1. Understanding Assessment
St Stephens CP School
Wednesday 18th November

2. Reason for Assessment Evening
The introduction of the new assessment framework in line with
the new curriculum
Purpose of Assessment Evening
To help parents understand how their children are assessed in school and why.
To help Foundation, Year 2 and Year 6 parents
understand what the results mean.
3. Share the key curriculum changes in English and Maths.

3. Why Assess?
Knowing how each pupil is performing allows teachers to help individuals improve.
Assessment plays a key role in helping schools to improve outcomes.
This in turn promotes improvement at class level, then at school level.
To inform parents about their child’s progress

4. Reports to Parents
Reports to parents will be sent out in the Spring term
Parents evenings in the Spring term will be an opportunity to share progress and set learning targets.

5. A good level of development
EYFS
A good level of development
Emerging
Expected
Exceeding

7. PREVIOUS EXPECTATIONS:
LEVELS
End of KS1 - Year 2: level 2
End of KS2 - Year 6: level 4
Levels are no longer used to assess progress.
Current expectations are, within year-groups, to achieve the ‘national standard’ This means that children will be assessed within their year-group national curriculum expectations.

11. All children will have
3 maths papers
1 reading paper – 3 texts
2 Grammar and Punctuation tests
2 spelling tests
Tests will be taken between 9th and 12th May 2016
Reports to parents will say whether the child has met the Age Expected Outcomes for the end of Key Stage 2

15. English in KS2 (Faster, Fuller, Deeper!)
Writing:
Greatly increased expectations in grammar and punctuation;
Children have to identify and label complex grammatical concepts, punctuation and spelling rules;
Expectation that children expertly use and apply the grammar and punctuation concepts in independent writing to create specific effects;
Reading:
Read for pleasure;
Word reading: pupils applying their knowledge to understand the meaning of new words;
Learning of classic & modern poetry (including reciting poetry) introduced.
Spelling:
Statutory lists of words to be learnt in Years 3 - 6;
Specific spelling rules to be taught.

18. New Primary Curriculum
for Mathematics

19. What’s out?
Informal written methods of calculation
Calculators
Separate strand for using and applying
What’s in?
Roman numerals
Times tables up to 12 x 12
Equivalence between metric and imperial
Long division and algebra (Y6)
What is there more of?
More challenging objectives, especially in number
Formal written methods of calculation introduced earlier
More work of fractions

22. Assessment is not meant to be used as a measure of your child’s ability at school but as a means to improve their ability to learn; their knowledge, their understanding and their skills.