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Pupil and School Level Target Setting

Setting targets for pupil achievement puts standards at the centre of school planning, and helps staff focus on practical ways of raising them. This section of the site gives useful guidance and case studies to support effective target setting at pupil and school level.

Primary Schools

1. Pupil target setting - National Numeracy Strategy guidance for providers of summer schools. Please click here for full details.
2. Raising standards in middle schools. This is available to view or download   PDF (31.1 Kb)
3. Target setting - Springboard 5: Catch-up programme for children in Year 5. Please follow this link for more details.
4. Best practice: Intensifying Support Programme - Target setting in Coventry. This case study is taken from the DCSF Primary Strategy Website and is available to view or download  PDF (111.9 Kb)

Key Stage 3

1. Addressing pupils' weaknesses with Springboard 7 - case study. This is available to view or download  Word (40.0 Kb)
2. Introducing curricular targets and reviewing action points. Please click here for details
3. Ways of working with a school or individual in the Autumn term. This is avalable to view or download  Word (39.5 Kb)  
4. How to get more pupils from level 3 to level 5 in mathematics. Click here for details

Key Stage 3 & 4

1. Releasing Potential, Raising Attainment: Managing Data in Secondary Schools. This is available to view or download  PDF (1.2 Mb)
2. Smoking Out Underachievement. This is a guide on the uses of value added data and is available to download   PDF (1.1 Mb)

Key Stage 2 & 4

1. Target-setting in schools:  DfES Circular number 11/98. This is available to view by following this link

Key Stage 4

1. Guidance is now available on calculating the average points score target. It is available to view or download   Word (62.5 Kb)
2. We also have some additional information from Fischer Family Trust on how to convert the old average points scores to the new system. It is available to view or download   Word (51.5 Kb) Please note that this conversion should be used for estimating KS4 points scores including Section 96 at school level only. The graphs should not be used to convert pupil or LA KS4 point score estimates.