Performance and Results
Key Principles underpinning Assessment
These principles underpin our school’s Assessment Policy. This describes how we will:
- assess all children throughout their school career
- provide clear evidence of children’s learning
- provide accurate information on children’s progress and
- determine whether our assessment system is fit for purpose.
Results/Data
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We believe that:
- Assessment is at the heart of teaching and learning: it provides evidence to guide teaching and learning and the opportunity for pupils to demonstrate and review their progress.
- Assessment is fair, inclusive of all abilities, free from bias towards factors that are not relevant to what the assessment intends to address.
- Assessment is honest and the outcomes are used in ways that minimise undesirable effects; outcomes are conveyed in an open, honest and transparent way to assist pupils with their learning and the judgements are moderated by experienced professionals to ensure their accuracy.
- Assessment is ambitious; it places achievement in context against nationally standardised criteria and expected standards; it embodies, through objective criteria, a pathway for the progress and development of every child and it sets high expectations for learners.
- Assessment is appropriate; any assessment process should be clearly stated; conclusions regarding pupil achievement are valid (to age, task and the desired feedback information); it should draw on a wide range of evidence to provide a complete picture of student achievement; it should demand no more procedures or records than are practically required to allow pupils, their parents and teachers to plan future learning.
- Assessment is consistent; judgements are formed according to common principles; results are readily understandable by third parties; results are capable of comparison with other schools, both locally and nationally.
- Assessment outcomes provide meaningful and understandable information for; pupils in developing their learning; parents in supporting children with their learning; teachers in planning teaching and learning; school leaders and governors in planning and allocating resources; and to school leaders and third parties for managing teacher performance and accountability.
- Assessment feedback should inspire greater effort and a belief that, through hard work and practice, more can be achieved.