Nurture Playbook

Formative Assessment Playbook

St Brigid’s Primary School

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Your next stepYear 1 · Meeting 3 of 10

Questioning and discussion

Tuesday, 10 November 2026, 15:30 · 75 minutes

  1. 1Remind your teachersSend them the teachers’ link: every agenda, nothing to sign up for.
  2. 2Get readyPrint the pack and tick off the checklist. 0 of 9 readyOpen checklist
  3. 3Run the meetingFollow it from your screen, one item at a time, or put it on the big screen.Run meetingPresent

The big idea

Using evidence of achievement to adapt what happens in classrooms to meet learner needs. Wiliam

Your focus · Strategy 1 of 5

Clarifying, sharing and understanding learning intentions and success criteria

Students need to know what success looks like. Success criteria only help when students think about them: comparing examples of work and spotting what makes one better than another.

Each month, teachers choose one or two of

  • Strengths and weaknesses discussion
  • Model papers
  • Choose-swap-choose
  • WALT, WILF, TIB
What each one looks like in class

Meetings

2 of 19 held
  1. Working togetherMeeting 1
  2. Learning intentionsYour focusMeeting 2 · Learning intentions and success criteria
  3. Questioning and discussionNextMeeting 3 · Discussions and tasks that elicit evidence
  4. Feedback that moves learning forwardMeeting 4 · Feedback that moves learning forward
  5. Students as learning resourcesMeeting 5 · Learners as resources for one another
  6. Hinge-point questionsMeeting 6 · Discussions and tasks that elicit evidence
  7. Techniques for younger childrenMeeting 7
  8. Formative use of testsMeeting 8
  9. Students as owners of their learningMeeting 9 · Learners as owners of their own learning
  10. End-of-year reviewMeeting 10

Meeting agendas adapted from Professor Dylan Wiliam’s teacher learning community handouts. Techniques from Embedded Formative Assessment, 2nd edition (Wiliam, 2018). Several headings cover more than one technique, so Wiliam puts the total at more than 70.