1. Good morning parents!
Fundamentals

2. The rationale for the removal of levels
The Problems:
Depth and breadth of understanding sometimes sacrificed in favour of pace. In fact… ‘Sometimes progress is simply about consolidation’.
Pupils compared themselves to others and encouraged a mind-set of fixed ability.
The Benefits:
Pupils - reflect on their own progress, understand what their strengths are and what they need to do to improve.
Parents & carers - focus on the content of the curriculum provides clearer sense of how to support children to build and consolidate learning.

3. Teachers assess pupils against ‘fundamentals’ taken directly from the National Curriculum.

4. We Assess What We Teach

5. The Fundamentals
End of year curriculum objectives are presented as yearly fundamentals.

6. All children must meet all the fundamentals of each year group.
Children are expected to achieve 85% of the yearly fundamentals.

7. By the end of year 1 they should be 2.0 – ‘Year 2 ready’.
If a child in year 1 can do 60% of the fundamentals this is recorded as 1.6.
By the end of year 1 they should be 2.0 – ‘Year 2 ready’.

8. Terminology used for reporting
Working towards the expected standard
Working at the national standard
Working at a greater depth.

9. The Fundamentals Tracker

10. Let us have a go at the ‘prove-its’

11. Developing the ‘other’Fundamentals: