School Performance

At Oakdale Infants’ School, we use a mixture of informal observations and assessment for learning opportunities in lessons to continually assess our pupils and we keep a detailed track of our pupils’ progress and attainment.

There are also national assessments that have to be carried out at key times during the primary school phase.

Reception Baseline Assessments (RBA)

The RBA became statutory in schools in September 2021. It is an activity-based assessment of pupils’ starting points in:

• language, communication and literacy
• mathematics

The RBA is a short, task-based assessment. It is not used to label or track individual pupils.

Schools are required to carry out the assessment within the first 6 weeks of pupils starting reception. No numerical score is shared and the data will only be used at the end of year 6 to form the school-level progress measure. However, teachers will receive a series of short, narrative statements that tell them how their pupils performed in the assessment. These can be used to inform teaching within the first term.

Early Years Foundation Stage Profile

During the Reception year, children are continually assessed and at the end of Reception a judgement is made as to whether they have achieved a good level of development.

We make a judgement across the areas of Communication & Language, Physical Development, Personal Social and Emotional Development, Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the World and Expressive Arts and Design. Our judgements state whether the children have met, or are emerging at this point.

The Year One Phonics Check

The Phonics Screening Check happens towards the end of Year 1. It is administered individually to each child by the class teacher. It is meant to show how well a child can use the phonics skills they’ve learned up to the end of Year 1, and to identify students who need extra phonics help.

The checks consist of 40 words and non-words that a child will be asked to read one-on-one with a teacher. Non-words (or nonsense words, or pseudo words) are a collection of letters that will follow phonics rules your child has been taught, but don’t mean anything – a child will need to read these with the correct sounds to show that they understand the phonics rules behind them.

All children who attend Oakdale Infants’ follow the Essential Letters and Sounds (ELS) Phonics Programme. Please see below our Y1 Phonics Check results for 2023-24 and the data for those children who have attend Oakdale since Reception and have been part of the ELS phonics programme since starting school.

*The data below is based on the pupils who have attended at Oakdale Infants’ School since Reception and have been taught phonics solely through the ELS programme.

DfE Websites 

For further data about the school please click the DfE Compare School Performance links:

• Oakdale Infants' School - Compare school and college performance data in England - GOV.UK (compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk) 
• Find and compare schools in England - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)