Year 3 Baseline Assessment

This Year 3 Baseline Assessment is a comprehensive, curriculum-aligned tool designed to evaluate key English and Maths skills as children transition from Year 2 to Year 3. Packed with engaging, interactive activities, this resource helps educators accurately measure student understanding and readiness for Key Stage 2 learning. A detailed, editable mark scheme ensures clear, consistent assessment and effortless progress tracking.

What’s Included:

Full Baseline Assessment covering key Year 2 objectives to assess readiness for Year 3:

• Grammar & Punctuation: Identify parts of speech, sentence types, and punctuation marks.
• Phonics & Homophones: Choose correctly spelled and sounded words in engaging themed tasks.
• Sight Words: Test fluency and recognition of common Year 2 high-frequency words.
• Reading Comprehension: Develop literal and inferential understanding through a short story with verbal questions.
• Short Writing Task: Encourage creative sentence writing with guided prompts and structure.
• Number & Place Value: Demonstrate understanding of tens and ones, and calculate ten more/ten less.
• Addition & Subtraction: Apply strategies to solve one- and two-step problems.
• Multiplication & Division (two,five,ten): Check fluency and conceptual understanding with visual cues.
• Fractions: Identify halves, quarters, and thirds in shapes and quantities.
• Measurement (Time): Read and interpret time to the nearest 5 minutes.
• Shape & Geometry: 2 d and 3 d shapes and their properties.
• Reasoning Word Problems: Use logical thinking to solve contextual problems.

*** Comprehensive Mark Scheme:**
Editable Google Doc including detailed descriptors for each task with performance levels: Secure, Developing, Emerging, plus tutor notes for consistent marking.

• Tutor & Teacher Instructions:
  Step-by-step delivery guidance, suggested prompts, and support strategies to ensure smooth administration.

• Editable Digital Format:
  Delivered in Google Slides and Google Docs, ready for classroom, tutoring, or homeschooling us, printable or interactive.

Why You will Love It

Aligned with UK National Curriculum (Year 2 to Year 3 transition).

Covers a wide range of literacy and numeracy skills for a holistic snapshot of learning.

Easy to deliver, fun to complete, and designed to take around forty-five minutes.

Editable and reusable year after year.

Perfect for identifying learning strengths and next-step targets quickly and confidently.

Who Is It For?

Ideal for teachers, tutors, and home school parents looking to assess Year 3 readiness at the start of term or after summer learning. Whether you are planning interventions or tracking progress, this resource provides everything you need for confident, evidence-based assessment.

Empower your teaching with clarity and confidence, download the Year 3 Baseline Assessment today and make your start to Key Stage 2 smooth, simple, and successful!

Happy teaching!