Tests and assessments (key stage 1)

Guidance and regulation

Primary assessments: future dates
- Detailed guide
- 10 October 2024
- Standards and Testing Agency and Department for Education
Phonics screening check: assessment and reporting arrangements (ARA)
- Statutory guidance
- 1 October 2024
- Standards and Testing Agency
Early years foundation stage profile handbook
- Guidance
- 9 October 2023
- Department for Education
Pre-key stage 1 standards
- Guidance
- 15 April 2024
- Standards and Testing Agency
Phonics screening check: 2023 materials
- Guidance
- 26 June 2023
- Standards and Testing Agency

More primary school pupils meet reading standards
- 12 October 2023
- Department for Education
- Press release
Key stage 1 SATs replacement to be rolled out from September
- 27 February 2020
- Department for Education
- Press release
Free schools leading the way with top primary school results
- 26 September 2019
- Department for Education
- Press release
More children on track to be fluent readers in primary school
- 27 September 2018
- Department for Education
- News story
Primary assessment public consultations: government response
- 14 September 2017
- Standards and Testing Agency and Department for Education
- Written statement

Phonics screening check and key stage 1 assessments: England 2022
- 6 October 2022
- Department for Education
- National statistics
Phonics screening check and key stage 1 assessments: England 2019
- 20 December 2019
- Department for Education
- National statistics
Phonics screening check and key stage 1 assessments: England 2018
- 25 October 2019
- Department for Education
- National statistics
Approaches to assessment without levels in schools
- 13 December 2018
- Department for Education
- Research
Phonics screening check and key stage 1 assessments: England 2017
- 26 July 2018
- Department for Education and Standards and Testing Agency
- National statistics

Regulating national assessments
- 6 March 2018
- Ofqual
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 20 December 2017
Primary school pupil assessment: Rochford Review recommendations
- 14 September 2017
- Department for Education and Standards and Testing Agency
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 22 June 2017
Performance descriptors: key stages 1 and 2
- 26 February 2015
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 18 December 2014
Improving the curriculum and assessment system
- 25 September 2024
- Department for Education
- Open call for evidence
Primary pupil assessment: Rochford Review impact assessment
- 14 September 2017
- Department for Education
- Impact assessment

2023 maladministration report
- 28 March 2024
- Standards and Testing Agency
- Transparency
National assessments regulation annual report 2023
- 25 March 2024
- Ofqual
- Corporate report
2022 maladministration report
- 5 May 2023
- Standards and Testing Agency
- Transparency
2019 maladministration report
- 28 January 2021
- Standards and Testing Agency
- Transparency
2018 maladministration report
- 16 January 2020
- Standards and Testing Agency
- Transparency