Please note: it is important to note from the outset that this guide is a recommendation, the progress measures are flexible and may vary in your school.
The guidance for expected progress children should be making each year is shown below:
A = 5%
S = 7%
E = 10%
N = 12%
D = 15%
Why? An Example...
The reason why the children are expected to make these measures of progress over the course of a year not (100%) is best explained using an example: Let us take a child working at D, 100% would be the whole of KS3, which is 3 years (Years 7, 8 and 9). That means per year, an expected child would be making 33 percent, a year.
However, for the children to be on iASEND, we know they are making much smaller steps of progress. 15% means they should be attaining approximately half a year's curriculum in each year. The percentage gets smaller the earlier we go back. This is because a child working at the A curriculum is far more likely to have many more significant barriers to learning than those working higher up the scale.
The exact percentages were calculated using Dr Sue Fisher’s experience as a Headteacher of a special school, alongside her research (view here) and analysing the aggregate results of the 6,000 + children on iASEND currently (2020).