Assessments run across a whole term, and the work is split between you and your director. This page is the order to take it in — about twenty minutes of reading and watching, once.

Watch this first

Two short videos. The first explains how assessments work for everyone; the second is about your part specifically.

Print this and keep it

Bloomily · Assessments · Classroom pack.pdf

Three pages: who does what, the four ratings, and the seven steps for rating a skill.

The ratings page belongs next to the classroom device. Print it, laminate it if you can, and leave it there — it's the page people actually look at.

Your part, in one paragraph

Through the term you record what children show you — a skill, a rating, and a short note about what you actually saw. About thirty seconds each. At the end of term you generate a report and send it to your director, who shares it with the family.

Rate what you saw, not what you know a child can do. That single idea is most of the job.

Start here

1. Recording a skill

The everyday one. On the classroom device, from the Skills button.

→ Record a child's learning assessment: Staff App

Or walk through it here:

Logged an activity with learning goals? The iPad offers Add learning evidence as soon as it saves, so you can rate the children on those goals then and there. The same article shows how.

2. Which tool for what

SEL, Skills and Observe do different jobs. Worth five minutes so you stop guessing.

→ Logging SEL, Skills, and Observations

When you need it

3. The full picture for a child

In a browser, where you see everything for one child, write area notes, and export a summary for a family meeting.

→ Assessments in the staff portal

4. End of term

Generating a report and sending it for review.

The four ratings

A skill nobody has observed yet is Not Yet, and that is a perfectly good answer.

Three things worth knowing now

• Nothing you record reaches a family at the time. No email goes out and nobody is told. It sits with your school until a report is generated, reviewed and shared.

• Ratings on their own don't produce a report. Your director sees nothing until you press Generate.

• Little and often beats a big catch-up. A rating recorded the week you saw it is more accurate than one reconstructed in December, and much faster to write.

If you get stuck

Every screen has a ? guide button that explains the page you're on. For anything else, ask your director, or email support@bloomily.app.