Where to Make an Assessment
Assessment is ongoing through your observations of the children in your care, however, you can also record summative assessments to create a general snapshot of a child's current development.
To make an assessment, follow these steps:
From the Journey tab of the child's profile, select New
Select Assessment from the drop-down menu
Your assessment template will open for you to fill inYour reference material will appear to the right.
Realising the Ambition and The Curriculum for Excellence can both be added as Reference Material by going to Settings.
Currently, to see the reference material on the app, you will need to be on a tablet device (not a mobile phone), and it must be in landscape mode.
Please note: you will not have the option to select specific curriculum statements.
You can add a photo, by clicking Add photos
Click Send or Save as draft
Custom Assessment Options
This gives you the option to create your own custom assessment configurations for your setting.
When in Settings click on Child Development → Assessment Settings. You'll see a button called 'Create your own configuration'. Once clicked, a new menu will open for you to enter your choices (as below). You can choose:
What to call your assessment
Which framework to assess within
Whether to include age bands,
what those bands are
how many you'd like
Whether you would like to include specific 'assessment options' (shown below),
how many assessment options you would like,
what you'd like to call them
which colours represent them
Whether you'd like to include 'reflections' (a free text box)
Please note that if you choose not to add any 'assessment options' or age bands/ranges, your 'progress report' will be blank.
When creating your own assessment configurations, keep in mind:
What information you really need - and what you can leave out
Assessing should not take practitioners' time away from children for too long, so assessments shouldn't be too labour-intensive or complex
Does the information presented tell you what the child can do?
Does the information presented tell you where a child might need extra support?
The language you use to define where a child may need additional support
Is it clear to practitioners?
Is it sensitive to the child and their parents?
*Note that assessment configurations cannot be deleted after an assessment has been made using it. These can be left as disabled so they will not show up for staff members when going to create an assessment.
The Two-Year Progress Check
You can complete the progress check for 2-year-olds in Famly (this can only be done once per child). To do this:
From the Journey tab of the child's profile, select New
Select Two-year check from the drop-down menu
Enter your assessment in the text fields.
Two-year checks are structurally very similar to Assessments. Unlike Assessments, 2-year checks are not included in the progress report. Once a 2-year check has been created it will appear as a fixed box in the child's learning journey and can also be found in the 'Overview' of the 'Child Development' app. If a 2-year check has been sent for review, another 2-year check cannot be started.
