Ofsted & Performance
Ofsted
We are extremey proud to say that St Thomas's is a GOOD school, with Outstanding in for Behaviour and Attitudes, as judged by Ofsted in June 2024. Please see the link at the bottom of this page to read the full report.
'Pupils’ behaviour is exemplary. They understand the school rules and relish the array of rewards that they receive for working hard and trying their best.' Ofsted 2024
Assessment
We view assessment as the process of seeking and interpreting evidence for use by pupils and their teachers to decide where pupils are in their learning, where they need to go and how best to get them there. Much of what teachers and pupils do in classrooms can be described as assessment. That is, the tasks and questions used to prompt pupils to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of a concept forms the basis of what is planned for next. If children are to progress, then learning needs to be tailored to their specific needs and this can only be achieved through considering what they already know and what the next suitable learning intention is.
Assessment at our school is designed to be:
- Day to day (Formative)-teachers will make observations of children’s work, annotate planning, design questioning to probe children’s understanding, talk to children 1 to 1 in the form of learning conversations and mark work in line with the Feedback policy.
- Periodic (Summative)-teachers will use a variety of assessment tools in Year 1 to Year 6 to keep records of individual pupils’ achievements based on day to day evidence and record if children are working at, above or below their age expectation at the end of the academic year.
- Each term class teachers meet with Senior Leaders to discuss their class in detail. In these meetings staff identify what children need to do next and any support that is needed.
- Transitional-at the end of the year, teachers will update their assessments to indicate final attainment data and key skills achieved by their cohort. This data will be formed from the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile scores, Year 2 and 6 tests and up to date assessments from Year 1 to 6. These results are also communicated to parents so that all parents know if their child is working at, above or below their age expectation in different areas of learning.
Please find below our most recent Ofsted reports and relevant information from the Department for Education Performance Tables.
Assessment
2024 Data
Early Years Foundation Stage GLD Results
| St Thomas's | National | |
| Good Level of Development | 64% | 68% |
| Expected level across all early learning goals | 64% | 67% |
| Average number of early learning goals at the expected level per pupil | 13.4 | 14.2 |
Key Stage 1 Phonics Screening Check Results
| St Thomas's | National | |
| Phonics - Year 1 Expected | 89% | 80% |
| Phonics - Year 2 Expected | 93% | 91% |
KS1 Year 2 Results
| St Thomas's | National | |
| Reading, Writing & Maths combined - Expected Standard | 65% | 57% |
| Reading, Writing & Maths combined - Greater Depth | 4% | 6% |
| Reading - Expected Standard | 74% | 71% |
| Reading - Greater Depth | 14% | 19% |
| Writing - Expected Standard | 67% | 62% |
| Writing - Greater Depth | 5% | 8% |
| Maths - Expected Standard | 70% | 71% |
| Maths - Greater Depth | 9% | 15% |
| Science - Expected Standard | 81% | 82% |
KS2 Results
| St Thomas's | National | |
| Reading, Writing and Maths - Expected Standard | 63% | 61% |
| Reading, Writing and Maths - Higher Standard | 6% | 7% |
| Reading - Expected Standard | 69% | 74% |
| Reading - Higher Standard | 13% | 28% |
| Reading - Average scaled score | 102.7 | 105.0 |
| Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling - Expected Standard | 77% | 72% |
| Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling - Higher Standard | 38% | 31% |
| Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling - Average scaled score | 106.3 | 105 |
| Writing - Expected Standard | 73% | 72% |
| Writing - Greater Depth | 10% | 12% |
| Maths - Expected Standard | 79% | 73% |
| Maths - Higher Standard | 17% | 23% |
| Maths - Average scaled score | 104.3 | 104 |
| Science - Expected Standard | 92% | 81% |