Many primary schools have mastered the art of levelling. Being able to attribute levels and sub-levels to a pupil’s work has been a focal part of staff meetings and discussions for most teachers’ working lives. Moderation to ensure consistency across and between schools is a regular item on the INSET agenda.
Now under notice to be removed, the education sector is struggling to identify what will come next.
National curriculum levels were first introduced in 1988 as part of the new, statutory national Curriculum. They represented an incremental progression through a curriculum subject and by 1995 there were eight levels identified, each with their own “level descriptor”.
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