“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.
2023-24 Whole School Data
Early Years Foundation Stage
| National | Thorpe Hesley Primary School | |
| Good Level of Development | 67.7% | 68% |
Year One Phonics
| Thorpe Hesley Primary School | 85% |
| National | 80% |
Year Two Phonics
| Thorpe Hesley Primary School | 96% |
| National | 89% |
Key Stage 1 Results
| Expected Standard | Greater Depth Standard | ||
| Reading | 82% | 40% | |
| Writing | 70% | 12% | |
| Maths | 81% | 30% |
Key Stage 2 Results
| National | Thorpe Hesley Primary School Expected Standard | Thorpe Hesley Primary School Greater Depth Standard | |
| Reading | 74% | 81% | 25% |
| Writing | 72% | 81% | 17% |
| GPS | 72% | 78% | 26% |
| Maths | 73% | 79% | 29% |
| Combined | 61% | 68% | 7% |
Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check
| National | Thorpe Hesley | |
| Children scoring full marks | 34% | 69% |
| Average score | 20.6 | 23.2 |
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.
