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Posted on November 5, 2015 by Morwenna
Maddy Barnes looks at how best to prepare children for the 2016 KS1 GaPS test.
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Posted on October 21, 2015 by Morwenna
In a world without levels, with APP scrapped, and a new assessment landscape suddenly emerging, it's sometimes hard to know where to turn. Schools up and down the country are working on a whole host of different models for in-school assessment, and without the common language of the old world, it sometimes seems hard to know how our own systems relate to the wider world.
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Posted on October 8, 2015 by Morwenna
We caught up with Deputy Head Michael Tidd at the start of term to ask him what his priorities were for the year ahead and how he intended to tackle them. Here is what he kindly shared with us.
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Posted on September 7, 2015 by Morwenna
It’s the start of a new school year and with a challenging new curriculum, a level-free approach to assessment and the new national tests around the corner we know there is a lot on the minds of primary school teachers at this time. That’s why we are hosting three conferences this term, designed to help primary schools get ready for the new national tests.
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Posted on August 28, 2015 by Morwenna
As the new autumn term approaches, many schools will be interested to hear the latest announcement from the Department for Education which states that primary school children have performed well overall in this year’s key stage 2 national tests, with four out of five children achieving good results in all subjects.
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Posted on July 12, 2015 by Morwenna
With thanks to Michael Tidd for this very thought-provoking guest post
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Posted on June 3, 2015 by Morwenna
Maddy Barnes discusses exciting and engaging ways to teach, track and assess GPS in both Key Stage 1 and 2!
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Posted on March 4, 2015 by Morwenna
Michael Tidd is Deputy Headteacher of a primary and nursery school in Nottinghamshire, having previously taught in middle and primary schools in West Sussex. We asked him for his thoughts on summative assessment in the new curriculum.
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