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. Since Covid 19 interupted National Assessments, 2019 is the most current published data.
Assessment
2019 Data
Early Years Foundation Stage GLD Results 2019
| St John's | National | |
| Good Level of Development | 55% | 71% |
Key Stage 1 Results 2019
| St John's | National | |
| Phonics - Year 1 Expected | 78% | 82% |
| Phonics - Year 2 Expected | 25% | 56% |
KS1 Year 2 Results 2019
| St John's | National | |
| Reading - Expected Standard | 70% | 75% |
| Reading - Greater Depth | 10% | 25% |
| Writing - Expected Standard | 63% | 70% |
| Writing - Greater Depth | 0% | 16% |
| Maths - Expected Standard | 63% | 76% |
| Maths - Greater Depth | 0% | 21% |
| Science - Expected Standard | 73% | % |
KS2 Results 2019
| St John's | National | |
| Reading, Writing and Maths | 40% | 65% |
| Reading - Expected Standard | 53% | 75% |
| Reading - Higher Standard | 13% | 28% |
| Reading - Progress | 1.6 | 0.0 |
| Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling - Expected Standard | 50% | 78% |
| Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling - Higher Standard | 10% | 34% |
| Writing - Expected Standard | 67% | 78% |
| Writing - Greater Depth | 7% | 20% |
| Writing - Progress | 3.3 | 0.0 |
| Maths - Expected Standard | 3% | 24% |
| Maths - Higher Standard | 10% | % |
| Maths - Progress | 0.6 | 0.0 |
What Progress Measures Mean
Most schools will have progress scores between -5 and +5. If a school has a progress score of 0 this means that on average their pupils achieved similar results at the end of KS2 ( end of Year 6) to pupils in other schools with similar results at the end of KS1 ( end of Year 2).
If a school has a positive progress score it means that on average their pupils made more progress than pupils in other schools with similar results at the end of KS1.
A negative score doesn’t mean a school has failed or pupils have made no progress. It just means that on average their pupils have made less progress than pupils in other schools with similar results at the end of KS1.