Year 6 SATS and Dyslexia

[lovelymama]

Hi. Is anyone able to confirm what help a child with dyslexia is allowed in year 6 SATS? I’m supporting a child I tutor with SATS but there’s no way she is going to cope with reading the paper. Is she allowed a reader? A dictionary? I can’t get her school to answer the questions and to be honest I don’t fully trust them! I just want to know what rights she has

I’m aware of the extra time she gets and they have given her this but that’s the only support and it really isn’t enough.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/key-stage-2-tests-access-arrangements

This might be helpful.

@lovelymama My DS is severely Dyslexic and did Y6 SATs last year. He got a reader and extra time for his Maths. When it came to English he was disapplied, the only child in the year. It was hard to know that he was the only one being withdrawn from doing the test, but the alternative was to make him do a test he just could not access, that would have been more damaging to his self esteem and confidence. We had a good talk with him and the teacher together and in the end DS was great about it too, anxiety and worry that he had held in was gone.
These assessments are for the government and school standards. Secondary Schools don’t rely on the SATs results, they re-assess children themselves.