Assessment
At St Hilda’s in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, we use assessment data to measure progress as well as to identify strengths and areas to develop across the curriculum. It is important to note that the School has a wide variety of assessment strategies and no one result is definitive in measuring an individual child’s progress or attainment.
Assessment will look slightly different in each class depending on the age of the children.
From Form I, regular on-going assessments are carried out in class, such as spelling and times tables tests, as well as more formal assessments which take place throughout the year, including:
- Quest which provides standardised score for reading, spelling, grammar and punctuation, arithmetic and mathematical reasoning
- CATs tests which provide standardised scores for various aspects of reasoning
In the EYFS, the continuous provision and planning allows for accurate assessment of the children in line with the curriculum expectations.
All assessment feeds into our termly reviews of progress and attainment and is shared in the end of year reports and at Parents’ Evenings.
It is not the school’s policy to disclose a girl’s position in class.
