Dear Parents/Carers,
Today, we received our Year 6 SATs results, following on from the statutory tests, which were taken by our Year 6 children in May.
We have shared individual results with the children and families, and I delighted to share our whole-school results with you all. We are very pleased with this year’s results: there has been an incredible amount of progress made by everyone, and there are some wonderful individual success stories of children working hard to achieve goal sofr themselves. There is no measure of progress this academic year owing to the Year 6s not taking KS1 SATs during COVID. The whole-school attainment results are as follows:
| Subject |
% of pupils achieving the EXPECTED standard and above: Coleham (2024) |
% of pupils achieving the EXPECTED standard and above: National (2024) |
| Reading |
79% |
74% |
| Writing |
71% |
72% |
| Maths |
81% |
73% |
| Science |
89% |
81% |
| Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling |
79% |
72% |
| Combined (Reading, Writing & Maths) |
66% |
61% |
These results reflect how hard all our children in Year 6 have worked. They have shown tremendous determination and dedication and everyone has something to celebrate – well done!
The Year 1 children in school were also required to take a statutory phonics screening check test in June. As you can see from the data below, we are very proud of all of the children in Year 1.
| Subject |
% of pupils achieving the EXPECTED standard and above: Coleham (2024) |
% of pupils achieving the EXPECTED standard and above: National (2024) |
| Phonics |
88% |
80% |
The requirement for formal assessments in Year 2 has been scrapped from this year. There are assessments in each year at school, but without the statutory requirement for Year 2 SATs, there is no publishable data. All data from assessments informs teacher judgements, which is reported on your child’s report and there is no requirement to publish any other data.
All of the teachers and support staff at Coleham work tremendously hard and I would like to thank them all for their commitment this year. Whilst the data is only a small part of what makes our school great, it is an important part. The knowledge and skills the children need are built up over their journey through school and every single member of staff plays their part – so a huge thank you and well done to the whole team for making such a difference to our children.
I hope that you feel as pleased as we do with the results, which reflect how hard our children have worked this year.
Yours sincerely,
Tom Larkham
Headteacher