At Brompton Community Primary School the key purpose of assessment is to move children on in their learning. Continuous monitoring of each child’s progress gives a clear picture of what each child is doing. It is important that the teacher knows what has been remembered, what skills have been acquired and what concepts have been understood. This enables teachers to reflect on what children are doing and informs their future planning. The outcomes of our assessments will help children become involved in raising their own expectations, celebrating their own achievement and increasing their self-motivation, then learners are directly responsible for their own attainment and therefore must take charges of their own learning. Our assessments also provide information for others including:

• Parents and pupils- to show progress and areas for development and involve them in the learning process
• Other teachers- to help them plan and gain informed views
• Outside agencies- to provide evidence of attainment

Brompton Community Primary School uses Assessment for Learning as a tool for continual improvement by:

Sharing learning objectives with pupils

• Share learning objectives and outcomes at the beginning of the lesson and, where appropriate, during the lesson in language that pupils can understand using ‘Bloom’s Vocabulary’.
• Use these objectives as the basis for questioning and feedback during a lesson eg. ask pupils to explain what they are trying to learn and why
• Evaluate this feedback in relation to achievement of the learning objectives to inform the next stages of planning.

Curriculum Intent: We need to consider the extent to which our curriculum sets out the knowledge and skills that our pupils will gain at each stage.

We need to consider the way that our curriculum is taught and assessed in order to support pupils to build their knowledge and to apply that knowledge and skills (implementation).

We also need to consider the outcomes that pupils achieve as a result (impact).

At Brompton Community Primary School, we provide a deep and rich curriculum that is committed to ensuring pupils learn key knowledge and concepts for all subjects in greater depth. We promote an ambitious curriculum that provides opportunities for our pupils that inspires them to aim high strive to improve and enquire. We use ‘Legacy’ to promote positive attitudes to learning which reflect the values and skills needed to promote responsibility for learning and future success.

Our planning provides an outline of core knowledge where teachers develop exciting and stimulating lessons in order to promote the development of pupils’ knowledge and understanding. We enhance subject teaching with planned cross curricula themes and topics. English and Maths skills are highlighted in all areas of the children’s learning and remain a focus within all subject areas. We provide pupils with memorable experiences, in addition to diverse and rich opportunities from which the children can learn and develop a range of transferable skills.

Our curriculum threads SMSC (Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural) across all subject areas and school life and ensures pupils are aware of the history and values of Britain and prepares pupils for life in modern Britain. We teach children how to keep safe and promote pupil well-being; this includes assemblies and teaching through PSHE & C (Personal, Social, Health Education and Citizenship). There is high expectation for all groups of pupils with challenging learning for all. High quality AFL (Assessment for Learning) is used to personalise learning for all groups of learners, maximising their rates of progress. Pupils are encouraged to learn from mistakes, developing resilience and good learning behaviours. The curriculum is designed to: recognise children’s prior learning, provide first hand learning experiences, allow the children to develop interpersonal skills, build resilience and become creative, critical thinkers.

Every child is recognised as a unique individual. We are Gold Award holders for RRSA and we promote the UN convention for children’s rights, we celebrate and welcome differences within our school community. The ability to learn is underpinned by the teaching of basic skills, knowledge, concepts and values. We constantly provide enhancement opportunities to engage learning and believe that childhood should be a happy, investigative and enquiring time in our lives where there are no limits to curiosity and there is a thirst for new experiences and
knowledge.

Community involvement is an essential part of our curriculum as we celebrate local traditions, learning new skills to enable the children to take an active role in events throughout the year. Children leave school with a sense of belonging to a tightly knit community where they have the confidence and skills to make decisions, self-evaluate, make connections and become lifelong learners.