Thomas Jolyffe Primary School
Thomas Jolyffe Primary School
Academic Outcomes
EYFS outcomes
Outcomes at the end of Reception measure a good level of development for each child . This is also known as a GLD. Our GLD for Reception children has been securely above the national level for the last 2 years.
| School GLD | National GLD | |
| 2023 | 63% | 67% |
| 2024 | 74% | 68% |
| 2025 | 74% | 69% |
Year 1 Phonics screening
Our Phonics outcomes have got much closer to the national average over the last 2 years. We have embedded high quality phonics and early reading teaching, taught every day in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2. For children who do not pass the phonics screening in Year 1, we continue to teach and provide high quality, rapid interventions and assess them throughout Year 2. Our Year 2 outcomes for Phonics was 91% in 2025, in line with the national figures.
| School | National | |
| 2023 | 53% | 79% |
| 2024 | 72% | 80% |
| 2025 | 71% | 80% |
Year 6 outcomes
One of our school development targets this year is to improve outcomes in Writing to ensure that our writing in is line with, if not better than, the national outcomes in 2026. We are in the second year of a new writing curriculum which is embedding the key grammatical skills that the children across school need to have at their fingertips, including spelling and handwriting.
Reading (School) | Reading (National) | Writing (School) | Writing (National) | Maths (School) | Maths (National) | GPS (School) | GPS (National) | Science (School) | Science (National) | |
| 2023 | 78% | 73% | 71% | 71% | 62% | 73% | 71% | 72% | 83% | 80% |
| 2024 | 61% | 74% | 63% | 72% | 54% | 73% | 72% | 72% | 65% | 81% |
| 2025 | 69% | 75% | 43% | 72% | 63% | 74% | 71% | 73% | 73% | 82% |
Further details of our latest outcomes are available here: https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/school/125525
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