What is SATs Companion?
A team of teachers and headteachers, based in SW London, developed an online system to cover the new KS2 and Year 6 SATs curriculum for English and Maths.
Our innovative online platform was designed, based on research, to address the key challenges teachers, pupils and parents are facing for the KS2 SATs.
The core issues we overcame were: lack of curriculum resources based on the new question styles, to reduce teacher workload through data, planning and marking, provide effective GAP analysis with positive pupil & teacher impact. Lastly, to provide excellent value for money for schools during a budget crisis.
Our vision is for every Year 6 pupil to achieve and excel beyond the expected standard for Maths & English, to ensure they are Secondary school ready.
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 Company | Business Name: SATs Companion HQ Location: United Kingdom Founded: 2016 |
| Age Range | 8-10, 11-13, 14-16 |
 Features | AssessmentInterventionSatsYear 6Ks22023 SatsEnglishMaths Science Reduce Teacher WrkloadGap Analysis |
 Languages | English |
 Accessibility | Moderate features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy Policy |
 Requirements | Internet - Low BandwidthInternet - High BandwidthDesktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookMobile - iPhoneMobile - iPadMobile - WindowsMobile - Android SATs Companion is tablet, laptop and desktop friendly and only access to the internet is needed. |
 Set Up | For teachers and pupils, no technical capacity is needed. We have a GDPR complaint pupil import process which the school can do within 30 mins. |
 Training | Live OnlineDocumentationVideos We have help videos within the teacher and pupil platform but we recommend a 30 minute on-line training session for the teachers. |
 Support | EmailKnowledge BasePhone Support24/7 Live Rep We hold free monthly training sessions |
| Home Learning | Parent Access School must create the account. |
SATs Companion PricingPricing Plans Paid Subscription SATs Companion pricing starts from £14 / per-pupil The base price for from a minimum of 15 to 30 pupils. amounts to £14 (excl VAT) per student, per year. | |
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Mar 2023
It is a great resource. I am still fairly new to it so not probably using it to its full potential.
Liz found SATs Companion:
- Significantly saves school money“Activities are online so there is a reduction in photocopying. Use of SATs Companion instead of purchasing published revision books.”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Used for homework activities - really quick and easy to set. No marking as children receive immediate feedback. If a child or group requires a specific intervention, the resources can be located quickly.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Work can be set to support a lesson. Videos used to introduce topics to the whole class then bespoke tasks for specific children or groups. If a child needs additional practice on a topic, this can be set quickly. Reports clearly show who has or has not grasped a concept.”
- Slightly improves attainment“Difficult to separate from high quality teaching.”
Mark Wilkinson
Year Six Teacher
Used SATs Companion weekly for 7–12 months
Mar 2023
Great resource for staff and children, personalised learning in a nutshell!
Mark Wilkinson found SATs Companion:
- Moderately saves school money“replaces staff intervention costs”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“less tine setting tasks & marking, or identifying gaps”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“can quickly recap previous learning and prior knowledge and focus on misconceptions and next steps”
- Moderately improves attainment“targets specific areas for children to improve”
Louise Allen
Classroom Teacher
Used SATs Companion weekly for 0–3 months
Mar 2023
Louise Allen found SATs Companion:
- Moderately saves school money“Less printing”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Not having to mark homework”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“To use videos to consollidate learning”
- Slightly improves attainment
Chris Edwards
Class Teacher
Used SATs Companion weekly for 0–3 months
Mar 2023
We think it is a useful tool, particularly for home learning
Chris Edwards found SATs Companion:
- Moderately saves school money“Less photocopying”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“No marking. Less time finding and setting homework”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Children can go over different areas of maths”
- Slightly improves attainment“More opportunities for practise of key skills”
katherine davies
Head of School
Used SATs Companion daily for 0–3 months
Mar 2023
Incredibly helpful team at the end of the phone or email. Reasonably priced and delivers what it offers!
katherine davies found SATs Companion:
- Moderately saves school money“Blended learning approach - we are a very small school and can't afford a TA in each class. When appropriate, SATS Companion enables me to work with certain year groups with the assurance that the other children are receiving targeted, impactful provision.”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“I don't have to source additional tasks for homework / reading comprehension etc.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Now I am familiar with the site, I can source what I need quickly.”
