Guest Posted October 24, 2005 Posted October 24, 2005 Help! we take children in to our Year R from a wide variety of pre-schools in our area. does anyone have any ideas for good practice in assessment to provide a baseline to assess value-added in the FSP at the end of the year? or as the big O put it 'What proof have you tha t the children are where you think they are - and how can you predict their end of KS1 results? sorry if I'm going over old ground but I've just joined you ACB
Guest Posted October 24, 2005 Posted October 24, 2005 Welcome, ACB! It's probably best to take a look at the first three profile points in each area, as these are generally in line with the stepping stones. I do a quick check for things like writing own name, counting, colour knowledge, book knowledge and phonic knowledge.
Guest Posted October 24, 2005 Posted October 24, 2005 Help! we take children in to our Year R from a wide variety of pre-schools in our area. does anyone have any ideas for good practice in assessment to provide a baseline to assess value-added in the FSP at the end of the year? or as the big O put it 'What proof have you tha t the children are where you think they are - and how can you predict their end of KS1 results? sorry if I'm going over old ground but I've just joined you ACB 41291[/snapback] Hi, You could use something similar to this document that I have attached. I use a different one that the AST in my school devised. I'll ask her if I can post it on this website and if she agrees I'll forward it to you. I hope you find this first document useful. Boogie x
Guest Posted October 24, 2005 Posted October 24, 2005 Help! we take children in to our Year R from a wide variety of pre-schools in our area. does anyone have any ideas for good practice in assessment to provide a baseline to assess value-added in the FSP at the end of the year? or as the big O put it 'What proof have you tha t the children are where you think they are - and how can you predict their end of KS1 results? sorry if I'm going over old ground but I've just joined you ACB 41291[/snapback] Hi, You could use something similar to this document that I have attached. I use a different one that the AST in my school devised. I'll ask her if I can post it on this website and if she agrees I'll forward it to you. I hope you find this first document useful. Boogie x towards_stepping_stones.doc
Susan Posted October 24, 2005 Posted October 24, 2005 hi ACB and welcome! I think this is the million dollar question really!! Boogie's document looks really useful. Thanks for that Boogie and If you can post the other one I'm sure it will be very useful and interesting too.
Sue R Posted October 24, 2005 Posted October 24, 2005 Hi ACB, look forward to getting to know you! Sue
Guest Posted October 25, 2005 Posted October 25, 2005 Hope you don't mind but I've downloaded the document Boogie. It's very clear and broken down into easy to understand/assess chunks. Well done . Harricroft
Guest Posted October 25, 2005 Posted October 25, 2005 Hi, You could use something similar to this document that I have attached. I use a different one that the AST in my school devised. I'll ask her if I can post it on this website and if she agrees I'll forward it to you. I hope you find this first document useful. Boogie x 41296[/snapback] Thanks everyone great to find help and support First doc looks very interesting and would appreciate seeing next one if your AST allows it Thank you ACB
surfer Posted October 25, 2005 Posted October 25, 2005 Hi there, Birmingham LEA Assessment unit have produced a document calledFirst Links which links the stepping stones to the profile. It's very similar to the one that Boogie has posted. You can get copies but they are £20.00! Sue
Guest Posted October 25, 2005 Posted October 25, 2005 Hi, Great news everyone!!!!! The AST in my school has agreed to let me post her grid on this site. I find it really useful because I simply highlight it on entry to F1 and then at the end of each term through to the end of F2. This then feeds into the final profile. Our AST has also linked this grid to level one so that it continues into Year one or it is used for more able children in Foundation. (We are in a very well off area so the children tend to progress quite quickly!!) The only drawback is you will have to wait until next week when I get back to school. (Sorry!) I promise I'll post it as soon as I get a copy on disk! Have a fab holiday. Please everyone keep sharing your good practice. After all that is how we all develop and learn to make our settings better for our children!! Boogie x
Guest Posted October 25, 2005 Posted October 25, 2005 Hi, Great news everyone!!!!! The AST in my school has agreed to let me post her grid on this site. I find it really useful because I simply highlight it on entry to F1 and then at the end of each term through to the end of F2. This then feeds into the final profile. Our AST has also linked this grid to level one so that it continues into Year one or it is used for more able children in Foundation. (We are in a very well off area so the children tend to progress quite quickly!!) The only drawback is you will have to wait until next week when I get back to school. (Sorry!) I promise I'll post it as soon as I get a copy on disk! Have a fab holiday. Please everyone keep sharing your good practice. After all that is how we all develop and learn to make our settings better for our children!! Boogie x 41396[/snapback]
Guest Posted October 25, 2005 Posted October 25, 2005 Thanks Boogie and thank your AST, please Enjoy the holiday (what's left of it!) and look forward to your posting next week ACB
Guest Posted November 3, 2005 Posted November 3, 2005 (edited) Hi everyone, As promised, here are the assessment grids that we use at our school. Lucy has very kindly said I could post them for you. We highlight them each term in Foundation and then this information is fed into the final profile. I hope you find it useful. Some of it has links with Key Stage One, but I'm afraid we can't find a saved copy of them all. Boogie x Maths.doc K_U.doc HighlightingrecordprofilePersonalSocial_2_.doc HighlightingrecordprofileMaths_2_.doc HighlightingrecordprofileLanguage_2_.doc HighlightingrecordprofileKnowledgePhysicalCreative_2_.doc FOUNDATION_PERSONALSOCIAL.doc FOUNDATION_CLL.doc Edited November 3, 2005 by Guest
Susan Posted November 3, 2005 Posted November 3, 2005 they look really useful, thanks, Boogie and many thanks to your AST too.
Guest Posted November 3, 2005 Posted November 3, 2005 Hi everyone, As promised, here are the assessment grids that we use at our school. Lucy has very kindly said I could post them for you. We highlight them each term in Foundation and then this information is fed into the final profile. I hope you find it useful. Some of it has links with Key Stage One, but I'm afraid we can't find a saved copy of them all. Boogie x 42132[/snapback] Hi Boogie Thanks very much to you - and Lucy! They look very useful ACB
Guest Posted November 6, 2005 Posted November 6, 2005 Hi Boogie Thanks from me too. My HT wants us to be able to find some way of looking at value added. After the holiday when she'd seen some friends in Devon she said they were talking about PIPS to evaluate children's progress during reception and that it was superior to updating stepping stones or the profile with colour coded highlights over the year. Had I heard of it and that it wasn't anything to do with Progression in Phonics. Any thoughts anyone? I don't think I've read anything here. Angela
Susan Posted November 7, 2005 Posted November 7, 2005 HI Angela, there have been several discussions about PIPS, the assessment tool. I'll try a search and put in some links if I can find them!!
Guest Posted November 7, 2005 Posted November 7, 2005 Am reading this thread with great interest. As a Reception teacher, I get a lot of information from the nursery that includes highlighted individual profile booklets etc. Is this the general 'thing' that nureries send up to Rec? Thanks
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