Academic results

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No end of key stage SATs assessments took place at the end of the academic year 2021 and 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent restrictions.

Key Stage 2 Standard Attainment Tests are taken by Year 6 pupils in May each year. Our children’s performance for each of the last three years, along with a three year average, appears below.

GPS: Grammar, punctuation and spelling

Scaled score range: 80–120
Scaled score: 100 is the national standard; over 100 is above the national standard; below 100 is below the national standard
Expected standard: a government set target (an expectation) for pupil performance
Greater depth: performing at an enhanced standard: scaled score of 110 or above

No end of key stage SATs assessments took place at the end of the academic year 2021 and 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent restrictions.

All Year 2 pupils take national assessments in June. These national curriculum tests are summative.  This means they test the knowledge a pupil has acquired during their time in Key Stage 1.  

All pupils are given a scaled score based on the raw score they achieved in each of the three tests they sat:

• reading
• mathematics
• grammar, punctuation and spelling.

The raw score is the total number of marks a pupil scored in a test, based on the number of questions they answered correctly. Raw scores are then converted to a scaled score.

• The scaled score range is 85 to 115.
• The scaled score national expectation is 100.  A scaled score of 100 or more represents the nationally expected standard in each test.  Pupils scoring 100 or more will have met the expected standard on the test.
• If a pupil is performing above 100 they are performing above the national expectation for their age.
• If a pupil is performing below 100 they are performing below the national expectation for their age.  A pupil awarded a score of 99 or less has not met the expected standard in the test.

Cohort average outcomes for the past three years are as follows: 

Once again, our children have done remarkably well. The outstanding results achieved last year have been repeated. Some of the headline highlights from these outcomes:

• All children who took the test (59 children) reached the nationally expected standard in reading
• All children who took the test (59 children) reached the nationally expected standard in mathematics

No end of key stage SATs assessments took place at the end of the academic year 2021 and 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent restrictions.

At the end of Year 1, pupils are tested on their ability to match sounds with letters. This assessment is known as the Phonics Screening Test. ‘Sounding out words’ using phonological awareness and understanding of sound-letter correspondence is a key early reading skill. Using phonology is not the only way children learn to read – they employ a range of other strategies – but being good at phonics is seen as a most important starting point. 

Y1 Phonics data

Pupil outcomes in the phonics screening check continue to be highly impressive. In 2019 only one pupil (a pupil with an Education Health and Care plan) failed to meet the pass mark of 32 out of a possible 40 (and not by much!). 

2017 comparison figures

Commentary

Pupil performance has been consistently high since the phonics screening test was introduced. Impressive consistency continues! Teachers and support staff are doing an exceptional job. Phonics, the entry point for learning to read, is taught robustly, systematically and very proficiently.

Our 2022 results put the school in the top 200 schools nationally. This is a great achievement and our 2023 results were even better.

No end of key stage SATs assessments took place at the end of the academic year 2021 and 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent restrictions.

In 2019, the school’s early years’ assessments were moderated by an external local authority team. All assessments were judged to be accurate and the quality of practice received some very favourable comments.

It can be helpful to see how our children are doing in comparison to others. There are 72 primary schools in Richmond and Kingston. When our children’s outcomes in 2019 are compared with those of the other 71 schools we were positioned as follows:

When our Year 1 children’s outcomes in their phonics test in 2019 are compared with those of the other 71 schools, Barnes was positioned as follows:

• Phonics screening test: a test of children’s understanding of the early reading skill of matching sounds with letters.

When our Year 2 children’s outcomes at Greater Depth in 2019 are compared with those of the other 71 schools, our position was:

• Greater Depth: a high performance standard for a 7-year-old

We remain a restlessly ambitious organisation. There is no complacency. So we will be aiming very high for the children, as we always do, during the 2019–20 academic year.