Definitions for "Attainment targets"
Targets of achievement for pupils to attain in each subject of the National Curriculum. Each target is graded into eight different levels.
These establish what children of differing ability should be expected to know and be able to do by the end of each Key Stage of the curriculum. There are eight levels.
The knowledge, skills and understanding which pupils of differing ability and maturity are expected to have by the end of each Key Stage of the National Curriculum, i.e. assessed at ages 7,11,14 and 16.