Assessment Results
Assessment Results 2025
Each year, the children in Year 6 sit national SATs tests. In May 2025, our Year 6 pupils sat the SATs tests, in line with the National Curriculum objectives. Pupils’ raw test scores were converted into scaled scores to decide whether pupils had met the expected standard for the end of Key Stage 2. The results of these tests are summarised in the tables below.
EYFS
During the first six weeks of starting school, we complete a national baseline assessment of the pupils’ starting points in: language, communication, literacy, and mathematics which is completed 1: 1 with their class teacher. The results are sent directly to the Department of Education. To create school-level progress measures to show the progress pupils make from reception until the end of key stage 2 (KS2). These results are not shared with schools (or parents) until the summer they reach Year 6.
School baseline and GLD:
During the first half-term a school baseline assessment is carried out to assess a child’s attainment against the seventeen aspects of learning from The Early Years Foundation Stage profile.
Children are defined as having reached a Good Level of Development (GLD) at the end of EYFS if they have achieved the expected level in the prime areas of learning and the specific areas of mathematics and literacy.
| School 2024/25 |
Good Level of Development | 62% |
Expected standard or above in Reading | 71% |
Expected standard or above in Writing | 62% |
Expected standard or above in Number | 95% |
Phonics Screening
The phonics screening check takes place for all children who have reached the end of Year 1* and is designed to confirm whether pupils have learnt phonic decoding to an appropriate standard. It will identify pupils who need extra help to improve their decoding skills.
The check consists of 20 real words and 20 pseudo-words that a pupil reads aloud to the teacher. In 2024, pupils needed to attain 32 or more words to achieve the phonics screening check.
| St Helen’s | National |
Pupils in Year 1 who reached the expected standard | 88% | 80% |
Pupils retakes in Year 2 | 71% |
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Year 2 pass rate 22/23 (cohort of 30) | 69% |
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Overall combined Year 2 phonics score (cohort of 32) | 92% |
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KS2 SATS
At St Helen's we are consistently above the National Average
% of Pupils achieving the Expected Standard | School | Provisional National 24/25 | Medway Provisional average 24/25 | % of Pupils achieving a Greater Depth within the Expected Standard |
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Reading | 84% (26) | 75% | 72% | Reading | 52% (16) |
Writing | 84% (26) | 72% | 71% | Writing | 3% (1) |
Mathematics | 77% (24) | 74% | 71% | Mathematics | 26% (8) |
GPaS | 87% (27) | 73% | 66% | GPaS | 45% (14) |
Science | 94% |
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Combined | 71% (22) | 62% | 59.5% |
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Results 2023/2024
In order to achieve the Expected Standard for Year 6, a pupil must have a scaled score of 100 or more in reading and mathematics; and have been teacher assessed in writing as ‘working at the expected standard’ or ‘working at greater depth within the expected standard’.