Do you make your DC revise for SATs?

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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

Thanks all, I definitely won’t be putting on extra pressure.
Interesting that some of you have been told not to revise when we’ve been sent home textbooks!

I’ve always made sure they’ve done their homework, spellings, times tables and reading.
But I just can’t bring myself to be demanding they get out revision books at this age.

He doesn’t seem to have loved yr 6 compared to his other school years. It’s just been constant SATs talk.

Yes, same - it's been a slog. At least they only have two weeks back at school before sats week. Then, once they are done with, they hit the cruise button till the summer holidays.

Exactly this. SATS are irrelevant for the child. If they are in the wrong set initially at secondary that will soon be rectified.

If you value exam-passing machines then by all means drill them and make it clear the only purpose/value of Education lies in exam grades. On the other hand you can encourage them to be curious about the world, ask questions and develop their critical thinking abilities more broadly.

It's not just set setting though. It lays out a level of expectation for GCSE results and the scale of intervention a secondary school will employ if they start to drop away from that result.

My DD is working towards / expected standard. She has revision books and I am encouraging her to do some revision. I have tried to make it clear to her we are only interested in seeing an improvement in her scores (based on practice they have done through the year at school).
We and she are fully aware the results are reflective of the school, but she has to also learn that she gets out what she puts in and sometimes we have to do things that are hard / make us nervous / are boring. I think it’s important to recognise that too.
SATS week for her is mornings of papers followed by free time after lunch.

No, SATs are a measure of the school/teachers. If they can't get the children to achieve well, given their potential then that's down to them.

My DD1 got stressed by her year 6 teacher over SATs. It dominated the year. Her teacher regularly told the class that they'd all fail. My DD1 was at greater depth (for year 6) at the start of the year, so was definitely not going to fail. But she listened diligently to her teacher and absorbed all of the stress, while I'm sure it went over the heads of some less attentive children. It took most of year 7 for DD1 to calm down about assessments.

We moved DD2 to a prep school for various reasons, but not whipping the children into a frenzy about SATs and pretty much ruining a year of school was one of the reasons. Lower stakes continuous assessment makes more sense and they are able to teach a full range of subjects.

No and school didn't encourage us to either.

I hope you told parents that homework in primary is optional and that there is no requirement to attend a revision club in the holidays. Schools seem to have forgotten that the syllabus should continue to the end of term and not halted to be drilled in SATS. Holidays are for fun and family time.

Of course. I totally agree with you.