Changes to Year 7, 8 and 9 Assessment

Year 7 and 8

Summative

• Year 7 to do Goal progress test in first few weeks
• Year 7 and 8 to have 2 written tests per year
• One just before Feb half term
• One towards end of year
• Feb half  term based on test base
• Summer test to be full or just 1 SAT paper, can then be analysed using PAT and pupils can see what level get if sat SAT then.

Formative

• Assessment through year to based on AFL
• Badger tasks and levelled SC1 tasks
• To be quality marked with quality mark sheet to be stuck in pupils book with level and specific targets for improvement
• At least 1 per half term
• If want end of unit assessment teachers to use goal
• Pupils get instant feedback and analysis, all stored on computer, can be done as homework as all on line

Year 9

Summative

• Progress test to be done just before October half term based on test base
• Mock to be done in January

Formative

• Assessment through year to based on AFL
• Badger tasks and levelled SC1 task
• To be quality marked with quality mark sheet to be stuck in pupils book with level and specific targets for improvement
• At least 1 per half term
• If want end of unit assessment teachers to use goal
• Pupils get instant feedback and analysis, all stored on computer, can be done as homework as all on line

All marks for all year groups to be stored on database 1 sub level per half term.