1. The New National Curriculum and Assessment at the end of Key Stage 1 Meeting March 2016 EXCALIBUR PRIMARY SCHOOL

2. Aims of the evening  To understand the Government has introduced a new curriculum.  To understand that the expectations on the children are higher than the previous curriculum.  Assessment without levels – how do we track and assess progress at Excalibur? How will the Government expect us to test your children from 2016? What will be involved in the end of Key Stage 1 tests

3. What we believe is important for Excalibur Children?  Develop as happy independent learners with a love of learning  Achieve their highest potential  Develop as responsible individuals with a respect and understanding of the needs of others  Make a positive contribution to the daily life of the school and participate in the decision making process  Develop confidence in themselves as individuals able to express thoughts and feelings  Develop spiritual awareness with a respect and understanding of the world around them, their own and other cultures  Understand how to live healthy lives and stay safe.

4. Has everything changed? We will still teach in a similar way. We will always start our teaching by finding out what the children know first. We will still teach children knowledge and skills via a topic based thematic approach. We will still have high expectations of all children in all subjects. Core subjectsFoundation subjects Literacy – Now English Numeracy – Now Maths Science – remains science History Geography Design and Technology PSHE and Citizenship Music ICT (now computing) PE MFL RE

5. Changes In 2014/15 a new national curriculum framework was introduced by the Government for Years 1, 3, 4 and 5. However, Years 2 and 6 (due to statutory testing) continued to study the previous curriculum for one further year. In 2015/16 children in all years at Key Stage 1 and 2 are expected to now study the new national curriculum. KS1 (Year 2) and KS2 SATs (Year 6) will reflect the new curriculum for the first time this year.

6. Examples of changes in English Old curriculum New Curriculum To use capital letters, full stops, question marks and to begin to use commas. Learning how to use both familiar and new punctuation correctly, including full stops, capital letters, exclamation marks, question marks, commas for lists and apostrophes for contracted forms and the possessive (singular) In composing their own texts, pupils should be taught to consider: a. how word choice and order are crucial to meaning b. the nature and use of nouns, verbs and pronouns Write sentences with different forms: statement, question, exclamation, command expanded noun phrases to describe and specify the present and past tenses correctly and consistently including the progressive form subordination (using when, if, that, or because) and co- ordination (using or, and, or but)

7. Maths Old curriculum New Curriculum Using and applying mathsAcross all areas Number and algebraNumber: place value, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division and fractions Shape, space and measureGeometry: properties of shape. Position and direction. Data HandlingStatistics Measure

8. Some examples Old CurriculumNew Curriculum Know addition and subtraction facts to 10 and use these to derive facts with totals to 20 Know multiplication facts for the x2 and x10 multiplication tables and derive corresponding division facts Create and describe number patterns of multiples of 2, 5 and 10 explaining the patterns Recall and use addition and subtraction facts to 20 fluently, and derive and use related facts up to 100 Recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10 multiplication tables, including recognising odd and even numbers Count in steps of 2, 3, and 5 from 0, and in tens from any number, forward and backward

9. Assessment and Reporting ‘Old’ national curriculum levels (e.g. Level 3, 4, 5) have now been abolished, as set out in the government guidelines. From 2016, test scores will be reported as ‘scaled scores’. This means it is very difficult to compare the assessment of a previous year with the current year. Your child will still be taught with the highest expectations and cover all required elements of the curriculum, similar to previous years. The new curriculum is more rigorous and sets high expectations which all schools have had to work hard to meet since the beginning of last year.

10. The Old National Curriculum Historically it was based on gaining a range of knowledge and skills which were developed through Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 It was broken into levels eg Average Year 2 was a level 2 Average Year 4 was a level 3 Average Year 6 was a level 4 Pupils were tested at year 2 and year 6, levels were awarded based on their scores/attainment. 2b3b4b Year 2x Year 4x Year 6x

11. Scaled Scores ‘What is meant by ‘scaled scores’? It is planned that 100 will always represent the ‘national standard’. Each pupil’s raw test score will therefore be converted into a score on the scale, either at, above or below 100. The scale will have a lower end point somewhere below 100 and an upper end point above 100. A child who achieves the ‘national standard’ (a score of 100) will be judged to have demonstrated sufficient knowledge in the areas assessed by the tests.

12. Scaled Scores ‘What is meant by ‘scaled scores’? It is planned that 100 will always represent the ‘national standard’. Each pupil’s raw test score will therefore be converted into a score on the scale, either at, above or below 100. The scale will have a lower end point somewhere below 100 and an upper end point above 100. A child who achieves the ‘national standard’ (a score of 100) will be judged to have demonstrated sufficient knowledge in the areas assessed by the tests.

13. Examples of Scaled Scores ‘On publication of the test results in July 2016: A child awarded a scaled score of 100 is judged to have met the ‘national standard’ in the area judged by the test. A child awarded a scaled score of more than 100 is judged to have exceeded the national standard and demonstrated a higher than expected knowledge of the curriculum for their age.

14. Examples of Scaled Scores ‘On publication of the test results in July 2016: A child awarded a scaled score of less than 100 is judged to have not yet met the national standard and performed below expectation for their age. Marking guidance for KS1 tests will include conversion tables. Teachers will use these to translate pupil’s raw scores into scaled scores to see whether each pupil has met the national standard. Teachers will use the scaled scores to inform their teacher assessment judgements.

15. What will be reported? For Reading, Writing, Maths and Science: Foundations towards the expected standard Working towards the expected standard Working at the expected standard Working at greater depth within the expected standard

16. End of Key Stage 1 Assessments During May, children will take assessments in: Reading; English grammar, punctuation and spelling; Maths. These tests are designed to inform Teacher Assessment judgements. Only the teacher assessment will be reported, even if it differs from task or test results.

17. Reading The Reading Test consists of two separate papers: Paper 1 – Contains a selection of texts totalling between 400 and 700 words with questions about the text. Paper 2 – Contains a reading booklet of a selection of passages totalling 800 to 1100 words. Children will write their answers to questions about the passage in a separate booklet. Each paper is worth 50% of the marks and should take approximately 30 minutes to complete, although the children are not being assessed at working at speed so will not be strictly timed.

18. Reading The texts will cover a range of poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Questions are designed to assess the comprehension and understanding of a child’s reading. Some questions are multiple choice or selected response, others require short answers and some require an extended response or explanation.

19. Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar This consists of two separate papers: Paper 1: Spelling (20 marks) Paper 2: Grammar and Punctuation (20 marks)

20. Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Example questions:

21. Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Example questions:

22. Maths Children will sit two tests: Paper 1 and Paper 2: Paper 1 is for arithmetic, lasting approximately 25 minutes and worth 25 marks. It covers calculation methods for all operations. Paper 2 covers problem solving, reasoning and mathematical fluency, lasts for approximately 35 minutes and is worth 35 marks. Pupils will still require calculation skills and questions will be varied including multiple choice, matching, true/false, completing a chart or table or drawing a shape. Some questions will also require children to show or explain their working out.

23. Maths Paper 1 (Arithmetic):

24. Maths Paper 2 (Reasoning):

25. Any questions?