19/6/2008

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Classroom Monitor (www.classroommonitor.co.uk), an award-winning interactive markbook from Prime Principle, provides primary schools with a consistent approach to teacher assessment and helps them meet the Government’s 2012 real-time reporting targets four years ahead of schedule. Already used by over 700 schools across the UK and now available online, the software allows teachers to keep all their assessment and reports across every subject in one easy to manage location and access it anytime, anywhere!

Quick and simple to use, Classroom Monitor has been designed to work just like a paper marksheet so every teacher can get to grips with inputting assessment within minutes. Teachers are then able to build up their end of year reports while simply conducting their record keeping.

Compatible with every school’s Management Information System (MIS), Classroom Monitor lists objectives from the National Curriculum, numeracy and literacy strategies Primary Frameworks or Foundation Stage Profile, against pupils in a class or set. It can also produce summary sheets of pupils’ progress in a manageable, simple and structured way. The new online version will enable schools to provide detailed real-time reports to parents without adding further to teacher workload.

A highly visual and simple ‘traffic light’ system is used to input assessment information. ‘Red’ represents an objective to target, ‘amber’ for almost met and ‘green’ when a pupil meets a target. Using information compiled from assessments over a year; teachers can add comments, personalise text and use a statement bank linked to lesson topics. This process allows teachers to link their ongoing records into reporting ensuring report writing is both highly personal and less time consuming than other methods.

The clever software can also help teachers improve their Assessment for Learning (AfL) and Assessing Pupil Progress (APP) practice in the classroom by capturing pupil performance day by day. A key aim of the AfL is to provide pupils with further work and targets which they can action – Classroom Monitor can provide this simply, concisely based on a pupil’s ongoing assessment.

In order to ensure that teaching is fine tuned to each and every pupil’s ability, Classroom Monitor displays assessment results in simple, easy to interpret graphs, spreadsheets, and target-setting documents which are fed directly into lesson planning and teaching. These can then be shared with parents, pupils, governors and Ofsted.

Clive Davies OBE, Consultant for Focus Education, commented: “Classroom Monitor makes assessment really simple, helping to free up teachers’ time and provides a snapshot of every pupil’s progress at the click of a mouse. Keeping all assessment information in one easy to reach place means teachers can quickly identify pupils that need more support and also ensure they are always ready for Ofsted!”

Chris Scarth, Commercial Director at Prime Principle, commented: “As the Government focuses more heavily on parental involvement in children’s education, it is imperative that schools are able to make important assessment information easily available to them. The new online version of Classroom Monitor now means that schools have this information at their fingertips 24/7 so can further improve communication with parents.”

From September 2008, Classroom Monitor will be fully compatible with the new QCA KS2 ‘Making Good Progress’ scheme enabling teachers to automatically convert ‘objective level assessments’ into National Curriculum Levels.
Classroom Monitor costs on average £600.00 per annum for a site licence including technical support and updates. For further information or a demonstration of the product in your school, please contact Chris Scarth, Commercial Director at Prime Principle on Tel: 0844 5555 211, e-mail: cscarth@primeprinciple.co.uk or visit the website at www.classroommonitor.co.uk.

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