This document is intended to highlight some of the key changes in primary assessments for the coming academic year. Please see the individual assessment factsheets for more information about each.
EYFSP - Reception
2022/23 will be the second year of the 'new' framework for EYFSP assessments. No changes to the framework are projected and it remains statutory for all school. Submission via the LA remains statutory but there will be no external moderation by the LA under the 2022 framework.
LA will load results from schools into Nexus as part of their statutory duty to submit to the DfE on the school's behalf.
Since the framework will be the same as 2021/22 a year on year trend can now start to build and be analysed.
EYFSP results are no longer published in the Ofsted Inspection Data Summary Report.
Phonics - Year 1 (and 2)
There will be a single, summer, check for all Year 1 pupils. Additionally, any year 2 pupil failing to pass the check in June 2022 as a year 1 pupil must take the check again in June 2023 during the same window.
LA will load results from schools into Nexus as part of their statutory duty to submit to the DfE on the school's behalf.
Key Stage 1 - Year 2
Key Stage 1 will continue for the final year as a statutory assessment in 2023. As such there will be tests in May 2023 that will be used within schools to inform teacher assessment judgements in reading, writing and maths. It is the teacher assessment judgements that the schools will submit to the Local Authority for quality assurance and passing to the STA/DfE.
Pupils who are below the standard of the tests will continue to be assessed under the Engagement Model.
LA will load results from schools into Nexus as part of their statutory duty to submit to the DfE on the school's behalf. 25% of schools and academies will be moderated which will mean that their teacher assessment data may be available later than that for other schools.
(Schools will still be able to administer KS1 tests internally in 2024 using a library of materials that will be made available. These will be optional for schools but Nexus will be able to accept files submitted to LA by their schools.)
The 2024 year 2 cohort already have their KS2 progress measure start point in place having being assessed using the Reception Baseline.)
Key Stage 2 - Year 6
KS2 will continue in a similar manner to 21/22 arrangements. There will be tests in Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling to feature alongside Reading and Maths. The SATS tests will be returned direct to the DfE/STA for marking by the schools without coming to the LA.
Writing will be teacher assessed and the results of this teacher assessment will be submitted by schools (or the LA where there is an agreement to do so) via the Primary Assessment Gateway. Experience in 2021/22 with Primary Assessment Gateway was extremely poor for schools and LA and this may/should result in some changes at least behind the scenes.
There are no longer be any science sampling tests at KS2, though schools will submit KS1 science TA at both KS1 and KS2 (STA update 20th July)
As with KS1 the Engagement Model remains statutory for all schools for pupils below the standards of the tests.
When KS2 results are released to schools and LA by the DfE (11th July 2023) that will be via Primary Assessment Gateway. All LA are encouraged to load in the KS2 results into Nexus as quickly as possible.
In 2023 KS2 results will start to be published in KS2 performance tables once again following a break over the pandemic period. In addition accountability measures will be published at school level and shared securely with primary schools, academy trusts, LA and Ofsted.
Please note the changes to the KS2 dates originally published in the first version of the ARA caused by the delay to the start of SATS for the Coronation bank holiday. The key impact is that KS2 results have been pushed back from 4th to 11th July.
Multiplication Table Check - Year 4
The Multiplication Table Check for year 4 pupils remains statutory and will be undertaken in June. Pupils undertake the check online and results go direct to DfE/STA. Schools will receive a CTF file containing their pupil's results that can be loaded into their school MIS. Nexus is also able to accept this file if LA collect them from schools. NCER will - eventually - receive the MTC National Pupil Database file from DfE but this is unlikely to be before well into the Autumn term. LA and Schools wanting early comparisons should consider participating in LA led collections.
Reception Baseline (not loaded to Nexus)
The Reception Baseline is now statutory for pupils entering the school in Reception. The pupil will be assessed within the first 6 week of joining the school and the results are submitted direct to DfE. Schools will receive a general statement about the pupil's results in the assessment but no specific data. From 2021/22 RBA became the start point for primary progress measures (though this will take a number of years to first be published when the 21/22 Reception pupils reach Year 6 SATs assessments)
Sources
- School and college accountability 21/22
- EYFSP Handbook
- Reception Baseline
- KS1 ARA (including Summer Phonics)
- KS2 ARA
- Multiplication Table Check
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