SATs 2020 PARENTS BRIEFING

Children of parents showing high levels of interest in their schooling can progress
between 15-17% more in maths and reading between the ages of 11 and 16 as
compared to pupils whose parents showed little or no interest.
Research carried out by Feinstein and Symon

 SATs 2020                                    PARENTS BRIEFING

Year 6 SATs information evening
Introduction           Mr J Hughes
English                Mrs L Minshull
Maths                  Mrs S Ruck
Special arrangements
Questions

Overview –                   11th      –     14th      May 2020
One set of tests for each subject
English Tests                                          Maths Tests
Paper 1 – SPAG – 45 minutes (50 marks) short answers   Paper 1 – Arithmetic 30 minutes (40 marks)
Paper 2 – Spelling – 15 minutes (20 marks)             Paper 2 – Reasoning 40 minutes (35 marks)
Reading Paper – 60 minutes (50 marks)                  Paper 3 – Reasoning 40 minutes (35 marks)

Other Assessment
Pupils’ writing assessed throughout the year.

Overview – what is my child expected to achieve?
For the KS2 tests a scaled score of 100 will always represent the
‘expected standard’ – equivalent to an old Level 4b
The scaled score will be based upon the pupils’ raw score.
• 80 is the lowest scaled score that can be awarded
• 120 is the highest scaled score
The raw score is their total number of marks they receive in the test.
A conversion table will be used to translate raw scores into scaled
scores.

Converting raw scores – sample 2017
SATS Raw Scores

Results
Results will be published on Tuesday 7th July and shortly afterwards
each pupil will receive:

◦ A raw score
◦ A scaled score
◦ Confirmation of whether or not they have reached the expected standard

SATs timetable -          11th    –   14th   May 2020
        Date                             All children
Monday 11th May      Grammar and Punctuation Paper 1
                     Spelling test Paper 2
Tuesday 12th May     Reading test

Wednesday 13th May   Mathematics – Paper 1 – Arithmetic
                     Mathematics – Paper 2 – Reasoning
Thursday 14th May    Mathematics – Paper 3 – Reasoning

Overview – SATs week
Normal timetable is changed for all Year 6 pupils.
Tests will be conducted in familiar surroundings
SATs breakfast will be provided
Additional or extended breaks
Additional staff will be deployed to support children

English
All pupils will sit the same papers.

Tests
Grammar, punctuation, vocabulary – 45 minutes
Spelling – 15 minutes
Reading paper – 1 hour

Writing – teacher assessment

Reading

• The Reading Test consists of a single test paper with three unrelated reading
  texts.

• Children are given 60 minutes in total, which includes reading the texts and
  answering the questions.

• A total of 50 marks are available.

• Questions are designed to assess the comprehension and understanding of a
  child’s reading.

• Some questions are multiple choice or selected response, others require short
  answers and some require an extended response or explanation.

Assessment Foci

Short answers
Some questions are followed by a short line or box.
This shows that you need only write a word or phrase in
your answer.

Several line answers

Some questions are followed by a few lines.
This gives you space to write more words or a sentence or two.

A longer, more detailed answer is needed to explain your opinion.
You can write in full sentences if you want to.

Other answers
For some questions, you do not need to write anything at all.
You should tick, draw lines to, or put a ring around your answer. Read the instructions carefully so that
you know how to answer the question.

Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Test
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Maths
  Three Papers:

  A raw score of approximately 60 is required
   to meet the National Standard.

  Children are not allowed to use a calculator for any of the
   tests and are encouraged to write down all their working.

Maths Paper 1 Arithmetic

Maths Papers 2 and 3 (Reasoning)
•40 minutes each.
•Worth a total of 35 marks each.
Papers 2 and 3 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”

