“No child will underachieve”
As well as ensuring children are coming to school happy and ready to learn, we also need to ensure that they are making progress. In order to monitor this, we use formal termly assessments to support regular teacher assessment.
Children in Y1-Y6 will sit a termly assessment in reading, maths, grammar and spelling (Y1 children sit their first formal assessment in the Spring term).
Writing is assessed on a regular basis throughout the year and independent pieces are compiled and assessed against set criteria as evidence. Staff regularly moderate this both within school and between other schools within the NCLT, our learning community and the Local Authority.
Year 1 children have a phonics screening assessment in the summer term, as do those children currently in Year 2 who did not pass the screen in Year 1.
Year 4 children take the online Multiplication Tables Check in the summer term too.
In May, Year 6 children sit their SATs examinations which are externally set. Our Year 2 children also continue to sit their Key Stage One SATs in the Summer Term, although these are now non-statutory.
Pupil progress meetings also take place on a termly basis to ensure that individuals are identified where necessary and intervention and support is provided in order to continue to accelerate progress.
The termly ‘attainment report’ that you receive will inform you how your child is currently performing in the Spring and Summer terms, along with the Parents’ Evenings. A full Record of Achievement goes to parents towards the end of the summer term.
Headline Data Summary 2025:
| EYFS | Good Level of Development | Year 1 | Phonics Screening Check | ||
| School | National | School | National | ||
| 78% | 68.3% | 77% | |||
| Multiplication Check Year 4 | ||
| Thorpe Hesley | National | |
| Mean Average | 23.6 | |
| Pupils who achieved 20+/ 25 | 91% | |
| Pupils who achieved 25 / 25 | 58% | |
| KS2 | Thorpe Hesley | National |
| Reading EXS+ | 69% | 75% |
| Reading GDS | 25.6% | 33% |
| Writing EXS+ | 77% | 72% |
| Writing GDS | 23% | 13% |
| Maths EXS+ | 77% | 74% |
| Maths GDS | 32.5% | 26% |
| GPS EXS+ | 85.1% | 73% |
| GPS GDS | 35% | 30% |
| Combined Eng / maths EXS+ | 62.2% | 62% |
| Combined Eng / maths GDS | 13.5% | 8% |
We are delighted to report that we remain OUTSTANDING in all areas following an Ofsted visit on Wednesday 1st and Thursday 2nd November 2023. This follows the OUTSTANDING judgement from our first Ofsted as an amalgamated primary school on 13th and 14th July 2017. Since then, we have become part of the New Collaborative Learning Trust which has helped to strengthen and develop our school even further, allowing us to go from strength to strength.
A huge thank you to staff, advisory board members, parents and children for their support and hard work which have been central to our Ofsted success.
Full copies of this and previous Ofsted reports can be found by clicking the links below.
