Thought they'd stopped doing tests?

[Darem]

Hi, wondering if anyone can help with some information?
Had parents evening on Monday and was told that DS who is in Year 4, had the following results:
Reading-4B, Writing-3A, Numeracy-4B.
These are the same as last year aside from Numeracy which was 4C last time.

What do the results mean? The teacher seemed pleased but I thought schools weren't doing tests anymore? So are the tests FOR anything in particular?

Thanks in advance for any info!

They are national curriculum levels.
level 2 you are expected to reach in year 2, level 3 in year 4 and level 4 in year 6.
They are subdivided into a, b, c.
The schools have to do tests in y6, and most choose to do tests in the other years - but they don't need to do tests to level children.
They may have assessed your son is working at level 3a in writing by looking at the writing he does.

he seems to be doing very well. congrats.

teachers are assessing children all the time. they might not do sats but still have hundreds of different documents to complete for each child. They need to do assessments to monitor the next stages

Figures to me seem very good for Year 4.