The national assessment at key points in children’s primary education are:

• The reception baseline assessment for each child in the first 6 weeks after they enter reception.
• A phonics (sound-letter correspondence) check near the end of Year 1. 

  Week commencing Monday 6 June 2022

  Phonics screening check week

• A teacher assessment at the end of Key Stage 1 (Year 2) in mathematics, reading and writing, informed by pupils’ scores in externally-set, but internally-marked, tests.  The key stage 1 tests  will be administered during May 2022.

• Date	Activity
  May 2022	Key stage 1 test period
  Week commencing Monday 6 June 2022	Phonics screening check week

• An end of Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check to determine whether pupils can recall their times tables fluently. MTC 2022 will be from Monday 6 June and Friday 24 June

• National SATs tests at the end of Key Stage 2 (Year 6) in: mathematics; reading; grammar, punctuation and spelling; along with a teacher assessment of writing and science.

• The key stage 2 tests are timetabled from Monday 9 May to Thursday 12 May 2022.

  Date	Activity
  Monday 9 May 2022	English grammar, punctuation and spelling papers 1 and 2
  Tuesday 10 May 2022	English reading
  Wednesday 11 May 2022	Mathematics papers 1 (Arithmetic) and 2 Reasoning)
  Thursday 12 May 2022	Mathematics paper 3 (Reasoning)