Curriculum Impact

Formative assessment is used daily by teachers to inform planning and establish any short-term interventions required. This helps us provide the best possible support for all of our pupils, including the more able. Summative assessment is carried out termly to inform longer-term planning and identify any interventions required. Again, this includes our for more able. Proof of progress (POP) tasks are carried out at the end of units of work in foundation subjects to allow children the opportunity to demonstrate acquired knowledge and perform skills using this knowledge.

Assessment milestones outline what children are expected to have learned by the end of year 2, year 4 and year 6 in all subject areas. Children carry out carefully designed tasks at these key points to enable teachers to assess these milestones. A tracking system is used to assess key objectives in the core subjects on a termly basis.

Assessment information is analysed by Subject Leads, the Assessment Lead and Headteacher as part of our monitoring cycle. Pupil progress reviews are conducted termly (summative) with teachers, subject leads and assessment leads. This process provides the SLT and Governors with an accurate and comprehensive understanding of the quality of education in our school.

Assessment data, along with findings from monitoring activities including book looks, work samples, learning walks and observations and pupil and parent voice, are reviewed by SLT and used to inform curriculum development or any necessary adaptions to provision.

Children leave Holy Cross Catholic Primary School with detailed knowledge and skills across the curriculum and, as a result, achieve well. Learners are ready for the next stage of education and recognise that nothing is ever impossible. They read widely and often, with fluency and comprehension.

Our children feel safe. They take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings and grow.