Attainment and progress

“2016 was the first year of the new key stage 2 tests in maths, reading and grammar, punctuation and spelling. The tests assess children against a national standard…. As the new standard is higher than the old one, fewer children have met the new expected standard than the previous standard.”

 Standards and Testing Agency July 2016

Key Stage 2 national curriculum test results 2018

In 2016, new tests were introduced to assess pupils’ Reading, Grammar, Spelling & Punctuation and Mathematics, against the more challenging national curriculum. These tests do not use ‘levels’ but ‘scaled scores’ to show how well pupils have achieved. The scaled score can be as low as 80 or as high as 120.

The DfE use information from test trials to set the scaled scores. If a child has reached the scaled score ‘100’, then s/he has met the ‘expected’ standard. If a child has reached the scaled score ‘110’, then s/he has a ‘high scaled score’.

The results for Year 6 pupils in May 2019 show that attainment in the Reading test and the maths tests was in line with national averages. The test results for Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling was disappointing, compared to the children’s work in school and their performance on practice tests.

A full review of the tests has been carried out and actions to improve attainment and progress identified. More information about these can be found on the school improvement plan.

*There is no data for 2020 or 2021 due to COVID-19 and the cancellation of tests and KS1 assessments. 

	Reading	Writing	Maths
Average progress scores 2018	-3.21	-4.88	-5.85
Average progress scores 2019	0.6	-0.9	-1.2

Each pupil’s test result was turned into a ‘scaled score’. A pupil with a score of 100 or above was deemed to have met the ‘expected standard’. The table below shows the average ‘Scaled score’. 

	Reading	Maths
Average ‘Scaled scores’ 2018	104.1	100.5
Average ‘Scaled scores’ 2019	104.73	104.73

 
The table below shows the percentages of children who reached age related expectations in their SATs for this school, for West Sussex and the national results. 

2018  2019	National  Percentage who  achieved expected  standard	West Sussex  LA schools  Percentage who  achieved the  expected standard	Birchwood Grove  Percentage who  achieved the  expected standard	Birchwood Grove Percentage who  achieved a high level of attainment
Reading	75%  73%	76%  73%	74%  76%	21%  35%
Maths	76%  79%	73%  76%	53%  78%	6%  18%
Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling	78%  78%	75%  75%	79%  67%	19%  35%
Writing  (Teacher assessment)	78%  78%	75%  76%	74%  76%	4%  16%
Reading, Writing & Maths combined	64%  65%	61%  62%	43%  65%	0%  10%

 

Key Stage 1 National Curriculum Teacher Assessments 2017-19,

2018-19

2016 was the first year of the new key stage 1 Teacher Assessment arrangements in reading, writing and maths.  The children also took National Curriculum tests in reading and mathematics, although the results of these tests are not published but used to inform each child’s Teacher Assessment. The teachers assessed children against a new national standard with higher expectations of pupils. 

Birchwood Grove’s teacher assessments were moderated by the West Sussex moderation team in 2019.

The table below shows the percentages of children who reached age related expectations in the teacher assessments for this school, for West Sussex and the national results for the last two years.

2018 2019	National  Percentage who achieved expected standard or above	West Sussex LA Schools Percentage who achieved the expected standard or above	Birchwood Grove Percentage who achieved the expected standard or above	Birchwood Grove Percentage who achieved at greater depth
Reading	75% 75%	75% 75%	73% 60%	28% 8%
Writing	70% 69%	66% 68%	58% 47%	7% 7%
Maths	76% 76%	74% 74%	77% 63%	10% 7%

 

Click here to the DfE School Performance Tables for Birchwood Grove.

Click here to Performance Tables website.