Preparing for the KS2 SATs exams with Primary MyMaths
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Are you a Year 6 teacher preparing your class for the KS2 SATs in May? Read on to find out about the support MyMaths can offer you to get your pupils ready for their upcoming tests.
Our collection of booster packs includes a dedicated ‘KS2 SATs practice’ booster pack which contains 2 arithmetic assessments and 8 mixed assessments. These worksheets give pupils the opportunity to practise SATs-style questions on a mixture of maths topics. As with all MyMaths tasks, pupils receive instant feedback on which questions they got right and wrong.
We’ve mapped some of the questions from the 2022 test papers to these worksheets to show how they can support pupils’ practice ahead of the tests.
Q2 in ‘Arithmetic assessment 1’ requires pupils to use the skills tested by Questions 11, 12, 13 and 20 in last year’s Paper 1.*
The worksheet ‘Mixed assessment 3’ contains support for several questions from the 2022 reasoning papers:
Q1 in ‘Mixed assessment 3’ and Question 8 of last year’s Paper 3 both require pupils to round an integer to the nearest ten, hundred, and thousand.*
Q3 in ‘Mixed assessment 3’ and Question 25 of last year’s Paper 2 both require pupils to translate and reflect a shape on a coordinate grid.*
Q4 in ‘Mixed assessment 3’ supports two questions from last year’s Paper 3: Question 4 on equivalent fractions and decimals and Question 18 on calculating a percentage decrease.*
When you set a task within the Teacher Dashboard, you can set a minimum pass mark; if pupils don’t achieve this, they’ll be asked to try the task again. Each time pupils launch a task they will be presented with similar questions using different values, so they can keep practising until they achieve their target score!
In the Results area of the Teacher Dashboard, you can check your pupils’ scores and view the answers they gave to the questions in the task, helping you to identify areas for intervention. You can also leave personalised feedback to give your pupils the support they need.
Viewing pupils’ answers in the Teacher Dashboard can help you to identify and address any misconceptions quickly.
If your pupils need more practice on a particular topic or strand, you can set them the relevant homework or one of the worksheets from the ‘Year 6 booster’ pack. This pack contains 8 worksheets which address objectives from the Year 6 curriculum, giving pupils more opportunities to practise at the level required for the KS2 SATs papers.
In this worksheet pupils will practise using their skills in number and place value from the Year 6 curriculum.
We wish you and your pupils all the best as they prepare for their SATs tests.
For more information about the features mentioned in this post, head to the MyMaths support site.
You might also like to visit our Oxford Education Blog for advice on supporting parents and children with SATs. Take a look at this blog from education writer and former teacher James Clements.
*Contains material developed by the Standards and Testing Agency for 2022 national curriculum assessments and licensed under Open Government Licence v3.0, which can be accessed via the following link: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence