Assessment at Harmans Water Primary School
At HWPS we use assessment procedures, as part of our practice to make sure children are able to achieve their potential. To do this we use formative assessments during everyday teaching and Summative assessments at intervals throughout the year. These assessments help establish children’s abilities and current strengths, as well as their next learning steps.
Our teachers use assessment information to inform their planning, ensuring lessons continually build on children’s strengths and address areas for development improving the quality of teaching and learning.
Years 2 and 6 will take the SATS in May and the rest of the school uses assessments from NFER to asses Reading, Spelling, Grammar and Maths at 2 intervals throughout the year. Children in Year 1 will complete the phonics screening assessments and Year 4 will take the national Times Table assessment.
Teacher assessments are made regularly and recorded using the colours. The table below demonstrates how we have linked the colours to age related expectations:
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Working at greater depth within age related expectations |
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Working at age related expectations |
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Working towards age related expectations – not yet secure |
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Working below age related expectations |
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Working well below age related expectations |
At Harmans Water, we use the principles of the SOLO Taxonomy to differentiate work and learning outcomes within age related expectations. SOLO stands for Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes.
There are five levels in the SOLO taxonomy:
- Extended abstract
- Relational
- Multi structural
- Uni structural
- Pre structural
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In school, we have matched each strand of SOLO to a colour and our staff and children use the language of both SOLO Taxonomy and the colours. Learning targets beginning with 'I can', are linked to age-related expectations and connected to the strands of SOLO. This enables children and teachers to understand what has been learned and what the next steps will be.
Here are some examples of SOLO rubrics that we have used in lessons recently: