In this tutorial we’re going to look at the Key Stage Attainment screen. It compares the tiers children have been assessed at with their Maintained Achievement Points (MAPs), so you can see at a glance who is working below, at or above the level you expect of them.

You can view this for the whole year group, or for groups of children side by side.

Before you start, you’ll need the relevant Key Stage year-group frameworks switched on (see Enabling an assessment framework), and some assessments recorded for the children — our Making a Key Stage Assessment tutorial covers that.

The screen compares assessments with each child’s Maintained Achievement Points, so it’s worth setting those first too — see Key Stage: Maintained Achievement Points.

Finding the Attainment screen

Click Planning & Monitoring in the menu on the left, then Monitoring.

The Tapestry side menu with the Planning & Monitoring panel open, showing the Monitoring option
Planning & Monitoring › Monitoring in the side menu.

Select the tab for the year group you’d like to look at — KS1 Y1 in our example. Under Analysis, click Group View in the Attainment box.

The Monitoring page on its KS1 Y1 tab, showing the Snapshots and Analysis columns with the Attainment box
The KS1 Y1 tab, with Group View under Attainment.

Managers can always see the Key Stage Analysis screens. Staff will only see the Analysis section of the Monitoring page if a manager has given them the Use Analysis permission – this is switched off for staff by default.

Choosing what to analyse

Along the top of the screen you can switch between the year groups. Beneath them, the statements button shows how many statements are included in the analysis — all of them to begin with.

To narrow things down, click that button.

The Key Stage Analysis Attainment screen with the year-group tabs, the statements button, the Groups section and the year and term menus
Click the statements button to choose what’s included.

Tick or untick whole subjects, or click + to open a subject and choose individual areas, aspects or statements. When you’re happy, click the button at the bottom — it tells you how many statements you’ve chosen. We’ve kept just English.

Choose the subjects, areas or statements, then click Filter for….

The statements button now shows how many statements you’ve chosen. Check the year and term menus show the period you’re interested in — they start on the current term.

The Attainment screen after filtering, showing 61 statements, the All Children group with its No filters set button, the year and term menus and the Add Group button
Check the year and term, and set up the groups of children to compare.

The Groups section decides which children are included.

To begin with there’s a single group, All Children. Click its No filters set button to narrow it down by cohort, group, key person, room and more, and give it a Display name so you can tell it apart; click Apply when you’re done.

Use Add Group to compare up to nine groups side by side — each gets its own colour in the chart.

Filter a group’s children, name it, then click Apply.

Reading the table

The Children by category of attainment table lists each child with four figures, worked out from the statements you’ve chosen:

  • MAP Score — the average of the child’s MAP tiers;
  • Tier Score — the average of the tiers they’ve been assessed at in the chosen term;
  • Attainment Score — the Tier Score minus the MAP Score;
  • Category — Below if the Attainment Score is -0.5 or less, Above if it’s 0.5 or more, and At in between.

Each tier counts as its position in your school’s list of tiers — the first tier is 1, the second 2 and so on — so a score of 3.00 is an average at the third tier.

Only statements that have both a MAP and an assessment are compared; a child without any shows N/A.

The Children by category of attainment table with its column explanations, the CSV button and a child whose Tier Score of 3.09 is 0.09 above their MAP Score, in the At category
Alek’s Tier Score is 0.09 above his MAP Score, so he’s working At his MAP.

Reading the chart

Beneath the table, the Percentage of children below, at and above their MAP tier chart shows how the children with a category are spread across the three. Each group has its own colour, so with several groups you can compare them column by column. Hover over a column to see its exact percentage.

A bar chart with Below, At and Above columns for All Children, with 100% in the At column, and the Image button
Every child with a category in our example is working At their MAP.

Exporting

There are three ways to take the analysis away with you:

  • PDF, beneath the filters, creates a printable copy of the whole screen;
  • CSV, on the Children by category of attainment panel, downloads the table as a spreadsheet;
  • Image, on the Percentage of children below, at and above their MAP tier panel, saves the chart as a picture.

And that’s it! We’ve found the Attainment screen, chosen the statements, term and groups to analyse, and seen how each child’s Tier Score is compared with their MAP Score to put them below, at or above – in the table and in the chart – and how to export the results.

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