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- Developing tests
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Assessment and reporting arrangements
- Key stage 1 ARA
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Key stage 2 ARA
- 1.0 Introduction
- 2.0 Changes for 2010
- 3.0 Assessing pupils' progress throughout key stage 2
- 4.0 Reporting teacher assessment levels at the end of key stage 2
- 5.0 Statutory tests at the end of key stage 2
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6.0 Who are the key stage 2 tests for?
- 6.1 Pupils older or younger than 11 at the end of key stage 2
- 6.2 Pupils working below the level of the tests
- 6.3 Pupils with English as an additional language (EAL)
- 6.4 Pupils whose level cannot be established
- 6.5 Pupils with profound hearing loss who are unable to access the spelling or mental mathematics tests
- 6.6 Pupils working at the level of the tests but who are unable to access them
- 6.7 What if parents, carers or guardians do not agree with the school's decision about whether their child should participate in the tests?
- 6.8 Assessing high attainers
- 7.0 The test timetable
- 8.0 Ordering and storing test materials
- 9.0 Preparing for the tests
- 10.0 Opening and administering the tests
- 11.0 What happens after the tests?
- 12.0 Access arrangements
- 13.0 Reporting and using pupils' results
- 14.0 Useful contact details
- Key stage 3 TARA
- Delivery of test materials
- Administering the tests
- Access arrangements
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6.0 Who are the key stage 2 tests for?
All pupils enrolled at a maintained school who are in their final year of key stage 2 in the 2009/10 school year must be registered with QCDA for the tests, even if they are working below level 3 and will not take the tests. All pupils working at level 3 or above must take the tests. Pupils registered for the tests will move on to the key stage 3 programmes of study in the 2010/11 school year.
Most of the pupils taking the tests will be in year 6 and will reach the age of 11 by the end of the school year. This includes pupils with special educational needs who are going to start some aspects of the key stage 3 programmes of study without having completed all the key stage 2 programmes of study.
To enable pupils with special educational needs to access the tests, schools can:
- order modified versions of the tests (see section 8.3)
- use a wide range of access arrangements (see section 12.0).
In small schools with mixed year-group classes, pupils who are going to be 11 in the 2009/10 school year and are moving on to the key stage 3 programmes of study must take the tests.
Pupils in their final year of key stage 2 who attend a pupil referral unit or hospital school on a part-time or temporary basis, but are still on a school’s register, must also participate in the tests.
Further information about pupil registration will be sent to schools in February 2010.