Macosquin Primary School

Assessment and Reporting

Teachers continually monitor and assess children’s work. Pupils in Years 3 to 7 are given daily and weekly spelling and tables tests. Termly tests in Numeracy and Literacy are sat by pupils in Years 2 to 7. INCAS are completed by pupils in Years 4 to 7 for diagnostic and formative assessment purposes. Summative assessment procedures are carried out in May - online standardised reading testts are administered to pupils in Years 3 to 7; standardised numeracy tests to all year groups and NRIT to pupils in Years 4 to 7.

Towards the end of the academic year, a detailed written report on the progress of each child is issued to parents following summer term examinations. End of Key Stage Assessments are carried out in term 2 with Year 4 and Year 7 pupils, the outcomes of which are included in the Annual Report to Parents.

"The teachers mark the children’s work thoroughly, in line with school policy, with a careful focus on improving the children’s attainment. The parents are well informed about their children’s progress through detailed reports which provide clear information on attainment across the curriculum and also sensitive and specific guidance on how an individual child can improve on this performance. Detailed records are maintained on each child’s attainment across a range of standardised tests and these are analysed rigorously by the class teacher in order to provide a future learning programme matched to their identified needs. An analysis of the Key Stage 2 assessment data over the past four years shows that in English, the school’s performance is consistently above the Northern Ireland (NI) average. In mathematics the school’s performance is also above the NI average."

Inspection Report, 2010