At Chattenden, we believe every child can achieve. Our teachers adopt the mindset: "What do I need to do next to enable a child in my class to achieve?"

Assessment Against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Learners are assessed against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for each subject.
• Teaching sequences across the curriculum are well-planned, carefully scaffolded, and draw on National Curriculum objectives, leading to assessment of the KPIs.
• Children are expected to make age-appropriate progress. The focus is on moving learners through each year group at the same rate, ensuring they leave each year group meeting age-related expectations.
• To be ‘secondary ready’, children need to meet statutory assessment judgments at the end of Key Stage 2 (KS2). We use KPIs to assess outcomes for children at the end of each curriculum year. For example:
  • A child who has achieved all the KPIs for Year 3 in English is considered to be working at the expected level for English at the end of Year 3.
  • A child achieving half of the mathematics KPIs for Year 5 is classed as working towards the age-related expectation for maths.

Our Assessment and Reporting System

• Ongoing assessment in lessons through mini-plenaries, planned questioning, and reasoning opportunities (including the use of learning reflection postcards and depth prompts) ensures correct scaffolding is built into lessons, enabling all children to achieve.
• Children will understand what they are learning and, more importantly, why. They will become increasingly confident in discussing their learning, including their useful learning mistakes.
• Regular feedback, both written and verbal, is provided between the teacher and learner, based on the Inspire Partnership Feedback Toolkit.
• A KPI document helps both the teacher and learner to know what has been achieved and the child’s next learning steps.
• Triangulation of data, evidence in books, and pupil voice are used to ascertain each individual child’s progress.
• Children who achieve all KPIs for their year group will not move onto the next year group's curriculum but will focus on deepening their learning and applying it in different contexts.

Early Years - Reception

• Children in Reception continue to be assessed against the prime and specific areas of learning in the EYFS profile. Assessments are based on observations of daily activities and events.
• At the end of Reception, for each Early Learning Goal, teachers judge whether a child is meeting the expected level of development:
  • Emerging: Not yet reached the expected level of development
  • Expected: Meeting the expected level of development

Reporting to Parents

The summer term written report will indicate whether a child has reached the age-related expectation and will detail the KPIs achieved or needed to reach this point. It will state whether a child is:

• Working towards age-related expectations
• At the expected level
• Exceeding the expected level