‘There are three main forms of assessment: in-school formative assessment, which is used by teachers to evaluate pupils’ knowledge and understanding on a day-today basis and to tailor teaching accordingly; in-school summative assessment, which enables schools to evaluate how much a pupil has learned at the end of a teaching period; and nationally standardised summative assessment, which is used by the Government to hold schools to account.’
-Department for education Final report of the Commission on Assessment without Levels September 2015.
When reporting on children’s attainment we the following terminology:
Each child in Year 6 will be assessed against their age-related curriculum area, according to these statements.
Every child’s progress is individual and unique. Tracking begins upon entry, through to exit, to show progression over time. We use our own internal tracking system that is based on tracking standardised scores. The children complete standardised papers three times a year. The outcomes of these papers and the child’s body of completed work triangulate the teacher’s judgement of an individual child’s progress.
The Good Level of Development (GLD) is the measure that helps to demonstrate the proportion of children who are achieving expected levels in the prime areas of learning (communication and language, physical development and personal, social and emotional development) and in maths and literacy at Reception level. The table below shows the % of children achieving the GLD for 2019.
63%
67%
‘The Phonics Screening Check is a short ‘light touch’ assessment to confirm whether individual pupils have learnt phonic decoding to an appropriate standard. It will identify the children who need help and support with their reading skills. Children will retake if they did not reach the required level.’ (DFE 2011).
86%
82%
In 2016 changes were made to KS1 SATs based on the new curriculum. These included the first formal grammar, punctuation and spelling (GPS) paper for this age group. Results were reported as a scaled score between 85 and 115, with 100 being the national expectation for a Year 2 pupil.
| KS1 - % Achieving | St Robert’s | National |
|---|---|---|
|
Expected Reading, Writing, Maths |
63% |
65% |
|
English Reading Expected
|
62% |
75% |
|
English Reading Greater Depth
|
23% |
25% |
|
English Writing Expected
|
62% |
69% |
|
English Writing Greater Depth
|
15% |
15% |
|
Maths Expected |
65% |
76% |
|
Maths Greater Depth |
15% |
22% |
In 2016 changes were made to KS2 SATs based on the new curriculum. Results were reported as a scaled score between 80 and 120, with 100 being the national expectation for a Year 6 pupil.
| KS2 - % Achieving | St Robert’s | National |
|---|---|---|
|
Expected Reading, Writing, Maths |
76% |
59% |
|
Expected Reading |
93% |
73% |
|
High Score Reading |
38% |
29% |
|
Expected Maths |
93% |
73% |
|
High Score Maths |
52% |
24% |
|
Expected Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling |
86% |
72% |
|
High Score Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling |
55% |
30% |
|
Expected Standard Writing |
83% |
71% |
|
Greater Depth Writing |
11% |
13% |
St Robert’s Pupils’ average reading test standardised score = 109
St Robert’s Pupils’ average maths test standardised score = 109
High score = 110 and above in the scaled score
Individual pupil level progress scores are calculated in comparison to other pupils nationally. For all mainstream pupils nationally, the average progress score will be zero. A school’s progress scores for English reading, English writing and mathematics are calculated as its pupils’ average progress scores. This means that school level progress scores will be presented as positive and negative numbers either side of zero. A score of 0 means pupils in this school, on average, do about as well at key stage 2 as those with similar prior attainment nationally. A positive score means pupils in this school on average do better at key stage 2 than those with similar prior attainment nationally.
+4.1
+0.6
+4.5
DfE, School Performance Tables are published by the Secretary of State on the Department for Education’s website.
St Robert Southwell is part of the Bosco Catholic Education Trust.
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