Key stage 2 teacher assessment guidance
Guidance for schools and local authorities involved in the administration and moderation of statutory key stage 2 (KS2) teacher assessment.
Updates to this page
- From:
- Standards and Testing Agency
- Published:
- 22 November 2018
- Last updated:
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14 October 2026
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Due to technical issues, the following forms on the National Curriculum Assessments Portal will now be available from Monday 2 November (rather than Monday 12 October): 'Submit local authority monitoring and moderation agreement requests' form for academies and participating independent schools, 'Approve monitoring and moderation agreement requests' form for local authorities. Schools and local authorities can still discuss and put agreements in place before the forms open.
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Updated for the academic year 2026 to 2027.
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Section 6.2: Example added to further illustrate writing that is not considered independent. Section 10: Clarification added if a school's teacher assessment judgements are accepted in full by the local authority moderator during remoderation. Section 13.3: Corrected the academic year's data used to calculate progress measures (using outcomes from statutory key stage 1 assessments from the academic year 2021 to 2022 - not 2022 to 2021). Section 16.4: Clarification added on the purpose of collecting external moderation summary data.
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Guidance updated for the academic year 2025 to 2026
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Added clarification that sections 9.3 and 9.4 also apply to special schools with a relevant cohort.
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Updated for the academic year 2024 to 2025.
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Date correction in section 3: 'Submit teacher assessment form' available on the Primary Assessment Gateway from Monday 20 May - previously stated Monday 13 May.
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Sections 9.2 and 16.1: Clarified and provided non-exhaustive examples of reasons for potential additional external moderation which could be more frequent than every 4 years.
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Added clarification to section 9.2 (external moderation): Where an additional moderation visit takes place within the 4-year cycle, this visit will be counted as additional and should not impact the school’s 4-yearly cycle.
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The date for local authorities to begin informing schools if they will receive an external moderation visit for teacher assessment has changed from Friday 10 May to Friday 17 May.
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Updated guidance for the academic year 2023 to 2024
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Updated to reflect the changes due to the additional bank holiday in honour of the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III taking place on Monday 8 May 2023.
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Inconsistent dates updated in both the HTML and PDF attachments.
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Edited section 2.2 to highlight that TA judgements for 'all' pupils is needed in 2022.
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Section 10.1 the word pupils have replaced the word children children.
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Amended section 10 - local authorities must not shorten the moderation window by requesting teacher assessment data prior to midday on Tuesday 21 June.
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Updated guidance for the 2021/22 academic year.
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Updated key stage 2 teacher assessment guidance for 2020/21 academic year.
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Added key stage 2 teacher assessment guidance for 2020.
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This guidance supports schools in making statutory teacher assessment judgements at the end of KS2. It also supports schools and local authorities with the statutory moderation of these judgements.