Assessment Options

Parents will be provided with a comprehensive, in depth report that includes age-standardised and age-equivalent scores which compare children’s performance to average performance across the UK by age and provides diagnostic information on the strengths and areas needing improvement of pupils in literacy and maths.

Advice on schooling options and individualised learning plans will also be discussed in the course of the parent meeting.

Tests are conducted annually and typically in the first term of school. The assessments help identify potential in a child and challenge each student at an appropriate level aligned to their ability with an adaptive assessment. It also helps set motivational and realistic targets for students with predictive data and Chances Graphs which indicate likely future performance at GCSE and IGCSE and in schools are used by senior leadership to better understand progress across the whole school to drive improvement.

It is a 50 minute test, covering, Vocabulary, Mathematics, Non-verbal and Reasoning Skills.

Parents will be provided with a comprehensive, in depth report that includes age-standardised and age-equivalent scores which compare children’s performance to average performance across the UK by age and provides diagnostic information on the strengths and areas needing improvement of pupils in literacy and maths.

Advice on schooling options and individualised learning plans will also be discussed in the course of the parent meeting.

Year 10 – Year 12 (Yellis) Ages 14- 16

This is an adaptive baseline assessment which helps to unlock the full potential of students. Specific to Key Stage 4, Yellis helps you gauge an objective perspective of students’ strengths and weaknesses and see how they are likely to perform at GCSE and IGCSE.

Cognitive Assessments and Additional Assessments

These assessments are only accessible to Educational Psychologists.

• We will work with our in-house Educational Psychologist to help provide parents with a true understanding of their child’s intellectual functioning. Educational Psychologists are trained to use assessments to explore how a child is learning.
• Other assessment packages only use teacher-based assessments that can give some idea of potential ability, but are not direct measures of cognitive function.
• Knowing a child’s level of intellectual progress and functioning will help us advise and provide an individualised learning plan, identify schools that are a good fit and formulate a strategy on how to turn that potential into achievement.
• Educational Psychologist Assessments
• Additional screener assessments (dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, working memory, processing speed, handwriting speed and sensory needs).
• Intervention programmes such as Cogmed and Memory Booster.
• Workshops and training for parents and children.
• Accelerated Learning Plans – personalised plans devised by an educational psychologist to accelerate your child’s learning and to support any areas of specific need. (This is also a unique USP compared to other companies – the level of detail we can gather through the assessment is much more advanced, leading to appropriate intervention options.)

The Cognitive and Additional Assessments can be carried out on the same day or on a different day depending on parent preference. Conclusions, suggestions and learning plans will be included in the parent report should these options be chosen.