Key Information
NFER AssessmentsOn this page you will find information about Year 3 – Year 5 assessments.
What is NFER?
At Stafford Junior School we complete three assessment periods during the Summer, Spring and Autumn. These assessments are solely to support teachers to correctly pitch their lessons and support pupils in their class. All that we ever ask is for each pupil to try their best.
Stafford Junior School complete NFER Assessments with all pupils in Year 3, Year 4 and Year 5 at the end of the Autumn, Spring and Summer. These tests are administered in classes and teachers and teaching assistants will complete the tests with pupils during the school day.
How Do we use the data?
These assessments are used to enable teachers to confidently monitor attainment and pupil progress with alignment to national curriculum tests whilst offering an age-appropriate level of challenge. The assessments are used alongside our teacher evaluation – teachers look at the data to help them plan teaching, as well as to map progress and set targets for individual pupils and groups through identifying areas of strength and areas to develop.
How can you support your child at home?
If you wish to further support your child/children at home, you can access: https://www.thenational.academy/
Once on the website, you can click on KS2 and select the subject you wish to support your pupil with further. Within each subject there are different areas of the curriculum where you can see individual lessons on different concepts that your child / children are being taught at school. If you wish further clarity on which topics your child / children are currently learning then please speak to their class teacher.
If you wish, there are also some links on BBC Bitesize that you could look at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn
Our Vision: Be The Best We Can Be
We want our pupils to be confident, independent, high achieving learners who are prepared for the next stage of their education and can fully participate as global citizens.
We will achieve this by a commitment to providing an inclusive, safe and inspirational teaching and learning environment that promotes high expectations of all pupils.
We support one another to overcome challenges with confidence and resilience, showing respect for ourselves and each other. We celebrate hard work and effort and our successes are shared because we know that together we can achieve more.