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Guidance: Privacy notice: Primary Assessment Gateway

Standards Testing Agency

April 12
08:40 2023

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This page outlines the data the Standards and Testing Agency (STA) will collect from users of the Primary Assessment Gateway for national curriculum assessments and how we will use it. It also covers the legal basis for collecting this data, who the data will be shared with and how long we will keep it.

The Primary Assessment Gateway is an IT system that enables STA and associated third parties engaged with STA to prepare for, complete and process numerous activities allowing annual completion of key stage 1 (KS1) and key stage 2 (KS2) national curriculum assessments.

The Primary Assessment Gateway system has a number of users including headteachers, school staff, local authorities, multi academy trusts and KS2 markers, each of whom have different reasons for logging into the system.

School representatives (headteachers and staff) will use the system to provide information to STA on pupils participating in KS1 and KS2 assessments (e.g. test orders (where required), pupil registration and access arrangements), as well as accessing the system to view secure materials and pupil assessment results.

KS2 markers can access the system to manage their user accounts and view evaluation scores for their marking work.

Suitable access controls have been implemented to ensure that the different users of the system do not have access to other user groups data.

Published 14 October 2021
Last updated 12 April 2023 +show all updates
  1. Updated section 6 of the privacy notice to explain that some suppliers used in the delivery of national curriculum assessments may need to send personal data outside of the EEA and, when this happens, STA will ensure to comply with data protection law and take additional steps to keep personal data safe.

  2. Updated section 2.2: deleted the bullet point "setting up accounts for school staff" and added new sentence to confirm email addresses provided are used to send assessment update emails to schools.

  3. Personal data is sourced from the pupil census data provided by schools to DfE, but no longer 'bi-annually', and so the word has been removed from this privacy notice.

  4. First published.

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