Reference: https://www.theschoolrun.com/key-stage-2-SATs-2018

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Useful Maths websites and APPs:
GAMES AND PUZZLES
                                                APPs
•   http://www.coolmath4kids.com/
•   http://www.subtangent.com/maths/games.ph •      MathDoodles Carstens Studios Ltd
    p                                        •      SushiMonster scholastic
•   http://www.fun4thebrain.com
•   http://www.amblesideprimary.com/amblewe •       Meerkat Math RevSquared LLC
    b/mentalmaths/mentalmachine2.html        •      Quick Math Shiny Things
ALL MATHS                                       •   Operation Math Spinlight Studio
                                                •   Doodle Math Wiza Game
•   http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/
•   http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/ga •   Equivalents Jamtec (Stoke) Ltd
    meswheel.html                               •   Multiplication!! Horizon Business Inc
•   http://www.aplusmath.com/games/index.htm
    l                                           •   Transformations Pyramid Programming Ltd
•   www.mymaths.co.uk                           •   My Math Master Muhammad Salman
•   http://uk.ixl.com/math/year-6
•   http://www.compare4kids.co.uk/mental-
    maths.php

SATs week – how to prepare your child
Ensure that they get a full nights sleep
Make sure that they have breakfast
Send/ bring them to school so that they arrive in good time
properly equipped
Check the test timetable

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What happens if my child is ill?
• They stay tucked up in bed until they are better
• If they recover within 5 school days of the test they
miss, they can still take it when they return
• If they take longer to recover they will be given no
SAT level for any subjects they miss, but they will still
be given teacher assessments

Special arrangements
Readers
Scribes
Extra Time
Late start – to enable extra support

                                        Questions

Grammar & Punctuation Test
Areas to be tested:
 Word classes – nouns, adjectives, articles etc
 Features of sentences – statements, commands, questions
 Complex sentences – clauses, subordinating connectives
 Standard English – tenses, I and me, contractions
 Vocabulary – synonyms, antonyms, word meanings, prefixes and suffixes,
singular and plural
 Punctuation – capital letters, commas, inverted commas, apostrophes, ellipsis,
colons etc

Spelling Test
20 sentences with words to fill in:
 We sat at the table to eat our ________ (dinner)
 The plants _______ butterflies (attracted)
The dancers’ movements were _____ (synchronised)

Previous spellings include:
Intelligent dangerous characters       scales
breathe islands extinct      supreme     associated

Reading Test
One hour to read a booklet containing 3 different text types and answer
questions about these texts. 2019 paper is closely linked to the curriculum
so children can use all the skills learnt in lessons.
Types of text:
story / report / diary / web pages / journal / letters / comic strip /advertisements

Types of questions could include:
inference / deduction / understand
interpret / explain / comment
writer’s viewpoint, purpose or use of language / structure and organisation of the text

Markers are looking for:
Pupils who can:
 Infer and deduce
 Follow instructions
 Use varied / technical vocabulary
 Write in the required style / genre
 Write in full sentences with a good range of punctuation /
appropriate sentence length
 Write with a clear viewpoint

Writing
The overall writing judgement will be made by looking at
pupils’ work over the course of the year.
This will be moderated internally, by other local schools and
possibly by an external moderator.
The range of styles include:
Narrative, Poetry, Recount, Report, Instruction, Procedure,
 Explanation, Persuasion, Argument

Ways to help at home – Spelling
 Post-its
 Spelling rules
 Point out spellings around the house / in shops / on outings
 When listening to your child read, point out certain spellings
 Use the Home Spelling Book.
 Note words and their spellings in the context of the sentences

Ways to help at home - Reading
 Read a range of non-fiction and fiction texts – identify the features
of the texts.
 Listen to your child read – use the Home Reading Book. Ask
questions about their reading.
 Find different types of texts in your home.
  Talk about WHO they are written for / WHY they have been written / WHAT style
   has been used / WHEN the text style is used / WHERE these texts are found / HOW
   the texts have been organised.

Ways to help at home - Writing
 Vary sentence structure
• Begin sentences with different words
• Use a variety of punctuation
• Use a topic sentence to begin paragraphs
• Encourage description and expand detail

Essentials
Pupils MUST:
 Read and follow instructions very carefully
 Check that they understand exactly what is expected
 Know what they have to do to reach the ‘expected’ standard
 Remember to use their class targets
 Use the strategies taught in class (DIAL/PEE)
 Ask WHY

Revision aids - English
 List of websites in pack
 Revision booklet
 SPAG checklist
 Spelling list
 Memory aids
 CGP books

