Uniform Update and Website

PE kits will be delivered over the next two weeks.

A full range of sizes are available to try on in our reception. Orders can be placed online through the e-commerce site, available on our Parent Zone via the Uniform Button (click here).

ACER International School Assessments (ISA) - Mathematics and Reading

As part of the Primary School quality assurance processes, a randomly selected sample of Year 7 learners will shortly participate in the ACER ISA assessments. The International Schools’ Assessment (ISA) is a high-quality assessment used by international schools and schools with an international focus to monitor student performance over time and to confirm that their internal assessments are aligned with international expectations of performance.

The ISA supports Nexus to compare attainment in the Primary School against other schools worldwide as part of our quality assurance processes. ACER has gained invaluable experience in developing assessments that are culturally and educationally appropriate for students from many language and educational backgrounds. The ISA is based on the internationally endorsed frameworks for the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Year 7 learners are selected to enable us to measure the progress and attainment of our learners during their time in primary schools.

The ISA provides:

• an external evaluation of core skills in mathematical literacy and reading that allows us to evaluate the reliability of our internal assessments.
• a reliable external tool that helps us reflect and refine the quality of our Nexus curriculum.
• a detailed set of reports summarising our school’s results and comparative data that allow us to easily identify areas of strength or weakness and trends over time
• comparisons of student cohorts with other participating student cohorts in the same year group providing a means for us to monitor cohort performance against international expectations.

If you would like to find out more about the ISA assessments, please contact Paul Beach. If you do not want your child to be included in the random selection, please let us know by Monday, 9 September. The ACER ISA Privacy Statement is available here.

We will share the main findings in January 2019 when the data is fully analysed against all the other schools taking part.

The new HPE kit has arrived!