The New Curriculum and
Key Stage 2 SAT
PARENTS INFORMATION EVENING
Agenda
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Introduction to the new curriculum and standards
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Higher expectations
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Life without levels
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What we are doing
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How you can help
From the Government
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National curriculum levels will be removed and not replaced.
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From 2014 the curriculum will make no mention of levels.
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The new national curriculum programmes of study set out what pupils
should be taught at the end of each key stage.
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Teachers will continue to track pupils’ progress and provide regular
information to parents. We will not prescribe a single system for ongoing
assessment and reporting.
National Curriculum Tests
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Statutory national curriculum tests at key stages 1 and 2 will continue with
the first tests in summer 2016
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The new national curriculum tests will be more demanding, with a higher
and more ambitious expected standard. This will ensure that those who
clear the bar are genuinely ready to succeed in secondary education.
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We propose to report national curriculum results using a scaled score, and
compare pupils against the national cohort by decile.
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In order to measure pupil’s progress, we will report how each pupil
performs at key stage 2 compared to pupils with similar prior attainment.
ASSESSMENT IN ENGLISH
2016
English assessment is based upon the
three main foci:
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Reading
Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling
Writing
Reading
The Government assumes that every child can
read competently and fluently by the age of 10.
Therefore, the reading comprehension test is
based upon eight further reading foci.
Reading
However, 82% of the marks come from only three foci.
34%
Retrieval of information
32%
Making inference i.e. reading ‘between the lines’
16%
Explaining the meaning of words
Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling
The GPS test is based upon seven
separate foci. The marks are more
evenly spread this time; however,
there are different weightings.
Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling
70% of the marks are available from the top three
categories. These are:
28%
Punctuation
26%
Grammatical terms/word classes
16%
Verb forms/consistent tense use
Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling
There are 20 spellings in the test, which are based
upon known spelling rules. For example:
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Prefixes/suffixes
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Ible/able endings
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Words with silent letters
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Tion/sion/ssion/cian endings
Your turn now!
Over to you!
Time for a spelling test…
How did you do?
occasion phenomenon
syllables
broccoli
conquered
tribal
correspondent vaccination
synchronised
rhythmic
Which sentence is written in the
active voice?
The book was returned to the library yesterday.
The assembly was held in the hall.
The floods were caused by the heavy rain.
The bad weather led to the cancellation.
Which sentence is written in the
past progressive tense?
After Ali finished his homework, he went out to play.
Gemma was doing her science homework.
Jamie learnt his spellings every night.
Anna found her history homework difficult.
Which of these following sentences
is punctuated correctly?
There are thirty seven year-olds in Class 2.
There are thirty seven-year-olds in Class 2.
There are thirty-seven year olds in Class 2.
There are thirty-seven-year-olds in Class 2.
Writing
This is very different this year. The Government has
produced an ‘interim framework’ for assessment
during 2015-2016.
This is valid for this year only and means that
assessment could change radically or not at all next
year.
Writing
Pupils are judged now over a 2-year period in KS2.
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Years 3 & 4
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Years 5 & 6
Writing
Year 3 & 4 have eight criteria. They are very simplistic and
include:
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Use paragraphs to organise ideas
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Describing settings and characters
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Using different verb forms mostly accurately
Writing
Year 5 & 6 have nine criteria. These include:
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Using adverbs, preposition phrases and expanded noun phrases effectively to
add detail, qualification and precision
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Using a range of cohesive devices, including adverbials, within and across
sentences and paragraphs
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Using inverted commas, commas for clarity, and punctuation for parenthesis
mostly correctly, and making some correct use of semi-colons, dashes, colons
and hyphens
Writing
The main difference this year, is that for a child to achieve the
expected standard at Year 6, he/she must ‘tick every box’.
Like the driving test, it is a yes/no decision – either they have made
the expected standard or they haven’t.
This is not a ‘best fit’ system.
All criteria must be in place for Years 3 & 4 as well as Years 5 & 6 for
the standard to be awarded.
Writing
Spelling counts.
This is a deal-breaker – regardless of how creative or
technically accurate a child’s writing is, if spelling is not at
the required standard, then the judgement must be made
that the child is not at the required standard.
Writing
Handwriting guidelines say children should be:
Maintaining legibility, fluency and speed in handwriting
through choosing whether or not to join specific letters.
This is the only point upon which a teacher may argue
leniency.
ASSESSMENT IN MATHS
2016
Maths SAT (approximately level 4 – 6)
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Arithmetic Paper
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Reasoning Paper
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Reasoning Paper
Example Arithmetic questions
Reasoning paper
Old SAT (level 3 – 5, extension paper
level 6)
New expectations in Maths;
pupils in year 6 need to be ‘secondary ready’.
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Fluency
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Reasoning
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Problem solving
What are we doing in Maths?
 Catching
up the gap from Y4, consolidating Y5
and trying Y6 when appropriate
 Regular
times tables and arithmetic practice
 Teaching
the new curriculum as and when pupils
are ready to move on - mastery
 Using
formative assessment and Assertive
Mentoring to identify and address any gaps
How can you help in Maths?
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Times tables ( flash cards can be downloaded form the website)
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Games
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My Maths
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Easter revision
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Encouragement
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Parents’ calculation policy for reference
How can you help in English?
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Questions?
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