- Moderately improves attainment“I am using it to consolidate learning in class, plus provide additional targeted support to close gaps. Parents are supportive and really like it too. Children are eager to use it. I don't have hard data yet, but confidence is definitely growing.”
Sophie Hodgson
Deputy Headteacher
Used SATs Companion weekly for 0–3 months
Feb 2023
Feel I could use it more in class if I had more flexibility as a full time teacher possibly.
Sophie Hodgson found SATs Companion:
- Does not significantly save school money
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“Great to have an online tool with thousands of questions for children to practice.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency
- Slightly improves attainment“Assessments in a few weeks time will be more telling.”
Feb 2023
Need to see impact on next assessments
Nikola Bayliss found SATs Companion:
- Slightly saves school money
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Reduce marking. Provides instant gap analysis for teachers”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Enables targetted teaching to close the gaps”
- Moderately improves attainment
Emily Grocott
Year 6 teacher
Used SATs Companion daily for 0–3 months
Feb 2023
It’s really good but sometimes the answers can be a bit glitchy for the children so they then lose the progress in the task
Emily Grocott found SATs Companion:
- Slightly saves school money“Less printing costs”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Self marking assessments, self marking homeworks”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“It’s good to do the Go Live tasks in class to gain instant feedback”
- Moderately improves attainment“Children are able to carry out retrieval tasks more frequently to embed key skills”
Me - Fiona Brodrick
SLT and Y6 class teacher
Used SATs Companion daily for 1-2 years
Feb 2023
Due to reduced workload of teacher and the positive impact on pupil results. Also, the pupils are more likely to become engaged during revision sessions when using SATs companion as opposed to alternative revision guides.
Me - Fiona Brodrick found SATs Companion:
- Moderately saves school money“We no longer purchase pupil revision booklets”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“I don't need to find revision tasks and photocopy practice papers”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Reduced workload”
- Moderately improves attainment“We began using SATs Companion with last years Y6 pupils and we obtained our best ever SATs results”
Neil Loftus
Deputy Headteacher
Used SATs Companion weekly for 0–3 months
Feb 2023
It definitely saves time and has over 30,00 SATs style questions.
Neil Loftus found SATs Companion:
- Slightly saves school money“No”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“We no longer have to mark the homework. We also used it to assess the pupils in the AUT 2 Assessments. This saved us a lot of time with question level analysis.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“We have just started using it for Maths boosters. Using the Go live function we are able to quickly assess how the ability of the class with certain areas of maths and then specific pupils during that booster session can be targetted.”
- Slightly improves attainment“It is a little to early in using the program to see the effects yet.”
Jade
Assistant Head Teacher
Used SATs Companion weekly for 0–3 months
Jan 2023
My daughter uses it at her school and she not only really enjoys it, but it has helped her understand some tricky concepts. The feedback that I got from a recent parent survey, was really positive and they were keen for us to purchase.
Jade found SATs Companion:
- Slightly saves school money“We haven't had it long enough to know this yet.”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Targeted to children's learning needs and reduces the time and cost of printing homework.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Videos are clear and can help support the teaching.”
- Slightly improves attainment“We aren't sure yet.”
Sarah Orves
Head of School
Used SATs Companion weekly for 0–3 months
Dec 2022
It works really well to target individual needs but as with any online platform you are reliant on strong internet connection, which in rural areas is not always guaranteed
Sarah Orves found SATs Companion:
- Moderately saves school money“Offers bespoke intervention which would otherwise cost TA hours”
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“The workload is not reduced just changed, as the teacher now spends time setting the tasks the each individual needs”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“It improves because support can be targeted at the individual specifically”
- Slightly improves attainment“I have not been using it for long enough to see the impact on attainment”
Mrs Green
Year 6 Class teacher and Year Lead
Used SATs Companion daily for 1-2 years
Dec 2022
Because we use it so often and it reduces our workload.
Mrs Green found SATs Companion:
- Slightly saves school money“It is expensive but we believe worth it for the way we use it.”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“It is our homework system so the fact it self marks and evaluates the results for us saves us an abundance of time.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“We use SATs Companion as an end of lesson challenge activity. Children know the areas they are working on and they complete an activity in that area. We also use it as an Early morning work option too.”
- Moderately improves attainment“It has identified and closed gaps.”
