Assessment
The Primary Department believes that ‘ability is incremental’ and that assessment is integral to learning and teaching. Pupils are encouraged to believe in their own ability to improve and learn. Because of that, our principal thrust is a formative approach which allows us to address the needs of the individual and therefore to identify the next steps in order to ensure progression.
The parity of entitlement within the programmes of study, at each Year Group level, allows us to run, in parallel, a series of Year Group assessments across the school sites. We are therefore, in a position to ensure an equitable measurement of pupil performance which is reflected in the summative reports issued at the end of each term.
There are, at given points, in the Primary Cycle, Standardised Tests which measure the pupils’ attainment against national performance in the United Kingdom and which feed into our tracking system.