Assessment procedures
Assessment procedures
Summative assessment
This take place on a daily basis within lessons. Class teachers are constantly assessing children’s learning and adapting their teaching to meet all the children’s needs.
Formative assessment
The children will complete termly assessment tests in reading, GPS (Grammar, punctuation, spelling and maths. These are carried out in their classrooms.
The tests scores are then uploaded onto the Sonar assessment system. The children will then be determined as WTS (Working towards), EXS (Expected level) or GDS (working at greater depth).
The children are then monitored to ensure that the children are on track to make the required progress from their starting points.
Termly Pupil Progress meetings are held with the class teacher and the Senior Leadership Team. This meeting is to identify children who are not on track and to implement appropriate interventions. The children who have been targeted will be monitored by the class teacher and the Senior Leadership team and then reviewed after the next termly assessments.
Assessment data is shared on the 2 parent evenings and in the annual school report.
National assessments
The EYFS profile
The EYFS profile is a statutory assessment of children’s development at the end of the EYFS, usually the end of the academic year in which the child turns 5 (reception year).
Each child’s level of development is assessed against 17 early learning goals (ELGs) across all 7 areas of learning in the EYFS statutory framework. For each ELG, teachers must assess whether a child is meeting the level of development expected at the end of the EYFS, or if they are not yet reaching this level and should be assessed as ‘emerging’.
The profile is intended to provide a reliable and accurate summative assessment of each child’s development at the end of the EYFS, in order to support children’s successful transitions to year 1.
Children are defined as having reached a good level of development (GLD) at the end of the EYFS, if they have achieved the expected level for the ELGs in the prime areas of learning, which are:
- communication and language
- personal, social and emotional development
- physical development
Plus the specific areas of:
- mathematics
- literacy
This helps to understand broadly what a child can do in relation to national expectations.
Teachers are expected to use their professional judgement to make EYFS profile assessments, using their knowledge and understanding of what a child knows, understands, and can do.
Year 1 phonics
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Year 4 Multiplication test
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Year 6 SATS