Cinnamon Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 SATS for 14 year olds have been s"Ooops, word censored!"ped & Cleo was due to take hers this school year. She has gone off to school with a spring in her step this morning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffie Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 I bet she has Sarah Buffie x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeckyBoo Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 I heard that on the radio too and although it doesn't affect mine I thought there would be a few happy teens today!! Makes a nice change for them to be s"Ooops, word censored!"ping tests instead of introducing new ones! Mrs B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 I read yesterday that they had been s"Ooops, word censored!"ped, but I couldn't find anywhere that said there would definitely be no year 9 SATS next summer. If they are s"Ooops, word censored!"ped I also have a daughter in year 9 who will be thrilled! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted October 15, 2008 Author Share Posted October 15, 2008 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1077608/Labours-school-test-fiasco-After-12-years-ministers-FINALLY-U-turn-tear-SATs-exams.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 My ED is not impressed she did hers last summer and got no results until mid September and DS was rubbing it in at breakfast that he wouldn't have to do them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 another very pleased girl here then! Fortunately her school has never laid much store by these SATS, concentrating more on GCSE choices, so I don't think it'll make a lot of difference. DD3 said yesterday that her reading age was assessed as 18+ as was her spelling where she got 73 out of 80! She'd achieved the SATS levels required at 14 in year 6 anyway (as had all my children and many others), so they really are stupid at this age and require very little level of achievement. good riddance, I say! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Wonderful. I bet it is a load off your mind too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mutrix Farmers Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Son took Year 9 SATS last term and we've never seen the results. I'm glad they're s"Ooops, word censored!"ping them, they are of no educational value to the children whatsoever!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubereglu Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 I just worry what's going to happen instead-unfortunately this doesn't affect me as I'm in Year 11...but it will make it very difficult for a while as lots of teachers are going to have to come up with new lesson plans...plus it means that the kids won't have anything to focus on so discipline is fairly likely to get worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitbag Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Im in year 11 too, and i think it is really unfair to stop them just like that. My sister is in year 9 and she keeps dancing around the house because she is ssooooo happy. gggrrrrrr i dont know about anyone else, but i had an enormous lot of pressure put on me in yr 6 and yr 9 (cant remember yr 2). Oh well Kitbag xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scramble Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 SATs have been s"Ooops, word censored!"ed at our school as well, I'm in Year 9 and am very VERYY Happy about his. Until they told us we'd just be doing Leveling Tests instead. Which is basically the same thing except s different name... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 I just worry what's going to happen instead-unfortunately this doesn't affect me as I'm in Year 11...but it will make it very difficult for a while as lots of teachers are going to have to come up with new lesson plans...plus it means that the kids won't have anything to focus on so discipline is fairly likely to get worse. The teachers will LOVE coming up with new lesson plans and actually TEACHING instead of just preparing children for testing. The kids might actually get the chance to learn something too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riane Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Thank the Lord! Someone in a big office has actually had a good idea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Now we just need the rest of the SATs s"Ooops, word censored!"ping! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 I heard this in the car on my way home from school the other day and nearly drove off the edge of the A1 in delight. No more KS3 teaching dominated and skewed by the need to pass a test at the end of it. About blooming time. Now, as Snowy says, just the KS2 ones to go and I'll be delirious with delight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocchick Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 I must admit I think it is good. It was relatively low key in my school, but from working in a comprehensive school I was shocked how much the teachers prepared and coached the kids through it almost like GCSEs. Also, there are already 2 sets of exams to show how the school is doing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlo Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 My two are also delighted. I agree completely with Penguinmad about the fact that teachers can actually teach rather than forcefeed through exams. Here's hoping that they s"Ooops, word censored!" the KS2 ones now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted October 23, 2008 Author Share Posted October 23, 2008 Just wanted to update this. Cleo is now FUMING & so am I The school have said they are still to sit the exam & the teachers will mark them. Can they MAKE us do this do you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 I bet the teachers are thrilled too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Presumably there won't be the same pressure though because it won't go on to league tables. The school may feel that they need to identify any weaknesses in their teaching at this stage before they start teaching for GCSE courses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoid Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 They need some sort of exam to see how they are progressing. Its a too big a gap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlo Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 I don't think that my two were expecting to get away without any end of year exams. I think that the advantage is that the schools will (hopefull) not just be forcefeeding exam related information and putting loads of pressure on the students. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 My daughters have assessments every term and we get grade reports (as a pose to the full report we get once a year) afterwards. They don't feel that's too much. It also allows teachers to move them up or down a set as necessary. I really wouldn't worry about the 'nonSats'. They're not worth getting het up about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Couperwife Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 We assess our students every half term we give them targets to work on for thier next unit of work and go through the same process again. SATs were only for 3 subjects anyway - they bought it in for ICT a few years ago and it was a joke - and we never got the results back (imagine how happy our students were for that one) surely continuous assessment is more effective than teaching to a test script. cathy x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
