Assessment Back
Assessment
All pupils take reading and spelling tests at the beginning of each academic year.
In addition, during the school year, teachers make their own assessment of children’s achievement in the normal course of teaching and learning, to cover the full range of the National Curriculum.
In Year 6, at the end of Key Stage 2, pupils also take part in the End of Key Stage Statutory Assessments in Mathematics, Science and English, to enable teachers and parents to assess whether pupils are reaching the considered national standards. Level 4 is the standard set to challenge typical 11 year olds. Details of our achievements and targets are included in this document.
Target Setting
It is a statutory requirement for all schools with children in Year 6 to set and publish targets for what pupils will achieve at the end of Key Stage 2. Target setting is good practice and is a tool to help individual children to achieve their personal best. Schools are encouraged to set individual targets for pupils which are realistic but challenging. Targets are what we hope the child will achieve if they work hard but they are not guaranteed. The whole school targets are built up from the targets for all the individual pupils in the relevant year group.
The school publishes statutory targets and actual results on an annual basis. Target setting is not an exact science, therefore there may be occasions when the school over or underachieves its targets. We will be keeping evidence to help us identify any such differences.
Year Target Results |
|||
2010/11 |
English & Maths Level 4 and above |
86% |
88% |
|
|
|
|
|
English Making 2 levels progress |
91% |
97% |
|
|
|
|
|
Maths Making 2 levels progress |
90% |
92% |
|
|
|
|
Key Stage 2 Assessment and Results
These tables show the percentage of Year 6 children achieving each level this year in the school. You will notice that one set of figures is for teacher assessment and the other is for actual results.
In order to understand the figures it would be useful to know that level 2 is set to challenge the average 7 year old, level 4 to challenge an 11 year old. It takes approximately 2 years to move from one level to the next. National assessment and results are also given as a comparison.
It is important to note that the national figures relate to the summer 2010 results. They are, therefore, not a true comparison to the summer 2011 results.
Figures may not total 100% because of rounding. In addition, children in other year groups take part in annual tests, which the school uses as part of its on-going assessment of the pupils’ progress.