If you teach/work with year 6 children, what does their SATs week look like? Do you do revision sessions during SATS week?

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Dd has come home each day broken with exhaustion this week, tearful headachy and not able to function.

Shes bright and likes learning but does have dyslexia so has to work quite hard at everything

She was with her dad the first few days so I didn't have a proper chance to chat to her, but she's told me that every day when they weren't sitting a test they were doing revision. (Bar the normal break and lunchtimes).

I'm sure when my older child did it two years ago (same school,. different head) they mainly had play time or quiet play when they weren't doing the test. In fact I remember my DD complaining a bit because she could see the year 6s out on the field having fun.

It's a bit irrelevant now I guess as she's leaving the school but I just wondered what the norm is?

And does this happen at GCSE too now? I remember long glorious afternoons in the sun after each exam! Just thinking ahead for when DD gets there, as it's clear she has a limit how much she can do each day

(and, for the avoidance of doubt, this is a child whose middle name should be "resilience", it takes a lot to make her crumble)

Absolutely not. The children are invited in early for breakfast. They then have a 30 min 'reminder' session before the tests. They have normal breaks and lunch and the afternoon is either PE, Forest School or games - anything fun as voted for by the children themselves. Tomorrow they are having auditions for their end of year performance in the morning and having a water fight in the afternoon.

This is what I would have expected it to look like. I'm just gutted for DD that her first experience of exams has been so exhausted