1. 11th October 2016 Sheila Hentall And Natalie Graham.
New to Y6 Assessment
11th October 2016
Sheila Hentall
And
Natalie Graham.

2. NEW to Y6 Assessment
This course is specifically designed to inform teachers who are new to Year 6 about the 2017 statutory testing and assessment requirements for end of KS2 and to address the implications of these for curriculum planning.

3. The course will include:
STA website and its key documents
the statutory tests and Y6 curriculum implications for
teacher assessment of writing and good practice in evidence based teacher assessment
the ‘Pupil can’ statements for writing and the implications for the teaching

4. Agenda
9.30 welcome and introductions test administration the reading test –Coffee mathematics test grammar, punctuation and spelling test Lunch 1.30 teacher assessment assessing writing 3.30 close

5. It’s worth keeping an eye on it for updates.
The ARA and
The ARA will set out the school’s statutory obligations in relations to testing and assessment It is your starting place to look for answers about the tests and teacher assessment.
Section 6 is key for those administering the tests
The ARA also contains links for additional key information on topics such as :
access arrangements ( Section 5 )
submitting data
It’s worth keeping an eye on it for updates.

6. Test Administration Guidance (TAG)
All ‘involved in administering the key stage 2 tests in 2016 you should prepare by reading this test administration guidance (TAG). It includes information about:
planning for the tests
receiving test materials
administering and marking the tests’
usually published during the spring term

7. Test packs should be opened at the start of the test in front of the pupils. They contain a test-specific script.

8. The 2017 TESTS
There is one test/set of tests for each subject – no extra tests for more able pupils.
The tests will include a small number of questions designed to assess the most able pupils.
Sample tests and 2016 materials are available at: .

9. What will be on the paper? The million dollar question
Test frameworks set out the standard pupils will be expected to achieve in the tests. Test frameworks set out the standard pupils will be expected to achieve in the tests.
Past papers show what this looked like in practice.

10. Test timetable 2017

11. The reading test Mixture of genres fiction, non fiction and poetry
In order of difficulty
1 hour to read the texts and do the questions
Marked out of 50 ( raw score)
22 – 33 one mark answers,
5-10 two mark answers and 1-4 three mark question

12. content domain The subject knowledge to be assessed by the test.
The content domain sets out the elements from the national curriculum programme of study that are assessable through the test.
Table 2 sets out the 8 areas of the reading test content domain.

13. What will be assessed? Where should I focus my teaching of reading?

14. Maths - Paper 1 the Arithmetic test 30 minutes duration
Will be context-free questions.
The majority of the calculations worth one mark.
Two marks will be available for long multiplication and long division
Papers 2 and 3 40 minutes per paper
mathematical problems presented in a wide range of formats to test mathematical fluency, mathematical problem solving and mathematical reasoning.
If a pupil answers a question correctly the method they use to get the answer is unimportant. If however, on a 2 mark question, the answer is incorrect then method will be taken into account. •

15. the distribution of marks across 9 strands of the content domain.

16. GPS
The key stage 2 English grammar, punctuation and spelling test is presented to pupils as two separate test papers.
The spelling paper is administered aurally by a test administrator.
The total testing time is approximately 60 minutes as the spelling test is not strictly timed.

17. KS2 English grammar, punctuation and spelling test framework

18. Further definitions and guidance

19. GPS http://www. talk4writing. co

20. TEACHER ASSESSMENT
Teacher assessment judgements are submitted for reading, writing, mathematics and science.
Reading, mathematics and science are assessed as a simple at the standard or not.
The judgement for writing is part of a school’s performance data and is a more rigorous assessment.
Writing TA is moderated by the local authority on behalf of the STA

21. KS2 interim frameworks for TA
Each standard contains a number of ‘pupil can’ statements.
Teachers need to show that a pupil demonstrates attainment of all statements within a standard and ( in writing) all the statements in the preceding standard(s). .

22. Achieving the standard

23. The Rochford Review
guidance about how to report statutory assessment outcomes for pupils working below the standard of the tests
follows the same principles as the interim teacher assessment frameworks
provides an interim solution for reporting outcomes in 2017
defines interim pre-key stage standards

24. The standards of achievement in writing
For English writing there are 3 standards and 3 pre KS
Working at greater depth at the expected standard
Working at the expected standard
Working towards the expected standard
Growing development of the expected standard
Early development of the expected standard
Foundations for the expected standard

25. PUPIL CAN STATEMENTS for Writing

27. Exemplification of the standards
Morgan is a pupil with
sufficient evidence for a TA judgement of ‘working at the expected standard’.

28. ‘some’, ‘most’, ‘many’ statements containing qualifiers
some’ indicates that the skill/ knowledge is starting to be acquired, and is demonstrated correctly on occasion, but is not consistent or frequent.
‘most’ indicates that the statement is generally met with only occasional errors.
many “ is somewhere in between”.

29. some’, ‘most’, ‘many’ how the statements containing qualifiers should be applied
Working towards the expected standard
using some cohesive devices* within and across sentences and paragraphs
using different verb forms mostly accurately
using capital letters, full stops……. mostly correctly
spelling most words correctly* (years 3 and 4) 
spelling some words correctly* (years 5 and 6)
Working at the expected standard
selecting vocabulary and grammatical structures ….. mostly correctly
using passive and modal verbs mostly appropriately
using inverted commas, commas … mostly correctly,
and making some correct use of semi-colons, dashes,…
spelling most words correctly* (years 5 and 6

30. ‘some’, ‘most’, ‘many’ how the statements containing qualifiers should be applied.
Spelling at the expected standard “Spelling most words correctly* (years 5 and 6)” Morgan Despite occasional errors and inconsistencies, spelling is mostly correct. Errors:- exclamed; screemed; crazyest; opend .

31. Handwriting
To be awarded ‘working towards’ or ‘working at expected’ standards, pupils do not need to demonstrate joined up handwriting.
To be awarded ‘working at greater depth’ at the end of key stage 2, pupils must meet all of
the statements relating to handwriting in the preceding standards.

32. Independent work
If writing has been redrafted by the pupil, this is acceptable as independent work. The redrafted work may be in response to self, peer, or group evaluation, or after discussion with the teacher.
Pupils can also independently use classroom resources such as dictionaries, thesauruses, word banks, classroom displays, books or websites.
It would not be independent if the work was modelled or heavily scaffolded, copied or paraphrased or where the teacher has directed the pupil to change specific words or punctuation.

33. Assessing pupils’ writing against the expected standard
To award a standard you … will need to have evidence that a pupil demonstrates attainment of all of the statements within that standard and all the statements in the preceding standard.
The judgement … is made across a collection of evidence and not on individual pieces. However, there needs to be sufficient evidence of consistent performance across several pieces to demonstrate the pupil’s understanding and application of the statement.