Dear Parents/Carers,
As part of our baseline assessments for Year 7, students will be sitting Cognitive Ability Tests (CATs) during their lessons next week. A timetable has been provided to show when these tests are taking place.
The results from these tests help the school to set appropriate academic targets for students and to ensure that students are placed in classes where the work is at a suitable level for their ability.
CATs fall into four categories:
- Verbal reasoning – thinking with words
- Quantitative reasoning – thinking with numbers
- Non-verbal reasoning – thinking with shapes and space
- Spatial awareness
Students will sit the tests online using the school computer network.
The CATs are not tests students can revise for and they should not be anxious about them. Students will not receive the results directly, as their purpose is to provide teaching staff with information to set targets and support learning.
If you have any queries or concerns about the CATs, please contact me at school.
Yours sincerely,
Barry Simpson
Deputy Headteacher
