Assessment in primary schools is an integral part of teaching and learning. It is viewed as building a picture over time of a child’s learning progress across the curriculum. Each classroom teacher is responsible for the ongoing assessment of his/her own pupils’ progress and achievement.
At J H Godwin our assessment tasks reflect the objectives and criteria that are meaningful and relevant, and may include tests, observations, peer discussions, work samples, presentations/performance and projects.
Assessment is a way of supporting learning and helps teachers, learners, parents and other to understand the depth and breadth of learning undertaken so that progress and next steps can be discussed and planned.
At J H Godwin, we monitor both student progress and final outcome.
At the present time primary schools conduct the following statutory tests:
Reception Baseline Test – the initial baseline assessment takes place in September and another end of year test the following June.
Year 1 – Children take a Phonics Check Test (PCT) in June.
Year 2 – Any child who did not pass PCT in Year 1 resits the test in June, when they are in Year 2.
– The government have scrapped Key Stage 1 SATs from 2024, but a full suite of tests will go ahead instead. More information to follow: https://schoolsweek.co.uk/key-stage-1-sats-will-be-scrapped-from-2023-24-sta-confirms/
Year 4 – Children take the Multiplication Check Test in June.
Year 6 – KS2 SATS – The 2024 Key Stage 2 SATs will take place in the week commencing 13th May 2024. The tests will take place over 4 days.
For more information on SATS click here.
The DfE publish information on the school’s Key Stage 1 and 2 performance against nationally expected levels, including:
- average progress of pupils in reading, writing and maths beween KS1 and 2
- average scores in the reading and maths tests
- percentage of pupils who achieved the expected standard or above in reading, writing and maths
- percentage of pupils who achieved a high level of attainment in reading, writing and maths.
You can access school performance information by clicking here.
Other school performance data can be found here.
It will not be possible to calculate Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 2 progress measures for 2023 to 2024 or 2024 to 2025 academic years. This is because there is no Key Stage 1 baseline available to calculate primary progress measures for these years, because of Covid disruption.
For the 2023 to 2024 academic year, primary schools do not have to publish progress scores in reading, writing or maths, as the Secretary of State is not publishing these.