Moderation - Speaking And Listening

[Guest]

Found out this week we are being moderated in Feb on speaking and listening profile points. Maybe it's just me but I feel that this is quite a difficult area to provide evidence for as opposed to writing or creative, etc where children actually produce things to provide evidence. Obviously am doing the usual - post it's, formal observations (1 per child per term) and annotated photos but is there anything I'm missing?

[Guest]

I work in a school with high % of EAL kids we record them quite a lot. You only need to set up a microphone and these can tie in with your obs

[Marion]

I'm not sure why you are being moderated on Speaking and Listening as the focus for the year is PSE and KUW.

We use tapes and video evidence but observations are fine for Speaking and Listening.

[Guest]

we have just had our moderator in for a morning to have a look round,when she comes back to do the moderating in march ours is also K.U.W. and P.S.E.

[Guest]

I have just checked my letter and it says we are being moderated in PSE (all scales) and the Language for Communication strand of CLL sometime during March. Not sure why this is different to everybody else's as you seem to be on year 4 of the profile and doing PSE (all scales) and KUW. However the table at the back of the profile does say it is only a guideline as to how the visits could be managed so can only presume that my LEA (Oldham) has decided a different focus this year.

Anyone out there from Oldham to clarify??????

[Marion]

It should be a national focus with all LAs following the same guidance.

[Guest]

Ours is PSE (Dispositions and attititudes plus Emotional Development strands) and K + U of World, I had a minor panic when I spotted a different focus mentioned.....What evidence can you supply for attitudes though, will observations do?

[Marion]

Think attitudes is a very subjective assessment and certainly observations are OK.

[catma]

Some borough moderation teams do vary their focus depending on local needs - if you look in the handbook it only says this is how moderators "could" do it and also that moderators should be prepared to deal with any issues arising in relation to any of the scales.

[Guest]

Thanks Catma - was beginning to panic then!