Assessment strategies, efficient data use and accurate target setting to drive individual and collective progress across your school
Chair’s introduction and welcome: Understanding the current assessment journey of a child from age 5 -18 and what needs to change.
Gain a national picture of the current state of assessment and the use of data in schools, understand what is working, what isn’t and what changes are on the horizon.
The future of the primary assessment system in England: Clarify the consultation outcomes and how this will impact day-to-day practice in your primary school.
Reformed GCSEs: Lessons learned from the recent English and Maths GCSE results and how best to manage the increased demands and challenges within a linear structure.
Maintaining consistent, thorough assessment for all year groups, not just year 2 and 6 and clarify expectations of progression.
Defining a mastery approach in the primary classroom: Practical examples to ensure mastery through cross curricula learning.
Target setting and measuring student progress in KS3: Strategies to accelerate progress in KS3 on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
How to implement a mastery approach into every lesson and support deeper learning for all students across your secondary school.
Transition from primary to secondary: Simple strategies from multiple case studies to avoid a KS3 attainment dip, build relationships between primary and secondary and respond to Ofsted’s comments on “the wasted years”.
How to successfully reorganise your primary curriculum structure to cope with the challenges of increasing standards.
How to use data as an indicator, not an end product: Ensure all staff across your primary school understand how data can shape, inform and improve classroom practice,
Develop a clear vision and action plan to accelerate, measure and demonstrate the progress of your secondary school’s disadvantaged pupils.
How to use data as an indicator, not an end product: Ensure all staff across your secondary school understand how data can shape, inform and improve classroom practice.
Develop a clear vision and action plan to accelerate, measure and demonstrate the progress of your primary school’s disadvantaged pupils.
Gain an insight into how comparative judgement works in practice and how you can use it to improve the reliability of assessment across your school,
How progress outliers can affect your progress 8 score and steps you can take to manage this for stakeholders and inspectors.
How to successfully reorganise your secondary curriculum structure and data collection approach to cope with the challenges of increasing standards.
