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We welcome you to the new academic year 2024-2025. A special welcome to our new families. Please take the time to look through the useful information on our website, particularly the class pages and curriculum tabs.

Assessment

Observation, assessment and planning
Formative assessment is an integral part of teaching young children.
 
Children’s development and learning is best supported by starting from the child, and then matching interactions and experiences to meet the child’s needs.
 
The observation, assessment and planning (OAP) cycle describes what is frequently called assessment for learning, or formative assessment. On-going formative assessment is at the heart of effective early years practice. It involves observation of children as a part of all activity, which is most often held in the mind of the practitioner but may sometimes be documented, using this rich information to understand how a child is developing, learning and growing, and then planning the next steps for the adults in supporting and extending the learning.

At the end of the year children are assessed against 17 early learning goals. They will be assessed as having either 'met' or 'not met' the goals. 

Parents will be given this information at the end of the year in school reports.
Reception Baseline Assessment
Every child in reception must participate in the Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) within the first 6 weeks of starting school.  The purpose of the assessment is to provide the starting point for a progress measure that will help parents understand how well schools support their pupils to progress between reception and year 6. 
 
Please refer to the RBA leaflet for more informaton.