Maths – style of papers (past test papers)
Pupils will sit a test in November and further test papers will be used as a mock SAT in March
2018.
In lessons pupils are already using past questions from papers to practice the skills they are
learning.
Copies of past papers are available at:
www.emaths.co.uk/index.php/4-students/past-papers/ks2-sat-papers
www.satspapers.org/mathsKS2SATS.htm
www.satstestsonline.co.uk/sto_past_papers.aspx

Ways to help at home - Maths
One of the most important ways is to sit down and talk to your child:
 Discuss what they have been doing in each Maths lesson. Ask them to explain.
 Go through their homework tasks with them. If they can do the work independently then go
through it with them afterwards, discussing how they did it and identify any mistakes. (Either
explain the work to your child or ask them to see their teacher)
 Use the support materials Mathletics web-site, CGP Targeted Question Book and Key Stage 2
Study Book, Tool Kit and Past Papers etc. Encourage your child to go through these, explain
things to them if they are unsure – or remind them to ask their teacher.
 Be careful with Calculation Methods – some pupils will be using informal methods – ask you
child to explain the method they use. A hand out is included in the envelope showing the
preferred methods.

Ways to help at home - Maths
Many questions involve solving a problem and working in
context.
Ask questions about the world around them, involving:
  telling the time, differences in time, reading bus and train timetables,
  T.V schedules, cooking times, 12 and 24hr clock etc.
  measuring, estimating, checking – length, area, capacity/volume,
  mass/weight, temperature (positive/negative), angles etc.
  money, shopping bills, change, tickets etc.
  working out fractions and percentage of quantities

Ways to help at home - Maths
Certain things children need to learn, for example
 Types of number: recognition of prime numbers, square numbers, factors and multiples
 Average: mode, median, mean, range,
 Conventions for co-ordinates
 Reading and plotting graphs
 Shape & Measurement: Properties of 2D shapes including triangles and quadrilaterals,
 sides on a pentagon and the nets of 3D shapes such as cube and cuboid, parallel lines,
 perpendicular lines, degrees in a line, types of angle.
 Perimeter, area and formulae
 Conversion between units
 Fractions, decimals and percentages and their conversion one to another.

Ways to help at home - Maths
Develop strategies –
 drawing measurements on diagram, using tracing paper,
 annotating graphs, showing working,
 use of trial and improvements, applying inverse operations,
 following one step at a time in problems, reading questions carefully

Lessons and intervention
The teachers are used to:
 Enabling pupils to explain their methods to solve problems.
 Using specific activities for pupils to develop and share their mathematical language, use and
apply problem solving strategies and to build confidence in their ability to ‘explain the maths’.
 Sometimes, always, never activities
 True or False activities
 Say what you see
 What’s the same, what’s different?
 Watch what you do – can you see the pattern?

Success in Maths is all about confidence and enjoyment.

Revision Tips - Maths
 Extra lessons/Intervention with Mrs King and Mr Watson are already being provided.
 In Spring term these will increase to after school study sessions with Mrs Watson, Mr
 Brooks, Miss Simpkins, Mr Hackett and Miss Woodman.
 Doc Watson’s maths surgery is also available.
 Attendees to Breakfast Club will have random ‘reasoning’ questions given so they can
 practice their skills.
 Maths in Motion (lunch time club on a Wednesday for revision) – practice solving
 ‘reasoning’ questions.

Revision Aids - Maths
CGP Targeted Question Book.
The Key Stage 2 Study Book
Mathletics & TT Rockstars: Pupils have User names & passwords.
Can be used at home/at school.
Other web sites:                                                 Further Mobile Phone Apps

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/                        Android e.g. Maths Bug, Oh No
                                                                 Maths!, Maths Practice, Equivalent
www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/revision/
                                                                 Fractions
www.12xtables.co.uk
                                                                 Apple: e.g. 3D Maths Racing,
 Further recommendations have been included in the pack.        Meteor Maths, Math Blaster
                                                                 Hyperblast

Revision Tips - Maths
When revising maths, don’t just look or read: you need to do it!
 Short periods of 10 – 15 minutes at a time are ideal.
 Use ‘Post it Notes’ for key words to help the memory.
 Ask your child to explain how / why to you – it helps their understanding.
 Remind your child they can not ‘fail’ a SAT paper, but it is their chance to show just how good
they are at maths and how much progress they have made.

          Success in Maths is all about confidence and enjoyment.