Important information for Year 2 parents/carers

It is a statutory requirement that pupils in year 2 complete national curriculum tests (SATs) in the summer term.

The tests will provide information about how your child is progressing, compared to children the same age nationally.

They are not qualifications and don’t affect your child’s future options in school. The results are used to ensure that schools are teaching your children the essential knowledge and skills in the subjects that are the early building blocks. This is to ensure every child reaches their full potential.

There were changes to the tests last year at both key stages. This is because the tests are based on the new national curriculum, which your child has been taught since September 2014.

Teacher assessment is used to report children’s attainment and progress to parents. Teachers will use the key-stage 1 test results to help them to reach an overall judgement of the standards children have reached in English, reading and mathematics. You will also receive a teacher assessment judgement for science, but there is no science test.

You will receive your child’s results by the end of the summer term.

A useful document, outlining the main areas of the national curriculum tests and ways you can support your child, has been uploaded on the Year 2 noticeboard.