Do you make your DC revise for SATs?

MovingAlongNicely · 2025-04-15T13:18:12+00:00

Or do you think they do enough in school? My dc has been sent home with revision books. But after seeing how much preparation they do in school, is it necessary to be drilling it in to them at home as well? Year 6

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Thatcannotberight · 15/04/2025 14:51

That sounds insane. No revision here and greater depth in everything. ( 2 years ago ). Holidays are for fun. They definitely do plenty of work at school leading up to SATs.

Kuretake · 15/04/2025 14:54

Our school says not to revise at home.

RainbowZebraWarrior · 15/04/2025 14:55

No. Also two years ago here. I was 'advised' which books to buy at a parents evening. That's simply because the school wants to look good.

Our school did 30 mins revision time every morning for r weeks leading up to SATS. It's enough for anyone. Literally drilled into them. At the end of the day, it doesn't even really stand for anything from an individual POV. (This might be slightly different in a two tier system, I don't know, as we were in the three tier system at the time and don't go to high school till year 9)

Fingernailbiter · 15/04/2025 14:58

Up to you! It depends what you call "necessary", and how much you care. For instance, if your child doesn’t have instant recall of their multiplication tables, or remember how to find a lowest common denominator or what a possessive pronoun is, they are likely to do less well in SATs than they could. Looking at mark schemes for past Reading Comprehension papers, and understanding the sort of answers they need to write to show their understanding and get high marks, is also useful. An hour a day revising things they have been taught wouldn't hurt them. But if you think they don’t need it, or it would be counter-productive, that’s up to you.

Mumdiva99 · 15/04/2025 15:04

I think you leave it to the child to decide.

(As a parent I want my child to try their best, be interested in getting better and education. But I find interesting day trips which broaden their education do more for them than revision of sats papers. At the end of the day the cats result doesn't mean a lot for the child.)

singingirl · 15/04/2025 15:06

To be honest, I hate the pressure on kids for SATs which doesn’t benefit the child themself much at all. Even if it’s used as a basis for sets in secondary schools, the secondary schools themselves will soon test and reset any children that need it. The school’s reputation is at stake for the school itself, but the kids receive very little in return .

I would advise no revision to be honest; they do so much drilling in year 6 as it is, and do I believe, miss out on a lot of things for that year as a result.

Hope that is helpful?

IkeaMeatballGravy · 15/04/2025 15:07

I'm not making DS do any. The pressure has been absolutely relentless at school and he has also had after school revision sessions. This holiday is his time to relax and be an 11 year old.

Upstartled · 15/04/2025 15:08

Ds has come home with a shed load of homework to be completed over the Easter holidays. It's going to be all we can do to get through that and we won't be going above and beyond.

Actually, this is the third round of sats for me and with the same school and I've been surprised at how much more intense the school has been this time around.

Retronight25 · 15/04/2025 15:11

We take education very seriously but all we did was downplay SATs. They do plenty in school and there was such potential for them to become completely stressed out.

AnraithAgusCeapaireLeDoThoil · 15/04/2025 15:11

My eldest is going into Y6 in September. Absolutely no way I would get him to revise for his SATs. I thought they weren't meant to?

Lovelynames123 · 15/04/2025 15:16

Mine has been sent home with 80 pages, apparently 10 minutes a day for 10 days. She's already GD in everything so I've said it's up to her if she wants to do it. She's been doing a maths booster every week after school, and from when dd1 did them, I'm expecting she'll be in from 8am when they go back for more revision.

Historically our school don't give homework over the holidays so it's a bit annoying they only do it when the SATs are coming up

Comedycook · 15/04/2025 15:17

My dc are both teens now but I never made them revise for their SATs... didn't even occur to me to be honest.

Thatcannotberight · 15/04/2025 15:20

Lovelynames123 · 15/04/2025 15:16

Mine has been sent home with 80 pages, apparently 10 minutes a day for 10 days. She's already GD in everything so I've said it's up to her if she wants to do it. She's been doing a maths booster every week after school, and from when dd1 did them, I'm expecting she'll be in from 8am when they go back for more revision.

Historically our school don't give homework over the holidays so it's a bit annoying they only do it when the SATs are coming up

Our school used to do a booster for the Greater Depth children, but since Covid they decided to concentrate only on the ones who needed extra help to be at Expected. So my child had no homework and no extra sessions.

