Our staff training day last week was spent pondering 'life beyond levels' and what this meant for our pupils' progress and attainment. Many questions still remain in our minds about how the DfE will define a National standard but we are confident that we have the skills to show how well our children are doing. One of the key lessons learnt from our work on steps and bands so far is that securing an accurate judgement of where the children are is fundamentally important in determining what this attainment and progress will look like. We have realised that there are limits on equating what a pupil has covered in the curriculum with what they have mastered and that these can mean two different things. In other words, covering a lot of stuff quickly doesn't make a good learner. As teachers, we need to get our pupils to show what they can do by providing them with much deeper and broader opportunities through our curriculum.
‘Children need teachers who understand
they are individuals, each with his or her own unique brilliance within.
Education is about bringing out that person…not achieving statistical success
according to a strict narrow criteria.’
Michael Morpurgo
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