Assessment

We encourage parents to be actively involved in their children’s learning and development, as you know your children better than anyone. Our assessment and monitoring system allows for school and home to collect evidence and work together to show the development of the child.

On entry to Nursery, staff will begin to teach, interact and learn alongside your child whilst they are immersed in meaningful play opportunities. They will collect videos, photographs and observations of your child’s interactions, language skills and physical development. These pieces of evidence allow us to make a Baseline Assessment of their knowledge and skills across the curriculum. Using this baseline, we plan, support and challenge your child to develop and learn. Each child in the nursery has their very own ‘Learning Journey’, both electronic and a scrapbook containing all their learning observations, photographs and work samples. Parents are invited into school at the end of each term to share the Learning Journeys with their child at our ‘Progress Celebration Event’.

Your child’s achievements and next steps will also be discussed with you at the end of their first half-term in school. If we have specific concerns about your child’s development, we may also arrange meetings to discuss any external referrals we feel would support their progress. Early identification and referrals to outside services is key to ensure all children develop and meet expected developmental milestones and are not an attempt to ‘label’ children.

Home Learning/Google Classroom

Your child will have a Google Classroom account which will be accessed via a unique log-in – this will be sent home once your child starts with us. Staff will upload weekly home learning opportunities and parents can upload their own videos, photographs and observations of their children. These can be special events your child can share with their friends (thus building confidence in speaking and listening) or examples of them demonstrating a new skill such as threading, counting or reading. All contributions help us to build a picture of what your child can do in different settings.