Curriculum for ExcellenceAssessment & Reporting

Parent Council Representatives’ Meeting

Landward Schools

Forfar Academy

26th January 2011

Curriculum for ExcellenceAssessment & Reporting

Curriculum for Excellence levels

• Early : Nursery – Primary 1• First : Primary 2, 3, 4• Second : Primary 5, 6, 7• Third & Fourth – Secondary 1, 2, 3

Curriculum for Excellence Assessment & Reporting

The 4 contexts for learning

• Individual curriculum areas• Interdisciplinary learning• The life and ethos of the school• The community and wider world

Curriculum for Excellence Assessment & Reporting

Consolidating

Breadth-many Experiences and

Outcomes

Applying in familiar

Beginning challenge

The Learner…

Secure

• Almost all Experiences and Outcomes

• Range of evidence across

• Holistic, overall judgements

Developing

•Starting

•Beginning

•Increasing no. of Experiences + Outcomes

Curriculum for Excellence Assessment & Reporting

What will reporting look like in the new curriculum

• Progress in the curriculum areas

• Progress will be described in brief qualitative statements

• Achievement of a curriculum level, either in a part of a curriculum area such as reading, or in a whole curriculum area

• Achievement in different contexts and settings

• Next steps

Curriculum for Excellence Assessment & Reporting

The purposes of reporting

• provides clear, positive and constructive feedback on learning and progress

• an agreed agenda for discussion to support next steps in learning

• promotes parental engagement in their child’s learning

Curriculum for Excellence Assessment & Reporting

Types of reporting

• Written reports• Parent Teacher Interviews• Open afternoons/evenings• Home/school link books

Curriculum for Excellence Assessment & Reporting

On the sheet –• please indicate what you have found to be the

positive (and/or negative) features of the type of reporting that you have experienced

• Please also scale (1 – 10) the value and usefulness to you of the different types of reporting

• Please also add any comments in the space provided