Year 1 - Key Assessment Criteria
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At Helmshore Primary we believe that planning and assessment are integral to successful teaching and learning. We feel that assessing and tracking the progress that your child makes at school is essential to their ongoing learning and development.
The aims of assessment in our school are:
Assessment for Learning is undertaken by all staff at Helmshore. This is a day-to-day process whereby teachers and children continually reflect on how learning is progressing, see where improvements can be made and identify the next steps to take. These assessments are used in our everyday learning and teaching:
We also follow a more structured approach to periodically assessing Maths, Reading and Writing, where teachers make judgements against the National Curriculum attainment targets. Termly assessments are undertaken and this information is used to track the progress of children as they move through school. Examples of these assessments include:
Early Years Foundation Stage Profile
2023 – Information for Parents Reception Baseline Assessment
A baseline assessment is undertaken on entry into Reception. It is based on on-going observation and assessment in seven areas of learning and development, namely:
Prime Areas of Learning:
Specific Areas of Learning:
Judgements are made based upon a combination of observation, discussion and work with the children. The Profile is used throughout the year to track children’s progress towards the Early Learning Goals. The results of these profiles are shared with parents through discussion at Parent’s Evening.
Phonics Assessment
These assessments are undertaken primarily in Year 1 and sometimes for specific children identified in Year 2. They are based on key knowledge and skills as outlined in the Primary Strategy’s six-phase phonics programme, ‘Letters and Sounds’. The results of these assessments are reported to parents in the end of year academic report.
Phonics Screening Check 2023 – information for parents
Key Stage Assessments
At the ages of seven and eleven your child will be assessed using National Tests (Standard Assessment Tasks and Tests-SATs). These tasks and tests measure each child’s progress in Reading, Writing, Maths and at KS2, Science. It is important to remember that these tests are only part of the range of assessments that we currently use in our School’s curriculum planning, and that these tests give information about what a child can do on a given day and at a given time under test conditions.
At 7 years old the children are assessed in Reading, Writing, Spelling, Handwriting and Maths.
Please see below Optional Test Information 2024 for Year 2 parents.
2024 Information for Parents: Optional Tests at the end of Key Stage 1
At 11 children are tested in Reading, Maths, Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling. Science tests will also be undertaken if our school is selected to do so. These assessments usually take place during May. The test papers for Year 6 are marked by an external body and are returned to school before the end of term.
Please see below Statutory Test Information 2024 for Year 6 parents.
Information for Parents: 2024 National Curriculum Tests at the end of Key Stage 2
Please see below information regarding the Year 4 Statutory Multiplication Tables Check 2024
Click here to view 2024 Multiplication Tables Check Information for Parents
Please click on the link below to access some useful information and worksheets relating to the KS2 Maths SAT’s.
Teacher Assessment
Teacher assessment helps our teachers to know children’s strengths and weaknesses and plan work which is matched to their abilities. It covers everything that children are taught in the National Curriculum. Teachers award a level, taking into account all the evidence and knowledge they have of the child. Teacher assessment allows children opportunities to show what they can do. Some children will show what they can do by talking, some by writing and others by doing. Teachers use a variety of different ways to make sure that all children are given opportunities to show what they know and understand.
The new National Curriculum, which was introduced in September 2014, sets higher expectations for what teachers should teach, and gives them the freedom to decide how to teach. Levels were intended to provide a universal framework to ensure that schools were measuring attainment and progress consistently. But, over time, it became clear that the level descriptors, which were not closely related to curriculum content, were ambiguous and open to different interpretations.
There will continue to be statutory national tests (with results as a scaled score) and teacher assessments (using new performance descriptors) at the end of key stages 1 and 2 in key subjects.
Please click on the links below to view the Key Assessment Criteria and End of Year Expectations for each year group.
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