Yes! The pricing is planned to be very affordable - roughly just £1 per pupil. This strategy ensures schools pay fairly, as the cost is based on their size. Whilst we are still in the development phase, our goal is to ensure the tool is not only useful and meaningful for schools but also remains accessible and affordable.

Our system helps to identify each pupil’s security in each Ready to Progress Criteria. This can help you identify who is secure with each year group’s expectations and who needs more support in each domain. We do not offer a defined percentage indicator as a greater depth marker.

The questions are applicable to any curriculum as long as it is mapped against the Ready to Progress criteria.

It’s impossible to assess everything. Our assessment focuses on assessing the most important parts of the curriculum (Ready to Progress Criteria) that will make the biggest difference to pupil’s mathematical understanding.

Typically, end of unit assessments aim to offer a picture of a pupil’s understanding of each unit they are taught. However, we know learning takes place over time therefore the recency of an end of unit assessment may not be a sign of longer term retention. Our approach continues to assess pupil understanding over time to give teachers greater clarity and confidence over their assessments.

We believe all pupils should be aiming to develop a secure understanding of the Ready to Progress Criteria. From our experience, the use of standardised assessments does not always make this picture clear for teachers, hence our motivation to create this assessment system. If your setting chooses to use standardised assessments, we would suggest using our system alongside this to help develop a precise picture of pupil understanding.

The slides are designed to cover the breadth of each Ready-to-Progress (RtP) criteria, ensuring a clear picture of pupil understanding across all areas. Our aim is to help all schools aim for all children to be secure in all of the RtPs. If all pupils are secure in the RtPs then they will be able to make more connections and hence have a greater depth of understanding. The use of spaced retrieval also provides challenge, where content is revisited to see whether it has stuck or whether it needs further reinforcement.

The slides are designed to focus on the current year’s RtP objectives, but teachers will have full access to the previous year’s questions to use at their discretion. Moreover, the system begins in Autumn 2, providing the entire first half term to build foundational knowledge for children who need it, ensuring they are well-prepared to engage with their year group’s RtPs. For example, Autumn 2 questions will specifically reflect the learning from Autumn 1.

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