How is impact measured?

Formative assessment takes place daily and helps teachers decide on what pupils need to learn next in order to move forward in their learning. As a result, teachers adjust planning accordingly to meet the needs of the class and ensure progress.  These assessments allow teachers to understand how to support and extend children appropriately. 

There is a difference between performance and learning. Teachers understand that pupil performance in the current lesson does not necessarily translate into the type of learning that will be evident tomorrow.  As a result, the use of low stakes tests enables teachers to regularly assess what learning has been retained by pupils over longer periods of time. This also provides pupils with the regular opportunity of retrieving information from memory, which consequently facilitates learning. These include, but are not limited to: assessment for learning, pupil voice, starter activities, quizzes, multiple choice and start/end of unit questions, and weekly maths assessment (maths facts and timestables).

Summative assessment takes place at the end of each term.  At the three assessment points, pupils also sit a standardised test so that gaps can be analysed and used to inform future learning.