KS2 SATS 2016

What can you and your child expect?

New ArrangementsIn the summer term of 2016, children in Year 2 and Year 6 will be the

first to take the new SATs papers. These tests in English and Maths will reflect the new national curriculum, and are intended to be more rigorous. There will also be a completely new marking scheme to replace the existing national curriculum levels.

At the end of Year 6, children will sit tests in:

•Reading

•Maths

•Spelling, punctuation and grammar (SPaG)

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

SATS Without Levels

From 2016, scaled scores will be used to report national curriculum test outcomes. For the KS2 tests a scaled score of 100 will represent the ‘expected standard’. 

Each pupil registered for the tests will receive:•a raw score (the number of marks awarded)•a scaled score•and confirmation of whether or not they attained the expected standard

An explanation of ‘scaled scores’ from the DfE

• Scaled scores are used all over the world. They help test results to be reported consistently from one year to the next. We design national curriculum tests to be as similar as possible year on year, but slight differences in difficulty will occur between years. Scaled scores maintain their meaning over time so that two pupils achieving the same scaled score on two different tests will have demonstrated the same attainment. For example, on our scale 100 will always represent the ‘national standard’. However, due to the small differences in difficulty between tests, the ‘raw score’ (ie the total number of correct responses) that equates to 100 might be different (though similar) each year.

Teacher Assessment

Teachers will base their teacher assessment judgement for reading, writing, mathematics and science on a broad range of evidence from across the curriculum for each pupil against the Interim Objectives. To demonstrate that pupils have met a standard within this interim framework, teachers will need to have evidence that a pupil demonstrates attainment of all of the statements within that standard and all the statements in the preceding standard(s).

Teacher Assessment

For writing children will be judged against the end of Key Stage 2 objectives:•working towards the expected standard•working at the expected standard•working at greater depth within the expected standard•have not met the ‘working towards’ standard

For Reading, Mathematics and Science children will be judged against the end of Key Stage 2 objectives:•working at the expected standard•do not meet expected standard

Test Timetable

DATE SUBJECT(S) EXAMINED

Monday 9 th May 2016 English Reading Test (1 hour)

Tuesday 10th May 2016 SPaG Paper 1: Short Answer Questions (45 minutes)SPaG Paper 2: Spelling (20 minutes)

Wednesday 11th May 2016 Mathematics Paper 1: Arithmetic (30 minutes) Mathematics Paper 2: Reasoning (40 minutes)

Thursday 12th May 2016 Mathematics Paper 3: Reasoning (40 minutes)

Changes to KS2 Reading Tests

The reading test will be a single paper with questions based on three passages of text. Your child will have one hour, including reading time, to complete the test. There will be a selection of question types, including: •Ranking/ordering, 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.’

Sample Ks2 Reading texts

Sample KS2 Reading texts

Sample KS2 Reading texts

Sample KS2 Reading questions

Sample KS2 Reading questions

Changes to KS2 grammar, punctuation and spelling test

The grammar, punctuation and spelling test will consist of two parts: a grammar and punctuation paper requiring short answers, lasting 45 minutes, and an aural spelling test of 20 words, lasting around 15 minutes. The grammar and punctuation 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.’

Grammar

• Word classes/grammatical function of words: nouns, verbs, adjectives, connectives, pronouns, adverbs, prepositions, articles.

• Features of sentences: commands (imperatives), statements and questions.

• Complex sentences: clauses, phrases and subordinate clauses.

Grammar (cont.)

• Standard English: tense agreement, subject-verb agreement, double negatives, use of ‘I’ and ‘me’.

• Formal/Informal: use of contractions

Vocabulary

• Word meaning, vocabulary in context, concision and precision in vocabulary, synonyms, antonyms, word groups, prefixes, suffixes, singular and plural.

Punctuation

• Capital letters and full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas in lists, commas to mark phrases/clauses, inverted commas, apostrophes, brackets, ellipses and colons.

Spelling

• Spelling strategies: to apply knowledge of spelling conventions, to use knowledge of common letter strings and visual patterns,

• Morphology: the meaning and use of common prefixes and suffixes, the spelling of words with inflectional endings, the relevance of word families, root words and origins. The use of terminology including vowel, consonant, homophone and syllable.

What might that look like?

• Knowledge: ‘circle 2 nouns in this sentence’, ‘what is the name of the punctuation mark below?’

• Comprehension: ‘tick the word that means…’, ‘circle the word that describes…’

• Application: ‘write a complex sentence using the connective ‘because’.

What might it look like? (cont.)

• Analysis: ‘why is a colon used in the sentence below?’, ‘categorise these adverbs into time, manner and place’.

• Synthesis: ‘how could the clarity of the sentence below be improved? Re-write it making changes to punctuation and wording to make it clearer.

• Evaluation: ‘what would be the effect of replacing these parenthetic commas with dashes?

Changes to KS2 maths

Children will sit three papers in maths:

•Paper 1: arithmetic, 30 minutes

•Papers 2 and 3: reasoning, 40 minutes per paper

•Paper 1 will consist of fixed response questions, where children have to give the correct answer to calculations, including long multiplication and division. 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

Sample KS2 maths arithmetic questions

6.1 + 0.3 = 1,034 + 586 =

24 × 3 = (48 ÷ 6) + 2.5 + 0.05 =

5 × 4 × 7 = 630 ÷ 9 = 1.28 × 100 =

100 × 100 = 1,440 ÷ 12 =

20% of 1,500 =

Sample KS2 maths reasoning questions

Sample KS2 maths reasoning questions

Sample KS2 maths reasoning questions

Sample KS2 maths reasoning questions

Sample KS2 maths reasoning questions

Sample KS2 maths reasoning questions

Sample KS2 maths reasoning questions

Sample KS2 maths reasoning questions

How to support your child with maths

Knowing their timetables – children need to know multiplication tables and be able to use them accurately and quickly for multiplication, division. You can help your child learn their timetables (up to X12).

Formal method for the four operations practice: it is important child can complete methods accurately. (Methods for year 6 child: column addition, column subtraction, short multiplication, long multiplication, short division, long division including expressing remainders as fractions, decimals and remainder form)

Arithmetic speed practice

Changes to KS2 Science

Not all children in Year 6 will take science SATs. However, a number of schools will be required to take part in science sampling: a test administered to a selected sample of children thought to be representative of the population as a whole. (Monday 6 to Friday 17 June is the science sampling test period in which your child might sit the tests.) For those who are selected, there will be three papers: •Biology: 25 minutes, 22 marks •Chemistry: 25 minutes, 22 marks •Physics: 25 minutes, 22 marks It sounds very intimidating, but these are ‘questions in a physics/chemistry/biology context’, for example: •Biology: ‘Describe the differences in the life cycle of an amphibian and a mammal’ •Chemistry: ‘Group a list of materials according to whether they are solid, liquid or gas’ •Physics: ‘Predict whether two magnets will attract or repel each other, based on where the poles are facing’

Homework/Revision Help

The internet is awash with websites (of

varying quality) aimed at supporting Year

6 pupils with their studies. Some of the

recommended sites include:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/

Booster Sessions

These will commence after Christmas.x3 additional hour long sessions in• Reading • Writing/some SPaG• Maths

Spring term homework

x4 short pieces weekly

(x2 in literacy and x2 in maths)

Short turnaround (sometimes overnight) with

some self-marking/peer-marking.

Support Workbooks

Used from spring onwards

Any Questions?