KS1 SATs Evening

SATs

What are they?

Why do we do them?

How will we be preparing for them?

Timeline and structure

May 2018 – children will be completing SATs papers during this month.

We can choose when to complete the tests during this time to ensure we

give children the best possible chance at success!

The timings are quite flexible so pupils will be given sufficient time to

complete the tests.

Marked internally by school.

English

Writing - judged through teacher assessment.

Reading – Paper 1 will be a selection of texts with questions throughout

- Paper 2 will be a reading booklet and a separate answer

booklet.

Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG)

- Paper 1 will be testing spelling

- Paper 2 will be looking at grammar, punctuation and vocabulary

Y1 Phonics check

Reading

Range of genres, including fiction, non-fiction and poetry

Paper 1

Not allowed support with the reading of texts and questions

Paper 2

Higher demand

Pupils will be given the opportunity to complete both papers.

Paper 1

Paper 1

Paper 2

SPaG

Based on the statutory appendices

(Appendix 1: Spelling, Appendix 2: Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation)

Paper 1

Comprises of 20 target words within contextualised sentences.

Paper 2

Short-answer questions (mainly requiring children to tick, circle, or a short

written response)

Questions can be read aloud to pupils

SPaG

Spelling must be accurate in both papers to gain the marks.

Especially when answering questions about:

verb forms e.g. changing the tense of a verb

contractions, the word must be spelt correctly and the apostrophe in the correct place

prefixes and suffixes, the whole word (the root and the suffix / prefix) must be correct

plurals

Children must also use capital letters correctly throughout the papers.

Maths

Paper 1

Arithmetic

Paper 2

Mathematical reasoning and problem solving

All questions can be read aloud

Children will only be allowed a pencil, rubber and ruler.

Paper 1

Paper 2

Paper 2

What will SATs look like at Totley?

Informal

How can you support your children?

Homework (including spellings)

Regular reading at home – thinking about comprehension as well as fluency

Ideas for home

SPaG

Sentence order: cut up a sentence, can they put it back into a sentence? Does it make sense? What punctuation do we need?

Sentence sort: sort sentences into the different types (command, statement, question, exclamation)

Fix my sentence: correct a sentence (punctuation). Can they improve the sentence by using adjectives, verbs, adverbs etc.

Plural sort: sort the words into groups depending on if they have –s as their plural or –es (clap the syllables, if it has an extra syllable then it is ‘-es’, words ending in ‘x’, ‘ch’, ‘sh’, ‘s’ generally have an –es plural ending).

Prefix / suffixes: match a range of words with their prefix / suffix.

Spelling check: correct the spellings in a sentence, this could relate to the words / spelling pattern we are looking at this week.

Ideas for home

Reading

Who is their favourite character? Why? Can they create a ‘character map’

of them (writing or drawing everything they know about them from the

story)

Can they answer questions about the book they have read

→ can they find the evidence to support their ideas

Create a storyboard to show the main events in a book, which characters

were involved? how were they feeling at each point in the story? Why did

they act the way they did?

Ideas for home

Writing

Creative writing: choose a picture to write about. Create a mind map of

words you could use (think about word types – adverbs, nouns, verbs,

adjectives). Orally rehearse a sentence to write. Write this down as a draft

sentence. Read it back through – does it make sense? Can you improve it?

Can you use a different sentence opener? Can you add in any more

adjectives? Can you extend the sentence by using a conjunction?

Ideas for home

Maths

http://www.theschoolrun.com/sats-revision-your-ks1-sats-maths-helper this

website has some practical ideas for meeting the different objectives

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/ - interactive games

Problem solving: http://nrich.maths.org/teacher-primary this has a range of

activities across different maths topics.

Q&A