PERFORMANCE AT SEVEN STARS
‘AMBITION FOR ALL’
At Seven Stars school we have high ambitions for the children in our school and our curriculum is designed for each child to perform well in all areas of the curriculum. We want all children to make good progress from their various starting point acknowledging that our children are not just numbers but people who are all different, with different skills, abilities, needs and backgrounds.
We are a very inclusive school with higher than average SEND intake but every child is supported to make the best progress from their starting point and we are very proud of all our children in their attitude to learning and desire to do well.
Despite the sometimes forgotten but still ongoing challenges of the impact of the recent pandemic we are pleased to say that our children are continuing to make steady progress in their learning and achieve success year on year.
Over the academic year we gather information about the academic performance of our pupils in several ways and these include:
- daily ongoing ‘formative’ assessments (through such strategies as ‘live’ marking, whole class feedback grids, effective questioning, hearing children read, times-tables speed grids retrieval practice questions, PE ‘passport’ App, etc)
- termly assessments using more standardised means in English and Maths (using tools such as Testbase) as well as teacher assessments against national curriculum expectations (using Lancashire ‘KLIPs’) for all Foundation Subjects (entered on Lancashire Pupil Tracker with follow-up pupil progress meetings and use of PIVATs for SEN pupils) and phonics assessments.
- Over the year our more formal assessment events are listed below:
- September to October: baseline assessments in Reception (and Nursery)
- May: Year 6 (end of Key Stage 2) tests in Reading, Maths and SPAG (Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation)
- June: Phonics screening check for Year 1
- June: Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check
- June/July: EYFS profile (assessments against the Early Learning Goals) for Reception
- June/July: Key Stage 2 (Year 6) Writing Assessments
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