An important part of our school’s provision is that we seek out all we can possibly know about every child so that we are always getting better placed to support them in being happy and successful.
One of the ways we do this is by running Cogitative Ability Testing (CATs) in Year 7. These assessments check the reasoning abilities of children and provides information on verbal, non-verbal, quantitative, and spatial reasoning so we can determine each child’s strengths. We then combine this with their Year 6 SATs’ results and then work out how we can best take the child forward to success by the end of Year 11.
Our Year 7 CATs run in late September and there are three online tests., They take only 45mintues each, cannot be revised for and are genuinely nothing to worry about. It is not about a child getting a pass / fail but more just about us learning how to help them as best as we can.
Richard Barnett-Richards, Assistant Headteacher, said: “Our school’s approach is very much about judging every child as an individual. Within this, we seek to build a full picture of every child because each individual needs an individual response to help them succeed. Our CATs are an important part of this and we are looking forward to getting all the information we can. Certainly, the more we know, the more we can help.”
