In this section you will identify the growth points that you will be evaluating during the roll-out of the strategy. These growth points will be the indicators that the strategy is successfully impacting the standards of numeracy in the school.
Impact measures / Growth points
What aspects will you be monitoring in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the strategy and it's impact on standards?
You may wish to use some of the following:
Pupil standards
Breadth of experiences
Quality of planning
Progression in learning
Progression in application of skills
Milestones
In this section you will set out how the journey towards achieving the aims of the strategy will look. You may wish to select key points in time and explain how the growth points will have developed by this point.
Suggestions:
You can use the end of each term as a point to set milestones during the duration of the strategy.
Alternatively, you can set milestones every 6 months during the duration of the strategy.
In each milestone you can explain how the growth points will have developed.
Try to include information on how the experience of the pupil will have developed by that point.
Monitoring, evaluation and review
In this section you will plan your monitoring, evaluation and review activities in reference to your growth points. It is important that these activities follow a focused approach and are regularly spaced out through the duration of the strategy. See the monitoring, evaluation and review guidance for further details.
Suggestions:
Set clear enquiry questions to develop a focused approach. For example, one monitoring activity may specifically focus on the breadth of experiences provided. The next enquiry may focus on evidencing progression in skills.
Make sure you identify the method of conducting the enquiry's. i.e. Learning walk, lesson observation, book scrutiny, discussions with learners etc.