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The Cross-curricular Skills Frameworks
Schools can track their implementation of the Literacy, Numeracy and Digital Competency frameworks by using a spreadsheet. This allows the school to identify the opportunities it has afforded its learners to experience/understand/implement the skills from each of the frameworks.
The examples below will allow your school to:
Identify where the progression step statements have been experienced in the classroom
See where there are 'gaps' in the coverage
ensure that there is coverage across the AOLEs for learners to understand the cross-curricular application of the LNF & DCF skills
Support staff in knowing they are covering the cross-curricular skills in their teaching
allows the school to quickly find examples of where these skills have been experienced by learners, if needed
NB. It is essential to note that the school does not need to assess the LNF and DCF skills; however, using a tool like this will ensure that the school is aware of its compliance in implementing these frameworks.
A template example can be downloaded and altered for your school, here for Google and here for Microsoft for the progression steps most relevant to your school.
Opportunities to track progress of a learner
A spreadsheet can also be used to support your school in tracking the progression of a learner throughout their time in school.
A learner's progress can be split into two types of data, that which is quantifiable and that which is subjective.
Types of quantifiable could include:
Reading stages
Scores from Microsoft's 'Reading Progress' tool in Teams, schools can identify texts to ensure there is standardisation across the school
National Literacy and Numeracy test scores (year 2 up)
Standardised NFER tests
Spelling ages if using standardised tests
Scores/data collected from TTBlast & Spellblast (available in Just2Easy on Hwb)
Achievement when assessed against standardised criteria
Responses to Well-being surveys (Microsoft 'Reflect' in Teams will allow a school to identify the responses of learners at set points)
Examples of subjective data could be:
Effort of a learner within a subject/AOLE
Achievement when not against a standardised criteria
A teacher's assessment of a learner's well-being
A template example can be downloaded and altered for your school, here for Google and here for Microsoft for the progression steps most relevant to your school.
This spreadsheet will allow schools to track learners throughout their time at school. Sheets can be added, deleted or altered to suit the needs of the school.
There is the ability to add the scores from the National LNF tests and monitor the progress learners make through their time in your school.
'Assessment' of learning from a learners perspective
Using e-portfolios
Using e-portfolios
The use of learner portfolios allows a school to gain an understanding of the learner's perspective on their learning.
Here learners can reflect on what they have created, what they feel they have learned in that activity and how completing that activity has supported their 'becoming' the four purposes.
Portfolios are pupil-owned, GDPR compliant and, through the Hwb platform transferable from the primary to the secondary setting.
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