Assessment and Reporting
Teacher assessment is an ongoing and important part of the teaching sequence at Bromley Heath Infant School. It is used to inform teachers of the next steps in a child’s journey and enables them to plan future learning at an appropriate level, promoting achievement. Assessments are also used to track progress over the year and support early identification of any particular areas where more focus, practice and support may be required.
Statutory Assessment
Early Years Foundation Stage
In the final term of the year in which the child reaches age five, and no later than 30 June in that term, the EYFS Profile must be completed for each child. The EYFS Profile provides teachers, parents and the Local Authority with reliable and accurate information about each child’s level of development as they reach the end of the EYFS.
Each child’s level of development must be assessed against the early learning goals (ELG). Practitioners must indicate whether children are meeting expected levels of development or not yet reaching expected levels. To achieve a ‘good’ level of development, children should meet the ‘expected’ ELG in all seven areas of learning: communication and language; personal, social and emotional development; physical development; literacy; mathematics; understanding the world, and expressive arts and design.
Year One Phonics Check
Children in Y1 undertake a phonic screening check to assess their ability to decode words and non-words phonetically. The results are reported to parents with their annual report at the end of the year.
End KS1 SATs
Children who did not pass the phonics screening check in Y1 re-take it in Y2. Children in Y2 take national tests in reading and mathematics (the school has chosen not to opt out of them). These are used to support the teacher’s assessment of reading and maths; writing and science are assessed from children’s work. The assessments are no longer statutory and so are not reported to the Department of Education; however, they are reported to parents at the end of the year with their annual report.
EYFS
Good Level of Development indicates that children have reached the expected standard in all their early learning goals. Significantly above national attainment.
PHONICS (Y1)
Significantly above national attainment.
END KS1 data
There is no national data from 2024 as the SATs are no longer statutory (schools can opt out).
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