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Year 6 SATS

GHOSTRYDER45

My stepdaughter is in year 6 in a main stream school. We are looking at trying to get her into a SEN school September 2025. However she is currently being forced by her current school to sit all mock exams and go through all tests that she is incapable of doing due to her autism, dyslexia and podible dispraxia. The school are aware of her diagnoses yet still they give her tests with multiple questions on one page that she can neither read or understand or are anywhere near her capability, so she cones home in floods of tears, feeling anxious, feeling left out and feeling stupid as she can't do what the others can in her class. I with her mum and constantly up at the school complaining that this is not supporting her. Is this true that she still has to be subjected to this academic torture for her on a weekly basis now and subjected to tests that make her feel this way almost on a daily basis. I feel this is so wrong for a school to be subjecting a student with autism and other diagnosis like my step daughter through this kind of targeting shaming just cos the law states they have to do SATs. Surely this is wrong as my stepdaughter doesn't understand and reads that of a 3 year old so why subject her to this torture it makes no sense other than to torture her morally with inside and out. Please any positive advice welcome as I feel it's soooo wrong...  

  • in reply to Robert124

    Yer we tell her this all the time, and do our best to reassure her, but she goes into school and comes back in tears saying she was made to take the tests and class mates laughed at her and teacher did nothing. 

    She was given homework recently where she had to unscramble letters to create words 32 on one page....being a dyslexic and have autism she was put off before she even started despite our efforts as parents to support her. We have told the school so many times to have only one or 2 questions per page for her as otherwise it's too much for her, yet still after 6 years they don't seem to listen. She can't spell words with letters in the right place let alone trying to unscramble letters and create 32 different words.

    I just find it so frustrating that she is being subjected to that level of support at her school which is making her feel that she can't achieve anything and allows her to be labeled and shamed in this way.

  • Tell her to relax and don't take the tests seriously. It's not the end of the world.

    I remember a friend from school who couldn't understand maths at all.  In one maths exam he spent the hours drawing a very detailed fish.