep better at night. To test their idea, the scientists needed to find out how well some babies sleep at night normally. What could the scientists measure or observe to find out how well babies sleep?"

RustyBear · 14/05/2008 22:13

Oh, OK - well, they could take a look at some of the threads on here!

From what the teacher was saying it sounded like they were talking about experimenting with babies!

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