St. Joseph’s Catholic School Assessment Meeting October

2015From September 2014 the Government abolished the national level system because they believed it was too difficult for parents to understand and was too prescriptive and no longer appropriate to assess the new curriculum.

This left every school in the country with the task of devising their own assessment system.

The Darlaston Cluster designed their own assessment system based on the non-negotiable objectives from the National Curriculum and Walsall LA’s model of data collection.

We are working towards a system where children in Darlaston schools are all being assessed using the same system. This means that there is consistency when pupils move schools and when they transfer to secondary school.

St. Joseph’s Catholic School Assessment Meeting October

2015The Steps systemThe new assessment system is based on Steps.Children are placed on the step grid from Nursery to the end of Y6.This step system then continues at Secondary School.Each step represents what a child is expected to achieve in Reading, Writing and Maths during a half-term.Behind each step are non-negotiable objectives, which the children must achieve to complete that step.This is based on the national curriculum requirements for each year.However, some children may achieve different objectives in a different step and this is fine.Children are expected to make 2 steps progress a term in Years 1-6 and 1 step per term in the Foundation stage.The steps the children have achieved are then inserted into a grid and attainment and progress are tracked and analysed.

St. Joseph’s Catholic School Assessment Meeting October

2015

Steps

St. Joseph’s Catholic School Assessment Meeting October

2015

Steps

St. Joseph’s Catholic School Assessment Meeting October

2015

Steps

St. Joseph’s Catholic School Assessment Meeting October

2015

Steps

St. Joseph’s Catholic School Assessment Meeting October

2015

Target Sheets / Books

St. Joseph’s Catholic School Assessment Meeting October

2015

Assessing Progress

St. Joseph’s Catholic School Assessment Meeting October

2015

Tests / Statutory AssessmentsFoundation Stage ProfileY1 Phonics TestsY2 Statutory AssessmentY6 Statutory Assessment

St. Joseph’s Catholic School Assessment Meeting October

2015

KS1

St. Joseph’s Catholic School Assessment Meeting October

2015

KS2

St. Joseph’s Catholic School Assessment Meeting October

2015

Next StepsProgress will be reported in Steps / Age Related

ExpectationsFurther tweaking to layout / Steps Excel Spreadsheet for graphing for the cluster Steps Targets for children in ‘Child Speak’Work on rigour of termly assessments / moderation in

Schools / clusterAnother meeting in Summer Term

St. Joseph’s Catholic School Assessment Meeting October

2015

Questions

Thank You