SCHOOL POLICY MANUAL-2024-2025

• Identifying their own strengths and areas for improvement. • Encouraging individual learning goals and action plans for future progression. • Fostering a self-reflective learning culture. • Encouraging independence in learning. • Examples - Pupil Personal Statement –Classwork. Achieving our aims : The aims of Assessment for learning will be achieved through the following prac�ces:

1. Effec�ve Planning – to ensure that learning experiences are varied, meaningful and s�mula�ng and correlate with the ’big picture’, or wider learning-web.(refer to big picture). Self-review by both teachers and students will be built into planning. 2. Sharing Learning Objec�ves – requiring the statement and reinforcement of “Learning Objec�ve” at the beginning of every lesson. The learning inten�on has a focus on transferable skills. 3. Shared Success Criteria - a verbally agreed success criteria which will help iden�fy the steps needed to complete a task. The use of modelling and shared ac�vi�es should make explicit the success criteria. Higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy should be used in forming Success Criteria statements. 4. Effec�ve Ques�oning and Dialogue - using more open ended ques�ons, giving more thinking �me, using ‘pair share’ to help students feel more confident to put forward new ideas, think out loud, explain their reasons and explore their understanding. 5. Feedback – this is essen�al for effec�ve learning and teaching and will provide prompts for improvement to help plan the next steps in learning. Feedback is to be given verbally and in wri�ng. 6. Self-Assessment – by allowing students �me to reflect on what they have learned and how they have learned it e.g. during plenary sessions, we make explicit links between what they have learned and clear, stated success criteria. Children show their improvement and lear ning in rela�on to the learning objec�ve and success criteria through the use of various techniques, selected according to the age and stage of the children e.g.:- • Smiley faces – rela�ng to specified criteria, but usually level of understanding. • Traffic lights • Thumbs up, middle or down • +, - and = • Highligh�ng work according to achieved elements of a given success criteria. We use this informa�on to: • Inform our planning so that work is appropriately differen�ated, taking into account different children’s learning styles, abili�es and progress. • Monitor teaching effec�veness and teaching methods. • Improve the mo�va�on and self -esteem of each child. • Inform the children and parents about progress and the next steps. • Help us set realis�c but challenging targets for individual children, groups, year groups, classes, teachers and the school. • Provide evidence for recording and repor�ng.

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Al Diyafah High School-Reviewed policies- September 2023