Does anybody understand yr 2 sats do they grade the children after

[crazedupmom]

Hi
Does anybody know what the purpose of sats is are they graded after for juniors according to their ability.
Myself and alot of the other moms at my ds's school are confused about it.
Does anybody know.

It depends on the school, some stream them, some don't. Sats are a measure of how the child and school are performing. The year 6 sat results for each child are normally sent to the secondary school as they are often streamed. Yr 2 is a bit too early to be judging for secondary school though. Is this what you mean?

They are supposed to give an idea of where the children are at age 7, to give a benchmark against which the Y6 SATs will be measured, so the school can be judged on how much 'value' they have added - children are supposed to move on a certain number of levels from Key stage 1 to Key stage 2 - a child who gets 2b at 7 would normally be expected to get 4b at 11.

I work at a junior school & when the new year 3s come in , they are reassessed to see where they really are, because frequently a child who got a level 3 in year 2 will not get one at the start of year 3 - the tests at junior school are differently structured and are based much more on the ability to solve problems rather than simply learn facts.

At our school the key stage 1 results are used to put the children into sets for maths and literacy, and generally the relative positions of the children tend to stay roughly the same after our assessments, even if the actual levels do not.

We also do a non-verbal reasoning test & this often throws up anomalies - eg a child who did not necessarily achieve a high level in the SATs may get a high score in the NVRT, which may indicate they are not achieving to their full potential (there are all sorts of other factors involved though, it's not as straightforward as that sounds)- at which point the SENCO may decide that some kind of intervention programme would be appropriate.

Mind boggles at Rusty's workload-when do you actually get time to teach Rusty???

OP in answer to your question -"Does anybody know what the purpose of sats is " no they are neither use nor ornament & only seem to exist to keep pen-pushers happy & increase the over stretched teachers duties & stress out the kids. IMVHO

you're not the only one

bossybritches - I'm the ICT manager, I don't teach (except some ICT skills to some classes, sometimes) but I do work with various assessment tracking programs & I keep the SEN intervetions records up to date

tbh I think your summary is much more succinct & probably as accurate as mine....