Assessment
Our Approach Assessment
At Queen’s Croft, our assessment framework is carefully designed to reflect and support our bespoke, spiral curriculum. Pupils follow one of three pathways—Explore, Extend or Excel—matched to their needs and developmental stage. We assess pupil progress using clearly defined curriculum goals and achievement statements, recorded termly on Evidence for Learning. Each statement is graded as Emerging, Developing or Secure, enabling us to track progress over time and plan timely interventions. Assessment is holistic, inclusive of academic and personal development, and supports pupils in making meaningful progress towards accredited outcomes. Full details can be found in our Curriculum and Assessment Overview below.
Curriculum and Assessment Overview
Leaders and teachers use a range of formative and summative assessment strategies to check that students have learned the planned curriculum. The types of assessment strategies used may vary slightly according to students’ cognitive stages of learning and the specific subject matter:
- Observations
- Discussions
- Interactions
- End of topic low stakes quiz
- End of year exams
- Marking and feedback
- Effective questioning.
- Recall activities
- Self-assessment
- Peer assessment
- Phonics assessments
- Engagement model
- EHCP outcomes
- Specialist assessments e.g. OT, SALT
We us ‘Evidence for Learning’ to capture and record pupil progress. This is an observation, assessment and reporting app. It shows the impact of student’s learning by capturing learners' experiences, monitoring their development, and creating reports to share their progress.
Use the website link below to find out more about ‘Evidence for Learning’:
