ASSESSMENT PACK

GRADE TWO

ASSESSMENT PACK 1
GRADE TWO
 GRADE 2, TERM 3:
PROJECT: ROAD SAFETY. OPPORTUNITIES FOR ASSESSMENT
This project offers at least 5 opportunities for assessment, 2 for Life Skills and 3 for Home Languages,
each aligned to the 2022 Foundation Phase Life Skills ATP together with the School-Based
Assessment guide. Please feel free to use the rubrics as is they are or adapt as needed. In this project
you can assess both Life Skills and Home Languages.

LIFE SKILLS
Assessment Life Skills: Grade 2, term 3
number Study area Topic What will be Form of Assessment Score
assessed assessment tool
1 Beginning Road safety Knowledge of Oral Rubric /5
knowledge Road safety
and personal rules for
and social pedestrians,
well being cyclists and
passengers
2 Visual Arts Create in 3 D Make a model Practical Rubric /5
of a road
vehicle
Project /10
marks
Total marks for SA SAMS are 30 for this. This project can contribute a total of 30
10 marks

HOME LANGUAGES
Assessment Home language Grade 2, term 3
number Component What skills will be assessed? Assessment tool Score
3 Writing Writes 1-2 paragraphs (at least eight Rubric /5
sentences) on personal experiences or
events /own news or on topic.
4 Listening and Role plays a familiar situation (integrated Rubric /5
speaking with Life Skill)
5 Handwriting Copies and writes short words and short Rubric /5
sentences in the joined script with correct
letter formation and spacing (integrate
with Reading, Life Skills)
Project score /15
Total marks for SA SAMS are 50 for this. This project can contribute a total of 15
marks

2
Assessment opportunity 1: Rubric

This assessment can be done at the end of Step 4 as an oral presentation.

• Study area: Beginning knowledge and personal and social well being
• What will be assessed? Knowledge of Road safety rules for pedestrians, cyclists and passengers. Learner can
create a poster.

Road safety Descriptions

Criteria 1 2 3 4 5
Oral Learner has Learner knows Learner Comprehension Excellent
presentation of rote learnt a few road describes/explains is good. Learner understanding
knowledge of words about safety words most road safety can explain of road safety.
Road safety road safety and can explain rules, signs and road safety Learner can
rules for but has poor the reason for people who keep concepts clearly explain which
pedestrians, understanding some rules, us safe on the and in some rules apply to
cyclists and of their road signs road. Can apply detail. Clear their context
passengers meaning. people that rules to own application of but knows why
Struggles to keep us safe on context i.e., the rules to it is important
connect road the road. N explains what their context to understand
safety to own Needs help roads signs exist i.e., can answer, all rules i.e., why
context i.e., bridging road in their area, and “What rules do you must learn
cannot explain safety from what rules they you use and about robots
what rules book learning use to keep safe. why?” even if there
he/she uses to own context are none in the
and why e.g., may area.
struggle to
recall road
safety signs
they see on the
way to school
or what
pedestrian
rules they use.
Score 5
Comment

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Assessment opportunity 2: Rubric

This assessment can be used once learners have finished building the vehicle at the end of step 10.

• Study area: Visual Arts (Construct in 3D)

• What will be assessed? A model of a road vehicle

A road vehicle that is:

• Constructed from only recycled and found objects. Learners should try to use range of different materials
and found objects to build and decorate a vehicle. (Range of recycle materials and found objects:
Cardboard, rigid plastic (clean milk bottles, soda, water and juice bottles) soft plastic (shopping bags) plastic
and metal lids, boxes, toilet rolls, polystyrene containers and packing materials, corks, wrapping paper, tin
foil, wool, string, stones, seeds, old newspapers/magazines.
• Has 4 wheels that can rotate and the vehicle can roll down a slope.

