Assessment & Reporting
Here at St Mary’s we place great value on students actively participating and benefiting from assessment and reporting.
A range of assessment tools including,National Standards, PAT, Running Records, GLoSS, JAM, OTJ’s, critical conversations, student led conferences and digital learning stories are used to create a picture of where the student’s learning is at.
All of these tools are shared with the student, used to inform teaching and learning and design next learning steps. These ‘Formative’ assessment tools and practices are identified as one of the most important and powerful ways to improve student learning.
In addition, leading the table of most powerful interventions to make a difference to student learning, is the opportunity for students to ‘self- report’ their progress.
St Mary’s uses ‘critical conversations’ where opportunity is provided for learners to report their progress to the teacher using evidence of their learning and an agreed assessment rubric or criteria for learning.
‘Critical conversations’ foster student agency, self regulation and intrinsic motivation for learning through the reflective process. This process actively engages learners through effective feedback, reflection and sharing criteria in a cyclic process. Students have a clear understanding of what they are learning and how they will achieve success.
‘Critical conversations’ will be captured and collated in digital Learning Stories, shared with parents, providing opportunity for parents to be actively involved in the assessment process.
