Assessment in the curriculum

At Much Woolton our curriculum aims to provide children with the skills, knowledge and behaviours for learning that can be applied across all subject areas, and in all aspects of life.

For foundation subjects we use a variety of resources, following the core skills from the National Curriculum, to form the basis for each year groups learning journey. Our curriculum ensures that skills and knowledge are progressive and children build and extend on their prior knowledge as they move through the school.

Assessment in the curriculum

We assess children’s attainment and progress in each subject throughout the year and share these with parents in parents meetings and in children’s end of year reports.

At the beginning of a subject topic, children’s current knowledge and understanding is assessed, we call this assessment ‘pre-assessment’, and we use information to support future planning. After the sequence of learning is finished, we re-assess the children’s knowledge and understanding to measure attainment and progress, ‘post-assessment’.

During lessons, teaching staff circulate the staff, formatively assessing as they go and giving feedback to children on how they are progressing whilst addressing any misconceptions.

In addition, we also use NFER materials at key points in the year to formally assess children’s learning and understanding in Reading and Mathematics. We assess writing using an independent ‘fantastic write’ each term and assess this piece of writing against end of year descriptors provided by School Improvement Liverpool. These are then moderated both across our school and annually with two other local schools to ensure accuracy in our judgements.

Subject specific assessment sheets are used to monitor attainment and progress at the end of a topic. Below you will find an example: