THE school exams are upon the nation's children again.
From when the SATs starts to if you can download past papers, we've got the lowdown for you.
When are SATs 2019?
The Key Stage 1 will be carried out over the month of May, 2019.
The phonics screening test week starts on Monday, June 10k, 2019.
The Key Stage 2 SATs exams will run from Monday, May 13 to Thursday May 16.
The KS2 exams will start with English grammar, punctuation and spelling on Monday and the English reading test on Tuesday.
The mathematics examinations will commence on Wednesday with papers 1 and 2. There will be a third paper on Thursday, May 16.
Can you download past KS1 and KS2 papers?
Practice materials for the phonics screening check, key stage 1 and key stage 2 national curriculum tests, including sample papers and past test papers are available to be downloaded from Education Training and Skills on Gov.uk, which you can find here.
Parents and pupils can also find resources for the 2016 and 2017 exams as well as guidance on scaled scores.
Materials are available on mathematics, English read, grammar, punctuation and spelling tests.
Why have parents threatened to boycott the tests in the past?
In 2018 some parents boycotted the test after drafting a withdrawal letter by Let Our Kids Be Kids for parents to send to their child's school informing them they would be boycotting the forthcoming SATs exams as the pressure the ten and 11 year olds face is "damaging" has been downloaded by thousands of concerned parents.
A spokesperson for campaign group Let Our Kids Be Kids said at the time: “Teaching unions are right to suggest there’s a moral basis for boycotting these high stakes tests – so widely recognised as being pointless and damaging – but parents want action now.
“Parents are furiously sharing photos of practice Sats papers that 10-year-olds are sent home with and teachers are describing the frustration they feel at being ignored by the government.”
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In 2019 Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he would scrap the SATs, calling the tests a "regime of extreme pressure testing" in primary schools.
He said at the National Education Union's conference in Liverpool: "We need to prepare children for life, not just for exams.
"Sats and the regime of extreme pressure testing are giving young children nightmares and leaving them in floods of tears.
"I meet teachers of all ages and backgrounds who are totally overworked and overstressed. These are dedicated public servants. It's just wrong."
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