Good Morning!

We hope you had a good first day back with your students!

As we begin Semester 2, it is time to undertake the Mid-Year Assessments. The window for Mid-Year Assessments is from Wednesday, January 5 – Thursday January 27. Please see attached the guidelines with assessments needing to be completed. All Year Level Leaders have been asked to add this to their next meeting agendas.

MOY Assessment Guidelines 2021-22

Guidance for WRM is included in the instructions, and further information has been sent out to leaders.

For those students requiring extra support and on IEPS, please speak to the Learning Support teachers.

Updates:

The English writing prompt comes in the form of a short video for this assessment. The video link and the planning sheets are on the server- @Teachers Pub/@PRIMARY/Curriculum/Assessment & Reporting/2021-22 Assessments/MOY/Writing Jon and I can run through this with teams during meetings if there are any questions.

Thank you!

Good Morning!

Please see attached the BOY Assessment guidelines. The following assessments need to be completed over the next few weeks. 

Year levels can decide when assessments take place, though, please make sure it is consistent across the year level.

Moderation and all data needs to have been completed and uploaded to PS, by September 28 (Thursday, Week 5)

English

• PM Benchmark reading assessment
• HFW
• WTW Spelling assessment
• Handwriting Without Tears screener – Years 1-3 only
• Writing assessment – New writing prompt 

Mathematics:

• Students (Years 2-6) will complete the CEM Mathematics Assessment
• WRM assessments will take place later in the year (Autumn, Spring, and Summer)

CEM

• All year levels to complete from Week 3 – Week 5 – Teachers to be given Teacher kits in Week 2

Please see the guidelines attached for BOY Assessments. All guidance and documents needed can be found on the server at smb://10.4.1.11/Teachers/@Teachers Pub/@PRIMARY/Curriculum/Assessment & Reporting/2021-22 Assessments/BOY

BY-Assessment-Guidelines-2021-22

Points to note:

1. There is a new pathway on the server to access these documents. This is also in the guidance doc.
2. Year level leaders, please run through all assessments with your team at your next team meeting

Good Afternoon!

Please see attached the BOY Assessment guidelines. The following assessments need to be completed commencing next week with CEM, Writing and PM Reading assessments in Week 2. 

English

• PM Bench mark reading assessment
• HFW
• WTW Spelling assessment
• Handwriting Without Tears screener – Years 1-3 only
• Writing assessment – This will take place in week 2 and the writing prompt will be sent out during the week.

Mathematics:

• WRM Assessment 2 sections – Years 2-6 only
• Wigans – Year 1 only

CEM

• All year levels to complete

Please see the guidelines attached for BOY Assessments . All guidance and documents needed can be found on the server at smb://10.3.1.1/teachers/@Teachers Pub/@PRIMARY/Curriculum/Assessment & Reporting/2020-2021 Assessments 

BOY-Assessment-Guidelines-2020-21

Points to note:

1. There is a new pathway on the server to access these documents. This is also in the guidance doc.
2. Year level leaders, please run through all assessments with you team at your next team meeting ahead of assessments beginning.

EOY-Assessment-Guidelines-2018-19

Dear Y4-6 teachers and EAL/LS Teachers,

The ISA reports for individual students have arrived, and we will be distributing hard copies to class teachers this week (EAL and LS teachers will receive a soft copy of all reports). Once you receive the reports, please look through them to identify any results which do not reflect the child’s ability, or that the teacher feels will be of concern to the parents. This will help prepare the teacher and/or leaders for any subsequent parent meetings regarding the results. If you feel that any parents will be significantly concerned by the results, then it would be good to be proactive and arrange a meeting with the parent just prior to them receiving the report  –  in other words, arrange the meeting in the week commencing March 18. EAL/LS teachers will look through their own students’ reports, and discuss results with the relevant class teachers.

Please fill in this template (click here) for just the students where there may be an issue and send to relevant Primary Coordinator  by Monday March 18.  I have listed a few examples below fyi – please read them to get an idea of the issues to look out for.

• Example 1
• Example 2
• Example 3

When you receive the hard copy of the ISA reports, please keep them safe (where students/parents cannot access them) until the date of distribution on March 26. Please do not hand out the reports to students yet. We will pass labelled envelopes out nearer to the date of distribution.

Year groups will meet in their teams to discuss/analyse these results in greater detail. More information will follow regarding this.

If you have any questions or concerns about the reports, then please let me know.

Thanks,

Rob

The window for Mid-Year assessment is now open. Please find attached the guidelines.

Year Level Leaders, please work with your teams to select a suitable writing prompt for the year level. These should be taken from the APP prompts linked in the guidelines.

A reminder that writing moderation must be scheduled and completed by your team once the written assessment has been completed.

Learning Resource teachers, please contact class teachers regarding any students that may require support during the writing assessment.

MY Assessment Guidelines 2018-19

Please note that the Criterion Scale has also been updated and we have added separate columns for teachers to check off outcomes  for the 3 different testing periods. Please see attached. It is also available on the server at @Teachers Pub/@PRIMARY/Curriculum/Assessment & Reporting/SATS/Criterion Scale/YCIS Adapted Criterion Scale – updated 2017

YCIS Adapted Criterion Scale – updated 2017

Any questions, please see either John or Melissa.

Good Morning,

End of Year Assessments will commence next week. Use week 34 for English & week 35 for Mathematics. Please see attached the End of Year Assessment Guidelines, as well as the set guidelines for the writing portion and prompts. These have already been passed to YLs.

EOY-Assessment-Guidelines-2017-18

End-of-Year-Writing-Assessment-Guidelines-2017-18

Y1-Y3 EOY Writing Prompt

Y4-Y6 EOY Writing Prompt

• Year Leaders, please ensure this is on your agenda for this week.
• Teams will be notified when the Reading & Mathematics papers are ready for collection.
• Learning Resource teachers should also be contacting class teachers in regards to students on LS plans or IEPs that may need some support.

Thanks,

Melissa & John

In the two weeks following the CNY holiday, Melissa or I will meet with each Y4-6 Western Co-Teacher individually to discuss the class ISA results. This discussion will be based on the class sections of the ISA diagnostic report.

Prior to our meeting, you are asked to fill out a template which will guide the discussion and make the conversation more focused. I will come to each year level meeting this week (Year 5-next Monday) and show you how to complete the template and how to use the interactive diagnostic report.

The template and the diagnostic report are on the RP Network:

smb://10.3.1.1/Teachers/@Teachers Pub/@PRIMARY/Curriculum/Assessment & Reporting/ISA/2017-2018

We have adapted the template this year, and would like you to focus your analysis at a question level.

Please note you need to complete 2 templates: one for reading, one for maths. We will look at writing as part of the wider analysis process.

For reading and maths: identify 2 or 3 questions which were completed poorly: look at the CL Maths, Reading charts, and focus your analysis on these. You are looking for questions where your class compares negatively to the ISA mean. We can discuss this in the meetings.
If you need access to the questions, let me know. We have copies of the papers.

Please have the forms emailed back to me by 2nd March. Once I receive your forms, either Melissa or I will contact you for a follow up discussion.

If you wish to know more about the terminology used in the reports:

Draft PISA 2015 Mathematics Framework (pages 9-12 define the processes, pages 16-20 define the contexts).

Draft PISA 2015 Reading Framework (pages 20-25 define the aspects of reading, p. 16 defines continuous and non-continuous texts).

Thanks,

John