KS2 SATs Parents’

Meeting Together we can succeed

Timetable from Monday 14th – Friday 18th May 2018

Date Activity Time Marks

Monday 14th May 2017 English Grammar, Punctuation and

Spelling Paper 1: Questions

English Grammar, Punctuation and

Spelling Paper 2: Spelling

45 Minutes

20 Minutes

50

20

Tuesday 15th May 2017 English: Reading 1 Hour 50

Wednesday 16th May 2017 Mathematics Paper 1: Arithmetic

Mathematics Paper 2: Reasoning

30 Minutes

40 Minutes

40

35

Thursday 17th May 2017 Mathematics Paper 3: Reasoning 40 minutes 35

Friday 18th May 2018 No tests

There is no science sampling for the 2017 to 2018 academic year. ( A small selection of school will

complete the assessment to assess teaching across the country)

Writing is teacher assessed in June. Moderation with other schools and county moderation will be

completed during June.

Spelling Punctuation and Grammar

English: Grammar, Punctuation and

Spelling

Part 1 (Punctuation & Grammar Questions) is a notably hard test that contains a series of questions on SPaG topics including:

• Nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, determiners, conjunctions, clauses etc.

• Subjunctive verbs, passive and active voices, subordinate clauses etc.

• (The use of) capital letters, commas, inverted commas, apostrophes, colons, semi-colons, hyphens etc.

• Suffixes, homophones, synonyms and antonyms.

Part 2 (Spelling Test) is unchanged from previous years. Your child’s teacher will read 20 sentences from a script with an emphasis on a word that needs to be spelt. Within your child’s answer booklet is the same sentence but with a blank space left for them to correctly spell the word.

SPaG Papers

Year 5/6 Spelling list

100 common error words

Find words the children have not heard of before

Explore prefixes and suffixes, patterns and spelling rules

Past papers 2017

Internet- You tube: ‘Grammaraurus’

Reading

English Reading

The 2018 KS2 English Reading SATs paper will be presented in two booklets.

One booklet is the Reading Booklet that contains three separate (unrelated)

reading texts. The second booklet is the Reading Answer Booklet which contains

the questions. The questions are ordered in the same sequence as the texts.

As with previous years, the questions will broadly assess a child’s ability to fully

understand the structure, purpose and meaning of a passage of text. The

questions will test a variety of reading comprehension skills including:

• Fact retrieval e.g. “Name the four types of building detailed within the piece.”

• Structure and presentation e.g. “Why do you think the author choose to present

a table alongside the text?”

• Inference e.g. “Why do you think the author has used the word “frozen” to

describe the character?”

• Open-ended questions e.g. “Explain how and why the author has chosen to end

the story. Use two examples from the text.”

Reading

Reading Paper

• Past paper 2017

• www.bugclub.co.uk

• Reading tips booklet

• Exploring words

• Finding synonyms

• Skimming and scanning for

information

Writing

Teacher assessed

Moderation

Teacher assessments made during June 2018

Maths

Maths Paper 1, known as the “Arithmetic” paper, contains 40 marks worth of calculation-based

questions. For this paper it’s essential that your child is comfortable and competant with the following topics:

• Fractions (including mixed numbers).

• Decimals (including converting fractions into decimals).

• Percentages (and how they relate to fractions).

• Square numbers.

• Rounding.

• Applying Addition, subtraction, multiplication (long and short) and division (long and short) to ALL of the above. This includes how to apply these operations in order when required (i.e. BODMAS).

Paper 2 and Paper 3 are now known as the “Reasoning” papers and each contain 35 marks worth of more problem-solving based Maths. Children will need to apply their KS2 Maths skills (as used in Paper 1) to a variety of topics including:

• Geometry (including coordinates, rotation, reflection, symmetry etc).

• Ratios (and how to interpret them from fractions, percentages etc).

• Charts and tables.

• Units and measures (including time, temperature, money, weight, volume etc).

• Shapes and their properties (including triangles, hexagons and their angles).

• Roman numerals.

Maths

www.mathletics.com

www.diagnosticquestions.com

www.candomaths.org ArithmeQuiz APP

Past papers 2017

Can Do Maths

How are the results presented and reported?

SATs Results:

Children will receive a ‘raw score’ for each test (their total number of

correct responses).

The raw score will be converted into a ‘scaled score’.

The scaled score of 100 or above will show that your child is working at the

expected national standard.

