ABSTRACT
Your general policy statement about assessment is best kept as simple as possible and with detail about its implementation and the methods to be used (e.g. examples of record cards, self-evaluation profiles) included in a number of appendices. A typical outline statement might be as follows:
Children's work in art will be regularly assessed against National Curriculum Attainment Targets and will be reported to parents at the end of Key Stages 1 and 2 against the End of Key Stage Statements for Years 2 and 6.
Pupils will keep examples of work across the Key Stage in order to assist in the assessment of their progress and achievement and will be encouraged to make personal assessments of their work. Some of these examples will be of such work, as in observational drawing and the use of the visual elements of art, that will be repeated each year in order to demonstrate pupil's progress.
The art coordinator will maintain folders of examples of work in art for each year group in the school and these will be used to assist teaching staff in ensuring standardisation of assessment procedures for the subject.
