20 questions for you to ponder and answer
What should my KS2 history portfolio contain?
- What sort of work do I include?
- Should I identify specific pieces, which everyone knows will be in the portfolio, or just comment on what I get from colleagues on request?
- Which skills should be targeted? All the key elements?
- Do I need work from all year groups?
- Do I need to include work from pupils’ of all abilities?
- Do I need a range of work from individual pupils?
- How many samples do I include?
- Is there a place for short unseen tasks?
- Do I need to explain the context behind the work and the conditions under which it was undertaken?
- Should the work be marked using National Curriculum levels?
- Should there be a markscheme for every piece of work?
- If NC levels are not used, what alternatives are recommended?
- Do I need to know
