Y7 Cat test

[DoingItForTheKid]

DD sat hers today. Do all schools share results with parents?

My school doesn’t share results. We just get general idea from which set they end up in. My DD said she didn’t understand the test at all.

My dcs' school didn't tell parents

Our school doesn't do them.

No. At my place, normally we would have done them on taster days in July but obviously they didn’t happen this year.
Nothing to worry about - we use them as one piece of information to help us set pupils, amongst other things. It’s useful to see a pupil’s potential to understand concepts compared to what standard assessments show.

They usually do these because primary schools over prepare the children for their sats and it doesn't give a true result of their ability.
The results are usually given to you at parents evening in form of the child's current working grade

It doesn’t look like DS’s school is planning to share his.

We did get dd's but it took a long time. It might even have been Spring term.

Didn’t get ours - used as one of several pieces of information for setting.

We don't but do speak about them on parents' Eve. If a child has a low score parents will be involved as we set up procedures and strategies

We got them. I think it’s very interesting as it shows their relative intelligence and strengths and are one of the only tests to be age adjusted so if you have summer born children it gives a better picture. Ask your school for the results - I am not sure they can refuse you them.

We didn't get the results from dds. I don't think school even time is they were doing them!

We had one school report in Year 8 or 9 (when they moved to the number grades) that gave us GCSE target grades. The report explained that the target grades were based on FFT and a formula that analysed both SATS results and CATS. That report had both the SATS and CATS results on if I remember rightly. I asked at parents evening what they were as I didn't even know what CATS were and the teacher said they were a more realible indication of what a student could achieve as they didn't prepare for them.

We got them but only because school recommended that dd be referred to an educational psychologist for asd assessment and it formed part of the information school passed onto him.

I don’t think they were given to parents as a matter of course.

My DD said they were too hard to did a pattern instead

No.

I didn't know anything about them until DS had already done his. Didn't seem to bother him in anyway. We've got a phone-based parent/form tutor thing the week after next to find out how they're doing.

My DDs has them on every report from year 7 to year 11 along with their SAT scores.
DS (différent school) had his on his first school report.

ours didn't. DD was and stayed in top sets for maths, english and science after re testing. I guess this years will be more important as they don't have sats data to go by.