Last week, we completed our final practise sats before the real thing. Currently, we have finished all of the year six criteria and are preparing ourselves for it.
On Monday, we had the SPaG test (which is spelling, punctuation and grammar) where we have fifty minutes to complete it and fifty questions to complete. Also, a spelling test which requires twenty spellings read out by Miss Darvill.
On Tuesday, we had the reading test. It is the longest and probably the trickiest one (at one hour long) and it has three different texts in it to answer questions about - normally a poem, story and a non-fiction text. In this test we had: a fact file about space; a poem called giants about snails and frogs; and a story called the lost world which was about explorers and dinosaurs.
On Wednesday, we had the first arithmetic maths test: half an hour long and worth forty marks.
On Thursday, we had the reasoning paper 2. That has approximately thirty-five marks. Usually, it includes word problems, problem solving questions, angles, shapes, measurements and more.
When it gets to Friday, in the real sats week we will go to have pizza and go bowling to celebrate all of the hard work we have achieved.
But on Friday this week we completed the maths reasoning 3 paper then.
In addition, in the real sats week, on the Wednesday we will have the arithmetic paper and the reasoning 2. Because in the current practise sats week, we had another school event on that day. Also, the reasoning 3 will be on the Thursday.
I wrote this so you (as a reader) know about the year six sats. In my writing I tried to include elements from the year six expected and greater depth standard as this is a piece of my writing. Such as high level punctuation such as colons, semi-colons, brackets, dashes, hyphenated words and a spelling from the year six spelling list. This is a formal piece of writing with mature language, so I used traces of informality to make my writing greater depth.
