Impact
‘…pupils benefit from a highly personalised and tailored curriculum, which meets their specific pastoral and academic needs successfully.’ OfSTED 2024
The curriculum is monitored and evaluated to ensure that it is working, through a rigorous quality assurance process. Each pupil’s progress is discussed as part of the teacher’s appraisal/performance management. Pupil progress meetings take place with the members of the SLT at least twice a year and include discussion around assessments, targets, work scrutiny and observation/pupil voice.
School uses a ‘basket of indicators’ to capture the full picture of pupil progress. The range of measures and assessments used are different across the key stages in school. These measures include:
Whole school learning walks
Subject specific learning walks
Planning moderation meetings
Subject specific moderation meetings
Subject specific book scrutinies
Governor learning walks
Lesson observations
Progress data analysis
External moderation e.g. SEND review, Exam board verification visits
Raising Achievement Plan interim reviews
Pupil progress meetings
Action Research, a model of teachers working together in light of educational studies and questioning best practice
Assessment
Assessment is built explicitly into lesson planning, with a strong focus on assessment for learning strategies that involve pupils in self and peer assessment. Learning will be reviewed regularly during lessons and across sequences of lessons. The curriculum planning will ensure that pupil progress evidences a deepening understanding and mastery of skills and knowledge, rather than loving on to work of a greater difficulty. (Refer to Assessment Policy)