Assessment for Learning

Accurate assessment lies at the heart of good teaching and learning. In order to ensure that all pupils make good progress or better, we set challenging targets based on a pupil’s prior abilities and design learning opportunities that stretch and challenge their thinking. We then also provide opportunities to practise, prove and perfect skills.  Effective ongoing assessment quickly identifies any gaps in learning and informs subsequent teaching and learning.

Assessments are coordinated and balanced to ensure inclusivity, fairness and motivation.

• We assess to evaluate and inform teaching and learning outcomes.
• We assess to check knowledge.
• We assess to measure how pupils perform in a timeframe

Assessments are incremental and sufficiently demanding. We choose assessment methods that encourage a deep approach to learning and help pupils to appreciate and identify priorities. How our pupils learn also informs how we assess, with tasks designed to demonstrate the best level of attainment pupils are capable of.

Teachers daily…

1. Make good use of prior assessments / initial assessments at the start of a topic / new learning to ensure the correct pitch for all pupils
2. Review learning outcomes and ensure that subsequent teaching is personalised, well-pitched to close gaps, deepens learning, and extends for pupils who grasp concepts quickly
3. Record learning outcomes to show depth of understanding to identify any pupils who need support or challenge
4. Provide pupils with timely feedback in-line with the school’s feedback policy
5. Ensure that pupils know their targets in reading, writing and maths and hold pupils accountable for working hard to meet them
6. Plan for, ‘Every Piece, Every Time’ where pupils proofread against incremental expectations
7. Promote opportunities for pupils to engage in self and peer assessment of learning against clear success criteria
8. Set opportunities to problem solve enabling pupils to employ a wide range of learning skills
9. Focus on Ranvilles Behaviour and Personal Development Maps to promote school learning values
10. Celebrate personal success and achievement in line with our motto, ‘Be You…Explore…Excel!’