School Data Updates

I seem to spend a lot of time ranting these days. Recently I’ve been trying to rein it in a bit, be less preachy. It’s counter productive to wind people up – need to get them on side – the problem is there are just so many opportunities to get annoyed these days. I’m turning […]

This is an anonymised version of a summary report I’ve just written for a primary school. They kindly allowed me to post it on my blog (with school name removed, obviously). It’s not been properly edited yet but hopefully it’ll give you some ideas if you are in the middle of writing similar reports at […]

As tweeted yesterday, the whole EY-KS1 attainment table thing in RAISE/dashboard really bothers me. I intend to write a blog or TES article about the issue this week but in the meantime, I wanted to share this tool. Many schools have many ‘weaknesses’ stated on p1 of their dashboards, which arise from these tables. These relate to […]

Not blogged for a month, which is disgraceful, but I’ve been stupid busy. While I’m getting round to writing something meaningful and current and bang on the data nail, here is the link to my RAISE summary template: https://1drv.ms/w/s!AkYlGyDE3q81lxozROGpN8oKbaQr Please avoid editing the online version. It should open in word view – download it (click […]

Back in February I wrote this post, speculating on the potential issues of the proposed writing progress measure. That measure is now a reality and the issues predicted in the blog post have taken root. I don’t have a problem with VA measures per se – although I would prefer it to be contextualised – but […]

Is it possible that there are certain situations where a school would benefit more from a pupil actually scoring less on a test? Having spent probably too much time playing with the KS2 pupil ready reckoner tool (click here and click ‘how Ofsted and DfE analyse your data’ to download), it would appear so. But […]

Warning: this blog post contains no opinions or rants whatsoever. I recently shared my VA calculator and floor standard tool on Twitter and thought it’d be useful to put the links into a blog so people can find them easily. PLEASE NOTE: the tools are stored in my One Drive so don’t edit the online […]

To coincide with the performance tables checking exercise, the DfE have released an updated Primary Accountability guidance document and additional note on the new progress measures. These documents contain useful information on how progress measures are calculated, and provide more detail on floor standards. Schools that have downloaded their checking exercise data will find their progress […]

Tomorrow (or today depending on when you are reading this) primary schools receive data as part of the DfE’s checking exercise. The aim is for schools to check the results and submit any changes by 16th September. These changes, along with any review outcomes, will be reflected in the performance tables in December and will […]