00:00Hi everybody, I'm James Mitchinson, the editor of the Yorkshire Post and quite like some of you, many of you, I have an 11 year old who is in the middle of sats week and after a bit of a emotion last night, I thought I'd put pen to paper and speak to the camera with a, I suppose, in the hope of helping, I guess.
00:27But first of all, good luck to everybody, parents, teachers, pupils who are doing sats this week, but please know if you're a pupil or a parent that the outcome of the sats tests doesn't define you, it isn't who you are, it doesn't dictate what you'll be in the future.
00:48And try not to revise any more, don't force revision, if it isn't in there already, I doubt you'll be able to squeeze it in now.
00:58And also the stress and the effort really of cramming more revision in will just tire out the little ones, the not so little ones, of course.
01:09So, don't try and cram any more in. If you're a pupil watching this, again, good luck. If you're worried, talk to mum, talk to dad, talk to any of your friends, people you trust, teachers.
01:23Try not to keep it all inside. It's much better to share the thing that's worrying you than to let it eat away inside of you.
01:30But something I wanted to say to parents and perhaps grandparents, because of a mistake I made some time ago now, but don't incentivise, don't offer rewards, don't offer toys or tech or a tenner.
01:46Because if you think about it, the prospect, the possibility of whatever it is you've made them hope for, wish for, long for, when the going gets tough, that thing will shine most brightly.
02:02It will become really distracting. And if they struggle to find the answer that they think is the right one, that iPhone, that £20 note will drift agonisingly away from them, like they're losing any possibility of that reward.
02:21And that will be the thing that they concentrate on, not the questions in front of them.
02:25So if I can offer any piece of advice, it would be don't, don't incentivise, don't reward, just be there for them.
