Monitoring pupil progress - how is this done and who is involved?
- Each child's progress is routinely monitored on a weekly basis by the class teacher.
- Each half term the teacher will also meet with colleagues during staff meeting time to look at the data to check that each child is making sufficient progress. Where a child is not making sufficient progress we will put in specific intervention strategies. In some cases this means accessing more adult learning hands on support. It could also mean undertaking a dedicated supplementary learning support package such as Sound Discovery (Literacy) or First Class in Number (Mathematics).
- Vulnerable pupils and children with special educational needs are monitored closely by the teaching team with support from the SENCO, Mrs Smith.
- Each teacher meets with the headteacher/deputy headteacher on a half termly basis for a Pupil Progress Meeting. During this meeting all pupil data is considered and scrutiny is given to what is working well and what could be improved upon.
- The school uses outside agency tools to also assess and monitor pupil progress.
- The governing body have an Assessment, Curriculum and Standards (ASC) remit and each half term the Headteacher and as appropriate, teaching staff , meet with the governors to share anonymous school data and discussion curriculum developments/review policies.
- A Local Authority Adviser also meets with the Headteacher and as appropriate teaching staff to review and challenge the school on its data, to celebrate good practice and to look at areas which could be further refined. A report is issued to the Headteacher and Chair of Governors. The Adviser may also be invited by the Headteacher to look at the work carried out in class, to view books, planning and assessments.
- Headteacher and teacher performance is appraised annually and targets given to enhance performance and help further develop provision. Pupil data and the quality of assessment data is a crucial aspect of the appraisal process.