Understanding Primary Assessment
Understanding Primary Assessment
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Academic Year 2024-2025
The information on this page is to give you an understanding of how assessment works throughout your child's time at primary school.
E.Y.F.S.
Reception Baseline Assessment
Schools must complete the reception baseline assessment for each child in the first 6 weeks after they enter reception.
Early Years Foundation Stage Profile Assessment
Schools must complete the profile assessment between April and June of the academic year in which children turn 5, which is usually in the reception year.
Key Stage 1
Key Stage 1 Tests
It is recommended that the Key Stage 1 tests are administered during May.
Phonics Screening Check
All schools must administer the phonics screening check within the 1-week period from Monday 9th June, 2025.
Key Stage 2
Multiplication Tables Check
Schools must administer the multiplication tables check for all year 4 pupils within the 2 week period from Monday 2nd June, 2025.
KS2 Tests (SATS)
The statutory KS2 tests are timetabled from Monday 12th May to Thursday 15th May, 2025.
Date / Activity
Monday 12th May / English Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling papers 1 & 2
Tuesday 13th May / English Reading paper
Wednesday 14th May / Mathematics Papers 1 & 2
Thursday 15th May / Mathematics Paper 3
For information on how we prepare the students, please see our KS2 SATs page.
Further information and details of assessment can be found through the Standards and Testing Agency and Department for Education website.
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