Information for parents/carers and practitioners to support assessment
Assessment plays an important part in helping parents, carers, and practitioners:
This section sets out the assessment requirements group and school-based providers must meet. It also provides guidance on assessment.
Practitioners should keep parents and/or carers up to date with all progress and development. Practitioners should address any learning and development needs. This should be with parents and/or carers, and relevant professionals. Information from assessment should be shared between practitioners and year 1 teachers. This supports a successful transition to Key Stage 1.
Ongoing assessment (also known as formative assessment) is an integral part of the learning and development process. It involves practitioners understanding children’s interests and what they know and can do. They can then shape teaching and learning experiences for each child reflecting that knowledge. In their interactions with children, practitioners should make and act on their own day-to-day observations about children’s progress and observations that parents and carers share. However, there is no requirement to keep written records in relation to this.
Where possible, the two-year-old progress check and the health review at 2.3 years should help both services and families understand a child’s health and development.
Torbay’s local approach supports teamwork between health and education professionals. This helps identify a child’s strengths and any developmental delays early on. It also helps find support for the child and their family, which is discussed at the review meeting.
Below shows the pathway for children who are currently attending settings.
Process:
Signposting to universal offer e.g.
Signposting to universal offer e.g.
0-19 Torbay and Early Years setting attend review meeting and share impact of interventions. Action for Children share feedback from LT&P with 0-19 Torbay. Parents should be invited to this meeting if they wish to attend. The EYDP Review format is used during the meeting to update on progress made via planned interventions. This is held by 0-19 Torbay
At the beginning of each half term early years settings (nurseries, preschools, childminders, schools with 2-year-olds) should email 0-19 Torbay publichealthnursing.torbay@nhs.net with a list (name and DOB) of children due for their progress check within the coming half term – document available below . The setting should obtain parental consent to share information prior to sending – document available below. Children who are causing concern are flagged and support offered through an intervention – document available below.
The statutory requirements of the progress check at age two explain what early years practitioners must do. These actions are legally required and are set out in the statutory framework for the EYFS.
In addition, there are actions which we should take. These actions are not legally required but we must be mindful of what we should do. We should only take another course of action if there is good reason for doing so.
Practitioners must provide parents with a short-written summary of their child’s development in:
Practitioners must:
Beyond these points, practitioners must decide what the written summary document could include.)
When a child begins reception year a short assessment will be done within the first six weeks.
The EYFS Profile must be completed for each child:
This gives parents and carers, practitioners and teachers a well-rounded picture of a child’s:
The Profile must reflect: