This year saw the return of national assessments at Key Stages 1 and 2 following their postponement for two years as a result of the pandemic.
Although researchers (including ourselves) have attempted to quantify the impact of the pandemic on pupil attainment, these national datasets will provide us with the first large scale collection of data to examine changes in attainment and how the effects of COVID have impacted different groups of pupils and different areas.
Headline national Key Stage 2 results will be published tomorrow (5th July). Ahead of that, we take a look at attainment at Key Stage 1. For this cohort, the whole of Key Stage 1 was disrupted by COVID.
