And actually….
… we know our children’s abilities and how they improve why should we be constantly having to prove that they have progressed.
Take Rebekah for an example. last week at camp (there will definitely be Corfe camp pictures and blogging soon) Rebekah went Kayaking. She hadn’t done it since last year and this year she went out about 4 times. She was better this year than last year, but we haven’t measured by how much. We didn’t take a baseline assessment last year so we could test how much she has improved this year. we also didn’t have a programme for her to follow to make sure she improves in the correct way in the correct time for her age. But she got better, she built on last year’s experiences and was more comfortable doing it, and could go for longer and was much happier. And her face shone when she had done it and she loved it. But I guess I should really have done all that formal assessment because obviously that would have improved everything for her.
The pig don’t get fatter the more you weigh it.
