Exams, Assessment and School Performance

Staff at all levels are embracing our personalised curriculum and looking for ways to make learning memorable and fun. We have already planned numerous enrichment activities for the terrm ahead:

Year 1 – Class trip to Judges Lodgings 
Year 2 – Visit from the Fire Service
Year 3 – Forest school trip to Humblescough Farm
Year 4 – Cooking lessons at Broughton High school
Year 5 – Anglo Saxons Workshop
Year 6 – Journalism Talk with a journalist from The Times, residential visit to Tower Wood, WW2 Workshop, Preston Police knife crime and gangs workshop, class visit to The Imperial War Museum, Manchester. 

We will also enjoy plenty of whole-school activities including Harvest Festival, Movie Night, a Whole School Spirituality Day, Anti-bullying activities, Bonfire Night and Christmas Fair. 

There was clear evidence of the benefits of our values-based curriculum this year when two ex-pupils, Rayaan Mal and Libby Church became Head Boy and Girl at Broughton High School and another ex-pupil, Oliver Biswas, Head of School at Lancaster Royal Grammar School.

At St Lawrence, we are not just about reading, writing and maths. In fact, I really do believe that the main reason we do so well in the core sunjects is down to the fact that we are blessed with staff who value the non-core subjects so highly and enjoy helping pupils to flourish in lots of different areas. That said, we were still very proud to learn that Barton St Lawrence is listed in the Sunday Times Parent Power School Guide and ranked in the top 25 highest achieving primary schools in the country and the top performing school in Preston

SCHOOL SATs RESULTS

KS1 Results 

KS1 % achieving at least the expected standard (National average results in brackets). 
Year Reading Writing Maths Science
2022 85 (67) 81 (58) 81 (68) 85 (77)
2023 74 (68) 74 (60) 90 (70) 81 (79)
2024 85 (71) 81 (63) 89 (72) 85 (80)

 

KS1 % achieving greater than the expected standard (National average results in brackets)
Year Reading Writing Maths
2022 19 (18) 19 (8) 27 (15)
2023 32 (19) 29 (8) 26 (16)
2024 27 (19) 27 (9) 27 (17)

2022 - Reading Writing and Maths combined: School - 65% Expected+ (National - 53%), Greater than the expected standard: School - 15%  (National - 6%)

2023 - Reading Writing and Maths combined: School - 71% Expected+ (National - 56%), Greater than the expected standard: School - 19%  (National - 6%)

2024 - Reading Writing and Maths combined: School - 81% Expected+ (National - 59%), Greater than the expected standard: School - 12%  (National - 7%)

 

KS2 Test Results 

KS2 % achieving at least the expected standard (National average results in brackets)
Year Reading Writing Maths GPS RWM combined
2022 100 (74) 92 (69) 96 (71) 100 (72) 88 (59)
2023 96 (73) 89 (71) 96 (73) 96 (72) 86 (60)
2024 100 (74) 93 (72) 100 (73) 100 (72) 93 (61)

 

KS2 % achieving greater than the expected standard (National average results in brackets)
Year Reading Writing Maths GPS RWM combined
2022 42 (28) 38 (13) 54 (22) 58 (28) 31 (7)
2023 57 (29) 43 (13) 43 (24) 64 (30) 25 (8)
2024 46 (28) 29 (13) 57 (24) 61 (32) 21 (8)


Scaled Scores

  2022 2023 2024
Subject AV scaled score (National) AV scaled score (National) AV scaled score (National)
Reading 109 (105) 111 (105) 109 (105)
GPS 111 (105) 110 (105) 111 (104)
Maths 109 (104) 109 (104) 111 (105)

 

 Average Progress Score 

The national average progress score is zero

Subject 2022 2023 2024
Reading +1.8 +3.6 TBC
Writing +2.3 +3.3 TBC
Maths +2.7 +3.1 TBC

 

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Jepps Ave, Barton, Preston
PR3 5AS
Louise Higham
01772 862664

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