On this page, you will find information about:

• Our vision and values for assessment;
• Assessment codes used at St Peter's;
• Our curriculum and how we assess it.

Underpinned by our school values and rooted in EEF (Education Endowment Foundation) guides to best practice, we believe in the following principles for assessment and feedback.  

• Celebration: Recognising hard work and effort, motivating and supporting children to achieve their very best, whilst building self-esteem.  Creating an environment where learners feel encouraged to welcome feedback and where mistakes are valued as an approach to learning.

• Collaboration: Working as a community to develop learning that lasts through peer and teacher feedback, based on the principles of kind, specific and helpful.  Scheduling time for children to respond to their feedback and opportunities for adults to reflect on and refine their practice, in our mission to fulfil the needs of every child.

• Respect: Knowing and valuing each child, ensuring that feedback is delivered in a timely manner, appropriate to individual needs and collective understanding of the whole class.  Believing in the capabilities of every child - providing work that is pitched accurately and supporting them to flourish.

• Responsibility: Ensuring that every child is supported to ‘learn for life’, fully aware of their learning goals, immersed in the standard to aim for and encouraged to be their best self.  Working as a school community to develop our practice – through careful and honest use of assessment to inform teaching and enhance learning. 

• Service:  Upholding the principles of high quality inclusive teaching in order to meet the needs of every child, in every subject.  Holding high expectations for every child when planning, delivering and assessing learning across the curriculum – using effective methods to check for understanding and respond to misconceptions.

• Truth: Ensuring that feedback moves learning forward, targeting specific learning gaps, as appropriate for every child, across the subjects.  Enabling children to articulate their strengths and next steps, while supporting parents to understand the achievement, attainment and heartfelt aspirations for their child.

Our assessment strategy for the core areas of the curriculum works on a principle of splitting the end-of-year expectations laid down by the 2014 National Curriculum into categories- based on whether a child is working towards these expectations, or has reached them (the 'expected' standard for each age group) and has a mastery of all the skills they have learnt, in different contexts.

Children who are above the expected level then work to add greater depth and breadth to their learning. The system is not designed to be a race to reach the next levels as fast as possible, but to provide opportunities to embed and explore knowledge, skills and understanding of each area taught.

We are fully aware that every child is different, and that all work at different rates. Children who are not yet considered to be working towards the expectations of their own year group are carefully monitored and supported to help them make as much progress as they are able to, with the aim of catching up over time.

To read our Assessment and Feedback Policy, please follow this link.

Our curriculum ethos is inspired by our heartfelt vision of ‘Life in all its Fullness’ for all members of our community. We strive to plan and provide curriculum opportunities that instil a love of learning and enable all children to learn for life.  For more information about our curriculum, including progression of knowledge and skills, please click on the link below.

Assessment is used to design and adapt the curriculum, in response to children's needs.  At St. Peter's, we offer a wide range of support, including small group work, pre-teaching opportunities and delivery of social and academic interventions. 

Our interventions include:

• Read Write Inc Phonics Programme
• Read Write Inc Fast Track Tutoring
• Project X Code (Reading)
• Alphabet Arc (Reading)
• Nessy (Spellings)
• Talk 4 Number (Maths)
• Precision Teaching
• Humphrey The Dog Mentor
• ELSA (Emotional Literacy Support Assistant)
• TALA (Therapeutic Active Listening Assistant)

For further information about our provision in school, including our principles of High Quality Inclusive Teaching, please visit the SEND page of our website.