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Your child’s teachers will use a variety of approaches to assessment and use this information to plan learning activities that help your child build on their prior knowledge, skills and understanding. We share this assessment information with you through our assessment point reports which are published three times a year. This handy guide explains our approach to assessment and answers some of the questions that you might have as a Lakes School parent. Do please get in touch if you have any specific questions and we will be only too pleased to help. |\n| --- |\n| Why are my child’s SATs scores so important?\u003Cbr>Your child’s Year 6 SATs results reflect their ability in English and maths with English being split in to reading, writing and spelling/grammar. In each of these areas, your child will have achieved a standardised score between 80 and 120 with a score around 100 being broadly average. A score higher than 100 means that your child is in the upper half of the ability range and a score lower than 100 means that your child is in the lower half of the ability range. These SATs scores do not necessarily relate to your child’s future ability in English and maths. In addition, your child may demonstrate a particular ability in a range of subjects that is not captured by their SATs scores. The standardised scores achieved by your child provide a starting point, also called a baseline, from which it is possible to look in to the future and set targets for the years ahead. This is possible because of the way data is used nationally, across many thousands of children’s attainment, to identify links between SATs scores and the most likely grades children will achieve at GCSE. |\n| Why do you set targets for my child? Why are targets so important?\u003Cbr>Your child will study a wide range of subjects as part of our inspiring, challenging and empowering curriculum. Across all of these subjects, the curriculum is sequenced carefully over a number of years so that your child develops a deep knowledge, range of skills and level of understanding. By setting targets, your child’s teachers are able to pitch their lessons at an appropriately challenging level so that your child has the best chance of making strong progress in line with their ability.\u003Cbr>Targets give an indication of your child’s potential but it is not uncommon for students to make much faster progress than their targets - it is therefore useful to see your child’s targets as a guide and a healthy challenge for your child to work towards. Targets also help children understand their potential in different subjects. Finding out if you are performing above or below target can help children gauge if they need to work harder to realise their potential. |\n\nHow can you set targets for my child when they have just started Year 7?  \nNationally, statistics are published which show the likelihood of a child with certain SATs scores achieving a particular grade at GCSE. These statistics are shared in the form of a‘transition matrix’ and they bring together the GCSE grades of thousands of children. Each GCSE course has a transition matrix. These GCSE grades are then set against each child’s SATs scores from when they were in Year 6 to provide a percentage likelihood of achieving each GCSE grade. This is a complicated statistical process so it is best illustrated with a table. Figure 1 below shows an extract from a transition matrix for GCSE English Literature.  \nFigure 1: Example Line from a Transition Matrix  \n\n|  |  | Percentage of Children Achieving GCSE Attainment Grade in English Literature |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | -","cbCaieLh0CyVDv02","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieLh0CyVDv02","pdf",2823160,"English","# Introduction\n## Why SATs scores matter\n## Why targets are important\n## Setting targets at the start of Year 7\n## Ensuring targets are challenging and well matched","[{\"question\":\"Why are Year 6 SATs scores important for GCSE predictions?\",\"answer\":\"Year 6 SATs scores reflect ability in English and maths and are used to create a baseline. 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