How To Assess Your Child's Progress At School

Step 1: The School Report

School reports are an overview of your child's progress throughout the year. Schools will often follow reports with a parents evening.

Step 2: Self-assessment

Older children are more able to assess their own progress. Teachers will often put in strategies that help children assess their learning.

Step 3: Parent's Evening

Prepare well for parents' evenings. They are an opportunity to get feedback, but also to plan for the next few months.

Step 4: Personal Development

Schools should not just be focusing on academic achievement. They should be looking at the development of the whole child, including their social, behavioural, spiritual and emotional development.

Step 5: Feedback

There will be opportunity for you to give feedback to the school about progress your child has made at home. This will inform their teaching so that they don't go too fast or too slow for the child. Keep teachers informed about any problems at home that might have an impact on the child's school life. Then, should issues occur in the classroom the teacher will be able to deal with them appropriately.

Step 6: Involvement

Learning doesn't just take place at school, in fact the most significant learning can take place in the home and in the child's general experience.
Home should build on work undertaken at school. Find out how your child is being taught at school and use similar procedures at home.