Sims tracking progress document

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Hi,

 

We recently received a school comms containing a tracking progress document for Sims, i have just started to fill it in with data from pre-school but I am finding it a bit tricky as the pre-schools have been assessing the children within the age and stage bands from the old development matters. As we (Year R) are going to be filling in the next assessments around about december there is going to be a huge difference between our judgements and pre-school's judgements as some of the new development matters criteria is so different! So it will result in the progress going backwards rather than forwards in some cases.

 

I have spoken to my Head and I am going to start to look at seeing how I can alter the data from the old DM to fit in with the age/stage bands in the new DM. Anyone else having this problem??!!

 

I hope I've made sense, sorry if i havent!!

 

Kerry

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We have had something similar. I had to reassess our children using my initial obs and the data from the preschool settings so it was against the new DM statements. Sorry I don't have a different answer.

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We have had something similar. I had to reassess our children using my initial obs and the data from the preschool settings so it was against the new DM statements. Sorry I don't have a different answer.

 

 

I have had the new SIMS add-on too. Have made a judgement based on the pre-school old DM-based Transition Record and my own observations of the child and made a 'best fit' decision for the new DM 30-50m areas. Not easy when referring to different aspects!