What the exam paper cannot reach is the variation in classroom practice that put each child where they sit this morning.
Pupils sit the same paper. They did not have the same practice.
How protected is the fact-fluency slot in your weekly timetable?
Around 500,000 Year 6 pupils sit the KS2 maths paper today. Arithmetic in the morning. Reasoning Paper 2 in the afternoon.
A thread on what the arithmetic paper actually measures. ๐งต
4) "Younger pupils' inability to subitise or easily recall addition facts hampers their progress." (Ofsted '23)
NCETM echoes this: "Key number facts are learnt to automaticity, and other key mathematical facts are learned deeply and practised regularly."
The consensus is clean.
"Pupils do not pass through a magic barrier and suddenly become fluent." (DfE Reading Framework 2023).
Fluency is a gradient that compounds. So is the absence of it.
If you teach primary reading, where on the gradient does your current Year 5 sit?
EEF's working definition of fluency has 3 components: "Fluent readers can read accurately, at an appropriate speed without great effort (automaticity), and with appropriate stress and intonation (prosody)."
The reading paper sees one. The others were built earlier or they weren't
@GMB The lack of understanding the producers (and a lot of the general public) are demonstrating about how schools and the teaching profession work is staggering.
"So they can have a lie in". Actual words of @kategarraway ๐