Wendy
Teacher and subject leader
Used SATs Companion weekly for 0–3 months
Nov 2022
Easy to use, reduce workload, satisfied parents regarding homework
Wendy found SATs Companion:
- Slightly saves school money“Saves photocopying of SATS papers”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“No marking or finding of gaps”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Tailor teaching to gaps identified”
- Significantly improves attainment“Gaps identified and rectified”
Kate Warburton
Teacher
Used SATs Companion weekly for 1-2 years
Nov 2022
It's useful for SATs style practise questions
Kate Warburton found SATs Companion:
- Does not significantly save school money“Reduction in some homework sheets used”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Homework books not needed to be marked”
- Does not significantly improve teaching efficiency“Setting tasks for children to do rather than photocopying”
- Does not significantly improve attainment
Oct 2022
It's child friendly, motivating, reduces teacher workload and raises attainment - what's not to like?
Mrs Wolfenden found SATs Companion:
- Does not significantly save school money“The subscription is reasonably priced so no real impact on school budget”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Setting homework is much quicker and there's no marking”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Planning for SATs revision has been improved and takes less time”
- Significantly improves attainment“Children's scores are improving on the tasks and the practice area is proving invaluable”
Oct 2022
Could not be without it - kids love it and respond well to the platform, parents can be involved without needed skill set and it not only supports teachers but reduces workload.
Jess found SATs Companion:
- Significantly saves school money“No need to keep purchasing resources as all in on place. Aids homework, revision and interventions which we used to buy into seperately.”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Homework and interventions - marked answers reduces marking and making the resources. the data helps inform all areas of intervention.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“enables you to hone in on specific weaknesses and individualise provision very easily as it is so accessible”
- Significantly improves attainment“home learning and revision - allows to not only practise and consolidate but also learn when needed”
Mar 2021
Children have enjoyed using it and teachers have educed workload.
Colum Donaghy found SATs Companion:
- Significantly improves attainment“Children using the software and developing better understanding of questions linked to GPS.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Less workload due to ready made resources. Allowing groups to be made to target specific children.”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Activities and question banks already there to access and for children to use.”
- Slightly saves school money
Oct 2020
It’s a game changer! It’s an opportunity for learning to be consolidated both inside and outside the classroom, and along the way, the reports give us the opportunity to target focus groups immediately. It allows us to spend time doing what makes the most difference - plug gaps! The user friendly interface has had great reviews from the kids, and all adult groups within the school have been able to utilise the report functions with ease.
Kiron found SATs Companion:
- Significantly improves attainment“Opportunity for immediate intervention based on outcomes has allowed us to target certain groups. Last academic year, 92% of the children on the “cusp” of achieving age related expectations proudly managed to do so as a result of the interventions we used with the help of SATs Companion”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Last year, the programme was used primarily for homework. This year, during a 2 week lockdown, daily go live maths lessons were delivered to 60 children. It would’ve been impossible to assess understanding without this!”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Not having to generate or look for age related questions has been a MASSIVE game changer! Time spent marking is now spent delivering targeted interventions (all based on the reports that SATs Companion generate). A couple of clicks of a button allow us to find the focus groups!”
- Significantly saves school money“Great before and after care has made us feel very looked aftered! It is most definitely money well spent!”
Scott
Used SATs Companion for 3 years
Apr 2019
Because it is actually fantastic. The best home learning tool for year 6 that I have found and have continued using. There is no competition.
Scott found SATs Companion:
- Significantly improves attainment“Interventions and pinpointing areas for further development. Videos available for children to independently access. Effective homework and revision tool. Clear evidence of progress that is visual and useful for the children. ”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Same as above. ”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Useful as a homework and revision tool.”
- Does not significantly save school money
- Significantly provides school data“Data dashboard available for children and teacher to see progress, attainment, participation and areas to develop. ”
Craig Clarke
Used SATs Companion for 3 years
Apr 2019
The service provided is outstanding. We are given good before and after care and get value for money.
Craig Clarke found SATs Companion:
- Significantly improves attainment“Our 3 year trend shows an improving picture year upon year and progress is also positive. We are above national, whereas previously we were below.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Teachers are able to set certain tasks and targets for individuals.”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“The marking is all done for the teachers.”
- Significantly saves school money“ ”
- Significantly provides school data“Assessment lead uses data provided to set targets for individuals.”
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