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Understand the statutory assessment arrangements and curriculum for children in primary school in Northern Ireland. Learn about areas of learning, cross-curricular skills, assessment methods, and levels of progression. Teachers assess students' progress through various activities like classroom observation and tests. Get insights on how to help children improve their learning and track their performance. Follow the Levels of Progression for assessing communication, math, and ICT skills. Stay informed on the moderation process, annual reports, and skill development expectations.
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Information for Parents Key Stages 1 and 2 Statutory Assessment Arrangements
The Curriculum and Learning The Northern Ireland Curriculum (Primary) includes: • Foundation Stage: Years 1 and 2 • Key Stage 1: Years 3 and 4 • Key Stage 2: Years 5, 6 and 7. It sets out: • Areas of Learning • Cross-Curricular Skills • Thinking Skills and Personal Capabilities.
The Curriculum and Learning • The six Areas of Learning are: • Language and Literacy • Mathematics and Numeracy • The Arts • The World Around Us • Personal Development and Mutual Understanding • Physical Education.
The Curriculum and Learning Children engage in active learning contexts across all areas of the curriculum to develop: • Cross-Curricular Skills • Thinking Skills and Personal Capabilities.
The Curriculum and Learning • The three Cross-Curricular Skills are: • Communication • Talking and Listening • Reading • Writing • Using Mathematics • Using ICT.
The Curriculum and Learning The Thinking Skills and Personal Capabilities are: Thinking Skills • Managing Information • Thinking, Problem-Solving and Decision-Making • Being Creative Personal Capabilities • Working with Others • Self-Management.
Assessment To improve your child’s learning, we need to know: • what stage they are at in their learning • how well they are doing • how we can help them do better.
Assessment Teachers will assess your child’s progress in different ways, for example: • classroom observation • discussion and asking questions • classwork • homework • class tests • assessment activities.
Assessment • Your child will be assessed each year in: • the Areas of Learning • the Thinking Skills and Personal Capabilities and • the Cross-Curricular Skills. Assessing the Cross-Curricular Skills In Years 3–7, schools must use the Levels of Progression for assessing and reporting pupils’ progress. In Year 4 and Year 7, the actual level your child has achieved will be reported to you.
Statutory Assessment of the Cross-Curricular Skills From 2012/13 Levels of Progression will be used to assess your child’s Communication and Using Mathematics skills. From 2013/14 Levels of Progression will be used to assess your child’s Using ICT skills.
Assessment of theCross-Curricular Skills The Levels of Progression: • apply to Communication, UsingMathematics and UsingICT • range from Level 1 to Level 5 in Key Stages 1 and 2 • describe what ‘pupils can’ do • indicate the knowledge, understanding and skillsyour child needs to demonstrate to achieve each level. See www.nicurriculum.org.uk
Assessment of the Cross-Curricular Skills Teachers assess your child’s progress in an ongoing way through: • classroom observation • discussion and asking questions • monitoring their work and progress. This helps them understand: • the level at which your child is working • how best to help your child improve their learning.
End of Key Stage Assessment At the end of Key Stages 1 and 2, teachers will decide the level your child has achieved in each skill, based on: • their knowledge of your child • assessment information they have gathered and • your child’s performance in planned assessment activities/tasks.
The Levels through the Key Stages Range of Levels for theCross-Curricular Skills
Expected Levels for theCross-Curricular Skills There is also: ‘a very clear expectation that individual pupils should progress at least one level between each Key Stage.’ (Department of Education, May 2010)
Levels of Progression and Levels of Attainment Note The Levels of Progression replace Levels of Attainment. The new levels place greater emphasis on skills (not only knowledge and understanding) – so they are expected to be more challenging.
Quality Assurance and Quality Control The Moderation Process This will involve: • teachers in each school working together to agree standards • schools providing samples of pupil work to CCEA for external moderation.
Annual Reports The Annual Report will give you information about your child's progress in every aspect of the curriculum. In Years 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 Annual Reports will include a comment only aboutprogress in Communication, Using Mathematics and Using ICT. In Years 4 and 7 The Annual Report will include a numerical level and a teacher’s comment: • for Communication and Using Mathematics from 2012/13 • for Using ICT from 2013/14.
Annual Reports The Annual Report will tell you the percentage of pupils in your school who: • attained eachlevel • attained the expected level or above • are working towards the expected level • are exempt from assessment.
