Externally marked, and the reports went home last week. Here is what they do and do not tell you.
Every child in Primary 5 sat the Cambridge Primary Checkpoint in English, mathematics and science in the second week of May. The papers went to Cambridge to be marked, and the reports came back to us in June.
A Checkpoint report is not a pass or a fail. It gives a score for each subject and, more usefully, a breakdown by strand, so a parent can see that a child is strong in number and less confident in handling data, rather than being handed a single grade to worry about.
We do not teach to it. The children sat two practice papers, in the week before, so that the format would not be a surprise. That is the whole of the preparation, and it is deliberate.
Every family has had their child's report and the offer of a meeting to go through it. The class average is on file and available to any parent who asks.
