Progress trackingYou can't improve what you can't measure, you can't measure what you can't see... and you need to see everything

The issues

How to ensure every child knows how they are doing, what they need to do to improve and how they are going to get there?

How to help every teacher make informed judgements on pupil attainment and to forward plan?

How to let every parent know how their child is doing and how they can provide additional
support from home?

How to ensure that already high standards don’t slip.

The challenges and opportunities

For assessment to be effective, systems need to efficiently evaluate pupil and teacher strengths
and weaknesses and share that information with them to help continuous improvement.

That means child by child, teacher by teacher, subject by subject, month by month, year by year.

How can this need for monitoring and control, and achieving national standards be answered
whilst still providing an exciting, enjoyable and creative learning experience for all?

The SIMS answer

Better assessment tracking ensures pupil progress and attainment is measured, making teaching more effective and the whole learning experience more meaningful.

SIMS allows you to share information between all teaching staff; which parts of the curriculum pupils have covered, what they are currently addressing and what their next challenges will be:

• Ensure day-to-day assessment procedures feed into planning in order that teaching
  is more closely matched to the needs of pupils.
• Link teachers’ assessments and pupils’ work in the form of documents, multimedia presentations, animations and video and share that securely online with parents.
• Link data held in the school’s MIS to record improvements in pupils’ attainment levels.
• Learning objectives can be clearly identified in teachers’ planning and closely
  linked to school, year group and class curricular targets.
• Tracking summer learning loss enables you to benchmark where pupils were before the summer break and where they are at the start of the autumn term.
• Teachers know that children are more focused on their learning because teaching
  is better matched to their needs.
• Pupils become more involved in assessing their own learning and setting targets.
• Parents are more engaged as they understand how assessments of their children
  can be used to progress their learning.