One of my targets to achieve whilst on my second school placement is to understand how to assess in the early years, as I know that it is a much different process than that in Year 2 where there are books to assess […]

There are a range of statutory assessments both in primary and secondary schools that aim to help support children so that they leave primary school with the best footing possible. These assessments are put in place in order for teachers to raise their […]

On 7/2/19, the Adult Initiated task for the children to complete was based on the concept of one more and one less. After having the task modelled on the carpet, they were given a differentiated worksheet based on my prior knowledge of their […]

We recently had summative assessment training. The role of the Teaching Standards Agency: The teaching standards agency create the documents focused on education from the foundation stage to KS2 (such as the National Curriculum). They also provide information for schools about teacher assessment […]

This week I was teaching Year 5 maths looking at measurements and converting between different units. I wanted to make my sequence of lessons on this topic very practical and concrete so that children had the chance to build and solidify their concepts […]

In the morning, the training was focussed on music. This was really useful because I was nervous about teaching music as I do not teach any at school currently. The children in my class have ukulele lessons from a teacher brought into school […]

On 25.01.19 we had a training day which had a focus of summative and formative assessment. We started the day with ensuring we had an understanding of all of the terminology around assessment. This included PAG – Prior attainment group, summative – end […]