KS1 SATS Meeting

Welcome to Class 2.

Welcome

This meeting will be a brief overview of the year 2 SATS that will take place in May

2016. If you have any questions please feel free to ask.

Papers

• English grammar, punctuation and spelling test.

• English reading test.

• Mathematics test.

English grammar, punctuation and spelling test.

This test will consist of 2 papers. Paper 1 will be a spelling test and paper 2 will be a

grammar and punctuation question booklet.

Grammar and punctuation

• Nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs • Past and present tense • Punctuation: apostrophe, questions mark • Complete the sentence, missing words • Contractions: it’s, I’ll, didn’t, you’ve • Statements, questions, commands and

exclamations • Adding s and es to words • Sentence structure, being able to identify and

correct sentences

English Reading

The reading test will consist of 2 papers.

Paper 1 will combine reading prompts alongside the questions. The questions will relate to the reading

prompt at the top of each page.

Paper 2 will consist of a reading booklet containing 2 different texts and a separate answer booklet

containing questions based on the texts.

Mathematics The maths tests consists of an arithmetic paper and

a reasoning paper.

The arithmetic paper contains calculations such as addition and subtraction. The children will have to choose a method to work out the answer, whether that be mentally or with jottings such as a number

line.

The reasoning paper consists of the teacher reading questions and the children answering them in their

answer booklet.

Paper 1: arithmetic

• Addition: 36+24=

• Subtraction: 39-8=

• Multiplication 3x3=

• Division: 35 divided by 5=

• Multiple step calcualtions: 15+3+3=

• Missing numbers: 50 - ____ = 20

• Fractions: ¼ of 20=

Writing

• There will be no writing paper.

• Children's writing will be teacher assessed.

Scores • No levels

• Children will be assessed against the national expectation for their year group.

• The children's marks will be converted into a scaled score.

• The national benchmark is 100, this is where they are expected to be.

• Children who achieve above 100 will be working higher than the expectation for their year group.

• All schools will have the same national benchmark.