All you need to help your child with SATS
This page is an introduction to our pages on SATS (Standard Attainment Tests) and SATS revision. Officially called 'National Curriculum teacher assessments and key stage tests', we have used the terminology familiar to most schools and to parents. Many more pages are available to subscribers to Parents in Touch. Below are illustrated just some examples of the many SATS papers available to our members. We also show a selection from our SATS revision papers to help improve your child's results. SATS papers from 2003 onwards, including papers for more able and less able, all the KS1 papers which are allowed to be published and more revision papers are available through our Worksheet Finder. More information.
Key stage 1 SATS
2004 KS1 Maths Teachers guide
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2004 KS1 Spelling - making soup
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2004 KS1 'The Spider Weaver' Level 3
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2003 KS 1 SATS English question book
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2004 KS1 'Africa' booklet
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2004 KS1 English Reading Answer paper
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KS1 maths SATS 2001 teachers' guide
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KS1 maths SATS 2002 teachers' guide
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Key stage 2 SATS
KS2 English 2010 reading booklet
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KS2 English 2010 reading answer booklet
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KS2 maths 2010 mark schemes
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KS2 English 2009 reading booklet no place like home
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KS2 English 2009 reading answer booklet
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2008 KS2 English reading booklet
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KS2 maths 2002 test C (level 6)
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KS2 maths 2001 mark schemes
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KS2 maths 2000 paper C part 1 (Level 6)
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KS2 maths 2000 paper C part 2 (Level 6)
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KS2 maths 2001 test C (Level 6)
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Optional Tests
Year 3 optional SATS 2003 reading booklet
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Y3 optional SATS 2003 reading answer book
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Year 3 optional SATS 2003 mark scheme
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Year 3 optional SATS 2003 story
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Understanding Progress
Understanding progress in English
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Understanding progress in mathematics
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2010 Level Threshold tables
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Level thresholds 1999-2009
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SATS key stage 1 and 2 affect nearly all children aged 7 years old (KS1) and 11 years old (KS2),. Do you understand t he implications, the ways to help and revise and the exact format of the papers? There is very little information available about any of these tests. Many books bought in the shops do not illustrate the exact format although the content may be the same. I have tried to replicate the format of the booklets, the standards required and the subject content for each age group in our papers created especially for Parents in Touch.
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SATS at key stage 1 At the age of 7, your child will be required to take tests. These tests are primarily to enable teachers to learn more about the strengths and weaknesses of each individual pupil. Each pupil will have been working at their own rate and some will find maths easier than reading or vice versa. As each child will normally have followed the Literacy and Numeracy syllabus as laid down by the government they should be ready to take the tests
There is no notion of ‘pass’ or ‘fail’. The aim is to let you know how well your child is progressing in relation to national expectations; to tell the next school or teacher what each child needs to learn next; and to inform each school about how well it is teaching aspects of the National Curriculum. Each class teacher will be aware of the strengths and weaknesses of each child and as they are very young there is no pressure or desire for the child to do anything else but their best. What a child cannot do at seven they will find easier at eight. Education is NOT a race or even an absolute science.
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KS1 SATS maths question
Jack worked out the answer to this sum 54+36=90.
Show how he worked it out |
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KS1 SATS English question What a happy boy! What do you think he is going to do with this large ‘cane’? Is it magic? Will it bring him all the things he might want? Write your ideas about the picture. |
Practice and Revision Papers We have illustrated below just a few of the wide range available. To see all our papers, search under the required subject and key stage in the Worksheet Finder
Key stage 1 SATS-type question papers: English
Key stage 1 English paper The seashore
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Surprise KS1 SATS type paper
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Key stage 1 SATS question papers:maths
Key stage 1 maths SATS revision paper
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Revision & guidance for KS1 maths SATS 2
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Key stage 2 SATS
Changes to KS2 SATS for 2012
On 18 July 2011 Education Secretary Michael Gove accepted all the recommendations of Lord Bew’s independent review of testing, assessment and accountability at the end of primary school.
Key changes to the Key Stage 2 system will make it fairer for all and more effective in raising standards.
Michael Gove said the substantial reforms would ensure that heads, teachers, pupils and parents would be able to have confidence in the new system.
Currently there is statutory teacher assessment in every core subject – maths, reading, writing, speaking and listening, and science. There are also external tests in maths, writing and reading, and a sample test in science.
The changes include:
- Replacing the current writing test with teacher assessment of writing composition. This will ensure pupils can be more creative and will overcome the dangers of teaching to the test. This teacher assessment will make up the larger part of the overall writing judgement.
- Working with the profession to develop a test of some of the essential skills needed to become fluent, confident writers – spelling, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary. We intend that it will be introduced from 2013 after trialling in 2012.
- Publishing more data in the 2011 performance tables onwards, including new three-year rolling averages from 2012, to give a rounded picture of a school’s performance.
- Placing a greater emphasis on progress made by pupils.
- Progress will be one of the two main published measures, alongside attainment. From now on any overall judgement of a school by the Government, local authorities or Ofsted will give at least as much weight to progress as attainment.
- There will be a strong focus on the progress of every pupil. New progress measures will be introduced in the 2011 performance tables to focus on the performance of low, middle and high attainers. This will help stop schools focusing on pupils on the Level 3/4 borderline.
- We will introduce new progress and attainment measures from 2012 for pupils who have completed all of Years 5 and 6 in a school. This will recognise that schools should not be held wholly accountable for the performance of pupils who have just joined them.
