Progress, Assessment and Attainment

What is our philosophy around reporting progress and attainment?

At Stowmarket High School, we believe that every child has the ability to reach expected progress and beyond. It is the ‘beyond’ that we focus on, ensuring all students have tools, skills and drive to fulfil their potential. At Stowmarket High School our teachers employ a cycle that is a constant process.

As skilled practitioners, our teachers, on a day-to-day basis, use this cycle to construct a range of activities including, live marking, low stakes testing, questioning and knowledge retrieval, such as our ‘Do Now’ tasks at the beginning of each lesson. Each step in the cycle is essential for the teacher to observe students’ learning and review areas that need re-teaching to embed the knowledge at a deeper level.

Ultimately, we value every student as an individual, and as such, we want to ensure that each student’s progress is measured against their own ability, not against the cohort they are in. We want to ensure each student feels we are valuing their progress as a sense of achievement in line with the potential that is within them.

To do this we employ a reporting and assessment cycle where students have formal assessments throughout the year, depending on the amount of time each subject is taught. The results of these assessments are reported home three times a year, with live monitoring of the assessment outcomes available on Go4Schools. The data used from the assessments is used to improve the learning in the classroom, to then motivate students on areas of learning that needs embedding and to identify areas of weakness that need further exploration.

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