Achievement & Attainment

The national curriculum is organised into blocks of years called ‘Key Stages’ (KS). At Avenue Primary Academy we have three Key Stages: Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) for Nursery and Reception; KS1 for Years 1 and 2; and KS2 for Years 3 to 6.

At the end of a Key Stage, the teacher will formally assess each child’s performance. In KS1 and KS2 these assessments are informally referred to as ‘SATs’. KS2 assessments are statutory and take place in May and are more formal in format than in KS1. The tests are taken in Year 6 and cover the core subjects, English - Reading and Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling (GPS) and Mathematics.

From September 2023 KS1 SATs became optional in all schools. A baseline assessment for Reception pupils was introduced in 2021 and a Multiplication Tables Check (MTC) was introduced in Year 4  in 2022. KS1 Phonics and KS2 SATs (in Year 6) remain as normal.

At Avenue we have an Autism Special Opportunity base (Trailblazers and Explorers), which offers full time education for pupils age 5 -11 years, with a diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Condition (ASC) and an Education Health and Care Plan. These pupils will be included in any published data, regardless of what pathway they are on. Below our data is shown with and without the base.

APA Achievement and Attainment 2023APA Achievement and Attainment 2024

APA Achievement and Attainment 2025

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Historical achievement and attainment:  

The Department of Education stipulated that schools are not required to publish their assessment results from 2019/20 and 2020/21 academic years as these have not been published as performance measures by the Secretary of State as SATs were cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Cancellation of 2019/20 national curriculum assessments:

Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic the 2019/20 national curriculum assessments did not take place

This means the following assessments between April and July 2020 were cancelled:

• End of key stage 1 and key stage 2 assessments (including tests and teacher assessment)
• Phonics screening check
• Multiplication tables check
• Science sampling tests
• All statutory trialling 
• Primary school performance measures will not be published for the 2019/20 academic year. 

APA achievement and attainment 2018 - 2019