For schools completing this as part of whole school training.  You may wish to use Section 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3 as a 'Gap Task' before the next training session.  This will allow staff time to process the information, become more familiar with the assessments and have tried some out themselves.

Activity:

If you haven't already, it can be useful to have a pre-prepared assessment folder with the following documents organised into sections:

From Part 1:

• Counting and part-whole strategies: Stages of Thinking
• Coding sheet for diagnostic assessment
• Guidance Document: Addition and Subtraction
• Response and Level Guidance: Addition and Subtraction
• Addition and Subtraction Assessment 
• Blank master copy
• Several blank copies to write on so they are easily accessible when you are assessing pupils.
• Problem Cards: Addition and Subtraction 
• Blank master copy (in case you lose any of your cut and laminated ones)
• Cut and laminated versions of the problem cards.

From Part 2:

• Guidance Document: Knowledge Assessments
• Each of the knowledge assessments below including a:
• Blank master copy
• Several blank copies to write on so they are easily accessible when you are assessing pupils.
• Numeral Identification
• Forward Number Word Sequence
• Backward Number Word Sequence
• Grouping and Place Value
• Basic Facts
• Problem Cards for each of the assessments that require them (see below) including:
• Blank master copy (in case you lose any of your cut and laminated ones).
• Cut and laminated versions of the problem cards.
• Numeral Identification Problem Cards
• Grouping and Place Value Problem Cards
• Basic Facts Problem Cards

This allows for the assessments to be completed quicker and all information to be easily accessible in one place.