- Secondary schools will be given teacher assessment judgements before test results, from 2012. This will mean there is more weight attached to them and allow longer for them to inform Year 7 teaching and learning.
- Primary schools will provide more information on pupils’ performance to secondary schools so Year 7 teachers know right from the outset children’s attainment and the areas where extra work is needed. This will start in summer 2013.
- There will be a trial in 2012 of an extension to the testing period so that pupils who are ill on the day of a test have a week to sit it, rather than two days.
Maths and reading tests will continue to be externally tested but will be refined over time. Teacher assessment of science, with a sample test monitoring national standards, will continue. Speaking and listening will continue to be teacher assessed.
Ministers have confirmed that the 2012 key stage 2 national curriculum tests will be held in the week beginning 14 May 2012.
Externally marked level 6 tests in English and mathematics will be available to schools in 2012 to administer to eligible pupils on an optional basis. The dates for these tests will be Monday 21 May and Tuesday 22 May.
QCDA will be sending an update to all schools and local authorities to confirm this announcement.
The test timetable will be published in the 2012 key stage 2 Assessment and reporting arrangements, which will be sent to all schools in November 2011. Schools are asked to hold the dates from Monday 14 May to Wednesday 23 May 2012 to allow for the full test administration period.
KS2 maths question 5.01 + 0.5 = |
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KS2 English question The three teenagers were at the start of an exciting adventure in the snow. Was the abominable snowman real or not? They were about to find out. Write your account of their adventure and describe what they found, who was brave, and how they solved the myth!
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KS2 science question
Select 3 things that are alive:
- a butterfly on a leaf
- a teapot
- a pebble
- an earthworm
- a flowering plant
- a toy train
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Revision papers to help with key stage 2 SATS.
Maths
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Key stage 2 maths test paper
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Revision and guidance for key stage 2 maths
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English
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Spelling test for KS2 tests
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KS2 English SATS-type Animals
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Science
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KS2 SATS type science paper 3
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KS2 science SATS-type paper
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Procedures
2012 National Curriculum test timetable
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Monday
14 May
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Tuesday
15 May
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Wednesday
16 May
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Thursday
17 May
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Friday
18 May
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Reading test
15 minutes’ reading time with 45 minutes to answer questions
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For schools administering externally marked English writing test and schools selected in the sample
Writing test (shorter task)
20 minutes
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Spelling test
10 minutes
Writing test (longer task)
45 minutes
(including up to 10 minutes
recommended planning time)
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Mental mathematics test
20 minutes
Mathematics test A
45 minutes
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Mathematics test B
45 minutes
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Science test
(selected sample schools only.)
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Monday 21 May 2012
Level 6 test in English reading.
Tuesday 22 May 2012
Level 6 tests in mathematics.
Optional tests
We have a wide range of optional-type papers. A few are illustrated here, the rest can be found in the Worksheet Finder under Sats type and Revision papers. Other maths tests links.
Maths optional-type Year 3
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Maths optional-type Year 4
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Maths optional-type Year 5
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Revision & guidance Year 4 optional maths
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Year 3 optional English reading paper
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Year 5 optional reading task
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KS3 SATS Although pupils no longer formally sit SATS, past papers are excellent for revision and some schools still use the papers.
KS3 maths question
In the number 4.536, what is the value of the figure 3?
KS3 English question
Your school is holding Summer holiday courses. They are compiling a brochure to attract people to attend the courses, The brochure should describe what is on offer, who might be eligible to attend, and the precise timings of the courses. You should include your own ideas, favourites and what people will achieve by joining.
Write an entry for the brochure about an activity you as a teenager would enjoy.
KS3 science question
Muscle cells can contract.
Give one reason why muscles are needed in the intestine.
Progress Tests
Progress tests can be found in the Worksheet Finder under Sats type and Revision papers.
KS3 English 2009 reading paper answer booklet
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KS3 English 2009 reading booklet
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2008 KS3 science paper 1 tier 5 to 7
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KS3 maths 2009 paper 1 mark scheme
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For more detailed explanations of the results, please see our SATS Results Explained page. |
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Expected levels of attainment for each age group.
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Level 8
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Exceptional
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Level 7
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Beyond expectations
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Level 6
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Exceptional
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At level expected
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Level 5
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Beyond expectations
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Level 4
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Exceptional
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At level expected
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Below expectations
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Level 3
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Beyond expectations
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Below expectations
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At level expected
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Level 1
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Below expectations
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- Key stage 1 SATS
- Key stage 2 SATS
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Level 5
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5a
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5b
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5c
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Level 4
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4a
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4b
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End of Year 6
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4c
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End of Year 5 (between sub levels)
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Level 3
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3a
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3b
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End of Year 4
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3c
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End of Year 3 (between sub levels)
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Level 2
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2a
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2b
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End of Year 2
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2c
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Level 1
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1a
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1b
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End of Year 1
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1c
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- This table shows the average attainment for the end of each year group. Within each class there will be children working above and below this level.
- As this shows expected attainment at the end of a year, a child may well be below the average point mid way through a year but progress to an average level by the end.
- If your child is working at an above average level, you would expect this to be sustained as they progress through the school.
- If your child is working at a level below average, you would expect them to make continued progress and unless a significant need is found, for the school to aspire to an average level of attainment by the end of Year 6.
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