Assessing Primary Writing Year 6 Redraft - 2026

In 2026, we have a new addition to our standard Assessing Primary Writing calendar: a Y6 Redraft task. Here is how it works.

• Our standard Year 6 Assessing Primary Writing assessment window will take place in March 2026. The deadline for submitting student writing is Friday 6th March.
• Once you have submitted your students’ writing for this initial assessment, you will receive a full suite of extensive AI-generated feedback. We aim to provide you with this feedback within 48 hours of submitting the writing.
• You can then share this feedback with your students—how you do this is entirely up to you, and you can of course supplement it with your own comments.
• After receiving and working with the feedback, students can redraft their original piece of writing.
• You can then submit this redrafted piece of work to be assessed again as part of a national assessment window. The deadline for submitting the redrafted writing is Friday 17 April. The scores of both the original and redrafted piece of work will be on the same scale, allowing you to measure the impact of the feedback.

Further information

• For both the original assessment and the redraft, you can use AI judges. We recommend getting the AI judges to do 90% of your judgements, but for the redraft you might want to get them to complete 100% to save you time. You can read more about how long it takes to judge using AI here.
• We ran a similar project last year called CJ Dynamo which provided us with very detailed insights into how students respond to feedback. You can read more about it here.
• The Y6 Redraft is included in an Assessing Primary Writing subscription. If you are already a subscriber, you will automatically get all the project emails. Of course you don't have to take part if you don't want to - it's optional!
• If you are not a subscriber and would like to take part, you can purchase an Assessing Primary Writing subscription here.
• You can view the full Assessing Primary Writing calendar here.

Updated on: 15/01/2026