INTENT

Assessment will be clear, purposeful and aligned with our curriculum. We have a culture of assessment that builds on a high-quality, ambitious curriculum, supports continuity between key stages, and promotes successful outcomes for every pupil. We are committed to ensuring that all assessment (both formative and summative):

• supports teaching and learning
• embeds key concepts
• enables students to use knowledge fluently and develop their understanding
• drives pupil progress

IMPLEMENTATION

Whole School Implementation

Curriculum Area Implementation

Formative Assessment

• Formative Assessment is an integral part of all lessons
• All lessons include retrieval at the start of the lesson as well as questioning and other recall tasks to help students recall and embed knowledge. Teachers will systematically check understanding and adapt teaching.
• All Assessments will have clear success criteria/assessment descriptors that will be shared with students prior to them commencing an assessment.
• Students will be exposed to planned high quality work prior to assessments so that the outcome is modelled, and students understand what success looks like.
• Students will receive high quality feedback on formative assessment in line with the Feedback Policy.

Summative Assessment

• Curriculum Areas will undertake Summative Assessments twice a year, these will be standardised and moderated.
• Students will be given a % mark and Grade for their Summative Assessments.
• End of Year assessments will be compared to UL cohort data, comparing large cohorts who have taken the same assessments in the same period to allow comparison with a larger cohort to support future planning and curriculum developments.
• The data from Summative assessments will be reported to parents in an appropriate way that provides information they can use to support their son/daughter’s engagement in school and learning
• Students will receive high quality feedback on all Summative Assessments in line with the Feedback Policy.

Curriculum Leaders are leaders of their curriculum and the assessment of it.

Where appropriate there may be a specific approach to formative assessment that will support the assessment of knowledge and skills of students so that adjustments to planning and curriculum can be made to ensure all students make strong progress.

Curriculum leaders will be able to articulate the Subject Specific use of  Formative Assessment in their curriculum area and why they have chosen this approach.

IMPACT

Students will:

Parents will:

Teachers will use assessment to:

•  know what success looks like in each subject
• informed about the knowledge and skills they are developing and their ability to demonstrate these.
• what their targets are for each subject.
• know where they are in their learning compared to their target and what they need to do/improve to move their learning forwards.

• understand how the child’s knowledge and skills are assessed in a subject
• know their child’s target grades
•  know how their child has performed in assessments compared to their target and the performance of the wider cohort.
• know what their child needs to do to move their learning forwards

• to identify students’ development of knowledge and skills
• identify misconceptions and address them
• to inform future planning
• to develop the curriculum moving forwards in repose to assessment