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Assessing Primary Writing © Oxford University Press, 2018 Zoos – good or bad? Lots of people love to visit zoos. Chester Zoo, one of the UK’s biggest, gets over 1.8 million visitors per year. But not everyone agrees zoos are a good thing. Here are some of the pros and cons of zoos. Pros Zoos help us learn about animals by watching them, reading the information and talking to the keepers. TV nature programmes are amazing, but nothing beats seeing animals in real life. Some animals are at risk of becoming extinct. When an animal is extinct, it means there are no more animals of that type left alive. Zoos can help prevent this by giving very rare animals, like the black rhino, a safe place to live. Some zoos help rare animals to have more babies, so their numbers increase. Sometimes animals born in zoos are later released back into the wild. Some zoos do important scientific work, helping us find out more about animal behaviour and diseases. It’s fun to visit a good zoo! The more people get fun from animals and nature, the better we will look after the world. Cons It’s not fair to take a wild animal and make it live in a zoo. However good a zoo is, it can never copy the way elephants or tigers live in the wild. Some animals get very bored in zoos. Some even get depressed when they can’t behave as they would in the wild. Bored animals can also get aggressive, which is dangerous for zoo staff, too. Zoos aren’t all that good at helping rare animals to have more babies. It’s also hard to release zoo-bred animals into the wild. Sometimes these animals fail to survive once they are released. It’s not a good use of money to set up zoos to look after animals. It’s better to give money to charities who help look after animals in the wild. Many people think it’s wrong to lock up animals just to entertain humans.

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No More Marking

Year 1 to 6: Sharing Standards

Years 10 to 11 Progress to GCSE English

Year 7 to 9: PoP Tests

About No More Marking

Using Comparative Judgement to provide a quicker, more reliable method of assessment

“ Teachers at high-performing schools mark the work of their lowest-performing pupils more harshly in their SATs assessments, suggests a new study of primary marking. ”

Progress to GCSE English including training with Daisy Christodoulou, author of Making Good Progress? The future of Assessment for Learning

Stop marking your assessments and start judging them. Comparative Judgement is the 21st Century alternative to the 18th Century practice of marking. Comparative judgement allows you to assess work more accurately than traditional marking techniques. You will spend less time marking and get more accurate results.

The PoP tests are designed to be taken initially by Year 7 pupils who are progressing towards reformed GCSEs in English and Maths.

A quicker, more reliable method of assessing Primary writing.Writing at primary school is ideally suited to Comparative Judgement. The way it works is simple. Teachers are presented with two pieces of writing, and are asked to decide which is the better writing?

“ Teacher assessment can be used to produce objective and reliable results that can be used in a high-stakes context, a new study shows. ”

Schools Week, 7 May 2017TES, 2 May 2017

Assessing Primary Writing© Oxford University Press, 2018

Zoos – good or bad?Lots of people love to visit zoos. Chester Zoo, one of the UK’s biggest, gets over 1.8 million visitors per year. But not everyone agrees zoos are a good thing. Here are some of the pros and cons of zoos.

Pros• Zoos help us learn about animals by watching them, reading the

information and talking to the keepers. TV nature programmes are amazing, but nothing beats seeing animals in real life.

• Some animals are at risk of becoming extinct. When an animal is extinct, it means there are no more animals of that type left alive. Zoos can help prevent this by giving very rare animals, like the black rhino, a safe place to live.

• Some zoos help rare animals to have more babies, so their numbers increase. Sometimes animals born in zoos are later released back into the wild.

• Some zoos do important scientifi c work, helping us fi nd out more about animal behaviour and diseases.

• It’s fun to visit a good zoo! The more people get fun from animals and nature, the better we will look after the world.

Cons• It’s not fair to take a wild animal and make it live in a zoo. However good

a zoo is, it can never copy the way elephants or tigers live in the wild.

• Some animals get very bored in zoos. Some even get depressed when they can’t behave as they would in the wild. Bored animals can also get aggressive, which is dangerous for zoo staff, too.

• Zoos aren’t all that good at helping rare animals to have more babies. It’s also hard to release zoo-bred animals into the wild. Sometimes these animals fail to survive once they are released.

• It’s not a good use of money to set up zoos to look after animals. It’s better to give money to charities who help look after animals in the wild.

• Many people think it’s wrong to lock up animals just to entertain humans.

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EDUK FS Me is used for all typographic elements, with bold being used for titles and subheadings and regular used for copy.

Colours

The primary palette conists of white and navy which gets used for backgrounds and text

Our secondary palette consists of teal and dark peach, both of which are used for accents, illustrations and interactive elements such as buttons.

Navy#2C3E5044, 62, 8085, 65, 44, 42

White#FFFFFF255, 255, 2550, 0, 0, 0

Teal#39B39857, 179, 15271, 0, 50, 0

Dark Peach#E74A3C231, 74, 601, 82, 75, 0

Products Training About CJ About Us Get Help Sign In

No More Marking

Year 1 to 6: Sharing Standards

Years 10 to 11 Progress to GCSE English

Year 7 to 9: PoP Tests

About No More Marking

Using Comparative Judgement to provide a quicker, more reliable method of assessment

“ Teachers at high-performing schools mark the work of their lowest-performing pupils more harshly in their SATs assessments, suggests a new study of primary marking. ”

Progress to GCSE English including training with Daisy Christodoulou, author of Making Good Progress? The future of Assessment for Learning

Stop marking your assessments and start judging them. Comparative Judgement is the 21st Century alternative to the 18th Century practice of marking. Comparative judgement allows you to assess work more accurately than traditional marking techniques. You will spend less time marking and get more accurate results.

The PoP tests are designed to be taken initially by Year 7 pupils who are progressing towards reformed GCSEs in English and Maths.

A quicker, more reliable method of assessing Primary writing.Writing at primary school is ideally suited to Comparative Judgement. The way it works is simple. Teachers are presented with two pieces of writing, and are asked to decide which is the better writing?

“ Teacher assessment can be used to produce objective and reliable results that can be used in a high-stakes context, a new study shows. ”

Schools Week, 7 May 2017TES, 2 May 2017

Assessing Primary Writing© Oxford University Press, 2018

Imagine this!Your class is going on an end-of-term trip. Write a letter to your teacher, telling them why a trip to a zoo would be either a good idea or a bad idea.