Ofsted & Performance

Ofsted

We are extremey proud to say that St John's is a GOOD school in all areas, as judged by Ofsted in May 2022. Please see the link at the bottom of this page to read the full report. 

'Staff have high expectations of what pupils can and should achieve. Pupils, including disadvantaged pupils and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) achieve well. Pupils leave St John’s Church of England Primary School well prepared for the challenges of secondary school.' Ofsted 2022

Assessment

We view assessment as the process of seeking and interpreting evidence for use by pupils and their teachers to decide where pupils are in their learning, where they need to go and how best to get them there. Much of what teachers and pupils do in classrooms can be described as assessment. That is, the tasks and questions used to prompt pupils to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of a concept forms the basis of what is planned for next. If children are to progress, then learning needs to be tailored to their specific needs and this can only be achieved through considering what they already know and what the next suitable learning intention is.

Assessment at our school is designed to be:

• Day to day (Formative)-teachers will make observations of children’s work, annotate planning, design questioning to probe children’s understanding, talk to children 1 to 1 in the form of learning conversations and mark work in line with the Feedback  policy.
• Periodic (Summative)-teachers will use a variety of assessment tools in Year 1  to Year 6 to keep records of individual pupils’ achievements based on day to day evidence and record if children are working at, above or below their age expectation at the end of the academic year.
• Each term class teachers meet with Senior Leaders to discuss their class in detail. In these meetings staff identify what children need to do next and any support that is needed.
• Transitional-at the end of the year, teachers will update their assessments to indicate final attainment data and key skills achieved by their cohort. This data will be formed from the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile scores,  Year 2 and 6 tests and up to date assessments from Year 1 to 6. These results are also communicated to parents so that all parents know if their child is working at, above or below their age expectation in different areas of learning.
   

Please find below our most recent Ofsted reports and relevant information from the Department for Education Performance Tables. 

Assessment

2023 Data

Early Years Foundation Stage GLD Results 2023

Key Stage 1 Results 2023

KS1 Year 2 Results 2023

KS2 Results 2023