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Is the KS2 spag test included in calculation for GCSE target

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spellingandgrammar · 01/03/2019 13:24

Is the KS2 spelling and grammar SATS test included in the calculation used by Oftsed to measure progress at secondary school against GCSE targets? Thank you.

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TeenTimesTwo · 01/03/2019 18:23

Anyone giving a target of 116.78 for a KS2 test needs to be reprogrammed. That's utterly and total daft imo.

Surely for y6 the kids just need to be told 'do your best to show how much you have learned'. If school has any more detailed internal targets shouldn't they be keeping them to themselves?

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spellingandgrammar · 01/03/2019 18:09

Is that because progress between ks1 and ks2 is only measured on reading and maths? I was shocked to find recently that DD has a target score for KS2 maths and reading to 2 decimal places eg 116.78 but no target for SPAG. I was expecting a target to pass or exceed for all 3 exams not a precise number for just maths/reading
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noblegiraffe · 01/03/2019 14:57

It’s just reading and maths equally weighted at the moment. The government haven’t actually announced how Progress 8 will be calculated using the new KS2 scaled scores yet because those kids are only in Y9.

I can’t imagine that they’d start using SPaG.

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spellingandgrammar · 01/03/2019 13:45

Sorry if I have not explained properly. All schools are measured on progress between SATS and GCSEs by Ofsted and results published. They don't have any choice in the calculations that are used as the calculation is set for all schools. Please can you someone confirm how the calculations are made. Is it an average of reading and maths papers ie 50% of total is the reading score and 50% the maths papers or is SPAG included too? Thanks,

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GoTitansGo · 01/03/2019 13:27

Ofsted won't use calculations. They inspect, that's all. Secondary schools will probably use cat4, midyis or fft. Not KS2 spag, no.