At Chatham we use track children’s progress in English-language proficiency using our assessment tracker, adapted from The Bell Foundation’s Primary EAL Assessment Framework.
Which can be found here: Chatham EAL Assessment Tracker
English language Proficiency development at Chatham is represented by two proficiency bands and each band has a descriptive label :
A-New to English/Beginning
B-Early acquisition/Emerging
Each band has 10 assessment descriptors. Children are not expected to achieve all the descriptors within a band (some may not be applicable to certain ages, for example) and pupils may attain the descriptors in a different order to those listed; this is not unusual and is not a cause for concern. However, it is important to be aware that the descriptors are sequenced to reflect internal progression within each band of descriptors, e.g. descriptors 1- 3 are ‘early development’ and descriptors 8 -10 are ‘getting closer to the next band’. Although the descriptors are not expected to be achieved in strict order by all pupils, this way of ordering the descriptors within each band enables teachers to set targets from the descriptors and to track progression.