Pompom12 · 15/04/2025 15:22

I'm not making my child revise. The pressure from school has come via a gifted cgp maths workbook with a prize offered for completion on the day that school returns. It's 90 pages, they are only at page 30 so far. Sigh.

Upstartled · 15/04/2025 15:22

Jesus, 80 pages! We don't have it that bad. Ds has achieved gd in every mock paper since they started them in y5 and so it seems needlessly intrusive.

namechangeGOT · 15/04/2025 15:24

No, we didn’t do any revision. Nor did he go to any of the ‘breakfast’ revision sessions etc that the school put on. Or the ‘early starts’ the day of each test.

troppibambini6 · 15/04/2025 15:32

Absolutely not.
I bloody hate the SATs. They are of no help to us at all and only benefit the school. We are in a grammar school area and most of the kids have been tutored for the last year (if not 2 years) the school gets phenomenal SATs results because of this.

I’m buggered if I’m spending even a single second doing any kind of revision/work with ds for them.

User415373 · 15/04/2025 15:35

I was a y6 teacher and we were made to send so much homework and revision home. We also ran a revision club during the eater holidays! The pressure for the school to get good results was immense (Ofsted and attracting pupils). It was awful I felt so sorry for the kids. I used to tell their parents not to worry about doing it.

KissedTheBlarneyStone · 15/04/2025 15:38

singingirl · 15/04/2025 15:06

To be honest, I hate the pressure on kids for SATs which doesn’t benefit the child themself much at all. Even if it’s used as a basis for sets in secondary schools, the secondary schools themselves will soon test and reset any children that need it. The school’s reputation is at stake for the school itself, but the kids receive very little in return .

I would advise no revision to be honest; they do so much drilling in year 6 as it is, and do I believe, miss out on a lot of things for that year as a result.

Hope that is helpful?

I agree. I was a teacher and told my DD SATs were unimportant.

KissedTheBlarneyStone · 15/04/2025 15:41

Thatcannotberight · 15/04/2025 15:20

Our school used to do a booster for the Greater Depth children, but since Covid they decided to concentrate only on the ones who needed extra help to be at Expected. So my child had no homework and no extra sessions.

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My child was Greater Depth back when it was Gifted and Talented. There’s no way I would have allowed any additional pressure on her. She got 5s anyway, no booster sessions.

Tailor123 · 15/04/2025 17:42

DC are ‘working towards’ in most subjects. They did nine weeks of booster lessons and small group learning at school a few days a week starting at 8am. The revision books have not come out of their school bags and I am not expecting them to.

namechangeGOT · 15/04/2025 17:50

User415373 · 15/04/2025 15:35

I was a y6 teacher and we were made to send so much homework and revision home. We also ran a revision club during the eater holidays! The pressure for the school to get good results was immense (Ofsted and attracting pupils). It was awful I felt so sorry for the kids. I used to tell their parents not to worry about doing it.

Why would anyone send their child into school during holiday time for this reason? It’s like a punishment.

JustMarriedBecca · 15/04/2025 18:14

Our school have for the Year 6s.

It's notorious for saying "it's not important" to parents and "we try not to get the children stressed out" but also getting the kids in a rooma when the parents aren't there and saying "these are REALLY important and if you fail you'll be in the wrong set at secondary, get poor exam results and your life will be over" (paraphrasing daughter but that's the gist).

When we all know its for the school.

My DD is in the top 1% nationally for Maths and English. I'm debating pulling her out for SATS just to piss off the head 🤣🙈

I'm not against exams for children. I think the practice and slight pressure is good for them, so as they take more exams then it becomes less important to them and "just one of those things" but I do find schools very hypercritical when it comes to SATS.

boredwithfoodprob · 15/04/2025 18:23

No way! 2 of my children have done SATS, one will do them next year. I don’t agree with them, I’d NEVER make them revise for them. They have so little (any?) bearing on the rest of their lives. One did well, despite coasting along through Primary, one did not do well due to SEN and actually only took the English papers. My DC who is due to take them next year is the most academic of my 3 and again, I will not make a big deal out of them other than sending him to school and possibly saying “hope they go well”.

Thatcannotberight · 15/04/2025 18:51

I didn't care about them at all with my eldest. He'd passed the 11+ and had a place at the local Grammar. SATs were completely irrelevant. Which is what I told him.