Brindishe at work - Monitoring children’s progress
Teachers keep records of the progress of each child and their levels
of achievement. Each child has a personal profile – a folder containing
assessments in literacy and numeracy, teacher’s comments, records
of progress and full end of year reports. Please ask the class teacher
or head teacher if you would like to see and discuss your child’s
profile.
On entry into Nursery and/or Reception, and at the end of Reception class, children are assessed in six main areas of learning, using the Foundation Stage Profile. These include:
- Personal, social and emotional development
- Communication, language and literacy
- Mathematical development
- Knowledge and understanding about the world
- Physical development
- Creative development
You can find out more about the Foundation Stage
Profile from the website www.qca.org.uk.
From year 1 children are formally assessed using standardised tests in reading, writing and maths to measure their progress towards national levels of achievement.
From these tests, and from teacher’s assessment, we can judge how well a child is achieving and the progress they are making compared to our expectations and compared to local and national levels.
At the end of each year you will be given a report on the progress your child has made. There will also be comments on general attitude, attendance and behaviour within school.
As part of the national assessment arrangements all children will be assessed using a national system of testing at the ages of 7 and 11, commonly known as SATS.