Primary National Strategy Assessment

Paul WagstaffNational Director: Primary and Foundation Stage

Priorities for development

• Primary Framework for literacy and mathematics

• Learning and teaching for bilingual children in the primary years

• Keys to learning in literacy and mathematics

• A framework for personalisation

The Primary Framework for literacy and mathematics

• Slim• Smooth• Sharp• Strong• Swift

How will children benefit?

• Clearer knowledge of what they need to do next in order to make progress;

• Engaged in learning with work that is better matched to individual needs but with a pace that appropriately helps them learn and make progress;

• ICT seen as an integral tool to support learning;• Greater opportunity to speak, listen, question and

explain;• Learning as a coherent process with time to

understand, consolidate and apply;• Relevance brought to learning through everyday

contexts and across subjects;

Primary Framework for literacy and mathematics

• Learning objectives• Sequencing learning• Fit for purpose pedagogy• Assessment for learning• Targets and arrows• Tracking and moving

The Primary Framework for literacy and mathematics

• Electronic tool• Interactivity• Accessibility

• Assessment for learning• Assessment of learning

• Key principles underpinning the Early Years Foundation Stage;• Access to progression in learning through the Foundation Stage;• Early Reading support;• Links with EYFS;• Example planning support.

• Core position papers and guidance;• Interactive access to learning objectives;• Structured support for planning;• Support for assessment.

• Library of all documents;• Supporting resources.

Personalisation

• LA consultative group to develop and share best practice in AfL

• Primary case study materials• Primary AfL conferences in spring

2007• A framework for developing

personalisation in schools and settings

Personalisation framework

Assessing children’s achievement and their learning needs

What children learn.-

Howchildren learn. This framework describes the

elements needed to ensure small groups, classrooms and schools are developing personalised learning.

Each element is essential

Each element has equal importance

Each element is interconnected.

Keys to learning

Developing cognitive and academic language: practical strategies

• Guided speaking and listening

• Experiential learning

• Talk for literacy• Exploratory talk• Barrier games

To assess is to learn

‘Where teaching is satisfactory or even better, assessment is still too frequently the weakest feature within the classroom’

Ofsted 2005