How Ibstock Place School is using Cambridge Insight as part of a holistic approach to measuring the effect of oracy across the curriculum
Ibstock Place School is a co-educational day school for children aged 4-18. It has been using Cambridge Insight baseline assessments since 2001, primarily for their lower secondary students in a two-pronged approach:
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To understand predicted outcomes, trends and analysing the value-added over time
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To help identify learning needs, such as special educational needs (SEN)
Seeing the big picture for each student
Christine Young, now former Head of Learning Support, explains how MidYIS data supports early understanding of students as they join the school in Year 7.
“We use MidYIS both as a cohort analysis tool and as part of the wider narrative around each student, helping us to identify learning needs and monitor progress.”
While overall MidYIS scores provide a useful starting point, staff look closely at the breakdown of results, particularly across reading, proofreading and perceptual speed. This helps to uncover more complex learning profiles that may not be immediately visible in a high-performing academic environment.
MidYIS data is combined with information from previous schools, interviews, registration forms and early teacher observations. These insights are shared with Heads of Faculty and teachers in a clear, accessible format, enabling patterns and points of concern to be identified quickly at both individual and cohort level.
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