Outcomes at Woodlawn

 

Woodlawn School prides itself in being a ‘learning focused community where happiness is

derived from achievement and positive self-esteem’. We believe this will be accomplished

through close partnership with parents, pupils taking responsibility for their own learning and

highly motivated, highly skilled staff who have a clear understanding of how assessment

improves teaching and learning.

 

The purpose of Assessment

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Assessment should support teaching and learning by identifying what students already know and can do and how they might move forward. Assessment, therefore, should be evident in all lessons.

 

• For pupils, the purpose of assessment is to empower them to become better learners by understanding their own attainment and how to progress and achieve beyond it through next steps to learning. 

• For teachers, assessment should develop an understanding of the individual needs of pupils so that target setting is meaningful and informs planning, teaching and learning for progress.

• For other staff and governors, assessment information will inform an understanding of the current and potential pupil outcomes.

• For parents/carers, assessment information will both inform them of their child or young person’s attainment and allow them to understand how their child/young person may maximise achievement.

 

Types of Assessment

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Woodlawn acknowledges that assessment will be undertaken in a range of different ways for different subjects. However, all assessment should embrace the principles as outlined in this policy and, therefore, assessment will be evident in every lesson. This may include:

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• The Annual Review process – a child or young person’s EHCP

• Oral feedback

• Self-assessment

• Peer-assessment

• Group/whole class assessment

• Written marking of work

• Teacher/pupil questioning

• Assessment of exemplar work of different grades/levels

• Use of assessment criteria and examination materials

• Photographs and videoing – Seesaw

• B Squared and PLP’s.

• Witness statements/comments

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The Leadership and Management of Assessment

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The Senior Leadership Team (SLT) aims to use assessment procedures and processes to drive whole school improvement by:

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• Ensuring that all teachers know what is expected of them in assessing pupils.

• All pupils have been grouped by SLT according to their learning needs in one of the three cohorts.

• Targets set from teacher knowledge of the pupils and their learning in previous years to ensure challenge and achievement, with the expectation that at least 90% of each cohort meets this target. Where pupils do not meet the annual target set, we will continue to consider interventions and case studies to explain their learning needs.

• Using the end of year data from year 6 the pupil data will be collated and used to inform the qualification route being followed. Pupils’ data will be used to assess whether on track to meet expectations of the course identified or not on track.

• B squared Data will be used to identify most appropriate course route for pupils in KS3,4,5.​​​​​