Construct in Descriptions
3D
Criteria 1 2 3 4 5
Effort made to Little effort Some effort Adequate effort Good effort Excellent and
build a vehicle made to use made with at made with at made with at inventive use of
using use a different least 2 materials least 3 different least 4 a wide range of
range of material and used materials used materials used materials like
recycled objects One foil, plastic,
materials main material cardboard and
used. metal
Has rotating No wheels Wheels are An effort has Good wheel Inventive wheel
wheels attached attached but been made to design. Wheels design and
are fixed and design and rotate but vehicle can roll
cannot rotate. attached vehicle cannot down a slope.
wheels, but yet roll down a
they do not slope.
rotate smoothly
yet.
Score 15/2= 5
Comment

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HOME LANGUAGE
Language of Learning and Teaching
Assessment opportunity 3: Rubric
This assessment can be used at the end of Step 4 to assess what learners have learnt about road safety, or at
the end of the project as a written reflection activity.

• Study area: Writing

• What will be assessed? Writes 1-2 paragraphs (at least eight sentences) on personal experiences or events or
on the topic of road safety. Uses correct punctuation (full stops, commas, question marks and exclamation
marks). Learners can write a reflection paragraph explaining for example: Five facts they have learnt about
road safety OR a letter where they share road safety advice with a friend OR write some dialogue or the
story that was acted out during the role play. They can also write a description of their vehicles.

Writing Descriptions
Criteria 1 2 3 4 5
Writes 1-2 Writes 1-2 Writes 3 Writes 4-5 Writes 6-7 Writes 8
paragraphs (at sentences of sentences but sentences in 1 sentences in 2 sentences in 2
least eight with support. uses capital paragraph well written coherent
sentences) on letters using capital paragraphs paragraphs
personal incorrectly. letters and full using capital using capital
experiences or stops letters, full letters, full
events or on stops, correct stops, correct
topic grammar and grammar and
spelling spelling
Score 5
Comment

Assessment opportunity 4: Rubric

This assessment can be used at the end of Step 4 where learner are encouraged to present what they have
learnt about road safety to younger learners which they can do through a role play.

• Study area: Listening and speaking

• What will be assessed? Role plays a familiar situation. (Integrated with Life Skills). Learners can role play, for
example, being a driver collecting passengers, being passengers on a bus on a school trip, being a traffic
officer teaching others about the rules of the road. Learners can use the models of the vehicles to assist with
the role play.

Listening and Descriptions

speaking
Criteria 1 2 3 4 5
Learner Struggles to Lacks Active Good role play. Excellent role.
participates in a role play and confidence to participation. Situation is Language
role play of a lacks language participate in The familiar clearly fluent, is
familiar to front of others situation is communicated creative and
situation communicate. and needs communicated although more interesting.
support and although descriptive Entertaining to
encouragement vocabulary and words needed. watch
to develop sentence Good
spoken construction expression.
language. can be
improved.
Needs more
expression.
Score 5
Comment
5
Assessment opportunity 5: Rubric

Handwriting can be assessed using any written work

• Study area: Handwriting

• What will be assessed? Writes 8-10 letters in the joined script (aligned to the school’s writing policy). Copies
and writes 2 and 3 letter words in the joined script paying attention to correct letter formation, size and
spacing. Handwriting can be assessed through any written activity.

Handwriting Descriptions
Criteria 1 2 3 4 5
Writes 8-10 Cannot yet Can copy and Can copy and Can write 4 to 6 Can write 8 to
letters in the copy and write write 1 to 2 write 3 letters letters in the 10 letters in the
joined script letters in the letters correctly correctly in the joined script joined script
(aligned to the joined script in the joined joined script. paying careful paying careful
school’s writing correctly. script l. attention to attention to
policy). correct letter correct letter
formation and formation and
size size
Copies and Can copy and Can copy and Can copy and Can copy and Can copy and
writes 2 and 3 write 2-letter write 2 and 3 write 2 and 3 write 2 and 3 write 2 and 3
letter words in words with letter words but letter words letter words letter words
the joined support but writes some paying careful paying careful paying careful
script paying struggles to letters attention to attention to attention to
attention to form letters incorrectly in correct letter correct letter correct letter
correct letter correctly in the the joined formation in formation and formation, size
formation, size joined script script the joined size in the and spacing in
and spacing script joined script the joined
script
Score 10/2=5
Comment