Broadly, across Fife primary schools two forms of assessment are used to support your child\u2019s development:<\/p>\n
Summative assessment takes the form of standardised classroom based tests which measure how well your child is performing for their age and stage. Their purpose is not to compare your child with others but to provide the school with information to ensure that your child\u2019s learning needs are being addressed.<\/p>\n
Formative Assessment is an integral part of your child\u2019s day to day learning and provides a range of information to support your child in moving their learning forward. This less formal assessment takes many forms including observing children\u2019s engagement in classroom tasks and providing individual feedback to pupils to support them in identifying their own next steps in learning.<\/p>\n
Within our school we have embedded good practice in formative assessment in order to assist pupils to develop their capacity for learning.<\/p>\n
In all Fife schools teachers\u2019 reports about each pupil\u2019s learning play an important part in providing useful feedback about learning, for parents and carers and for other teachers and adults concerned with the young person\u2019s learning, progress and achievements.<\/p>\n
Effective, constructive feedback to parents should be clear, positive, specific, supportive and give an honest appraisal of pupils\u2019 progress. Feedback will be provided for parents at parents\u2019 meetings and in formal written reports. Formal written reports will be based on the personal learning planning and informal records that have been shared with pupils and parents regularly throughout the year.<\/p>\n
Reports provide an overall summary of progress, achievements
\nand next steps in learning in line with Curriculum for Excellence.<\/p>\n
Within our school our “Look at my Learning jotters” provide individualised samples of pupil progress in targeted areas of the curriculum. Personalisation and choice are important features within these documents. Parent feedback and celebrating success
\nfrom home is encouraged and can be recorded in this jotter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ASSESSMENT AND REPORTING Assessment Broadly, across Fife primary schools two forms of assessment are used to support your child\u2019s development: Summative assessment- which focuses on measuring current performance in terms of how successful the learner has been measured against national benchmarks, and formative assessment which gathers information about pupils\u2019 learning which is then used to … Continue reading Assessment and Reporting<\/span>