Monitoring Progress

At DBIS, we prioritise developing genuine and positive relationships with the students to ensure we have a secure and deep understanding of them as individuals and as learners. We focus on identifying students’ strengths and using these to determine their personal targets so that they can progress successfully along their learning journey. Engagements with the students, reviews of their independent learning and our knowledge of each student individually inform the planning process to ensure each student is challenged and supported to achieve to the very best of their ability. Great emphasis is placed on the value of both teacher and student assessment to ensure that students can actively celebrate their learning successes, have an accurate understanding of their progress and achievements and are clear about the next steps in their learning journey.

A Window To The Classroom

Throughout their time in Key Stage 2, our students share significant elements of their learning through the Google Classroom or Seesaw platforms. This helps them celebrate their learning and share it with close family members. Though they are online, these digital platforms remain secure between the school, the student and the student’s family and give the students the opportunity to share their own reflections on their learning with family at home whilst providing their parents with a genuine window into the classroom.

As is the case in Key Stage 1, the students are expected to independently document different aspects of their learning on Seesaw. Their teachers use a variety of assessment techniques; therefore, parents should expect to see less photographs uploaded by teachers of the students engaged with their learning and more of specific pieces of work, uploaded by the students themselves, which demonstrate their understanding of a particular task or experience.