The amount of pressure put on children, is, in my opinion, wrong. In the grand scheme of things SATS results are irrelevant for everyone except the school; they want the children to do well for the sake of the league tables . They don't really have any bearing on what a child can achieve as they get older. My younger daughter came out with a 4 in her Literacy. Seven years later she achieved a Grade A in her A Level English Literature exam, having only dropped 4 marks on her final paper. She's now studying English Lit and Sociology at uni, and doing well there too.