Progress & Assessment

Ensuring Progress for all

 

At Roding Valley High School, we believe that 'ensuring progress for all' is a core value when it comes to assessment. 

Progress is when our students know more, remember more and are able to do more. Progress is seen when students are learning what is intended in the curriculum, which must be both well-constructed and well-taught. Progress will be further evidenced by our disadvantaged and students with SEND acquiring the knowledge and cultural capital they need to succeed in life.

Our Progress & Assessment strategy is built on a few fundamental principles that underpin everything we do. They are:

• We leave no one behind. We must ensure that we have done everything in our power to assist every student to make the expected progress. 

• We have high expectations of ALL students including our disadvantaged and SEND students.

• Our curriculum adapts to the needs of our students. We critically evaluate the gaps after every assessment and adapt what we teach to ensure we close any gaps.

• The most effective intervention is done by the classroom teacher. No one has a better understanding of the gaps in students' learning than their own teacher.

• Every lesson is based on the ACED framework and is aimed at the most able in a class,‘Teach to the Top and scaffold down’, effective scaffolding will ensure that every student can access the content. 

• We make every minute of lesson time count- ACED- our DIN task in every lesson promotes this.

The Progress Partnership

The partnership between Teachers, Students and Parents are the key ingredients for success.

Our 'Ensuring Progress For All' policy can be found below: