{"id":15,"date":"2015-05-05T09:23:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T09:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/anntest3\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2026-06-30T14:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:19:07","slug":"assessment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/balmalloch\/assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessment &amp; Reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>ASSESSMENT AND REPORTING TO PARENTS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Assessment of pupil progress is conducted in a variety of ways. Continual assessment by class teachers allows teachers to quickly identify any difficulties being experienced by the children and therefore amend the teaching programme. Flexibility in our grouping allows for transfer from group to group if an individual child is making particular progress or experiencing difficulty.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0our nursery\u00a0and classrooms, staff are using improved ways of assessing children\u2019s learning taking account of national and local advice and guidance. Your child\u2019s progress will be reported to you so that you know how well your child is doing.<\/p>\n<p>Each year we will let you know what is being done to implement Curriculum for Excellence so that you can be confident that your child is receiving a high quality education.<\/p>\n<p>Parents are encouraged to contact the school if they have concerns about any aspect of their child\u2019s education. In addition the following arrangements have been made:<\/p>\n<p>Parent Information Evenings\/Meet the Teacher &#8211; <strong>August\/September<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Parents\u2019 Evening and GIRFMe Meetings &#8211; <strong>November\/March<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Progress Report<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Following the work of the Reporting Group made up of staff and parents, a revised reporting policy and procedures was implemented in June 2026 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/balmalloch\/uploads\/sites\/17137\/2026\/06\/30141755\/REPORTING-POLICY-APRIL-2026-1.pdf\">REPORTING POLICY APRIL 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A letter was issued to all families in June with further information regarding the updated report card &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/balmalloch\/uploads\/sites\/17137\/2026\/06\/30141830\/REPORT-CARD-LETTER-JUNE-2026.pdf\">REPORT CARD LETTER JUNE 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASSESSMENT AND REPORTING TO PARENTS Assessment of pupil progress is conducted in a variety of ways. Continual assessment by class teachers allows teachers to quickly identify any difficulties being experienced by the children and therefore amend the teaching programme. Flexibility in our grouping allows for transfer from group to group if an individual child is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/balmalloch\/assessment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Assessment &amp; Reporting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29460,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/balmalloch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/balmalloch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/balmalloch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/balmalloch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/balmalloch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/balmalloch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11827,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/balmalloch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/11827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/balmalloch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}