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DFE Standards
This Help Card shows you how School PUPIL TRACKER can help teachers explore the DFE Standards
The DFE has published statutory guidance on the standards needed to be met by children at the end of Key
Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. For the academic year 2016‐2017, these are the Interim Standards.
School PUPIL TRACKER has introduced a menu to support schools and keep them up‐to‐date with the Interim
Standards. Please log into School PUPIL TRACKER and click on the icon ‐
‐ to see the tools we provide and the links to the DFE Standards and statutory guidance.
Contents of this Help Card
Section 1: Overview of the DFE Interim Standards
Section 2: What are the EXS Objectives?
Section 3: Recording pupil achievement of the EXS Objectives
Section 4: Tools to see which children are meeting the Standards
Section 5: Moderation Reports
Section 6: Reporting judgements to your Local Authority and the DFE
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Section 1: Overview of the DFE Interim Standards
The DFE has published statutory guidance on what children should achieve at the end of Key Stage 1 and Key
Stage 2 in order to meet the expected standard.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher‐assessment‐frameworks‐at‐the‐end‐of‐key‐stage‐1 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher‐assessment‐frameworks‐at‐the‐end‐of‐key‐stage‐2 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/interim‐pre‐key‐stage‐1‐standards
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/interim‐pre‐key‐stage‐2‐standards It is very important that schools have read and act on the DFE statutory guidance. School PUPIL TRACKER has designed a range of tools to support teachers in making judgements about the DFE
Standards.
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Teachers in Year 2 and Year 6 are expected to judge whether each pupil has met the expected standards by
judging pupil attainment. For example, in Year 2 Reading, a teacher must make judgements about whether a
child is Working at Standard, Working at Greater Depth within the Standard or Working Towards the
Standard (amongst other categories).
Each of the Standards, such as Working at Standard shown in blue above, has a list of expected achievements
(as shown below for KS1 Reading). In order to meet the Working at Standard, the child must achieve all the
objectives in the list.
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Teachers in Year 2 and Year 6 must decide which standard band a child sits in.
The tables below show you the full range of standard bands these judgements must be made from.
Summary of Key Stage 1 codes and judgements
Summary of Key Stage 2 codes and judgements
Key to DFE codes in the above tables
GDS Greater Depth Standard
EXS Expected Standard
WTS Working Towards Standard
HNM Has Not Met Standard
PKG Pre‐Key Stage Growing Development*
PKE Pre‐Key Stage Growing Early Development*
PKF Pre‐Key Stage Growing Foundations*
BLW Below Pre‐Key Stage
* ‐ From the Rochford Review for pupils working well below their peers. Please see the Rochford Review for further guidance.
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Section 2: What are the EXS Objectives?
The DFE has published the list of objectives for each expected standard ‐ for example, the list below shows all
the objectives a child must achieve in order to meet the expected standard at the end of Key Stage 1 in
reading:
School PUPIL TRACKER has worked with schools and educational experts to link the list of DFE Standards
directly to the National Curriculum objectives.
The objectives are all labelled with EXS to show they are part of the DFE Standard. A child must achieve all the
EXS Objectives in order to satisfy the DFE's expectation. The EXS Objectives are an integrated part of the
records on School PUPIL TRACKER ‐ so this means teachers can work towards them and record pupil progress
towards the standards through the year as part of their Detailed Tracking without adding to their workload.
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Section 3: Recording pupil achievement of the EXS Objectives
The EXS Objectives are an integrated part of the records on School PUPIL TRACKER ‐ so this means teachers
can work towards them and record pupil progress towards the standards through the year as part of their
Detailed Tracking.
Alternatively, you may access the EXS Objectives in isolation by clicking on
and then choosing a child's name from these drop downs:
For example, you can view the Reading EXS Objectives, as shown below:
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Try clicking on the EXS Objectives buttons to see the full class records
which gives you access to a group of children and all the EXS Objectives along the top of the screen:
For further information on recording pupil judgements using Detailed Tracking, please see our Help Card:
www.spto.co.uk/documents/nc2014booklet.pdf
You may also upload scans of pupil's work or
photographs of pupil actions or add commentaries
as evidence to your judgements.
Please see Section 1.5 in the above guide.
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Section 3: Tools to see which children are meeting the Standards
Teachers can record which EXS Objectives pupils have achieved over time (please see Section 2 above).
Once this information is being recorded, SPTO will help to give you a range of information to support you in
making decisions about pupil attainment and targeted support.
