Glynne Primary School SATs Information Evening Standard Assessment

Glynne Primary School SATs Information Evening Standard Assessment Tests

Glynne Primary School SATs Information Evening SATs Timetable Mon 11 th May Tues 12 th May Weds 13 th May Thurs 14 th May GPS Grammar, punctuation and vocabulary (45 mins) Spelling (Guidance - 20 mins) Reading Test (60 mins) Arithmetic Paper 1 (30 mins) Reasoning Paper 2 (40 mins) Reasoning Paper 3 (40 mins)

Writing – Ongoing TA • write effectively for a range of purposes and audiences, selecting language that shows good awareness of the reader (e. g. the use of the first person in a diary; direct address in instructions and persuasive writing) • in narratives, describe settings, characters and atmosphere • integrate dialogue in narratives to convey character and advance the action

§ select vocabulary and grammatical structures that reflect what the writing requires, doing this mostly appropriately (e. g. using contracted forms in dialogues in narrative; using passive verbs to affect how information is presented; using modal verbs to suggest degrees of possibility) • use a range of devices to build cohesion (e. g. conjunctions, adverbials of time and place, pronouns, synonyms) within and across paragraphs • use verb tenses consistently and correctly throughout their writing • use the range of punctuation taught at key stage 2 mostly correctly (e. g. inverted commas and other punctuation to indicate direct speech) • spell correctly most words from the year 5 / year 6 spelling list. • maintain legibility in joined handwriting when writing at speed.

Glynne Primary School SATs Information Evening English Component Description Number of marks Component 1: Grammar, punctuation and vocabulary Short answer questions (selected and constructed response) presented in order of difficulty 50 marks Component 2: Spelling 20 sentences from which targeted spelling words have been left out 20 marks

Glynne Primary School SATs Information Evening English Language structure • • • • Standard English nouns • tense verbs agreement adjectives • subject adverbs agreement connectives • double pronouns negatives prepositions • use of ‘I’ and articles ‘me’ statements • contractions questions Additional skills: commands • past clauses progressive phrases tense • Subjunctive • Active and passive Vocabulary • word meanings • vocabulary in context • word groups • synonyms • antonyms • prefixes • suffixes • singular and plural Punctuation • • • capital letters full stops question marks exclamation marks commas in lists commas to mark phrases or clauses (avoiding ambiguity) inverted commas apostrophes brackets ellipses colons

Glynne Primary School SATs Information Evening English Spelling To sound out phonemes To analyse words into syllables and other known words To apply knowledge of spelling conventions To use knowledge of letter strings and visual patterns To check spellings To revise and build on their knowledge of words and spelling patterns The meaning, use and spelling of common prefixes and suffixes The spelling of words with inflectional endings The relevance of word families, roots and origins of words To use appropriate terminology, including vowel, consonant, homophone and syllable

Scaled Scores • Each child will achieve a raw score Reading /50 GPS /70 Maths /110 The government will decide what raw score is required to obtain a scaled score of 100 (expected standard. ) Anything below that raw score will result in a lower scaled score and therefore represents not reaching the expected standard. Anything higher may result in a higher scaled score, if a child achieves a scaled score of 110 they will achieve the ‘higher standard. ’

GPS scaled scores • In 2019 the raw score needed to achieve the scaled score of 100 was 36/70 51% • In 2019 the raw score needed to achieve a higher standard was 56/70 80% These figures may change for 2020.

Glynne Primary School SATs Information Evening English Reading • 60 minutes to read answer questions • Different texts included: stories, interviews, poems, explanations etc. • 50 Marks available

Glynne Primary School SATs Information Evening English Reading Assessment Focus • Decoding of text, to read for meaning • Understand, describe, retrieve information from text • Deduce, infer or interpret information • Identify and comment on features and structure • Explain and comment on writer’s choice of language • Identify and comment on writer’s purposes and viewpoints (not all focuses will necessarily appear in any one text at any given time)

Reading scaled scores • In 2019 the raw score needed to achieve the scaled score of 100 was 28/50 56% • In 2019 the raw score needed to achieve a higher standard was 41/50 82%

Glynne Primary School SATs Information Evening Maths Arithmetic paper(40 Marks) 30 mins Paper A (non calculator, 35 marks) Paper B (non calculator, 35 marks) Both 40 minutes

Maths Arithmetic Glynne Primary School SATs Information Evening

Glynne Primary School SATs Information Evening Maths • highlight key words • encouraged to show working out on test papers • mark awarded formal method (if answer is incorrect) • mirror, pencil, protractor, ruler, no erasers

Maths scaled scores • In 2019 the raw score needed to achieve the scaled score of 100 was 58/110 53% • In 2019 the raw score needed to achieve a higher standard was 95/110 86%

School • Mindfulness • Stressbox • SATs Practice weeks • Interventions • Maintaining the curriculum

Glynne Primary School SATs Information Evening Home Support and talk to school Revision BBC bitesize My Maths School has paid for membership Past Papers 2003 -2015 Please do not use 2016 onwards Monster SATs School has paid for membership

Breakfast SATs 2019 We are inviting all the Year 6 children to have ‘Breakfast’ with us, for the week beginning 11 th May 2019 at 8. 30 am. MENU Cornflakes, Weetabix Toast with Jam or Marmalade Orange Juice, Hot Chocolate, Milk We would like all children to be part of the team and participate in the occasion.