Assessment Procedure

• At the start of each year all students starting GCSE courses (in Y9 and Y10) sit a baseline test to assess their starting point (see appendix A), this gives the teacher an indication of their TMG for the year, as well as a detailed breakdown of their strengths/areas of development for different strands

• At the start of the A Level course students will write an assessment essay in the first fortnight which assesses their communication skills, as well as their ability in the three assessment areas (discussion, applying examples and terminology). This will provide the teacher with an idea of the students’ ability and potential TMG

• All students will have books to record their learning and essential information, to carry out tasks and to use to record/plan any research. The books will be marked each cycle and where appropriate a summative comment will be recorded which requires the student to record a response to demonstrate understanding of the feedback

• All students will have an assessment file in which their assessed pieces of work will be kept, each assessed piece will have a top sheet (see appendix B & C)

• Each student will have a formal assessment piece to complete every three weeks. This will be marked and assessed on the key strands- with the student progress recorded on a class spread sheet and in the students assessment folders

Homework

• Students will be set research tasks linked with their assessed pieces of work- this will require them to carry out independent reading around a topic and to make notes to help them with their assessed piece of work

• Students will also be required to complete extra time on their practical production work beyond allocated lesson time (this will vary between year groups)

• Where appropriate students will be given tasks to extend/consolidate their understanding of the learning carried out in lessons, this will average out as once per cycle (however these will be set at the teachers’ discretion)