Assessment is what we do in school to make sure we know what learning your child knows and understands. This is happening in school on a continuous basis. It is also to enable staff to check the progress pupils are making and identify gaps in learning to enable staff to adapt planning to teach to fill any gaps. Assessments can be formative (a formal test style) or summative (evidence of pupil’s learning following a lesson or unit of lessons).

As well as the assessments carried out by school, there are also compulsory Government assessments, for example:

  • Reception – Baseline Assessment
  • Y1 – Phonics Screening Check (Pupils tested on all phonic sounds)
  • Y2 – KS1 SATs (Reading, Writing and Maths)
  • Y4 – Times Table Check (Timed assessment of all multiplication facts up to 12×12)
  • Y6 – KS2 SATs (Reading, Writing, SPaG and Maths)

Please check the calendar below to ensure that your child is not absent from school during these very important periods.

Assessment Calendar

  • Week Beginning Monday 12th September 2022 – Reception Baseline Assessment
  • Week Beginning Monday 21st November 2022 – NFER Autumn Assessment Week (Reading, SPaG & Maths)
  • Week beginning Monday 20th March 2023– NFER Spring Assessment Week (Reading, SPaG & Maths)
  • Monday 8th – Thursday 11th May 2023 – KS2 Y6 SATs (Reading, SPaG & Maths)
  • Monday 5th – Friday 9th June 2023 – Y4 Multiplication Check
  • Monday 12th – Friday 16th June 2023 – Y1 Phonics Screening Check
  • Week Beginning Monday 26th June – NFER Summer Assessment Week (Reading, SPaG & Maths)

Reception Baseline Assessment

At the start of the academic year, all pupils in Reception class will take part in statutory Government Baseline Assessments. The Reception Baseline Assessments is not about judging or labelling your child or putting them under any pressure. Its main purpose is to create a starting point to measure the progress schools make with their pupils.

For more information, click on the following leaflet.

Information for Parents – Reception Baseline Assessment 2022

Daily Quiz

This is something we have implemented as a whole school (Y1-Y6) to encourage our children to learn more and remember more. The quizzes will question pupils on current and previous learning to support them in allowing key facts to ‘stick’. Each day pupils take part in a short quiz based around National Curriculum subject areas:

  • Monday – Times Tables
  • Tuesday – Spelling
  • Wednesday – History
  • Thursday – Geography
  • Friday – Science