Roles and responsibilities

131.Maintained schools must participate in the statutory National Curriculum assessments and report the outcomes to parents, guardians or carers.

132.If non-maintained schools choose to participate in the national assessment system, they should follow the published assessment arrangements.

133.All schools and settings that provide for children in the Early Years Foundation Stage must make arrangements for an Early Years Foundation Stage profile to be completed for each child in the final year of their Early Years Foundation Stage.

134.All schools and settings that provide for children in the Early Years Foundation Stage must provide parents, guardians or carers with a written summary of a child’s progress against the early learning goals and assessment scales at the end of the foundation stage of learning. This written summary must also be used to inform key stage 1 teachers about children’s attainment.