Teacher Assessments of the Non-Core Subjects at Key Stage 3, 2009

Statistics on attainment in the non-core subjects at Key Stage 3 includes final data for Wales for the 2009 teacher assessments.

The key points from the latest release are:

• Since 2008 there has been an increase in the percentage of pupils achieving level 5 or above in all subjects apart from Geography (which has stayed the same) and Physical Education (decreasing by 0.1 percentage points). The greatest increase was in Modern Foreign Languages (2.1 percentage points);
• The percentage of pupils achieving level 5 (the expected level) or above varied from 77.5 per cent in Information Technology to 56.0 per cent in Welsh Second Language;
• Girls performed better than boys in all subjects apart from in Physical Education, where boys outperformed girls.

A further breakdown of all the data shown in this release by Local Education Authority, attainment level and by gender can be found on StatsWales.

Benchmark information tables are also available for Key Stage 3 (both for core and non-core subjects). Benchmark information tables for Key Stages 1 and 2 are also available alongside the release ‘National Curriculum Assessments of 7, 11 and 14 year olds: Wales, 2009’, published on Thursday 27 August 2009.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 5968
E-mail: school.stats@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

September 2010 (provisional – to be confirmed on the Due Out Soon page)