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Assessments end of term year one?

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Cortina · 01/12/2009 11:26

Just wondering what the assessments are likely to be at the end of term 1? What form they generally take? Writing words? Reading? Doing number work? Are they done individually?

Someone said on the other thread:

Children have some assessments at the end of every half term (the children don't know this though, it is def not obvious at all that it is being assessed) and groups are determined through them and through class obs.

Thanks!

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smee · 01/12/2009 12:30

Why don't you ask the teacher Cortina? I know our school does them, but I don't know what they do. I've picked up clues from time to time, so he told me recently he had to sit with his teacher by himself and do some maths. That everyone had to do it and that it was easy. I'm guessing that was some form of assessment, but who knows. All I asked about at parents evening was is he doing okay and does he seem happy. Teacher said yes, and that's enough for me tbh.

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Cortina · 01/12/2009 13:29

Will do. Just trying to understand how it works in KS1 etc. Thanks.

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Cortina · 01/12/2009 13:30

Also wondered if there was some 'standard' assessment that happened in all year ones across the board at the end of term etc.

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smee · 01/12/2009 14:06

I think there are national targets, related to Key stages, so I'd guess your dd will be assessed according to those, but that's different to Sats tests which don't happen until yr2

Addictedtothepc · 01/12/2009 14:08

My dd did end of half termly assessments in Year one and she always knew she was doing a test, she even sometimes knew that she did rather badly in comparison to the rest of the class - which was just great for her confidence - not!

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Cortina · 01/12/2009 14:11

Sorry to hear that. We've had similar. What sort of assessments were they? Writing?

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mrz · 01/12/2009 16:57

We have just finished Y1 (well every year group) assessments in reading, writing and maths. The children in Y1 wrote a letter to Father Christmas which was marked for their writing assessment. Maths was completing a series of calculations and reading was based on their ability reading to the teacher (they were tested for reading age earlier in the term). writing and maths were whole class reading individual.

Devexity · 01/12/2009 21:31

From listening to his description of the last two days, my son just did 2 50 word spelling tests with his phonics group, a pull-out maths assessment of the term's work with a TA, and his reading diary hasn't come home since the weekend. I imagine writing will be tomorrow...

smee · 02/12/2009 11:23

Did he really have to write out 100 words Devexity .

Devexity · 02/12/2009 18:07

Yep. The school blissfully organises phonics classes by ability not age & he's a literacy fiend. The spelling tests = all the KS1 key words plus 'Wow! Words.' Whatever they may be.

mrz · 02/12/2009 18:12

Devexity there are 200 KS1 key words and "wow" words are ambitious vocabulary that children use in their independent writing so I'm not sure how a school can test these ...

smee · 02/12/2009 18:26

My son would never write that many words - how long did they give them to do it..? Am genuinely amazed.

Devexity · 02/12/2009 23:24

So not meaning to be drama queeny! I have no idea really. I just know that he's at the end of the school's KS1 phonics scheme: next term the only scheme of work for the kids in his group is 'Help less able children with their emerging phonics'. His 'Wow Words!' for last week were cautiously, nervously, surprisingly and patiently. I imagine they assessed his group on the words they rec'd this half term.

Devexity · 03/12/2009 07:04

Oh, and Smee: The 'tricky words' aspect of the school's phonics program is built around weekly small assessments and end of unit assessments every 6 weeks. For those they do a spelling test (or series of spelling tests) covering all the words since YR. For some groups that's 6 words. For some it's 100. But either way, they're very used to doing spelling tests in a low pressure environment.

smee · 03/12/2009 12:45

It sounded like they were making them sit and write 100 words at once- I'd bet 1 yr6 child would be a bit shocked by that, let alone a yr1 . Am still impressed he's writing/ learning words like 'cautiously/ nervously' etc. Way above where we're at. Is anyone else a bit surprised by that at this stage in yr1 or is it just me..? I'd bet mrz will have a view

redskyatnight · 03/12/2009 12:59

No one in Year 1 at DS's school is at the level of being able to spell "cautiously" etc.
And his school don't do spelling tests either.
DS complains if he has to write more than about 5 words at one time (even if the words are a, I, at ...)

smee · 03/12/2009 13:26

Hooray redsky, you make me feel better. DS is the same. He can write "I am a boy. I like cake, etc. But even that's like pulling teeth..

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