Sefton Park Junior School Vision Statement and Aims

OUR VISION

"Sefton Park Junior School

OUR AIMS

• To meet needs, interests and abilities of all children through challenging, creative and relevant experiences.
• To develop children as individuals and as part of the school community.
• To provide a range of opportunities for all children both planned and spontaneous which promote active involvement.
• To provide a caring school community.
• To foster good relations with the 'local area'.
• To affirm the diverse cultural background of the whole school community.
• To provide equal opportunities and access to resources throughout all aspects of school life regardless of race, sex, belief, social background or disability.
• To have clear effective communications within the school.

Agreed and written by school,

staff and governors. 1994

Sefton Park Junior School Teacher Assessment Product (TAP)

The application currently in use at Sefton Park allows teachers to simply record their assessment of the standard that individual children have attained in each of the three key curriculum areas (English, Maths and Science).

At the press of a button the data can then be viewed graphically across a year group. The percentage of children at each level is automatically calculated from the underlying data. Therefore, when records are updated, no administrative overhead is incurred in maintaining summary data.

This has proved invaluable in determining where to concentrate resources. The pie chart below is a sample of the type of output available from this system.

All schools will be required to set themselves challenging targets for literacy during the summer 1998 term. Mathematics targets will follow soon after this. The information contained in this database will be extremely useful in agreeing achievable targets with the LEA.

Information is stored on a regular basis from the start of a child's progress through the school. This means the data collected can be very useful in tracking the progress of the individual child and determining the "value added" during the pupils time in the school.

There is considerable value in keeping all information on individual children together "in one place". For this reason future enhancements are planned that will extend the database to include areas such as Special Educational Needs data. This will also make passing information on to secondary schools more straightforward.

The software currently in use will be further developed and moved to a World Wide Web format in the near future. At some time in the not too distant future this could enable us to make selected areas of data available to all interested parties including parents.

Claire Waters ~ Acting Deputy Headteacher

1997 Key Stage 2 Results