Assessment

Assessment is an integral part of the teaching and learning at Viscount Learning Community.
Teachers plan for and carry out assessments on each student. Summative, diagnostic and formative assessment will be used to assess achievement levels, to help plan appropriate programmes of work, to give feedback to the learner, and to establish what learning has taken place.

Assessment are done regularly in Mathematics and Literacy to inform our teaching and to be used for self-review. Some formative assessment and monitoring will be done on students' Inquiry units of work.

Each student will have a portfolio - a record of their knowledge, skills and attitudes, and of their achievements across the curriculum - which forms a summative record that clearly shows learning over time. We use them to assist when reporting to parents at three-way conferences.

We use a variety of assessment activities:

Students get involved in the assessment process by setting their own goals at the mid-year three-way conference with parents.

Assessment data is recorded in a way that is easy to understand and interpret so it is meaningful to parents.

A programme of self-review is carried out each year in which we monitor school-wide achievement through: