Assessment Presentation for Parents

Wimbledon Park Primary School

Changes at Primary School

A new national curriculum

Removal of the old system of assessment nationally

The case for change

Primary school Secondary school

Level 4

47% achieve five good GCSEs

75% achieve five good GCSEs

Level 2

GCSEs “Secondary school ready”

• Greater prescribed content (in English, Maths and Science)

• Higher attainment expectation at the end of key stages

• Focus on “depth” of learning

• “Race” through curriculum content to reach the next level (e.g. level 6)

• Teaching a narrow range of skills and knowledge

• A qualitative description doesn’t convert accurately to numerical score!

• Confusing way of reporting test results

• Parents also found levels confusing

Assessment at Wimbledon Park

National Curriculum programmes of study for each subject

Distilled into the essential Key Objectives for each year group. This defines the “expected attainment” in each year group.

Key Objectives

Assessment at Wimbledon Park

• Working below

• Working at greater depth

• Working at

• Working towards

Assessment at Wimbledon Park

End of Year Target

for Each Pupil • Working below

• Working towards

• Working at

• Working at greater depth

Autumn and Spring Term Parent Meetings • On track • Not on track • Ahead

Annual Report

Completed work/ Children’s Books

Teaching plans

Feedback Friday Tests

Ensuring Attainment and Progress

Standard Tests for Tracking

• Standardisation sample of 12,000 •Raw score to “Age” •Raw score to Age Standardised Score

Age Standard Scores

100 105 110 115 120 125 130 70 75 80 85 90 95

50% 63% 75% 84% 91% 95% 98% 2% 5% 9% 16% 25% 37% Percentile

Standard score

68% of the age group score between 85 and 115 Score of 110+ is in the top quarter

Score of 120+ is in the top 10%

Using Age Standard Scores

100 105 110 115 120 125 130 70 75 80 85 90 95

Working towards or below

Age-Standard

At greater depth within

Age-Standard

At Age-

Standard

Standard score

50% 63% 75% 84% 91% 95% 98% 2% 5% 9% 16% 25% 37% Percentile

Progress Tracking

Primary school

Standard score

100

70

130

Child 1 Expected Progress

Child 2 Better than Expected Progress

Child 3 Regressing

New Report Format

Statutory Assessment

Primary school

Reception Early Years

profile

Year 1 Phonics

Check

Reception Baseline

Year 2 Tests and Teacher

judgements

Year 6 Tests and Teacher

judgements

• New tests at the end of Year 2 and Year 6 oReading, Grammar, spelling and

punctuation, Maths/arithmetic

oReported as a scaled score around median of 100

• New frameworks for teacher assessment at the end of Year 2 and Year 6 o Includes writing

Summary

• Huge changes and upheaval

• Higher standards means that some children who were at age expectations, now are not

• We’ve designed a comprehensive and robust assessment system

• However in short term, some inefficiency and unfamiliarity

• And limited historic data track – reliability?