oh please!! How long has this teacher had these kids? a term! (mind you her reaction might have been a little off the wall)

I have had my kids (year 5 and 7) for a term and a few weeks, i can not possible ensure they know everything from previously years and everything that is scheduled for this year. it is only term 2, they still have 2.5 terms of this year to go.

Well, I guess my son must be doing them then. They've not been mentioned in my house, even by my Mrs who is very on the ball about what goes on at the school.

Maybe thats because the school hasn't made a big fuss about it, which IMHO is what should happen at every school.

funny thing happened today- the bloody practise question answer was wrong. Seriously WTF?

I agree, if it was England it would be "ooh, the NAPLANS are coming, better get the kids to stay in, stress out and revise for an exam that is TESTING THE SCHOOL AND NOT THE KIDS!"

Jaysus, I couldn't believe it when our friends in the UK told us their daughter was revising for SATS.

Child number two has been sitting these... totally unphased by the school over them, in fact he sees it as a bonus because their head teacher stopped all home work (temporarily) because he doesn't want them stressed about them!

And this is a child who was becoming a uk school 'refuser'

I have been adminstering these test this week in year 3. For all those people who think that Australian schools are way behind English schools should think again. The tests my year 3 kids have been doing here are on the same level as my year 6 kids used to do in the UK. My class have coped with them quite well thank you and are totally unstressed about them. We had some practice runs last week but have otherwise kept them so low key that the kids all forgot they were doing them this week until the time actually came.

They haven't forgotten that we're having a movie day at school on Friday though to celebrate the end of testing

My Nieces school in the U.K ran extra classes during the Easter school break so the kids could get extra lessons in for their Sats!!!! Needless to say, my Niece did not go
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my son has been doing them this week too and is totally chilled out about them, the school has been great, havent had homework this week so they can just forget about school when they walk out the door. They are all kept in their original class rooms as going into a hall etc would stress them out. Well done school.

I have to agree. I looked at a sample paper for Yr 3 and was quite surprised!