Pearson Schools Blog

If you haven’t yet heard of Bug Club, it’s our whole school reading programme that is designed to develop confident young readers and inspire a lifelong love of books.

It's been a busy week for Primary schools as both the SATs results and the new KS2 floor standards have been released.

There seems to be a lot of interest around reading comprehension at the moment -hardly surprising given that KS2 children have recently sat one of the most controversial reading SATs papers since SATs were introduced in 1991.

You have to admit, 10,000 is a big number – in fact it’s a huge number.

What’s the difference between formative and summative assessment? According to Kat Schofield, you can relate the 2 neatly to Steven Covey’s ‘circle of influence’ and ‘circle of concern’.

On Saturday 21 May, a group of us from Pearson went along to the first #LearningFirst event hosted by the @BeyondLevels team organised by Dame Alison Peacock.

With the end-of-key-stage assessments imminent, here's a quick reminder of what the Rochford Review recommendations are for assessing children working 'working below the standards of the national curriculum tests but who are above the level of the P scales'.

At the same time that the government published the KS2 teacher assessment exemplifications, it also published guidance for KS1 teacher assessment, and though most of the guidance was as expected with regards to phonics and reading fluency there were a few interesting points. 

The exemplifications for the end-of-KS2 tests have just been released with videos to support the paperwork, and while we’re fairly familiar with the curriculum this is the first time we have seen examples of what those objectives look like in practice. So what have we learned?