KS2 SATS 2019 Wednesday 13th March - Parents' Information KS2 SATS - Rivermead Primary School

KS2 SATS 2019
Parents’ Information KS2 SATS
   Wednesday 13th March

KS2 SATS WERE OVERHAULED TO BE
 IN LINE WITH THE NEW NATIONAL
     CURRICULUM IN MAY 2016

 IN THE SUMMER TERM OF 2016, CHILDREN IN
YEAR 6 WERE THE FIRST TO TAKE THE NEW SATS
PAPERS. THE NEW-STYLE SATS FOR ENGLISH AND
     MATHS REFLECT THE NEW NATIONAL
CURRICULUM, AND ARE MORE RIGOROUS THAN
   PREVIOUS YEARS' TESTS. THERE IS ALSO A
COMPLETELY NEW SATS MARKING SCHEME AND
   GRADING SYSTEM WHICH HAS REPLACED
       NATIONAL CURRICULUM LEVELS.

What is the purpose of the tests?
The tests help measure the progress pupils have
made and identify if they need additional
support in a certain area. The tests are also
used to assess schools’ performance and to
produce national performance data.

WHAT WILL BE ASSESSED?
                      ASSESSED BY TESTS

     MATHS                READING            SPaG
       3 papers             1 paper          SPELLING
  * No Calculator Paper
                                           GRAMMAR &
                                           PUNCTUATION

 These tests are both set and marked externally, and the
  results are used to measure the school’s performance.
    Your child’s marks will be used in conjunction with
   teacher assessment to give a broader picture of their
                       attainment.

Reading
The English reading test focuses on the comprehension elements of the national
curriculum and includes a mixture of text genres. The test is designed so that the texts
increase in their level of difficulty.

The test consists of a reading booklet and separate answer booklet. Pupils will have
one hour to read the 3 texts in the reading booklet and complete the questions, which
are worth 50 marks in total.

There will be a selection of question types, including:
•Ranking/ordering/summary e.g. ‘Number the events below to show the order in
which they happen in the story’
•Labelling, e.g. ‘Label the text to show the title of the story’
•Find and copy, e.g. ‘Find and copy one word that suggests what the weather is like in
the story’
•Short constructed response, e.g. ‘What does the bear eat?’
•Open-ended response, e.g. ‘Look at the sentence that begins Once upon a time. How
does the writer increase the tension throughout this paragraph? Explain fully, referring
to the text in your answer.

Grammar, punctuation and spelling
There are 2 papers:
• Paper 1: questions
• Paper 2: spelling
Paper 1: is a combined question and answer booklet. Pupils will have 45
minutes to answer the questions which are worth 50 marks in total. The
test will include two sub-types of questions:
• Selected response, e.g. ‘Identify the adjectives in the sentence below’
• Constructed response, e.g. ‘Correct/complete/rewrite the sentence
   below,’ or, ‘The sentence below has an apostrophe missing. Explain
   why it needs an apostrophe.’
Paper 2: spelling consists of a test transcript to be read by the test
administrator and an answer booklet for pupils to write 20 spellings. The
test is expected to take approximately 15 minutes, but is not strictly
timed. The questions are worth 20 marks in total.

Maths
The mathematics test comprises of 2 components, presented to pupils as 3 test
papers:
•Paper 1: arithmetic
•Paper 2: reasoning
•Paper 3: reasoning
Paper 1: arithmetic assesses mathematical calculations. The questions cover
calculations involving all 4 operations, including calculations with fractions, decimals
and percentages. They also cover long divisions and long multiplications. Pupils will
have 30 minutes to answer the questions which are worth 40 marks.
Papers 2 and 3 assess mathematical fluency, solving mathematical problems and
mathematical reasoning. Pupils will have 40 minutes to answer the questions which
are worth 35 marks per paper. They will involve a number of question types, including:
•Multiple choice
•True or false
•Constrained questions, e.g. giving the answer to a calculation, drawing a shape or
completing a table or chart
•Less constrained questions, where children will have to explain their approach for
solving a problem

WHEN ARE THE TESTS?
Date                       Paper to be written

                            English grammar, punctuation and spelling Paper 1: questions
Monday 13th May 2019
                            English grammar, punctuation and spelling Paper 2: spelling

Tuesday 14th May 2019                             English reading

                                         Mathematics Paper 1: arithmetic
Wednesday 15th May 2019
                                         Mathematics Paper 2: reasoning

Thursday 16th May 2019                    Mathematics Paper 3: reasoning

The Year 6 SATs will be administered in the week commencing 13th May 2019. If
your child is absent, in which case they may be able to take them up to 5 school
                                 days afterwards.

How will Key Stage 2 SATs
        be marked?
The previous national curriculum levels have been scrapped, and instead children
are given scaled scores.

You will be given your child’s raw score (the actual number of marks they get),
alongside their scaled score and whether they have reached the expected standard
set by the Department for Education (‘NS’ means that the expected standard was
not achieved and ‘AS’ means the expected standard was achieved).

The range of scaled scores available for each KS2 test is:
•80 (the lowest scaled score that can be awarded)

•120 (the highest scaled score)

The expected standard for each test is a scaled score of 100 or more. If a child is
awarded a scaled score of 99 or less they won't have achieved the expected
standard in the test.

Access Arrangements
Some pupils with specific needs may need additional arrangements to be put in
place so that they can take part in the key stage 2 tests. Access arrangements are
adjustments that can be made to support pupils. We must consider whether any of
our pupils will need access arrangements before we administer the tests.

Access arrangements should be based primarily on normal classroom practice and
they must never provide an unfair advantage. The support given must not change
the test questions and the answers must be the pupils’ own.

Access arrangements might be used to support pupils:
•who have difficulty reading
•who have difficulty writing
•who have difficulty concentrating
•who have processing difficulties

These children may benefit from:
• additional time
• scribes
• Transcripts
• Readers
• Prompters

How are we preparing?
 • Practising SATS papers from previous
   years
 • Continuous assessment
 • Booster classes
 • Focused maths lessons
 • Focused spelling lessons
 • Focused grammar Lessons
 • Guided and independent reading

WRITING 2019
    There is a greater focus on the progress children make
throughout the school year, as opposed to a test-day snapshot
                       of what they know.
• Children’s results for English writing will be a judgement of
  their work across Year 6.
• Schools will moderate their judgements with other local
  schools and may be moderated by their Local Authorities
  too.
• As there is no test for English writing, this will be reported
  as a teacher assessment judgement. This is a judgement
  teachers will make, based on your child’s work at the end of
  key stage 2. You will also receive teacher assessment
  judgements for English reading, mathematics and science.

How can you help?
• Support with homework and targets that have been discussed at
  Parents Evening.
• Read regularly and discuss a variety of texts – not just ‘listening’
  to your child read.
• Short bursts of arithmetic, times tables and problem solving,
  use the correct method of calculation etc.
• Brain food! E.g. Breakfast and drink – water especially (both in
  and outside school)
• Help unpick problems the children have for homework and
  encourage them to ask if they do not understand.