This page provides some key information about what National Assessments are (and are not!) and how to access your child's records.

About the assessments

During this year, children have undertaken National Assessments in Literacy and Numeracy. These assessments are part of the picture of your child’s current areas of strength and areas of development in maths and reading, in addition to other assessments undertaken regularly by your child’s class teacher.

Assessments were undertaken in the Autumn and again at the end of Spring / start of the Summer term. If pupils are absent, or are unable to complete the assessment, they may not have an assessment recorded.

These assessments are given to children as an unaided assessment, where the software adapts questions to the right level for your child. There is a report that highlights aspects that your child has strengths in, and where they need to focus their learning next. You can click on the links in the report for examples of the types of question answered. The report is available to read in your child’s Hwb account.

An image is attached with a guide on how to access the feedback once you log in. Pupils have worked on areas of development during this term in their class. This information is also available to your child’s new class teacher to inform planning and relevant support and challenge. If there are any issues accessing results, we will be on hand in September to help with access to these details.

How does the school use this information?

• As well as these assessments, the teachers adapt learning in maths based on how well pupils do in understanding new skills in every lesson and at the end of a maths topic.
• School staff also plan activities that are practical and linked to our curriculum to apply maths skills – for example, planning what time to go to the cinema as part of trip where lots of children have found telling digital time difficult.
• In reading, areas that pupils find difficult will be used as part of activities such as comprehension, group reading, phonics session, and end of day stories to improve skills.
• Whilst these tests don’t test exactly the content taught during the year, they provide a useful picture of areas that may need a focus when teachers are planning sequences of lessons. The new curriculum for schools is not about “Teaching to test”, and assessments are being adapted to reflect this.