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Guidance

Key stage 1 tests: test administration guidance (TAG)

Guidance for headteachers, teachers and teaching assistants about administering the 2019 key stage 1 national curriculum tests.

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Guidance

Key stage 2 tests: test administration guidance (TAG)

Guidance for headteachers, teachers and teaching assistants about administering the 2019 key stage 2 national curriculum tests.

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Statutory guidance

Pre-key stage 1 standards

For teachers to report assessment outcomes for pupils working below the standard of national curriculum assessments (commonly called SATs) at the end of KS1.

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Statutory guidance

Pre-key stage 2 standards

For teachers to report assessment outcomes for pupils working below the standard of national curriculum assessments (commonly called SATs) at the end of KS2.

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Guidance

National curriculum assessments calendar

Important dates for primary schools to plan for the 2019 key stages 1 and 2 tests (commonly called SATs), teacher assessment and the phonics screening check.

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Detailed guide

Reception baseline assessment

Information about the development of an assessment for pupils in reception to measure their progress in primary schools from 2020.

Latest from the Standards and Testing Agency

  1. Key stage 2 tests: special consideration guidance
    • Guidance
  2. Attendance register and test script dispatch
    • Guidance
  3. Key stage 2 tests: modified test administration guidance (MTAG)
    • Guidance

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What the Standards and Testing Agency does

We set the tests to assess children in education from early years to the end of key stage 2.

STA is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Education.

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News and communications

  1. Yellow Label Service moratorium
    • News story
  2. STA assessment update: 18 December 2018
    • Correspondence
  3. See all news and communications

Consultations

  1. Primary assessment in England
    • Consultation outcome
  2. Primary school pupil assessment: Rochford Review recommendations
    • Consultation outcome
  3. See all consultations

Publications

  1. Key stage 2 tests: special consideration guidance
    • Guidance
  2. Attendance register and test script dispatch
    • Guidance
  3. See all publications

Statistics

  1. National curriculum assessments: key stage 2, 2018 (provisional)
    • National statistics
  2. Key stage 2 national curriculum test review outcomes: 2018
    • National statistics
  3. See all statistics

Our management

Una Bennett
Una Bennett
CEO and Accounting Officer, STA

Contact STA

Standards and Testing Agency

Cheylesmore House
Ground Floor South Building
5 Quinton Road
Coventry
CV1 2WT
United Kingdom

Email

assessments@education.gov.uk

National curriculum assessments helpline

0300 303 3013

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