At Bosham Primary School, high quality assessment is at the heart of high quality learning. Teachers assess pupils’ learning continually and carefully to ensure that they are providing next steps which will stretch every child and help them to make progress. This also allows us to support pupils who may need their learning adapted with more scaffolding, pre-teaching or modelling to understand new concepts or information.

Subject leaders regularly moderate teachers’ assessments for accuracy and consistency. Writing is moderated regularly within school, within our locality of schools and by external moderators. Pupil progress is tracked at termly progress meetings where teachers are held to account for the progress of the children in their class, and any additional support they may need is discussed with senior leaders and our maths and English leads. 

We also introduce pupils to new vocabulary throughout the year, which we use to track what words we expect pupils need to know and understand. These words along with the key learning are shared with pupils at the beginning of each learning experience. This is stuck into each child's learning experience book with clear steps that they are going to take to learn the new information or skills. This open approach involves the pupils in their learning and clarifies exactly what they are going to learn in order for them to retain this information for longer. You can download an example of the learning experience overview, that is placed in a pupil's book, at the beginning of each learning experience at the bottom of the page. It is called 'Are We Alone?'