Year 6 SATS Information
Key Stage 2 SATS tests will take place in the week commencing 12th May 2025. Parents are asked to ensure that their child is in attendance for this week and avoid all absences in the preceding weeks to help with revision.
A full programme of in-school revision sessions will commence in the Spring term 2025 and parents will be invited to a KS2 SATS preparation meeting in January 2025.
Revision resources
All Year 6 pupils will be issued with an English and a Maths revision booklet published by CGP. These are being loaned by school to help pupils prepare. We ask that they are not written in and then they will need to be returned to school after the SATS tests have been taken in May. The guides give a thorough coverage of the knowledge and skills the children will need to take their SATS, explaining the concepts and terminology, as well as presenting some key questions to check pupil understanding. The SATS papers are a test of all learning from across Key Stage 2 (Year 3 to 6) and so learning from the past four years will be tested on each paper.
In addition to these revision book being provided, listed below are some additional resources that may be of use to you as your child prepares for their SATS. The list below is by no means exhaustive but it is designed to help parents access relevant additional materials to help with revision.
Maths:
Corbett Maths
This website is designed for Maths revision with video guides, questions and answers to work through at home. There are also differentiated ‘5 a day’ mixed questions, in a SATS-style format, which the children can use daily to keep their Maths learning current.
SATS PaPers - Practice Materials
This website has prepared question and answer booklets based on previous SATS papers and organised them into areas of Maths of revision. The questions and the answers can be downloaded for free.
White Rose Y6 Curriculum WorkBooks
These resources are produced by our Maths Scheme to help consolidate learning from in school, across all areas of Maths in the primary curriculum. The resources below are targeted at Y6 but workbooks for prior year groups are available on the White Rose website (link below).
Many of the methods and strategies taught in Maths may be different from those parents learned at school.. White Rose have also produced teaching videos for each area of the Maths curriculum, for each year group. These can be accessed using the link below: p[ease then select Year 6 (New Schemes) and tick Autumn, Spring and Summer Terms to have access to all appropriate teaching videos.
BBC Bitesize - KS2 SATS Maths
The BBC has collated and organised revision resources for Maths, including supporting guides and interactive games for both aspects of the Maths SATS.
English:
BBC Bitesize - KS2 English
The BBC has collated and organised revision resources for English, including supporting guides and interactive games for both grammar and reading SATS tests.
Grammarsaurus
Grammarsaurus provides a wealth of resources for revision across all subjects, but especially for grammar and reading.
SATS PAPERS - PRACTICE MATERIALS
This website has prepared question and answer booklets based on previous SATS papers and organised them into questions about different types of texts (aimed at the Reading tests primarily). The questions and the answers can be downloaded for free.
Spelling Resources
Past SATS Papers
Past SATS papers, mark schemes and pass thresholds are available below (organised by the year they were taken). Parents are advised that pupils will use the 2019 and 2022 papers for further SATS practice so we would ask that you don’t use the 2019/2022 papers to revise at home.
General Revision Resources
https://whiterosemaths.com/parent-resources (Free)
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/ks2-planning-and-assessment/ks2-planning-and-assessment-sats-survival/ks2-planning-and-assessment-sats-survival-information-for-parents (Subscription required)
https://www.plazoom.com/collections/ks2-sats-support (Subscription required)
https://grammarsaurus.co.uk/portal/ (Subscription required)
https://www.youtube.com/c/KeyStage2Maths/featured (Free Maths Video channel for Key Stage 2)
https://www.youtube.com/c/MrWall/featured (Free SATS revision Videos for Key Stage 2)
Young Minds - support around exams and revision
Here are two really useful resources about how to place SATS into perspective, how to encourage your child to feel confident about themselves coming up to the tests and how to support them in preparing for SATS week. The advice in the parent guide is sensible and proactive which will help all our pupils do their best in the weeks ahead.