Planning to introduce and support the APP approach in your school will be central to its success.

Here we outline the initial considerations for you and your school senior leadership team (SLT), the planning decisions required to identify the staff to be involved, their continuing professional development (CPD) and training needs and the activities to secure your teachers' assessment judgements through planned in-school standardisation and moderation activity.

The APP pilots have shown that critical to teachers' success is the active involvement of a senior member of their school staff. A checklist of questions for the school senior leader to review the progress of APP after each assessment round is provided in the booklet Guidance for planning and supporting in-school standardisation and moderation  (PDF 0.16 Mb)

Initial considerations for the SLT

The SLT should consider the school context and how the assessment policies and practices of your school fit the APP approach. This will help the SLT decide with which subjects, year groups and teachers your school is going to start using APP.