Sentences with phrase «primary school assessment»

Education secretary Justine Greening has this morning announced a consultation on a raft of primary school assessment changes — including scrapping SATs for seven - year - olds.

And primary school assessment was beset with difficulties after a number of papers were accidentally published and teachers complained of a lack of information on test levels.

Russell Hobby, the NAHT's general secretary, said serious mistakes had been made in the implementation of primary school assessments this year, including frequent changes as well as contradictory guidelines.

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«By autumn this year, schools will have introduced new safeguarding advice in staff recruitment, ensured their practices comply with new freedom of information policies, made decisions on new pay policies, adopted new codes of practice for special needs pupils, introduced an entirely new curriculum, redesigned assessment and ensured every primary school is ready to offer free school meals to infants regardless of existing kitchen facilities,» he said.

Party leader David Cameron is set to call for existing procedures to evaluate primary school pupils to be changed from teacher - based assessment to external testing.

The NASUWT has submitted its response to the DfE's consultation on its proposals to reform the system of assessment in primary schools in England

Commenting on the statement by the Secretary of State for Education setting out proposals to reform the system of primary assessment, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «It is important to recognise, and as the NASUWT has stated consistently, that many of the concerns expressed about statutory primary assessment are the direct result of their use in the current high stakes school accountability regime.

Commenting on the primary school performance tables released today by the DfE, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The NASUWT has consistently highlighted to Government the serious problems with the reforms to primary assessment, particularly the impossibility of comparing data for last year with previous years due to changes introduced to the testing system.

NASUWT has commented on the publication of the comparative study, commissioned by the DfE, on baseline assessments used by primary schools.

This new analysis finds that some groups, including those with a first language of Pashto, Panjabi, Turkish, Portuguese, Czech and Slovak, perform below national standards in primary assessments — despite having entered the English school system at an early stage as infants.

Key recommendations for government in the report that won API support were: for play to be embedded within a Whole Child Strategy under the aegis of a Cabinet Minister for Children responsible for cross ‑ departmental roll out and co-ordination; for government to require local authorities to prepare children and young people's plans including strategies to address overweight and obesity with its physical, mental and emotional consequences; for funding for play to be ring - fenced within local authority budgets; to address barriers to outdoor play for children of all ages and abilities; to extend the Sport England Primary Spaces and Sport Premium programmes to all schools with a broader scope to incorporate a wide variety of physical literacy activities including play; to communicate through public information campaigns to parents and families the value of active outdoor play, including risk or benefit assessment; and to improve public sector procurement practice for public play provision.

The survey also found that 51 per cent of primary school teachers, and 49 per cent of secondary school teachers need training in e-safety issues, while 51 per cent of primary school teachers are seen to need training in using assessment solutions.

For primary schools, the removal of assessment levels and a «freedom» to assess and track their students» progress using whatever method they wish, combined with the arrival of the new curriculum, adds to the demand on teachers» time.

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The Education Select Committee has launched an inquiry into assessment in primary schools to scrutinise how recent reforms have affected teaching and learning.

Finally, Beccie Hawes, head of service at Rushall Primary School, looks at «Supporting effective teaching and assessment of reading in your Reception classrooms».

Break out sessions cover the following areas — promoting positive behaviour; teaching students with SEND: developing their transferable skills; supporting students with English as an Additional Language; grammar, punctuation and spelling at Key Stage 2; international pedagogy - what we can learn from high performing jurisdictions; keeping it healthy and safe when covering science lessons; assessment and feedback; supporting teachers supporting students; the changing landscape of primary education and what it means for primary school teachers.

Hear how this primary and secondary school have faced the removal of levels challenge and their victories so far, including the incorporation of the key elements of a good assessment system and translating these into the classroom, setting appropriate targets, tracking and effectively measuring pupil progress post levels, and demonstrating progress for Ofsted governors.

Following this assessment, the county council worked with Simon Balle School, a secondary academy, to bring forward proposals for a primary phase on its existing site.

This programme explains what is meant by formative assessment and how it is applied in a Hertfordshire primary school.

Too often, high - stakes tests are used as the primary assessment tool for students, even for teachers and schools, Nellen says.

Further promises by the party include introducing free school meals for all primary school children; abandoning plans to reintroduce baseline assessments; and extending schools - based counselling to improve children's mental health.

An inspection involves an assessment of a school's performance on academic and other measured outcomes, followed by an onsite visit to the school, typically lasting one or two days for primary schools.

I created these as there appears to be a gap in history assessment at the minute in primary schools since the move to assessment without levels.

