Assessment

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Assessment in Nursery and Reception (Early Years Foundation Stage)

Assessment in the Early Years is essential to children's progress and development. It helps to shape our curriculum and is one of seven key features of effective practice.

At Wimborne St Giles First School and Nursery we use 'Development Matters' to support our assessment of children in the Early Years.

Development Matters is broken down into different aged bands: Birth to three years old, three and four years old and children in Reception.

For each band there is guidance for what children will be learning and examples of how to support this; for example- three and four year olds will be learning to Sing a large repertoire of songs and an example of this is to consider which core books, songs and rhymes you want children to become familiar with and grow to love.

Practitioners in Ash and Saplings assess children's progress using termly check points- please see these below,

Assessment is ongoing throughout the EYFS and practioners are required to submit statutory assessments including a '2 year check', Reception Baseline and the EYFS Profile Assessment.

The Government doesn’t specify what form the assessment should take, but generally, it takes place through teacher observation of children’s learning and development as they take part in everyday activities, and planned observations, where teachers spend time on a specific task with an individual child or small group. Families can also contribute to the Profile, for example by adding comments to the child’s Learning Journal on ClassDojo– a record of achievement compiled by the school, comprising photos, pieces of work, observations about the child’s development, and so on. Click the links below for more information about this.

Ash and Sapling checkpoints

Development Matters

Early Years foundation stage handbook

2 Year Check

2 Year Check letter.pdf

Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA)

Assessment in Years 1 -4

We follow the Chris Quigley Essentials Curriculum and are using a system called the depth of learning to track progress. This system answers two questions about your child's progress:

1. Will your child meet or master end of key stage expectations?

2. How well has your child progressed from their starting point?

Please read this document which provides you with a clear understanding of the above.

You can read the full Assessment policy here.