Assessment
All assessment information should help students to improve their learning. The use of good quality, consistent information plays a significant role in promoting improvement from learner level through to system level. It needs to be valid, reliable, manageable and meaningful for teachers, students and other audiences. The assessment within the school, and across primary/secondary clusters, is designed to provide coherent information that demonstrates a shared understanding so that it can be used consistently across subjects and year groups.
Teaching &
Learning
Quality Marked
Assessments (QMAs)
All students complete a Quality Marked Assessment (QMA) during each half term/unit of work. The task and success criteria for QMAs are shared with students and parents/carers on the unit descriptors. QMAs are assessment tasks that are carefully marked by teachers, where students are given formative feedback that they must respond to.
When undertaking Formative WWW/EBI Teacher Marking, students’ work is formatively marked in green pen for:
- a ‘What Went Well’ (WWW) comment: a subject specific formative comment
- an ‘Even Better If’ (EBI) this is a subject specific task that is actionable and furthers learning and/or addresses misconceptions. It should support continuous improvement and encourage a growth mindset. The EBI task can ask students to revisit a task that has been previously completed, or be built in to the next lesson’s task.
Students also complete summative assessments at the end of the unit of work, to evidence their learning of that topic. The grades from the QMAs and summative assessments allow the teacher to provide an end of year Predicted Grade for the students, in weeks 10, 20 and 30.
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Monitoring and tracking student’s progress
The data that is collected on the students is shared with parents/carers through Interim Progress Reports. These include Attitude to Learning Grades and Progress Indicators. Parents/carers will be informed as to whether their child’s progress is exceeding, meeting, working towards where we would expect them to be.
In addition, each student will receive a Full Progress Report during the academic year which includes the child’s strengths in each subject, as well as suggestions for how they can improve.
Students are also assessed on their Attitude to Learning in each of their subjects.
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Assessment Terms
When determining this grade, considerations are: effort in class, organisation, engagement with home learning opportunities, Growth Mindset, motivation, behaviour.
Outstanding | Students who ALWAYS show high standards in each of the above areas. |
Good Students | who USUALLY show good standards in each of the above areas. |
Inconsistent | Students who SOMETIMES meet standards in each of the above areas.
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Cause for Concern | Students who FREQUENTLY DO NOT meet expectations in most of the above areas |
In line with the New Curriculum, Year 7 students will also be assessed on their skill levels of the 4 Integral Skills: Planning and Organisation, Creativity and Innovation, Personal Effectiveness and Critical Thinking and Problem solving.
