‘Sometimes we get children to record their initial ideas in a floor book. They can then revisit this at the end of a lesson or topic to review how their understanding has developed. Generally at the end of a lesson they would have the opportunity to say how they felt their learning went.  They’d usually mark it with a coloured dot, like a traffic light, or a smiley face, and peer assessment we do sometimes get them to mark their own work.  We will give them a set of criteria so they might give like a mark for the presentation, a mark if they gave a reason for their prediction, or something like that, and a mark for using scientific vocabulary.‘

Oaktree Primary School, Swindon