Bryan Slater Director of Education	Distribution
	To: Headteachers of all Secondary, Primary, Middle, Junior and First and Middle Schools

This document needs your action as detailed below:

ACTION	Title	2004 Performance Data – Key Stages 2 & 3
	Summary of contents	Issues surrounding accuracy of this year’s KS2 & 3 assessment data
	Associated documents	QCA Marksheets
	Date	8 October 2004
	Summary of action required	Ensuring accurate data for School Self Review etc.
	To be completed by	18 October 2004
	LEA Contact	Chris Jackson Mark Alexander MIC Fax	(	01603 224223 01603 222894 01603 222631
	E-mail address	chris.jackson@norfolk.gov.uk mark.alexander@norfolk.gov.uk
	Norfolk Self Review reference	1. How high are standards? 7. How well is the school led and managed?
	Document reference	MI 185-04

The 2004 assessment data we currently hold will be used in the forthcoming round of School Self Reviews, it is therefore important that the data and the analyses based on it are as accurate as possible. The same data will be used to provide you with this year’s value added analyses, transition matrices, and an update to the “Improving Performance Step by Step” website. However we are aware that a number of schools have had problems with marking at Key Stages 2 & 3 and our data may not include all amendments and upgrades and so the analyses of your data will be wrong. Unfortunately the DfES will not be issuing final data to LEAs until the end of the Spring Term.

So that we can provide you, your governors, advisers and officers with the most accurate analyses possible we would be grateful if you would check that the data we currently hold is accurate, especially if you are aware that there have been amendments. You can check our summary results on Esinet, within the School Management Resources password-protected area, under School Performance:

http://www.esinet.norfolk.gov.uk/core/perfcheck/.

These summary results have been generated by us from individual pupil results, so if our figures for your school are incorrect, we will need to have the amendments at pupil level. This can be provided by email, fax or post to Chris Jackson or Mark Alexander (contact details below).

To have time to carry out the necessary preparatory work we ask that you provide us with the updated information by Monday 18^th October 2004.

We appreciate that you may not have all amendments by 18^th October, particularly those relating to borderline scores, but please give us what you have by then. If you have further amendments after this date, please send these separately and we will update your results again.

Contacts:

Chris Jackson, email: chris.jackson@norfolk.gov.uk, (tel. 01603 224223)

Mark Alexander, email: mark.alexander@norfolk.gov.uk, (tel. 01603 222984)

Fax: 01603 222631

Postal address:

Management Information Centre

Education Department

County Hall

Martineau Lane

Norwich NR1 2DL