SATS question sorry 🤣🤣

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obviously the week is pending, my lovely year 6 dc is unexpectedly doing the sats on Monday ( we were under the belief until 4 days ago ) that unable to access code was to be used, but anyway now they have decided she is doing them … which means she is super unprepared compared to the rest of her class
as she should couldn’t access the booster sessions and spent minimum of 50 percent time off school for illness.
she is scared and realistically is going to get working towards in spag - due to losing 20 in spelling as she has not started year 6 spellings yet.
working towards ( may scrape depending on the questions ) a working at but I’m going to go with working towards
and probably a solid working at in comprehension.
literally in no illusion what so ever - she has not completed the key stage 2 education. My question is I have seen on multiple threads that the schools give the results to the children in class to ? Is this actually a thing .. ? Like do children share their result with eachother ! I thought we just got sent them and she could be none the wiser of her or anyone else’s score ?

In our school they give them as part of their school report. I expect some kids may tell what they have gotten. you probably need to check what they do at your school but I would be surprised if they give them out in class.
Good luck to your daughter.

it certainly was the case in the primary I worked at that they were sent home by letter.

the kids all asked each other what they got though.

Check with school about results (I hope not!)

You could show her some online so she is prepared.
My child struggles and is incredibly anxious about them ☹️Roll on next Friday!

As per previous poster - you need to check with school, but ours came as a report, straight to parents. Not handed out in class.

Some kids will know/pretend to know, and will discuss/brag about their score.

Can you find out why there's been a change of plan?

One idea is to keep her off school if you know when the test day. And are sure they won't test her separately later on.

It might be a useful exercise for her to do the SATS to find out which specific bits of her education she is missing?

I missed huge chunks of my education in year 6 and whilst my English/ comprehension was fine as I was an avid reader and writer my maths has huge gaps and never really recovered and affected my choices for GCSE - if I'd done my SATS the gaps might have been highlighted and a plan for catch-up made. Rather than me just floundering.

I think there’s a 2 week window in which schools can administer the test for catch up if a child is off sick so she’d have to be kept for for that whole 2 weeks to avoid that.

OP did you think she would be withdrawn from all of them? Given that you said she might scrape EXS for something (maths?) and should be EXS for reading, it’s very odd that she would ever have been not sitting them. Or did you think she was going to be withdrawn for SPAG only? It’s very rare for children not to sit them, I had a couple of boys who basically couldn’t read once who didn’t sit the reading (but did everything else with a reader), and I think if they literally moved to the country in the last few weeks and have no English at all they might be exempt. Generally everyone does them even if it’s obvious they won’t reach the standard (not saying I agree but that’s the situation) so I’m surprised you were ever told she wouldn’t sit them.

Anyway to answer your question I’ve never known a school who give the results to the kids. It’s always to parents usually with their report. Obviously most parents tell their kids because the kids want to know, but you can help your daughter practice some answers if she doesn’t want to tell people what she got.

Remind her that they are a test of how well the school have taught her.
Most secondary schools round here reassess for banding/future grade prediction after the first few weeks.

We send ours out with the school reports. However, we’ve made a couple of exceptions in the past when children scored working towards but were only one or two marks off as we wanted them to know how well they had done compared to their starting point and it wasn’t clear on the results sheet.

That’s really kind and I’m hoping my child’s school do the same. They have worked so hard and I’m all practice tests they get expected but they have an additional need and also doubt themselves a lot. I hope we would get told if they hadn’t made expected, rather than just reading it in their report.

Just to follow up, it is possible for children not to sit them - school can apply to essentially an exemption under various circumstances. The most common reason for not sitting them is that the child is not working at ks2 levels at all and so realistically wouldn’t be able to answer any of the questions at all.

In this case it is really important for her to understand that this is not a test of her, as a person. It's a test of the school. If she gets a low mark the only consequence is that the school has shown that they didn't do very well at creating an environment that she could learn in (obviously). There is no negative consequences for her so she shouldn't worry about it. Don't get her to do any extra work, reassure her that all she needs to do is answer as much as she can as well as she can but to not worry about what she can't do yet. She has plenty of time to learn, it's not a race. Hopefully her next school will do a better job of helping her to learn.

So in my daughter’s school they did give the results to each child (called them out of class and gave them the slip of paper which they then took home with them). It was throughout the day so my daughter had a nervous wait as she was one of the last! I do completely understand that your instinct might be for your daughter not to sit them if you know for various reasons she might do badly - but probably worth considering what the results will then be used for… My daughter is now in year 7 and I get the impression that in her secondary school they immediately put the kids who had results lower than “expected” in much smaller catch up groups for key subjects (which as long as it’s handled well and doesn’t make them feel bad is surely a good thing). They also use them to measure progress towards expected grades which has upsides and downsides and I could write much more about!

Yes - but OP says her daughter will get WTS/maybe EXS in a be subject and should be solid EXS in another. That’s not the sort of child who is withdrawn!

There is other reasons they all need to be
well enough physically and mentally

Last year my son was told what his results were in class. He was then very strongly encouraged by the teacher to share his results with other pupils. We received them a bit later with his report. I had told him that he did not have to tell anyone what he achieved but he thought he had to do what the teacher told him to.

That's very unprofessional of the teachers, firstly to tell the children their scores and secondly, to encourage them to compare.
Our children are given them in a sealed envelope, addressed to the parent/carer and given strict instructions that they must not open them. Inside there is a print-out of their results, with a letter explaining what the scores mean.

I really wish that had happened for my boy. I am usually very glad that my DC do as they are asked at school and behave. It makes life easier for them, their teachers and their classmates. On this occasion I wish he had said no. He was too anxious not to comply at school, and then came home incredibly distressed about it. They told him that he needed to tell the other children his scores to make everyone feel better about them. It didn't work.