Objective Analysis Tool [OAT]
You may use the OAT to view a quick summary of pupil attainment of the EXS Objectives. Click on
and then use one of the OAT buttons shown below:
This will give you access to the OAT [Objective Analysis Tool] which will show a visual summary of how many
EXS Objectives have been achieved by your pupils (as shown below).
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The OAT EXS column gives a quick summary for each pupil to show how many of the EXS Objectives they have
achieved. Scrolling to the right of the OAT also gives the teacher further guidance on which DFE Standard a
child is currently estimated to be meeting.
School PUPIL TRACKER looks at the EXS Objectives recorded for each child as well as their current saved
Golden Code in the SHORT TERM grid and makes an estimation of which DFE Standard a child is meeting.
For example, in the OAT shown above, the first child has achieved all the EXS Objectives, many at Greater
Depth. This is combined with the SHORT TERM judgement saved by the teacher of Y2S #3 to form a judgement
of GDS [Greater Depth Standard] as there is evidence the child has met all the EXS Objectives and there is also
evidence that this child is working at Greater Depth.
This is an estimated standard to support a teacher in making the final decisions about a child.
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Reports to support teacher judgements
You may view a quick summary of the estimated standards pupils are currently working at.
Click on and then use the button shown below to view a report:
This will create a Word document listing all the pupils in your search and their current estimated standard
band (as shown below):
The report also includes detailed information to illustrate how each current estimated standard band has been
calculated (as shown below for reading):
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Reports to show gaps in EXS Objective achievement
You may view a quick summary of which pupils have achieved which EXS Objectives.
Click on and then use the buttons shown below to view a report:
This will create a Word document listing all EXS Objectives and all the pupils in your search to show whether
they have achieved the objectives (A) or are working at Greater Depth (+) ‐ as shown in the example below:
This allows a teacher to quickly view which children need to focus on learning gaps in the EXS Objectives in
order to target them for future development.
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Section 5: Moderation Reports
You may view a Moderation Report for every pupil to see supportive evidence on pupil judgements.
Click on and then use the drop‐downs shown below to create a report:
This will create a Word document for a child that draws together any uploaded evidence (such as scanned
work or photographs) as well as related EXS Objective judgements to illustrate how a pupil has (or has not)
met the DFE Standard. The report is organised to exactly match the DFE Standard lists.
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Section 6: Reporting judgements to your Local Authority and the DFE
Under the new curriculum arrangements, Year 2 and Year 6 teachers must make judgements about each child
in their class to decide which DFE standard band a pupil is working at. To do this, Year 2 and Year 6 teachers
will need to follow the Interim Standards guidance as set out by the DFE. Please see Section 1 for further
information.
Using School PUPIL TRACKER to help you
1. Keep records of pupil attainment
Look through Sections 2 to 5 in this guide to see how School PUPIL TRACKER has tools to support a teacher in
recording pupil achievements, and in particular tracking which pupils have met the EXS Objectives in order to
see which children are meeting the EXS Standard [i.e. the expected standard].
Section 3 in this guide explains how School PUPIL TRACKER can estimate which DFE standard band a pupil has
met.
Section 5 in this guide explains how School PUPIL TRACKER can create Moderation Reports to support
teachers in illustrating evidence that has been built up for each child.
Using the tools and records in place, you can maintain detailed records of each pupil in your class or group.
2. Decide End of Year pupil official judgements
Section 3 in this guide explains how School PUPIL TRACKER can estimate which DFE standard band a pupil has
met. This will provide a word report summarising the estimated standard each child has met.
Download this report and check it through carefully.
IMPORTANT: The final responsibility for deciding whether a child has or has not met a standard is with the
school and the teacher. The Estimated Standard judgement is a feature to guide you ‐ you must amend and
adjust the Estimated Standards to fit your judgement of a child before these are reported to the DFE or your
Local Authority.
Make changes to the grid as your professional judgement sees fit.
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3. Office admin staff record your Teacher Assessments in your MIS
Once you have checked the grid in step 2 above, and made appropriate changes, pass the grid of pupil names
and standard judgments to the office admin staff in charge of your data transfer to the Local Authority or the
DFE.
Your office admin staff will fill in the data grid on your MIS and transfer this information to the Local Authority
or the DFE. Your office admin staff must speak to your MIS support for instructions on how to enter the KS1
and KS2 Teacher Assessments in to your MIS and how these will be securely transferred.
School PUPIL TRACKER does not provide a CTF or other file for data transfer for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2
Teacher Assessments ‐ you must follow the guidance above.
Your office admin staff will then be able to import the Official Teacher Assessment judgements your school
has made back into School PUPIL TRACKER using a CTF.