P7 school exams SNSA

[Aberdeen123]

My son has recently done his p7 assessments (snsa - these are also done in p1, p4 and s3). School knows I am keen to have the results but coming out with all kinds of excuses not to show ne how he s done. I struggle to understand where my son is at generally as there is no homework, very little work done on googleclassroom or seesaw. No books are ever sent home. He is mainstream but has autism so not able to tell me much.
Anyway, has any of you asked for their child's snsa results? Was it helpful to know what they can or cannot do?

The school will be reluctant to hand them out to you because they might then have lots of parents every year in p7, p4 and p1 wanting them.
When you look through the results for specific children, you get to see the question and their answer. This means you'd have a copy of the exam. Different schools do it at different times of the year.
I understand why you might want to see it but it wouldn't be a good idea for the school to give it to you.
Twinkl do assessments for maths and literacy. If your school has access to it, you could politely ask if the class teacher could print a couple off for you to do at home. It wouldn't be the same, obviously, but it'd give you an idea of what he had retained.

I haven’t started my NSA with my class yet. They can be sat during a very big window.

Good idea about Twinkl, will ask. Why wouldn't the school not want to give these results? Why the secrecy?
We are desperate to know what ds can do. Being autistic, he is extremely reluctant to do / speak about anything school at home. His google classroom has hardly anything on it. Last year, on his last day, he came back with a bag with hardly anything in it and that got us worried. It looks like he does not do / learn much. We are so incredibly worried.

I did not know that. I thought they were done around easter so that it would inform the teacher for the last term. Are the results pass on to the secondary school?

You can just ask for them - put ‘Subject Access Request’ in the subject of your email. They have a month to respond to a SAR but they can ask for ID first.

It's not the school that don't want you to know, it's the government. They're heralding us as different to England. No assessments in primary. If results go out, schools can be ranked. Papers would publish league tables etc. there's general data you can be given but it won't be that useful tbh. Even as a teacher I see so many faults. The fact a lot of questions are multiple choice, that they're done on iPads, topics you've yet to cover because the school decided to do it before the end of the year, wording you hadn't used with the class etc. it's often not a true reflection.

Tbh, if it's maths, you'd be best just asking your son to say his tables, write 6 digit numbers you've said and then use place value to add/take away so many tens, thousands etc. give him a mixture of written sums for adding, taking away, multiplying, dividing. Ask him for equivalent fractions and what a fraction is in its simplest form. Add money, read a bus time table etc. If he can do that, he's fine 😊

The school cannot refuse to give you the results. indeed, if your child is over 12, and asks, they cannot refuse then wither. Just put your request in writing or on an email or letter and point out you are entitled to any data held by the school. Just for clarity, there are certain data that can be withheld, usually to do with child protection or children with 2 households, but SNSA data cannot be withheld.