The news comes after a period of particularly strained relations between the two groups, regarding forced adademisation, primary assessment, teacher shortages and squeezed school budgets.

The need for assessment solution training is expected to be significant across primary schools in 2015, with 58 per cent of teachers identified as in need of training.»

For the 14 per cent of primary schools indicating more spending on ICT than planned, the focus is most likely to be on assessment systems.

The Committee is currently inviting written submissions addressing the following topics: - The purpose of primary assessment and how well the current system meets this - The advantages and disadvantages of assessing pupils at primary school - How the most recent reforms have affected teaching and learning - Logistics and delivery of the SATs - Training and support needed for teachers and senior leaders to design and implement effective assessment systems - Next steps following the most recent reforms to primary assessment

According to the DfE, the activity - based assessment will enable better, fairer measures of primary school performance by capturing the progress teachers help pupils to make from the first weeks of reception all the way through to the end of year 6.

He also said that there will be no new tests or assessment for primary schools and no changes to the national curriculum, GCSE or A levels for the remainder of this parliament, beyond those already announced.

At Bill Quay Primary School, the technology allows people to upload their own self - assessment contributions, saving time and improving access to information such as Ofsted reports, policy documents, quality assurance processes and guidelines, minutes of meetings, school performance data and other documentSchool, the technology allows people to upload their own self - assessment contributions, saving time and improving access to information such as Ofsted reports, policy documents, quality assurance processes and guidelines, minutes of meetings, school performance data and other documentschool performance data and other documentation.

A careful assessment of what language is being used to describe such concepts should also be undertaken — «risky» does not have the same meaning as «dangerous», yet research shows primary school children equate the two, while teenagers associate risk with anti-authoritarian behaviour.

Holly, Numeracy Coordinator at Westgarth Primary School, and Bree, Grade 3 - 6 Coordinator at Carwatha College P - 12, are both passionate about student feedback and assessment for teaching.

Paul Whiteman, general secretary of the NAHT heads» union, said: «The assessment and accountability regime in primary schools is not working for parents, schools or children at the moment, but we have made decent progress and there is more to come.

The rationale for the assessment is to make accountability of primary schools fairer.

Although the model was originally designed for older - than - traditional - age college and graduate students, Fann believes «there's nothing stopping» the principles of competency - based education and assessment from working in primary and secondary schools.

«The impact primary assessment is having on children's mental health and well - being, alongside what it is squeezing out of the school day, makes it irresponsible not to listen to teachers» concerns.

First, primary and middle school teacher Saroj Singh comments on Caplan's explanation: «The students see the value in developing assessment criteria.

The promise of the Common Core included not just multi-state standards but also multi-state assessments, assessments in more - or-less every grade with results at every level of the K - 12 system: The child (though not by name, except to parents and teachers), the school (and, if desired, individual classrooms and, by implication, teachers), the district, the state, and the nation, with crosswalks (in pertinent grades) to international measures as well as to NAEP, the primary external «auditor» of state and national achievement.

Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said: «Primary schools are already under immense pressure from having to introduce an untried baseline assessment scheme this year alongside a new primary curriculum, and new tests at the end of key sPrimary schools are already under immense pressure from having to introduce an untried baseline assessment scheme this year alongside a new primary curriculum, and new tests at the end of key sprimary curriculum, and new tests at the end of key stage 2.

Assessment for Teaching is a comprehensive and practical introduction to assessment and learning in primary and secondary school settings.

This edited volume of essays brings together perspectives from all the significant participants involved in assessment in the primary school: teachers, head teachers, LEA advisors, inspectors, pupils, academics and researchers.

Simon Kidwell, from Hartford Manor Primary School in Cheshire, asked her to allow teachers to «make a judgement that reflects a child's true ability» and base their assessment on «best fit».

A previous headteacher himself, Keith had worked in primary education for over 40 years before becoming a consultant on school improvement — specialising in teaching and learning, curriculum, assessment and inspection issues.

The products, curriculum, and assessment procedures that we have used since 2007 are now part of everyday practice across the primary schools we are working with.»

What's more, 51 per cent of primary school teachers are seen to need training in using assessment solutions.

Justine Greening's 18 months at the Department for Education mean that she had had one of the shortest tenures in the role, despite leaving a legacy of significant changes to school funding and primary assessment.

She adds that the AEDC data is only one snapshot, staff also use PIPS (Performance Indicators in Primary Schools) data and daily formative assessments to inform teaching practice and learning needs.

The Key Stage 2 assessment data, released 10 December, showed that progress had been made across England's primary schools, with 90,000 more pupils leaving school with the expected standard of reading, writing and maths skills needed to succeed at secondary school.

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