Assessment Without Levels October 2015
Aims of the meeting New National Curriculum – from September 2015. Where are we now? Expectations of the new Curriculum Assessment without levels – outline how we are beginning to track and assess progress at Lawn End of term reports – How they will change this year
Why did we need a new National Curriculum? The short answer – the Government decided that we needed one. Before 1988 there was no National Curriculum . Teachers decided what they taught and what children needed. Over the next 26 years the National Curriculum was introduced and developed into what we had go used to until August 2014.
Old National Curriculum From 1988 the National curriculum comprised of a range of knowledge and skills that were developed throughout each key stage. It was broken down into levels and expectations were set certain milestones along this journey. Year 2 expectation = level 2 Year 6 expectation = level 4
Good teaching at Lawn Assessment led learning Planning for each What do we want child to progress them to learn? Assessment – What do Delivery/Teaching they know now? The new NC has changed significantly with what children need to learn and as a result has changed how assessment needs to be managed.
The New Curriculum IT IS IMPORTANT to take levels out of our minds as the new curriculum is broken into ‘programmes of study’ for each year group/phase. Core Subjects Foundation Subjects Literacy – is now English History Numeracy – is now Maths Geography Science Design and Technology Art & Design Personal, Social, Health & Citizenship Education ICT – is now Computing Physical Education (P.E) Modern Foreign Languages – now statutory at Key Stage 2 Religious Education – RE Music
What has changed? Lots of changes – the new curriculum is a lot more prescriptive in English and Maths, less prescriptive in the Foundation Subjects The expectations are much higher than ever before, with much of the curriculum being shifted down into lower year groups, particularly in Maths and English. For example some of the old Y5 expectations can now be found in the Y3, some Y7/8 in Y5/6.
The raised expectations mean that children need to have a very secure knowledge of the programme of study for their year group and depth of understanding and application. End of year expectation is now that children are ‘secure’ in their year group. This is where they NEED to be at the end of the year. We talk to the children about the changes in expectations
Old and New National Curriculum Assessment Now it is Age Related Standards Levels: Age Related Standards • • Year 1 1c 1b 1a • • 2c 2b 2a Year 2 • • 3c 3b 3a Year 3 • • 4c 4b 4a Year 4 • • 5c 5b 5a Year 5 • • Year 6 6c
New Curriculum Assessment The Government has decided that it is up to individual schools how to assess pupils within year groups. They will set benchmarks at the end of Key Stage 1 and at the end of Key Stage 2 – these will take the form of raw scores converted into scaled scores which then show if your child has met the required standard on the test There will be another meeting regarding SATs for Years 2 and 6 later in the year to discuss this further.
Age Related Standards For each year group there will be steps children will need to achieve: Developing Developing (+) Secure Secure (+) Exceeding Exceeding (+) By the end of the year the expectation will be that pupils will achieve ‘Secure’ and a number of pupils will exceed these steps. Children working below the National Curriculum for their year group will work towards developing in the current year group.
Developing Secure Exceeding Pupil learning is chiefly Confidence in all of the These children are working focussed on the criteria for criteria for the band. There beyond the national the band. There may be may be pupil learning still expectations for their year minimal elements of the focussed on gaining group. More depth and previous band still to gain thorough confidence in breadth will be applied to complete confidence in. some minimal elements but their knowledge. the broad expectations for the band have been met. D D+ S S+ E E+ N.B - Under the old levels system children who were beyond might have moved into the next level. The DfE now want children who are in the beyond bracket to add more depth and breadth to their knowledge, and to have more opportunities to develop their using and applying skills. They are calling this phase of learning Mastery and Depth . Only exceptional children will move into working towards the end of year expectations from the year above.
HOW ARE WE ASSESSING? PUT IN INFO ABOUT TESTS/TEACHER JUDGEMENTS/WORK SRUCTINY WITH SLT/PUPIL PROGRESS MEETINGS/DISCUSSION WITH CHILDREN/OBSERVATIONS
An example of a tracking grid Maths Pre Developing Developing Secure Secure + Exceeding Exceeding + Name Approx + Year group curriculu m working within Aurmtumn Term 1 Autumn Term 2 This is an example of a tracking grid produced by our system.
How will the Termly Reports differ?
Reports Its is really important for parents to understand that the expectations of the new national curriculum are much higher at the end of each year group. Pupils being judged on the expectations for the end of Year 5,for example, will still have gaps and may not reach the ‘expected outcomes of their year group’ as they have only completed one year of the new curriculum There is also a focus on children being able to explore the curriculum in more depth and being able to apply their learning before moving on – the concept of MASTERY. So it is likely that not so many children will be ‘exceeding’ because of these raised expectations.
Early Years Foundation Stage The EYFS curriculum has not changed. It is still based on 7 areas of learning. Prime Areas – Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Communication and Language and Physical Development Specific Areas – English, Mathematics, Understanding the World and Expressive Arts and Design These areas are broken down into 17 strands
EYFS Alongside these areas of learning are the Characteristics of Effective Learning. Playing & exploring – engagement Active Learning – motivation Creating and thinking critically - thinking
Assessment in EYFS Assessment in EYFS has not changed. ADD IN GRAPH OF 30-50 40-60 ELG New Baseline Assessment has been introduced by the Government and is statutory by September 2016, we will be using a baseline called Early Excellence. This baseline is based on classroom observations when pupils enter Foundation Stage.
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