This, given to my daughter and her y6 classmates ahead of Sats on Monday, is a delight. Wish all teachers prepared for exams like he @AllSaintsBheathpic.twitter.com/hpwvnM5REY
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So none of us in the real world (I mean wealth creation not administration) ever work and need to be prepared to work in stressful situation then ?
Clive, these are 11 year olds ffs
Well said Pat, at what age and what are we testing? The current system does not teach people for the outside world, I’d also agree, because it designed to achieve targets so politicians & officials can say targets met, ie they are treating primary kids as a commodity 
SATS also don’t determine whether you get a job or not, they are not GCSES or A Levels or whatever, they determine what the child knows so they can support them. So why should we put loads of pressure on 11 year olds for something like that? They should be out having fun.
Yr 6 sats determine what set/class you will be put in secondary school. If you are in lower set in secondary schools you are basically doomed. So I'm not buying this 'their only 11 tear olds arguement'. The education system puts pressure on kids and families at a very young age
But there is only so much you can remember at that age anyway and will either know it or not (especially for things like maths). Plus I wouldn’t say you are doomed - I was terrible at maths and managed to self-teach myself throughout secondary school and do the GCSE a year early.
As always there are the odd success cases. I remember kids in lower sets not being entered for full quota of gcse's & only sit foundation papers. The set system seperates the intelligent kids from who are not & when ur in the lower sets ur chances of succeeding are far less.
But surely that is the right thing to do? It is hard enough to pass on the higher papers, so why should the children who struggle more leave with nothing? It ensures they get more help (unless you were in my school where there was 90 pupils per class and so no one got any help)
Actually the main point of tests is really to find out what kids know so we teachers know what we need to teach them next. It's when tests become only about performance and accountability that we forget the whole point is to help children learn.
Good grief. I agree with you on something for once!
SATs are to determine how effective teachers are! We have to be accountable, sadly it's the children who are put under pressure.
Although 'knowing' is not the same as understanding: sadly something our education system doesn't appear to encourage or facilitate...
So what is the point of education? Seems like a waste of time to me if you're gonna ask me to "play in my garden".
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