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<p>The removal of unnecessary workload is a priority for this Department and is considered
carefully when introducing any significant change for schools. Our primary assessment
reforms have been designed to put arrangements for the majority of classroom assessment
back into the hands of the school and to reduce the tracking burdens that national
curriculum levels previously encouraged. We believe schools are best placed to decide
how to assess pupils in line with their curriculum and that over time this should
lead to a reduction in workload for teachers.</p><p> </p><p>Following the introduction
of the new national curriculum and the removal of levels, we have developed new forms
of statutory assessment at the end of Key Stages 1 and 2. The duty to report assessment
at these points remains unchanged from previous years. We do recognise, however, that
in this first year of the new forms of assessment teachers will be adapting their
approach. Significant reforms like take time to embed and the best way to prepare
pupils remains to focus on teaching the core knowledge set by new national curriculum,
which schools have been doing since September 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Throughout the introduction
of our important reforms to primary assessment, we have worked closely with teachers
and head teachers and continue to listen to the concerns of the profession as the
details of the new arrangements are finalised. We are working constructively with
the teaching profession and their representatives to find solutions to some of the
remaining issues.</p>
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