Barbara Fitzsimmons - Elfrida Primary School, Lewisham
PASAPP helps Elfrida Primary School to assess pupils more quickly and target teaching resources more effectively
Since the introduction of PASAPP from Wauton Samuel in Elfrida Primary School, Lewisham, assessment
information has taken a big step forward. Commenting on PASAPP’s benefits in this area, Barbara
Fitzsimmons, headteacher at Elfrida, said, “PASAPP has enabled us to find information on a pupil very
quickly, which in turn allows the school to be more responsive. Since the advent of PASAPP we are able
to target support to those pupils who need it more quickly.”
The PASAPP system, according to Barbara,
is a very effective tool for the senior managers in the school. It allows them to have an overview of the
whole school, which previously they didn’t have and they can therefore allocate resources more effectively.
The system also gives Barbara the flexibility to compare groups of children across the school by certain
criteria, for example ethnicity.
Barbara is full of praise for the analyses PASAPP provides, she can
now be much more focussed in the school’s assessment of numeracy and literacy. She cites as a good example
of the power of PASAPP, the comparisons she is able to perform on KS2 SATS results to see why certain
scores have been achieved and what has affected children such as mobility and cohort changes.