ABSTRACT
Monitoring and assessing pupils can be motivating for the pupils themselves, to help them see what they have achieved and what else they could do. Most music teachers routinely record performances for individual pupils and classes on the many and various types of technology we now have available. Completing an Arts Award is a good way of demonstrating what pupils can achieve. It is worth remembering that GCSEs go all the way from G up to A*. There is plenty of scope and plenty of space for all students with SEND to take this particular examination. Listening, composing and performing take roughly equal marks, so anyone can still get a grade if one of them is not a strength. For most students with SEND, being measured against their peers is mostly only ever going to amount to failing. Teachers should investigate and devise parallel methods of assessment and recording in order to avoid demotivating pupils in their classes.
