Y6 Friday Blog - SATs Special

Date: 7th May 2026 @ 2:36pm

I am not the kind of soppy teacher who is going to copy and paste the same old 'inspirational' poem that makes the rounds each year.

Instead, I will tell you the truth - you are going to be absolutely fine! (did you see that dash to separate main clauses?!)

By this point, you have done enough practice papers to wallpaper the entire school. You’ve answered more comprehension questions than any human should reasonably have to answer before the age of 100. And, you can spot parenthesis, which can always be removed from a sentence, from 300 metres away. (Again, see what I did there?)

But here’s the important bit.

Next week, just do your best. If you walk out of the exam and tell me that you couldn't have tried any harder, then I genuinely don't care what your result is. Go into it, and come out of it, with your head held high.

   Read the questions carefully. Remember your punctuation. Don't panic if the maths paper hits you with a question you weren't expecting. 

And remember:

In the reading paper, a 3-mark question needs you to make a point, give some evidence, and explain your answer... It doesn't require your life story.

2 and 3 mark questions in maths require some working out; get some jottings down!

Counting on your fingers is perfectly fine.

Don't get distracted - looking dramatically into the distance will not help the answer appear.

In every test (except the reading test) we can read anything to you: please use us!

Remember this... By Friday afternoon, it will all be over and we can go back to discussing far more important things like Beth's crutches, Johnny's strange obsession with the services on the M6 Motorway, Leo's buzzcut and our beautifully-written, social stories on personal hygiene.

You're ready; you’ve got this.