Year 6 SATs useful information for parents
SAT 2026 dates
Useful Dates: (key dates attached as a jpeg)
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The 2026 Key Stage 2 SATs will take place in the week commencing 11th May 2025. The tests will take place over four days.
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Children in Year 6 (those aged 10-11) will take these tests in their primary school classrooms in England, UK. SATs will be taken in Maths, Reading and GaPS (Grammar, Punctuation and separate Spelling paper) under formal exam conditions. Each exam is strictly timed.
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SATs Week 2026 starts Monday 11th May
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Around the period of SATs week, teachers must design and carry out their teacher assessments in Writing and Science. Once completed and marked, they must submit teacher assessment data to the NCA tools website.
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These papers will be marked externally whilst separate teacher assessments in Writing and Science will be designed and marked by their teachers.
Parents guide: https://youtu.be/532MUvA81tM
The page is full of SATs revision options that your child can choose from depending on their own needs. Please practise areas you feel your child needs to work on.
These do not need to be handed in but will greatly support them in their work towards the SATs.
Preparing for SATs
To help prepare children for the 2026 Key Stage 2 SATs, you are able to download the 2024, 2023, 2022, 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016 papers free of charge.
All past papers include an English reading paper, a full set of mathematics papers and the short answer questions in the grammar punctuation and spelling paper.
Use past SATs papers to prepare for the 2026 KS2 SATs
Whilst not working to the same curriculum, Key Stage 2 SATs from 2015 (and before) are still useful to aid preparation.
We recommend you download and use every spelling test from this period and ensure you use the spelling test audio too.
As well as using past SATs papers, parents should use our free Online SATs Tests
These multiple-choice tests in English and Maths are really useful for preparing towards their KS2 SATs.
We recommend using practice SATs papers at home
Lastly, ensure you take a look at our informal SATs help guide, our free guide to SATs Revision and our 12 Crucial SATs Tips for success in the 2026 KS2 SATs.
2026 KS2 SATs Results
Each school’s results will be made available to their headteachers in July via the NCA tools website. Parents will be given their child’s scaled score (and sometimes raw score too) around this period with a note to say whether they achieved the expected standard, exceeded it or fell below it.
Useful Websites:
English Revision
Maths Revision
https://www.mathsisfun.com/ (good for revising formal methods of calculation, including fractions)
http://www.math-aids.com/ (create your own worksheets for any topic)
Year 6 SATs useful information for parents