The raw score required to achieve a scaled score of 100 will not be set until

after the SATs tests have been completed.

How are the results presented and reported? Mark Interpretation

< 100 Below Expected

Standard

100 At Expected

Standard

> 100 Above Expected

Standard

99 – 100 scale score is the

difference of around 5 marks.

• What is meant by ‘scaled scores’?

• It is planned that 100 will always represent the ‘national standard’.

• Each pupil’s raw test score will therefore be converted into a score on the scale, either at, above or below 100.

• The scale will have a lower end point somewhere below 100 and an upper end point above 100.

• A child who achieves the ‘national standard’ (a score of 100) will be judged to have demonstrated sufficient knowledge in the areas assessed by the tests.

Marks Scale

34 97

36 97

37 98

38 99

39 99

40 100

41 100

42 100

43 101

44 102

Teacher Assessment:

Reading, Maths, Writing: ‘Working Towards the expected standard’ or

‘Working at the expected standard’ or ‘Working at greater depth within the

expected standard’.

Children will be assessed against a collection of ‘performance descriptors’

for each subject. These will be continually assessed in class work until the

end of June.

The judgements are no longer a ‘best-fit’ model. Instead, children must be

achieving all objectives within a band in order to achieve it.

PKG Pre Key Stage

HNM ‘Has not met’

EXT Expected Standard

GDS Greater Depth

Common Mistakes

Rushing to start & rushing to finish.

Not reading questions carefully: 30% of children last year made an error in

reading and maths tests due to misreading a question (tick 2, draw one line

etc)

Forgetting to show workings (in Maths).

Time management

Knowing how much to write

Spending too long on one question

How can you help?

Timed homework/revision sessions

Check understanding before/after (review/editing time is important)

Encourage them to underline key words/instructions

Don’t let them rub things out; they should be able to talk through their

process and explain their mistakes

Encourage them to give opinions with multiple reasons

School was rubbish today because ...

How can you help?

Build confidence and practise weaker areas (e.g. written methods of

calculation, times tables, skim reading, fact finding etc)

Real-life maths skills:

Time – what time is it? How long until…? How long since?

Money – how much? How much more? How much change?

Fractions and Number = 80%

Explaining articulately something they’ve learnt in school.

How can you help?

Daily reading and discussion about texts is essential

Focus discussion on language and vocabulary choices by the author – I wonder

why the author has used that word? What does that make you think of? Is

that similar to anything else etc

Grammatically correct speech correction…

Spellings and Handwriting are of a much higher priority in order to achieve

the expected standard in Writing. Spellings– encourage different strategies to

help learn them.

Basic punctuation is essential in order to be ‘working towards’ in writing.

Simple mistakes should be identified and corrected in all written tasks to

ensure attention to detail and accuracy.

SATs Week

Make sure your child has lots and lots of sleep.

Your child will need a good breakfast every morning or sign them up to breakfast club.

I will be at breakfast club every morning!

Make sure they bring a water bottle and an extra snack for break time.

Remind them to try their best and go for it!

Your children will need a good lunch.

Keep your child calm… Please don’t let them stress or worry about the assessments.

Don’t be tempted to do loads of revision the night before or in the morning. Relaxthem and remind them they can do it!

We will provide all equipment

I will be available every morning to answer any questions and relax the children. Please

bring them in early if they are worried!

Class email:

class5@stow-on-the-wold.gloucs.sch.uk

What I can use the email address for:

- Questions about SATs (Can you explain… What is the answer to …. Do they need to know…..)

- Documents, handouts, info about the class general day-to-day

- Homework questions

- Questions about trips, clubs, after school activities that are related to the class only.

What still needs to go through admin@/head@?

- Absence e.g. illness, holidays, doctors etc

- Checking dates

- Medicines

- General club information

- Money/ Payments

- Friendship concerns, worries or points to raise

We will try to answer any questions and emails; however, it may not always be possible.

ResourcesPlease collect the following past papers and resources from the practical area as

you leave.

1 x Reading Paper

1 x Reading Paper Booklet

1x Mathematics Paper 1

1 x Mathematics Paper 2

1 x Mathematics Paper 3

1 x Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Questions Paper

1 x Spelling Paper

1 x Spelling to read

1 x Reading Tips Booklet

1x common spellings

Bowling trip

Date: Tuesday 22nd May 2018

Time: 2.00 – 5.30

Place: Hollywood Bowl Cheltenham

Any questions?

Thank you for all your support!

Together we can succeed!