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Impact & Developments

“Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.”

Anna Taylor

Development Focus 2023-24

Phonics and Reading – continue the great work begun last year in embedding the new systematic synthetic phonics programme, Little Wandle, Letters & Sounds.

DVIS Holistic learner approach - continued development & delivery of RULER - Recognizing, Understanding, Labelling, Expressing & Regulating emotions & Guy Claxton's Learning Powers. Supporting parents understanding of these & how to utilise them at home.

SEND - to further strengthen the delivery of interventions for the changing needs of the children in school.

Science - to build confidence in learning and teaching of key science enquiry skills.  

School data

 

The school publishes results each year for the end of Year 2 teacher assessments, the phonics screening checks in Year 1 and the Foundation Stage Profile assessment results.

Headline Attainment at DVIS

 
Archived Attainment at DVIS

Indicator 

DVIS 2019 

England 2019 

% Expected + 

Reading 

  95% 

75% 

Writing 

  85% 

69% 

Maths 

  91% 

76% 

  RWM combined   84% 65%

 

Indicator 

DVIS 2019 

England 2019 

% Greater Depth  

Reading 

  39% 

25% 

Writing 

  31% 

15% 

Maths 

  38% 

22% 

  RWM combined   25% 11%
 

Reading Attainment at the end of KS1
Key stage 1 attainment of the expected standard in reading (95%) was significantly above national and in the highest 20% of all schools in 2019 as well as in 2018 and 2017.

Key stage 1 attainment of greater depth in reading (39%) was significantly above national and in the highest 20% of all schools in 2019 as well as in 2018 and 2017.

Writing Attainment at the end of KS1
Key stage 1 attainment of the expected standard in writing (85%) was significantly above national and in the highest 20% of all schools in 2019 as well as in 2018.

Key stage 1 attainment of greater depth in writing (31%) was significantly above national and in the highest 20% of all schools in 2019 as well as in 2018 and 2017.

Mathematics Attainment at the end of KS1
Key stage 1 attainment of the expected standard in mathematics (91%) was significantly above national and in the highest 20% of all schools in 2019 as well as in 2018.

Key stage 1 attainment of greater depth in mathematics (38%) was significantly above national and in the highest 20% of all schools in 2019 as well as in 2018 and 2017.

Phonics
In 2019, the proportion of pupils who met the expected standard (32+) in phonics in Year 1 (91%) was significantly above national and in the highest 20% of all schools.

Reception
In 2019, 80% of children achieved the 'Good level of Development' at the end of Reception. This is higher than the national figure of 72%