The position of both 3-mark questions being in the last 3 items of the paper may have impacted on some children who ran out of time. The last three questions totalled 8 marks which has implications for children and stamina. At Crewe in the second half Alex (Frutos) disappeared, Harty ( Gary Hart) had a poor game. We cannot have that, it has got to be sustained. For the 2018 Key Stage 2 tests, it was decided that the Reading paper would again take place on the Tuesday following a successful trial in 2017. The 2018 SATs took place under exam conditions and were marked externally.

I will not give it too you! I ran away as fast as I could with the box in my hand. Em Sharp was shouting behind me, I peered over my shoulder and saw that she had fallen over. I finally came to a stop and took 3 big deep breaths while I was looking for a place to hide, my heart was beating really fast and I was sweating with nerves. This was my last gift from my father before he passed away. I have so many lovely memories of playing this game with father but it also is very upsetting when I think that he is no longer here with me. I replied, would you like to play with me? we could make some more lovely memories, she replied, yes that would be nice. Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9546 Ocr_module_version 0.0.10 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000158 Openlibrary_edition KS2 SATs were taken in Maths, Reading and GaPS under formal exam conditions. These papers were marked externally whilst separate teacher assessments in Writing and Science were marked by their teachers.

The significance of these three aspects of the Reading Content Domain in the national tests is a pertinent to all of us in our preparations for future tests. Pupils need a good knowledge of vocabulary, should be able to retrieve information and be able to infer meaning from what they have read. Then suddenly I found myself standing in a hot savanna and all that I heard was Em Sharps voice saying "Find water, find water, you need to find water NOW!" In the 2017 KS2 reading test, a 2-part question beginning with ‘According to the text…’ was included in the third tier. However, this year one was presented in the first tier. But one of the things frustrating them is that there has never been a game where they have been able to say the whole team was rubbish. Questions are framed using the language of the tests so there are plenty of ‘ what impression’ and ‘ what suggests’ style questions.

I wrote Albion's Dream in six months; Red Die took me 18 years (!), Shadowborne also went through many revisions. These made the dice trilogy, ghost stories in which the present is haunted by the past. Treetime was written for younger children and led to my fruitful relationship with the Istanbul publishers Yapi Kredi, who have published some of my stories directly into Turkish. Treetime is in its 20th edition in Turkey. My new book is a collection of short stories called Borrowed Voices, in which the only ghosts are literary.

Another pattern apparent in the language of the questions centred on the ability to visualise based on the information given. Visualisation sits firmly within 2d (inference) and was tested twice through the use of the phrase ‘ what impression/s’ and once through the use of the phrase ‘ what suggests’. These are phrases that most Year 6 pupils are unlikely to use in their everyday language. Again, to build familiarity and understanding of what they are being asked to do, these phrases need to be used regularly in the classroom when asking 2d questions (and also with 2g questions of which there were none this year). Excellent use of adventurous vocabulary RMc :) and lots of effective verbs. great work. Prize Box!! Still crying, I was determined to find out what was going on with it I told Em Sharp, that I'm sorry, and I won't do it again.