Assessment
How We Assess Learning
At Endon Hall Primary & Nursery School, we believe that good practice in assessment:
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- Promotes and supports learning
- Informs teaching
- Is both formative and summative
- Uses a range of strategies
- Recognises ALL progress and achievement
- Develops the capacity for self assessment
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Assessment is not an end in itself; its main purpose is to support teaching and learning by identifying what children already know and can do and what their next steps should be. Therefore, assessments are made on an ongoing basis, gathering information about what children know and can do, to guide next steps.
Assessment includes:
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- Marking work (including live marking, oral and/or written feedback, and target setting)
- Evidencing learning towards end of year expectations
- Summative assessment tests, including statutory tests and standardised tests
- Observing children – including listening to how they describe their work and their reasoning
- Questioning, using open questions, to invite children to explore their ideas and reasoning
- Asking children to communicate their thinking in different ways
- Setting tasks which require children to use certain skills or apply ideas to move on in lessons
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Subject overviews and End of Year expectation documents are used to build a picture of each child’s progress. They can be found here – Curriculum overviews and Expectations
Statutory assessments
National Curriculum end of year statements outline what children are expected to achieve by the end of each year, in order to meet National expectations.
Children sit statutory tests at the end of Year 1 (Phonics Check), Year 4 (Multiplication Check), and Year 6 (SATs tests). They also sit non-statutory tests at the end of Year 2.
Click on the following to find out more:
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Phonics – Year 1 – Screening-check-guide-for-parents |
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Information_for_Year 4 parents_multiplication_tables_check |
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KS2 – Year 6 – SATS guide for parents |
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