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12 September 2024
The attainment gap between disadvantaged primary school pupils and their better-off peers has narrowed again this year – but it is still above pre-pandemic levels. The Department for Education’s provisional key…
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The technical guidance on primary school accountability measures has been updated. It now includes the explanation as to why it is not possible to calculate KS1-KS2 progress measures for academic…
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Latest headline statistics on attainment in key stage 2 national curriculum assessments in England. These statistics cover the attainment of year 6 pupils who took assessments in summer 2024. These…
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The guidance explaining how to submit teacher assessment (TA) data for pupils at the end of key stage 2 has been updated for 2023/24. Teacher assessment data must be reported…
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The Standards and Testing Agency (STA) has released the assessment and reporting arrangements for the reception baseline assessment (RBA) for the 2024/25 academic year. This statutory assessment applies to maintained…
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The standards and testing agency has published guidance for the administration of the multiplication tables check (MTC) this summer. Schools must administer the check within the 2 week period between…
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The guide for local authorities and schools submitting early years foundation stage profile data for 2024 has been updated. The guide explains how local authorities and schools should submit data…
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The Standards and Testing Agency had planned to have children answer some reception baseline assessment (RBA) questions on a touchscreen device from this September. However, the STA has confirmed the…
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Below are the future dates for primary school assessments in the academic years 2024 to 2025 and 2025 to 2026. Please note that Key Stage 1 SATs are optional but…
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Ofsted released the latest Inspection Data Summary Report (IDSR) in December. This release contains the following: - absence data for 2022/23 (autumn and spring terms)- final key stage 1 data-…
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The Department for Education (DfE) has published the primary performance tables. The 2023 tables show: results from the key stage 2 test in: reading grammar punctuation and spelling mathematics key…
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There has been one change to the headline data for KS2 in 2023 as the revised data has now been published. The combined reading, writing, mathematics score for 2023 is…
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