Claire Lavelle, HT at St Martin’s PS East Lothian, talks about how children have become more involved in planning and assessing their learning. Personalisation and choice is promoted and children engage more actively in class. Children keep track of their learning progress and success using Learning Journals. Planning in this way has given teachers confidence in working with the Es and Os.
Tag Archives: Assessment
Pupil self assessment
Pupil self assessment from P3 upwards in St.Cuthbert’s PS, Glasgow.The P5/6 teacher explains a short end of week pupil self- assessment exercise using a traffic lights approach.
Helping children track their progress
A teacher at Dunbar PS has been thinking about peer and self assessment and ways to help her P4 children keep track of their progress using learning logs. This has had a positive impact on children’s engagement in their own learning and provides information that parents find helpful.
Driving consistency of practice in CfE
Staff in Stoneyhill PS in Musselburgh have been actively engaging with CfE for a number of years and were involved in developing NAR. Here three teachers talk about how the school is going about ensuring there is consistent practice across the stages.
Using NAR in a Primary School Setting
In this video Moira will share with us how she used NAR in her primary school setting. If you go to NAR in the Assessment home page link you can see where Moira’s work sits within the Flow Chart in the NAR Summary Handbook. For more information contact Moira.hendry@wled.org.uk
Assessment Weblinks
Click here for the LTS assessment home page and to log on to the National Assessment Resource
What are the broad features of assessment in the curriculum areas?
Expressive Arts
Health and Wellbeing
Literacy across learning
Literacy and English
Literacy and Gaidhlig
Mathematics
Modern Languages
Numeracy across learning
RME
RCRE
Sciences
Social Studies
Technologies
Peer assessment in Art and Design
For this case study our pupils and staff practiced peer and self assessment. The curriculum areas covered in this study were: Expressive arts, primary and secondary
Clarifying the learning – sharing standards in Modern Languages
These PowerPoint presentations aim to raise awareness of other languages frameworks (in this case the Languages Ladder and CEFR) which seek to describe learning experiences and outcomes at beginner level and then to track progression in each of the language skills.
Early Years Web links
Developing a Documentation Approach – http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/sharingpractice/d/documentation/aims.asp?strReferringChannel=earlyyears&strReferringPageID=tcm:4-619333-64
A Child-Led Summer Programme –
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/sharingpractice/c/childledsummerprogramme/aims.asp?strReferringChannel=earlyyears&strReferringPageID=tcm:4-619333-64
