As a part of ongoing formative assessment at Marlborough Primary teachers provide a range of opportunities for pupil recording, for example, annotating photographs.  In the first example, pupils had been learning to make careful observations through observing changes over time in different types of foods. Over a time period of five days foods became mouldy, but different effects were noticed with different foods. Pupils were asked to study the photographs, identify any changes and describe these on the template seen. In the second example pupils used photographs of themselves acting as ‘shadow sticks’ to describe how the length of a shadow changes over the day.

Year 4, Marlborough Primary, Cardiff