Management Information Sheet
Submission of KS3 Teacher Assessments 2013 (including P Scales)
Core subjects
Schools and academies will be aware of the statutory requirement to submit Teacher Assessments in the core subjects, including P-Scales where appropriate, electronically, on the STA's NCA Tools website at www.education.gov.uk, in the Summer Term.
P Scales (for children on the SEN register)
P Scales should be recorded for children who are on the SEN register and are assessed at Level W. This is a statutory requirement. The Level W must still be recorded for the pupil, in addition to the P Scale. For further information on P Scales please refer to the KS3 Teacher Assessment and Reporting Arrangements (TARA) for 2013 (see below). Your Management Information System (MIS) will facilitate the recording of this P Scale data and your exported file will automatically include any P Scales.
STA Guidance
Information and guidance can be found in the new KS3 Teacher Assessment and Reporting Arrangements for 2013, downloadable from: www.education.gov.uk.
Early Deadline - Friday 21 June
The deadline for STA to receive your teacher Assessments this year is Friday 28 June. As "Local authorities have a duty to ensure maintained schools and academies under their responsibility carry out teacher assessment and reporting arrangements appropriately", we are asking schools to submit their data by Friday 21 June. This is just one week before STA's deadline, which we hope will allow us time to resolve any errors and omissions in time for the final deadline. Your assistance in meeting this early deadline would be much appreciated.
FURTHER INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE
End of Key Stage 3 - Year 8 or Year 9
Several schools and Academies now begin their Key Stage 4 curriculum in Year 9, in some if not all subjects. Where this is the case, they will be submitting end of Key Stage 3 Teacher Assessments for their Year 8 pupils.
Pupils who change schools during the summer term
For a pupil who transfers from one school to another in the summer term, it is the responsibility of the school at which the pupil is on the roll on Monday 13 May 2013 to submit the teacher assessments. This may require the school to obtain teacher assessments from the pupil's previous school.
Non-core subjects
As last year, there is no statutory requirement to submit these Teacher Assessments to the STA/DfE/LA, but schools are still required to report Teacher Assessments in non-core subjects to parents.
THE PROCESS
1. Enter or transfer KS3 Teacher Assessments (including P Scales) into your MIS. Separate Attainment Targets can be recorded in your MIS, allowing the system to calculate the overall subject levels using the required weighting, but Attainment Targets are not specifically required in your data submission file. Alternatively, overall subject levels can be calculated using DfE weightings before entering or transferring overall levels into your MIS.
2. Follow your MIS guidance to create the required export file in CTF format.
3. Upload the CTF file onto STA's NCA Tools website www.education.gov.uk by Friday 21 June. We recommend you test your user-account for this website in advance, as 2012 passwords may have been deactivated.
The LA Information Team will have access to the uploaded files in order to monitor and check submissions.
Note: If you are unable to create a CTF file, you have the option to download a template from NCA Tools website, populate the template, and upload it.
Contact Details for further help:
Information Team
For further advice on the submission process or information on school performance data
Chris Jackson 01603 224223 chris.jackson@norfolk.gov.uk
Dom Mingaye 01603 222984 dom.mingaye@norfolk.gov.uk
ICT Shared Services
For technical ICT support with Capita SIMS (hosted version)
Helpdesk 0845 303 3003 ict@norfolk.gov.uk
Schools and academies will be aware of the statutory requirement to submit Teacher Assessments in the core subjects, including P-Scales where appropriate, electronically, on the STA's NCA Tools website at www.education.gov.uk, in the Summer Term.
P Scales (for children on the SEN register)
P Scales should be recorded for children who are on the SEN register and are assessed at Level W. This is a statutory requirement. The Level W must still be recorded for the pupil, in addition to the P Scale. For further information on P Scales please refer to the KS3 Teacher Assessment and Reporting Arrangements (TARA) for 2013 (see below). Your Management Information System (MIS) will facilitate the recording of this P Scale data and your exported file will automatically include any P Scales.
STA Guidance
Information and guidance can be found in the new KS3 Teacher Assessment and Reporting Arrangements for 2013, downloadable from: www.education.gov.uk.
Early Deadline - Friday 21 June
The deadline for STA to receive your teacher Assessments this year is Friday 28 June. As "Local authorities have a duty to ensure maintained schools and academies under their responsibility carry out teacher assessment and reporting arrangements appropriately", we are asking schools to submit their data by Friday 21 June. This is just one week before STA's deadline, which we hope will allow us time to resolve any errors and omissions in time for the final deadline. Your assistance in meeting this early deadline would be much appreciated.
FURTHER INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE
End of Key Stage 3 - Year 8 or Year 9
Several schools and Academies now begin their Key Stage 4 curriculum in Year 9, in some if not all subjects. Where this is the case, they will be submitting end of Key Stage 3 Teacher Assessments for their Year 8 pupils.
Pupils who change schools during the summer term
For a pupil who transfers from one school to another in the summer term, it is the responsibility of the school at which the pupil is on the roll on Monday 13 May 2013 to submit the teacher assessments. This may require the school to obtain teacher assessments from the pupil's previous school.
Non-core subjects
As last year, there is no statutory requirement to submit these Teacher Assessments to the STA/DfE/LA, but schools are still required to report Teacher Assessments in non-core subjects to parents.
THE PROCESS
1. Enter or transfer KS3 Teacher Assessments (including P Scales) into your MIS. Separate Attainment Targets can be recorded in your MIS, allowing the system to calculate the overall subject levels using the required weighting, but Attainment Targets are not specifically required in your data submission file. Alternatively, overall subject levels can be calculated using DfE weightings before entering or transferring overall levels into your MIS.
2. Follow your MIS guidance to create the required export file in CTF format.
3. Upload the CTF file onto STA's NCA Tools website www.education.gov.uk by Friday 21 June. We recommend you test your user-account for this website in advance, as 2012 passwords may have been deactivated.
The LA Information Team will have access to the uploaded files in order to monitor and check submissions.
Note: If you are unable to create a CTF file, you have the option to download a template from NCA Tools website, populate the template, and upload it.
Contact Details for further help:
Information Team
For further advice on the submission process or information on school performance data
Chris Jackson 01603 224223 chris.jackson@norfolk.gov.uk
Dom Mingaye 01603 222984 dom.mingaye@norfolk.gov.uk
ICT Shared Services
For technical ICT support with Capita SIMS (hosted version)
Helpdesk 0845 303 3003 ict@norfolk.gov.uk