End of key stage assessment data collections

2024/25 academic year

Guidance document for Ealing schools

In addition to the DfE’s published ARAs, the LA have produced their own comprehensive guidance document

It is designed to help with common queries and issues, as well as to supplement the core information on this webpage. School contacts have been emailed the PDF directly.

Multiplication tables check (MTC)

The multiplication tables check (GOV.UK) is statutory for all year 4 pupils registered at state-funded maintained schools, special schools or academies (including free schools) in England.

Early years foundation stage (EYFS)

EYFS statutory assessment data will be collected as normal in the summer of 2025. The Foundation Stage Profile follows the same structure as previous years, with pupils being assessed against 17 early year goals.

As usual, Ealing LA are responsible for submitting school data onto COLLECT. We will once again be collecting your school’s data, checking for errors (if received in good time) and uploading on your behalf.

To ensure the LA has enough time to support and process your data, we are asking that Ealing schools submit their EYFSP CTF file via the School-to-School system (S2S) to the LA by Friday 4 July (the DfE have set their final deadline for the submission of EYFS data as Friday 11 July).

Phonics (Year 1 and Year 2)

Year 1 and year 2 phonics screening checks will once again take place in summer 2025. The dates for administering the phonics check are Monday 9 June to Friday 13 June, with a second “timetable variation” week following from Monday 16 June to Friday 20 June for pupils who were absent in week one.

Please note: All Year 2 pupils who have not achieved a pass mark in phonics must sit a test. For a reminder of all phonics assessment guidance, please read the 2025 phonics screening check assessment and reporting arrangements (GOV.UK)

Schools will need to return phonics data for all eligible pupils. To ensure the LA has enough time to support with, check, and process your data, we are asking that Ealing schools submit their phonics data file via the School-to-School system (S2S) to the LA by Friday 4 July.

Key stage 2 (KS2)

KS2 statutory teacher assessment data will be collected as normal in summer 2025. This requires schools to submit data to the Primary Assessment Gateway (not to Ealing LA).

The 2025 key stage 2 assessment and reporting arrangements (GOV.UK) has now been published by the Standards Testing Agency (STA). We strongly advise reading this guidance, as the LA cannot guarantee to support with and check for issues with submissions made through the Primary Assessment Gateway (PAG). Last year, the PAG became increasingly slow towards the deadline, so we would encourage schools to submit as soon as KS2 teacher assessment data is available.

The DfE have announced the deadline for submitting KS2 data on to the PAG as Friday 27 June. Although the LA will do their best to support schools, we expect that it will not be possible to upload or amend any KS2 data after this deadline.

Key stage 1 (KS1) teacher assessments

The DfE have announced there will be no statutory KS1 teacher assessment going forward from summer 2024. There are currently no plans for the LA to collect any KS1 data from schools. Any updates regarding KS1 assessment will be posted here.