Assessing science in primary school

[Smartiepants79]

I am science coordinator and do all the science teaching in our small school.
I have been out on maternity leave for the large part of the last 3yrs.
I am feeling really out of the loop and training round here seems non-existent.
I need an ofsted approved but reasonably easy way of assessing and recording the kids progress. APP seems to have fallen out of favour while I've been away and I'm not sure what to replace it with.
Anyone got anything that they use that works in their school?
Any advice and ideas welcome.

We use app for the using and supplying bit (or whatever it's called) only. In other words their investigation skills rather than knowledge.

I'm currently still working with an APP type thing but had read it was no longer the done thing.
Wondered what people had replaced it with.

I coordinate Science...but we've never used APP. I've created assessment grids for each Science unit in each year.(Our timetabling of Science is slightly unconventional.) They get stuck into their books at the beginning of each unit and children get assessed throughout. In line with the new curriculum, I've created an assessment matrix, which links the objectives with the NC expectations for each year and calculates whether individual children (and the class as a whole) are at the required standard. In addition to that, the calculation is also linked to performance in end-of-unit assessments, enquiry-based tasks and practice SATs. Sounds complicated, but should work. We are trying it out this year.
Still needs a bit of tweaking and I ran out of time, so not fully resourced, yet.

Bloody hell! How long did that take you? I wouldn't even know where to start. The calculations alone are utterly beyond me.
It sounds like a lot of work.
Where you given time out of the classroom to put that together?

We've never used APP either. Northumberland grid for learning have good assessment on their site but now charge to access.

The Northumberland grids are the ones I used as a basis, then adapted them for the new curriculum. (They were still free, when I downloaded them years ago.)

Smartiepants It took me about a week to create, but that was in the holidays. I don't have enough "time" to do it at school, even though I get release time for my subject. It's not that difficult, really. The computer does the calculations after data has been put in. The teachers just have to compare the grids in the books with the nc objectives (which objective in the grid links with which NC objective comes up when you hover over it...so quite easy, really) and decide on whether they want to give the child a 0 (not achieved), 1 (partly achieved), 2 (achieved) or 3 (exceeded). The computer then does the rest and tells you at the end of the year where that child is, based on the data put in.
This can then be carried forward to the next year group and basically stays with the class throughout their time at primary school. It means that weaknesses can be spotted and possible gaps filled in, before they leave Y6.