National And SCHOOL BASED Assessment 2017

Reception No longer a National Baseline Assessment. During the year Reception staff will complete on- going assessment across all areas of the Foundation Curriculum for school based assessment. Children will be assessed at the end of the year against the Early Learning Goal in 12 areas- PSED, CLL, reading, writing and maths. Assessments may be moderated by LA. Children will be assessed as Emerging, Expected or Exceeding within the Early Learning Goals. This will be reported to parents at the end of the year.

School Based Assessment No longer levels. The new curriculum is based on the concept of mastery and enrichment rather than rapid acceleration through levels. Children are assessed by their teachers against the Age Related Expectations. Objectives for each year group form the basis of teacher assessment. The band objectives are broken down into steps – Beginning Beginning + Working Working + Secure Secure + .

School based assessment The majority of children would be expected to working at the working plus/ secure step by the end of the year to be at ARE (age related expectation) Teacher Assessment each half term. Individual data is discussed in Pupil Progress Meetings. The data for cohorts is analysed by SLT leading to interventions and other actions For all years. Recorded on data tracking system Target Tracker which is used by most schools. Not compulsory. Each school can choose its own method of tracking.

Year 1 Phonics Screen At the moment no change from last year. Children asked to read 40 words and non words. Pass or fail score Pass mark is released after all the test scores have been submitted to DFE This year the pass mark was 32 Children practice the test throughout the year.

Interim Assessment Frameworks The interim frameworks used in 2015-2016 will be used in 2016-2017. They set out the standards a pupil will be assessed against. Teachers must refer to the frameworks to report their judgements at the end of key stages 1 and 2. They are only intended for use in making judgements at the end of a key stage. They don’t include full coverage of the national curriculum. They focus on key aspects for assessment.

Interim Assessment Frameworks Structure of the frameworks The frameworks contain a number of ‘pupil can’ statements. To demonstrate that pupils have met a standard, teachers will need to have evidence that a pupil demonstrates consistent attainment of all the statements within the standard and all the statements in any preceding standard(s). Some statements contain qualifiers - some, many and most. Exemplification materials providing further guidance are available.

KS1 SATS All tests will be taken in May 2016. The test for Grammar, punctuation and spelling is not statutory this year. Tests for Reading and Maths (Arithmetic and Reasoning) Writing is based on the collection of the child’s work throughout the preceding year. Science teacher assessment is based on work completed during Year 1 and Year 2. Tests are marked internally. Judgements will be moderated by the LA Overall judgement is still based on teacher assessment

Key stage 1 frameworks: standards For English reading, English writing and mathematics pupils will be grouped into 4 categories: working towards the expected standard working at the expected standard working at greater depth within the expected standard, or a category for those pupils who do not meet the ‘working towards the expected standard’ For science pupils will be grouped into 2 categories: working at the expected standard, or a category for those pupils who do not meet the standard

KS2 SATS Set week (as before) for tests No ‘Level’ 6 papers, instead some harder questions in the 3 papers Mental maths test replaced with Arithmetic paper. 2 Reasoning maths tests Science -To provide evidence that pupils demonstrate consistent attainment of all of the statements within the standard, teachers will need to draw on assessment judgements that have been made earlier. This will include elements of the key stage 2 science curriculum that have been taught before the final year of the key stage. Random sampling Science tests take place every 2 years. The next sample tests will be in 2018.

Key stage 2 frameworks: standards For English writing pupils will be grouped into 4 categories: working towards the expected standard working at the expected standard working at greater depth within the expected standard or a category for pupils who do not meet the ‘working towards the expected standard’ For English reading, mathematics and science pupils will be grouped into 2 categories: working at the expected standard or a category for pupils who do not meet the standard

Scaled scores (DFE definition) Scaled scores maintain their meaning over time so that two pupils achieving the same scaled score on two different tests will have demonstrated the same attainment. For example, on our scale 100 will always represent the ‘national standard’. However, due to the small differences in difficulty between tests, the ‘raw score’ (ie the total number of correct responses) that equates to 100 might be different (though similar) each year. We do know the scale will have a lower end point below 100 and an upper end point above 100. Once we have set the national standard we will use a statistical technique called ‘scaling’ to transform the raw score into a scaled score. We will publish this after the first tests have been administered. A pupil’s scaled score will be based on their raw score. The raw score is the total number of marks a pupil receives in a test, based on the number of questions they answered correctly. The pupil’s raw score will be translated into a scaled score using a conversion table. A pupil who achieves the national standard will have demonstrated sufficient knowledge in the areas assessed by the tests. This will mean that they are well placed to succeed in the next phase of their education.

Assessment results Key Stage 1 results The marking guidance for the KS1 tests will include conversion tables. Teachers will need to use these to translate pupils’ raw scores into scaled scores to see whether each pupil has met the national standard. They will use the scaled scores to inform teacher assessment judgements. These judgments will be reported to parents in July 2017 once they have been moderated. Key stage 2 tests KS2 test results will be published in July 2017. Each pupil registered for the tests will receive: a raw score (number of raw marks awarded) a scaled score confirmation of whether or not they attained the national standard