SATS results - for year 6..are they out yet?

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School can't say when these are due, other than soon hopefully.

..but I have seen some facebook comments today on Sats... they out.

Still waiting for ours (Northants LEA) - we had year end reports last week and told we would get them soon

..apparently some have arrived..

Ds had parents evening on Monday, they had not arrived then. (derbyshire)

Our school has ours, we are getting them tonight at parents evening !!

The schools have ours but the parents haven't been told yet.

Our school (where ds is in Y6 and where I work) had the actual papers returned to them last week. From this the teachers were able to work out a rough level using last years bands. But then the official bands (ie any score above 69 is a 4a for example) came out on the 6th July. So now they can set the final levels. I have been given ds's results but everyone else will received their dc's results on Friday with the end of year report.

I've just collected ds, the school have them, they have written the number (3/4/5) on a piece of paper but there's no a/b/c yet, the results are with the school secretary and she is making copies for the parents.

Full results came home tonight

All results were delivered electronically yesterday. Schools will need time to prepare and print off the results before sending out. I would imagine the end of the week is the latest you should need to wait.

Is the highest they can go up to level 5? His teacher said she filled in the teacher assessment and said that she thought he was higher, his 'quick' result was a level 5 though.

Yes, the official SATs only go up to 5a.

Ahh, Thankyou. I thought they went up to 5C/5a? How can his teacher mark him as higher if they only go up to 5?

it could be that the teacher assessment is higher, this would be extremely rare, but the highest a child can get on the year 6 SATs test paper is a 5a.

You will probably find you don't get the levels subdivided into a/b/c as they are only guides used by teachers. You are most likely to get information on the level eg 3, 4 or 5

thankyou.

"How can his teacher mark him as higher if they only go up to 5?"

Because the tests concentrate on a very narrow focus, whereas teacher assessment uses lots of different sources and takes account of lots of evidence from every single aspect of a level in absolute minute detail!

How does the teacher assessments affect the tests? I know they do in Key stage 1, I wasn't aware of them affecting Key stage 2

They stand alone from each other, unlike KS1, and legally have 50% equal weighting.

Guess which ones secondary schools prefer as a rule.....

Hmm. The one in which children are assessed on the day, whether they are having an off day/nervous ill or not?

No - most of them go for the sensible, measured version.

Sorry, Pixie - cross posts. I was answering belle and meant teacher assessment as the sensible, measured version, as in arrived at over time

Got ours tonight, all 5s so im feeling very proud woop woop

secondary schools take no notice of them at all and retest all the children in the first few weeks

Depends on the secondary school concerned, benandoli. Some of our local secondary schools do as you mentioned, some set using teacher assessments, some don't set at all in Year 7 and one I know of uses SATs to set for Maths.