Staff at Horizon School assess children’s learning and how they progress through a clearly planned sequence of learning to acquire the skills and the knowledge needed to apply them in a variety of ways for all curriculum subjects.  

Objectives from the National Curriculum are used as the expectations for all children. 

Assessment must be effectively used to ensure the correct scaffolding is built into lessons to ensure all children achieve. 

Our assessment and reporting system includes: 

• Ongoing assessment by the class teacher throughout each lesson, through questioning, observation and dialogue to inform next steps in teaching. This is based on what children need to know by the end of each learning journey  
• Students knowing what they are being asked to learn and more importantly, why. 
• Students are partners in the learning process, using pre/post assessment tasks to know where they are at in the learning journey, where they need to go next and what they need to do to get there. 
• Success Criteria are discussed with the students and work is then assessed against these. 
• Regular students’ work scrutiny. 

In addition to the above, there is a data drop at the end of each half term based on teacher assessment. 

Students in Years 1, 2 and 6 will continue to sit the statutory assessments in the summer term, if they are entered for them by their dual registered school.  Year 4 pupils will sit the new national times table check in the summer term, again, if they are entered for them by their dual registered school. 

Students in Year 11 will be able to take the GCSEs they are entered for by their dual registered school at Horizon. 

In addition, students in the Upper School may take Functional Skills exams in English and Maths. 

How we share this information with parents: 

PAPs home, each half term to share their progress with parents. Parents and carers are encouraged to make comments on this to share with their child and the class teacher. 

Following each ‘Data drop’ we will report to parents via the PAPs (Personalised Action Plans). Students will be assessed as making  ‘below expected’, ‘expected’, or ‘above expected’ progress.