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Whilst January is never an easy return following the festivities of Christmas, there have been better starts to the year than to suddenly close schools. So, what is to be done with assessment and tracking this time as we work through our third lockdown?

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With Christmas just being a stone’s throw away, we couldn’t let COVID-19 stop us from celebrating our ‘X-mas work do’, and so like many businesses and schools across the country, we decided to go online.

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With the news today that SATS will go ahead in 2021, there will be a flurry of comments, damning complaints and Union uproar. It has already been declared ‘morally wrong’ and ignoring ‘the needs of children’. 

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If I only had been given a pound for every school that asked me that question…

“What is everyone else doing?”

And yet this very simple question raises questions for me too about what any of us are doing with tracking and assessment during these days, and more importantly, why? Coronavirus has put so many more schools into pockets of isolation, so I feel now is the time to challenge this thinking.

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As September rolls around, as teachers get to know their new classes and the Autumn term flies along at a great rate of knots, we usually spend a little time looking at pupils’ past performance to identify end of year or end of key stage targets for children and cohorts. But what do we do, having returned to school, where some pupils have been absent from traditional, formal education since March? 

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