YEAR 6 SATS RESULTS – Summer 2016
Background Information
This is the first year of the new Key Stage 2 assessments. The results which the children have achieved are
no longer reported as levels. The percentages are lower than in previous results for St. Saviour’s however,
we have to take into account that this was the first year of testing and teaching of the new National
Curriculum. Nationally, the performance of the children is also lower than in previous years. The staff of St
Saviour’s must be congratulated for their hard work and adjustment to the new standards and expectations
set out in the new National Curriculum.
This document will explain the results from this year’s tests using three criteria:
1. Attainment
2. Scaled scores
3. Progress
1. Attainment
The table below shows the attainment of pupils as a percentage achieving the National Standard in 201516 and for information, the attainment of pupils in 2014-15 using the old levelled assessment system who
achieved 4b+ (National Average). The numbers in the brackets are the number of pupils attaining the
National Standard. In 2015-16 there were 25 children in the cohort, in 2014-15, there were 28 children.
The percentage is calculated by taking the number of children that achieved National Standard and dividing
that by the total number of children in the class, e.g. if 24 children out of 25 reached National standard, then
the percentage is 96%.
This year, Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling was our strongest subject with 96% (24 out of 25 children)
achieving the National Standard, compared to 72% nationally. Maths and Writing were also very strong
with both subjects at least 10% higher than the National Average. The results of the Reading were a little
disappointing however, the test paper was a challenge. Nevertheless, 72% (18 out of 25 children) achieved
the National Standard which is 6% above the National Average.
Reading
Grammar, Punctuation and
Spelling
Maths
Writing (Teacher Assessed)
St
Saviour’s
2014-15
(Level 4+)
100%
(28)
96%
(27)
100%
(28)
93%
(26)
National
Average
2014-15
(Level 4+)
89%
87%
87%
87%
St.
Saviour’s
2015-16
National
Average
2015-16
72%
(18)
96%
(24)
88%
(22)
84%
(21)
66%
Local
Authority
Average
2015-16
66%
72%
80%
70%
76%
74%
79%
Using these scores two combination percentages are shown in the table below:
a) The percentage of pupils reaching the National Standard in any of the three subjects (Reading,
Writing, Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling or Maths).
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b) The percentage of pupils reading the National Standard in all of the three subjects (Reading, Writing,
Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling and Maths.
St Saviour’s
2014-15
(Level 4 or
above)
St. Saviour’s
2015-16
National
Average
2014-15
(Level 4 or
above)
85%
Combined % reaching the expected
standard in ANY
Combined % reaching the expected
standard in ALL
National
Average
2015-16
(21 out of 25
children)
96%
68%
(27 children)
(17 out of 25
children)
80%
71%
53%
2. Scaled scores
The expected National Standard in the tests is a scaled score of 100 or above. Pupils can achieve a
minimum scaled score 80 and a maximum scaled score of 120.
Across all subjects we exceeded or were level with the National Average Scaled Scores. Grammar,
Punctuation and Spelling results created the highest scaled score. The table below shows an average of the
scaled scores for 2015-16.
St. Saviour’s
National Average
Reading
103
103
Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling
106
104
Maths
104
103
The tables below show the distribution of scaled scores across the class. The percentages are calculated
using the whole class of 25 pupils (4% per pupil).
All pupils - Across each subject most pupils achieved the National Standard or above. Nationally, the
Reading paper was the hardest paper which will part explain why more children achieved a scaled score of
less than 100. In each subject, a small number of children can be grouped in achieving a ‘High Standard’ or
‘High level of attainment’ which is a scaled score of 110 or more. The highest scaled score achieved in the
cohort was 117 in Reading.
The ‘High Standard’ was calculated due to the distribution of the 2016 results. This ‘level’ hadn’t been
previously determined and explained to any school.
ALL PUPILS
St. Saviour’s
110 – 120
Achieving a High
Standard
Reading
GP and S
Maths
Nationally
Achieving a High
Standard
Local Authority
Achieving a High
Standard
19%
18%
23%
30%
17%
23%
5
(20%)
3
(12%)
4
(16%)
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3. Value-Added Progress Measure
The previous ‘expected progress’ measure used for KS2, based on pupils making at least two levels of
progress between Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2, is no longer produced and will not appear in the
performance tables or RAISE online in 2016.
This measure has been replaced by a value-added measure. There is no ‘target’ for the amount of progress
an individual pupil is expected to make. A school’s progress scores in Reading, Writing and Maths are
calculated as the average of its pupils’ subject progress scores. These scores give an indication of whether,
as a group, pupils in the school made above or below average progress in a subject compared with pupils
with similar starting points in other schools.
Any amount of progress a pupil makes contributes towards the school’s overall progress score. The range of
this measure is -10 to +10 VA scores with a national mean average of ‘0’. The numbers in brackets show
the range of progress scores the children achieved for each subject.
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A score of 0 means pupils in this school, on average, do about as well at Key Stage 2 as those with
similar prior attainment nationally.
A positive score means pupils on average do better at Key Stage 2 than those with similar prior
attainment nationally.
A negative score means pupils on average made less progress than other pupils nationally with
similar prior attainment.
Valued Added St. Saviour’s
Progress Scores
Reading
St. Saviour’s
Percentiles
-0.3
Local Authority
0.5
Middle 20%
40th- 60th Percentile
Writing
1.4
Middle 20%
40th- 60th Percentile
1.5
60th – 75th Percentile
Maths
Local Authority
Percentiles
0.1
60th – 75th Percentile
1.5
Middle 20%
40 – 60th Percentile
60th – 75th Percentile
th
The National value-added measures are yet to be published. The green boxes below highlight our
percentile position for each subject nationally.
Table taken from DfE ‘Primary School Accountability in 2016’
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Graph taken from DfE ‘Primary School Accountability in 2016’
For Reading, Writing and Maths combined, we are ranked 14th out of the borough’s 38 schools which means
we are in the median (59.6%). The Upper Quartile is 76.2% which we are aiming for in 2016-17.
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