Printable planner
Year 6 SATs Countdown Planner
One page for the whole run-up to SATs: twelve week rows, a main focus for each, and a line for one thing that went well. The official future-dates timetable schedules the 2027 tests from Monday 10 May to Thursday 13 May 2027. Write those dates against the planner's last row and work backwards.
It pairs with our free Year 6 SATs revision plan, which explains what to put in the focus column and why the final rows should get lighter, not heavier.
Make the plan manageable
Choose one main focus per week, leave rest and catch-up space, and make the final week lighter.
- One main focus per week
- Rest and catch-up space
- A lighter final week
How to use it
- Print the page (the button below strips the website furniture and prints just the planner).
- Write SATs week's dates against the last row you need, then fill the dates backwards — start from twelve weeks out, or fewer; simply cross out rows you don't need.
- Give each week one main focus, taken from the shaky topics you marked on the Year 6 Maths and Year 6 English checklists — hardest topics earliest, while there is most time.
- Keep the last week before SATs light: rest, short review, early nights. The second- and third-to-last weeks are where past-paper practice belongs.
- Each weekend, write one thing that went well. By April that column is the proof the plan is working — for your child most of all.
The planner
| Week | Your dates | Main focus | One thing that went well |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | |||
| Week 2 | |||
| Week 3 | |||
| Week 4 | |||
| Week 5 | |||
| Week 6 | |||
| Week 7 | |||
| Week 8 | |||
| Week 9 | |||
| Week 10 | |||
| Week 11 | |||
| Week 12 |
One focus per week is the discipline that makes this work: a week with one clear job gets done, a week with four jobs gets abandoned. Daily arithmetic and regular reading run quietly underneath every week regardless — they need no row.
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