Assessment
There are a number of statutory assessments the children complete throughout their time in Primary School:
Reception Baseline Assessment
Reception Baseline Assessment
New for 2021, this on-entry form of assessment is used as a starting point to measure progress from Reception to Year 6.
The assessments will be administered one-to-one with a teacher or teaching assistant within the first 6 weeks of the child joining Fynamore in September. The assessment consists of practical tasks, using physical resources, and an online scoring system for the practitioner to complete as the pupil engages with the tasks.
Year 1 Phonics Screen Check
Year 1 Phonics Screen Check
The Phonics Screening Check demonstrates how well your child can use the phonics skills they have learned up to the end of Year 1, and to identify students who need extra phonics help.
The checks consist of 40 words and non-words that your child will be asked to read one-on-one with a teacher. Non-words (or nonsense words, or pseudo words) are a collection of letters that will follow phonics rules your child has been taught, but do not mean anything. Children who do not meet the required standard in Year 1 will be re-checked in Year 2.
End of Key Stage 1 Assessments
End of Key Stage 1 Assessments
At the end of Key Stage 1 teacher assessment (commonly known as Year 2 SATs) in Mathematics and Reading will be informed by externally-set, internally-marked tests. There will also be an externally-set test in grammar, punctuation and spelling which will help to inform the teacher assessment of writing. The tests will reflect the National Curriculum 2014 and will be expressed as a scaled score.
The End of Key Stage 1 assessments are flexibly administered in May.
Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check
Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check
Optional for 2021 and statutory in 2022, this assessment will check that pupils nearing the end of Year 4 are able to fluently recall their times table and division facts. The test is electronic and the children will be faced with 25 multiplication and division questions, each with a time limit of 6 seconds to answer.
Further details will be released in 2022 to determine how the data will be used and communicated to parents.
The test will take place in June each year.
End of Key Stage 2 Assessments
End of Key Stage 2 Assessments
In Year 6, children will take the end of Key Stage 2 Assessments (commonly known as Year 6 SATs). These tests in English and Maths will reflect the National Curriculum 2014, and are intended to be more rigorous.
These tests will be both set and marked externally, and the results will be used to measure the school’s performance (for example, through reporting to Ofsted and published league tables). Your child’s marks will be used in conjunction with teacher assessment to give a broader picture of their attainment.
At the end of Year 6, children will sit tests in: Reading, Maths, Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar.
KS2 Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling Test
The grammar, punctuation and spelling test will consist of two parts: a grammar and punctuation paper requiring short answers, lasting 45 minutes, and an aural spelling test of 20 words, lasting around 15 minutes.
KS2 Reading Test
The reading test will provisionally be a single paper with questions based on one 800-word text and two passages of 300 words. Your child will have one hour, including reading time, to complete the test.
KS2 Maths Test
Children will sit three papers in Maths:
- Paper 1: arithmetic, 30 minutes
- Papers 2 and 3: mathematical fluency, solving problems and reasoning, 40 minutes per paper
KS2 Science Test
A number of schools will be required to take part in science sampling: a test administered to a selected sample of children thought to be representative of the population as a whole.
Scaled Scores
Each Year 6 pupil registered for the tests will receive:
- a raw score (number of raw marks awarded)
- a scaled score (converted from the raw score)
- confirmation of whether or not they attained the national standard.
National Curriculum tests are designed to be as similar as possible year on year, but slight differences in difficulty will occur between years. Scaled scores are designed to 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 the scale 100 will always represent the ‘national standard’.