Assessment Results and School Performance

At Weston Village Primary School, assessment is used to help us understand what children know, remember and can do, identify where further teaching or support is needed and ensure that pupils are appropriately challenged.

Statutory national assessments provide useful benchmarks at particular points in primary school, but they are only one part of the picture. Teachers also use day-to-day assessment, pupils' work and wider assessment information to identify strengths, gaps and next steps in learning.

About the Results on This Page

The Department for Education publishes school-level performance information after results have been checked and validated.

Our 2025 Key Stage 2 results remain the latest school-level performance measures currently published by the Department for Education. We have also included our provisional 2026 statutory outcomes because they provide parents with the most up-to-date picture of achievement at Weston.

The 2026 school figures will remain labelled as provisional until the national checking and publication process is complete.

As with all primary-school results, cohort sizes are relatively small, so we consider outcomes over time and alongside what we know about individual pupils rather than judging the quality of education from a single set of percentages.

Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) – Good Level of Development (GLD)

At the end of Reception, children are assessed against the Early Learning Goals across the seven areas of learning.

A child achieves a Good Level of Development (GLD) when they meet the expected standard in the three prime areas of learning and in literacy and mathematics.

Weston's 2026 outcome remains strong. The national 2026 EYFS figures have not yet been published, so the comparison above uses the latest available national data. Nationally, 68.3% of children achieved a GLD in 2025

Phonics Screening Check

The statutory Phonics Screening Check takes place towards the end of Year 1. It contains 40 real and pseudo-words and checks whether pupils can use their phonics knowledge accurately to decode unfamiliar words.

The threshold is set nationally each year. In 2026, the threshold was 31 out of 40.

Year 1 Phonics Results

National 2026 attainment figures will be published later in the autumn; 80% is therefore the latest published national comparison.

Pupils who do not meet the expected standard in Year 1 receive further teaching and support and take the check again in Year 2.

Phonics by End of Year 2 (Including Rechecks)

Our latest published school outcome shows that 93% of pupils had met the phonics standard by the end of Year 2.

For comparison, the national figure in 2025 was 89%. From 2024, the Department for Education changed the methodology used to calculate the end-of-Year-2 measure, so comparisons with older figures should be made cautiously

Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check (MTC)

All Year 4 pupils take the statutory Multiplication Tables Check (MTC). The online check consists of 25 questions and assesses pupils' fluency in multiplication facts up to 12 × 12.

The latest published comparison is:

Weston pupils demonstrated strong fluency in multiplication facts, with an average score that exceeded both national and local averages.

Key Stage 2 (End of Year 6) – SATs and Teacher Assessment

At the end of Year 6, pupils take national curriculum tests in:

• English reading

• mathematics

• grammar, punctuation and spelling (GPS).

Writing and science are assessed by teachers against national assessment frameworks.

A scaled score of 100 or above represents the expected standard in the national tests. A scaled score of 110 or above represents the higher standard. Writing at the higher standard is described as working at greater depth.

% of Pupils Achieving the Expected Standard

The national headline figures for 2026 show 75% reaching the expected standard in reading, 73% in writing, 75% in mathematics, 74% in GPS and 63% in reading, writing and mathematics combined.

% of Pupils Achieving the Higher Standard / Greater Depth

Weston's 2026 outcomes show particularly strong attainment at the expected standard across the core curriculum. Higher-standard outcomes are particularly strong in grammar, punctuation and spelling and mathematics, while reading is in line with the national higher-standard figure. Writing outcomes are above national at both the expected standard and greater depth.

Latest Published DfE Performance Measures – 2025

These are the key performance measures that academies are expected to publish on their website.

Weston's wider 2025 results were also strong, with attainment above national in reading, writing, mathematics and GPS. In 2025, the school was selected for statutory external moderation of Key Stage 2 writing. The moderation confirmed that the school's writing assessment judgements were secure, providing strong external assurance about the accuracy of assessment.

Find Out More

The Department for Education's school performance service provides the nationally published performance information for Weston:

DfE Performance Tables – Weston Village Primary School

Parents can also find official information explaining the different primary assessments here:

National curriculum assessments – information for parents