Policy Creation
The creation of an agreed, whole school policy should be a collaborative effort rather than a task completed by an individual. To be effective the policy should be process driven…
Planning the Journey towards Standards
This paper seeks to embrace the different approaches that mastery demands, and to serve as a practical guide to those who understand a key basic truth; the “new way of doing things”…
A brief guide for Governors updated 2016
The new curriculum and its proper assessment: From September 2015 all pupils in all year groups in Y1-Y6 became subject to the new National Curriculum. This is a STANDARDS BASED MODEL…
Remarkable Marking!
This is a free download! In the quest for evidence of learners’ learning and teachers’ effectiveness, those responsible for both formal and informal reviews of teaching and learning in schools…
Working and Learning in a Standards Based Curriculum
The new National Curriculum 2015 is part of a programme of wider educational reforms planned in the UK at this time to increase pupil achievement and decrease performance gaps that…
Model Draft Policy for Assessment, Recording and Reporting
Model Draft Policy for Assessment, Recording and Reporting is a policy produced by a group of schools in Somerset so that they could trial the proposed new approaches in advance…
Your Curriculum Properly Assessed
Your Curriculum Properly Assessed, suggests an innovative and creative approach to cross curricular “topic” work so popular in Primary Schools that raises the status to “enquiry based projects that fully…
Principled Assessment in a Standards Based Curriculum
Principled Assessment in a Standards Based Curriculum gives sound advice and guidance on all aspects of assessment, recording and reporting pupil attainment and progress in Primary Schools now that the…
