Management Information Sheet

Please can we remind all maintained schools, maintained special schools and academies who have pupils who will complete the KS2 programmes of study in the 2021/22 academic year that two DfE deadlines are approaching.

Friday 11th March is the deadline for:

• pupil registration for KS2 statutory testing
• early opening applications for the end of KS2 NC tests

Pupil registration:

All pupils enrolled at maintained schools, maintained special schools and academies who will complete the KS2 programmes of study in the 2021/22 academic year must be registered for the tests. This includes pupils who are working below the overall standard of the tests, and ultimately will not take them, and pupils who are working at the overall standard of the tests but cannot access them.

Schools must register pupils on the Primary Assessment Gateway between Monday 14 February and Friday 11 March. Any pupils who arrive in school after this date, must also be added to pupil registration.

For further information, please see section 6.2 of the KS2 Assessment and Reporting Arrangements which can be accessed via this link: 2022 key stage 2: assessment and reporting arrangements (ARA) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Early opening applications for the end of KS2 NC tests

If you need to open test papers (including modified test papers) more than one hour early to make complex adaptations, you must have an approved application for early opening. If you are planning to make the same adaptations for more than one pupil, and you require the same amount of time, you can include multiple pupils on the same application form.

STA will only allow schools to open standard test materials more than one day before the scheduled test date, or modified materials more than 2 days before the scheduled test date, in exceptional circumstances.

For further information, please see section 3.2 of the KS2 Access Arrangements Guidance.