Assessing Knowledge and Skills. 

Our curriculum sets out the knowledge (declarative) and skills (procedural) that we intend students to understand and be able to do. All assessment seeks to identify what has been learned, the accuracy and fluency of this knowledge, and to inform the next steps in children's learning.  

Due to prior experiences and learning, all students arrive to us with varied schema - the map of knowledge in their long-term memory.  Our role is to add knowledge and skills to their schema and be deliberate in the joining of these to form composite understanding in order that young people can make sense of the world through the various lenses.  

We seek to anticipate common misconceptions in their curriculum content and identifying steps to ensure they are addressed explicitly and preemptively. 

Assessment of what students know and can do may be of the component or the composite and is always deliberate in informing what happens next.  

For more detail on our approach to how we assess student knowledge, skill, understanding and relative performance, please see our Assessment Guide below.