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2015, How we assess your child at Beech Hill including national changes<\/h5>\n
Assessment without levels<\/h5>\n

Following\u00a0the introduction of a new National Curriculum framework from September 2014, the government has also decided to remove level descriptors.\u00a0 The government\u2019s policy of removing level descriptors from the National Curriculum is set out in terms of freeing schools from an imposed measure of pupil progress. The Department for Education has said that levels are not very good with respect to helping parents to understand how far their child is improving. In their place, from September 2014, \u201cit will be for schools to decide how they assess pupils\u2019 progress\u201d.<\/p>\n

With levels removed and the focus now on raising the achievement of every pupil, Fielding\u2019s\u00a0governors, leaders and teachers have\u00a0chosen a new way to\u00a0measure pupil attainment and progress.<\/p>\n

Our new assessment system<\/h5>\n

The old and new curriculum have different content. Many of the objectives in the old curriculum have shifted to lower year groups in the new, more rigorous curriculum, this means it is not possible to have an exact correlation between a level that was the outcome of the old National Curriculum assessment and the requirements new National Curriculum, this means a shift in thinking and in the way we assess out children\u2019s outcomes.<\/p>\n

The school has\u00a0welcomed the changes in the National Curriculum and saw it as an exciting opportunity to review our assessment and reporting systems to create a more holistic approach that makes sense to parents.<\/p>\n

The principles that underpin our assessment system are:<\/p>\n