Assessments
Assessment of school children by their class or subject teacher provides information about how your child is doing. An assessment lets teachers see your child's progress. A teacher can use assessment results to identify ways to help pupils make more progress in school and learning.
Teacher assessment
Teacher assessment allows a school to report information to a child's parent. It can help older children choose examination courses they will study and qualifications and careers they will seek.
Assessment also helps schools to set targets and measure their performance. This information lets government monitor the performance of the schools’ system generally.
Key Stage assessment
Literacy and numeracy are central to the curriculum. The current system-level sample assessments in literacy and numeracy for Years 4, 7 and 10 will remain in place until the end of the 2028–29 academic year.
Each year, a representative sample of pupils in the final year of Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 will participate in these assessments. Such assessments are widely used internationally and will provide a robust system-level measure of educational performance in literacy and numeracy.
Implementation of the new curriculum will begin in 2028–29 and will be phased over three academic years. Under the new framework, the first statutory Year 4 assessments in literacy and numeracy will take place in March 2030. The first statutory Year 7 and Year 10 assessments in literacy, numeracy and science will follow in March 2031.
To read more about assessment for key stages 1, 2 and 3, go to:
To learn more about the curriculum, learning and assessment go to: