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External Assessment Results 2016 - 2017                                                                                                                 External Assessment Results 2016 - 2017






        InCAS                                                                                                                  Year 6 May 2017

        Students in Year 3 and 6 also participated in the InCAS, a program developed at Durham                                                  General Maths      Mental Maths        Reading           Spelling      Developed Ability
        University (UK).  Year 3 in September 6 and Year 6 at the end of the year (May 20176).                                                 BHS %     ESF %   BHS %     ESF %   BHS %     ESF %   BHS %     ESF %   BHS %     ESF %

        The children undertook standardised tests in English, which included word recognition, word                                >2 years
        decoding, reading comprehension and spelling, and in Mathematics, which included Mental                                     above
        Mathematics.                                                                                                             Chronological   24.7    22.1     29.2      22      14.9      21.2    43.8     34.4     36.0      53.1
                                                                                                                                     Age

        The InCAS tests give an age-related score.  The tests indicate how well the child achieved when                           0-2 above

        compared with children of the same age.  For example, a child who performed at or above their                            Chronological   53.9    53.6     46.1      51.9    78.2     64.4     49.4     50.8     38.2     39.3
                                                                                                                                     Age
        chronological age would be considered to be learning well. High scores were attained in the
        InCAS tests, as the following data show:                                                                                  0-2 below

                                                                                                                                 Chronological   18      23.2     20.2     23.9      4.6      13.4     6.7      13.8     18.0     6.8
        Year 3 September 2016                                                                                                        Age

                         General Maths      Mental Maths        Reading           Spelling      Developed Ability

                        BHS %    ESF %    BHS %    ESF %    BHS %     ESF %   BHS %     ESF %   BHS %     ESF %                    <2 years
                                                                                                                                    below
            >2 years                                                                                                             Chronological   3.4      1.0      4.5      2.3      2.3      1.0       0       1.0      7.9      0.9
             above                                                                                                                   Age
          Chronological   17.2    15.4     10.3     18.6     43.2      43      44.8     42.2     34.8      33                       Total
              Age                                                                                                                operating at

           0-2 above                                                                                                             or above CA    78.7     75.8     75.3     73.8      93.1    85.6     93.3     85.3     74.2     92.3
          Chronological   67.8    71.8     60.9     54.5     44.3     43.5     40.2     38.4     39.3     45.8
              Age



           0-2 below
          Chronological                                                                                                                          Year 3 InCAS Results                                   Year 6 InCAS Results
              Age        14.9     12.7     25.3     23.1     12.5     12.4      15      18.2      18      16.5                     100                                                    120
                                                                                                                                    90                86  88                                                     96
                                                                                                                                                                                          100
            <2 years                                                                                                                80                                                               81
             below                                                                                                                  70                                                     80
          Chronological    0       0.1      3.5      3.9       0       1.1       0       1.2      7.9      4.7                      60       47                    Greater than 2 years                                    Greater than 2 years
                                                                                                                                                                                                                           above chronological age
                                                                                                                                                                   above chronological age
              Age                                                                                                                 % of students  50                                       % of students  60
             Total                                                                                                                  40                             Above chronological age  40                             Above chronological age
                                                                                                                                    30
          operating at   85.1     87.2     71.2     73.1     87.5     86.5      85      80.6     74.1     78.9                      20    19                                                     25          16
          or above CA                                                                                                               10                                                     20

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