At Avanti Grange School, we understand that learning is a shared experience and as such, our assessment approach reflects this. We champion the view that assessment as its core informs, supports, refines and celebrates the progress of learners as unique individuals on their individual learning journeys.

 

Assessment helps all learners have the courage to improve and to reflect on our strengths and next steps. Assessment helps our personal growth by defining the path to educational excellence. It teaches us that our capacity to improve is unlimited.

 

Assessment is at the heart of teaching and learning, and can take many forms. Informal assessment activities, such as quizzes, written tasks, modelling or computer based tasks, support learning and provide valuable feedback to students as they move from a novice in the area studied to applying their knowledge more independently. 

 

Our formal assessments, Pupil Insight Points, take place twice a year and allow the students to reflect on the progress they have made and plan their next steps in their learning journey with guidance from their teachers.  

 

The aims of assessments are to enable:

 

• Teachers and other staff to identify what learning students have or have not achieved, give ongoing support to enable all students to make progress

• Student metacognitive skills including their capacity to learn how to learn

• Students to have an active role in identifying their own learning needs and know how to improve their work

• Parents to support their child’s learning

• Leaders to evaluate and continually improve on the quality of provision for all students

 

Avanti Grange Secondary School will use Arbor Summative Tracking Tool to record assessment results at key points throughout the year to measure student’s overall knowledge and progress. This system helps us to moderate our assessments and ensure that we are constantly comparing and improving how we assess. Arbor, forms part of a range of tools we at Avanti Grange use. Please see our Assessment Policy for more detail on how we use assessment on a daily basis.