Information and Instructions for Completing Assessment Returns

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Assessment in 2025

  • Early Years Foundation Stage Profile is required this year
  • Phonics remains unchanged from last year. The Threshold mark for the Phonics Screening Check will not be available until June on the Gov.uk website.  You do not need to know this in order to make your submission.
  • KS2: There is no change to the KS2 TA submission this year

We have prepared the Assessment and Reporting Arrangements so that you can schedule your deadlines for submission to us at each of the Key Stages.

2025 Assessment and Reporting Arrangements

Assessment Data Moderation Service

All Nottingham City schools are invited to register for our Assessment Data Moderation Service. Please see pages 5-6 in the Assessment and Reporting Arrangements Book (above) for more information. You do not have to buy in to this service. Please be aware however, that if you don’t purchase this service your data will not be checked before we make your submission to the relevant collection agencies. When you buy in to the agreement you are agreeing to meet the deadlines outlined in this document, failure to meet the prescribed deadlines for any reason will mean that penalty charges are incurred.

Deadlines

The initial deadline dates for each of the Key Stage Submissions are;

  • EYFSP: 30th June
  • Phonics: 20th June
  • KS2TA: 16th June

Following submission to the above deadlines, you will be sent a report detailing the received submission. At this point you will also receive a further deadline and paperwork should you wish to resubmit any of your results, please read the emails that come out alerting you of details nearer the deadline dates.

The LA deadlines, are earlier than the National deadlines so that we have time to send you back reports detailing your submission, and for you to confirm that you are happy with the data as you have submitted it. 

Charges

Details of the charges are outlined in the above document, but should you meet all of our set deadlines you will incur no more charges than;

  • EYFSP: £10
  • Phonics: £10
  • KS2 TA: £150

There are two deadlines for each of the above submission,

  1. The first deadline is for the initial submission
  2. You will then be sent a summary report and a form to be signed off and returned by a second deadline
    The form will have an option to tell us that you are going to make a resubmission, this must also be made by the deadline on the form.
  3. If you miss either of these dates a late fee will be incurred which is frozen this year to £55

Every time you make a resubmission you will be sent a new checking report and this will have a new deadline. Every missed deadline will incur an additional penalty.

We set the deadlines with potential late fees as there are many schools to co-ordinate.

Opting Out

Should you not buy into this service, you will still be required to make your infant submissions via the LA in line with the national deadlines, instead of our LA ones, and we will not check your data or confirm your submission back to you before submission.

Please note that if you opt out at KS2 you will also have the responsibility of uploading your own KS2 TA results to the Primary Assessment Gateway, and that Information Management does not support the use of this website.