Proficiency in English for pupils with English as an Additional Language (EAL), is collected annually in the Spring term in January.In line with local strategies, we need to collect this data to continue to monitor the characteristics of the pupils attending your school and for benchmarking purposes and it is used for value-added analyses of EYFS, KS1, KS2 and GCSE results.

This year's collection date will be Thursday 20th January 2022.   

Guidance for using the EAL Stages of English Proficiency

EYFS Descriptor Grid:                         PDF Version                       Word Version

Key Stage 1 Descriptor Grid:               PDF Version                       Word Version

Key Stage 2 Descriptor Grid:               PDF Version                       Word Version

Secondary Schools Descriptor Grid:    PDF Version

Special Schools Descriptor Grid:         PDF Version