Across Key Stage 5, students will complete a range of assessments over the two academic years.  Assessments will include formative assessments, these are regular in class checks to gauge knowledge and understanding of curriculum content focusing on a small part or a specific part of the curriculum.  Formative assessments can range from in class progress checks, retrieval tasks, practical tasks, quizzes, extended writing, individual exam questions, presentations and home learning.  This form of assessment will be happening frequently.  Students will receive feedback from the teacher on how they can improve their work.  The focus will be on improving students’ knowledge and giving them clear steps on how to improve. 

Students will also complete bi-annual summative assessments which will assess what students have learnt over time.  Summative assessments will assess the long term acquisition of knowledge over time and as such a wide range of curriculum content, knowledge and skills will be assessed at these points.   Students will be provided with detailed personalised feedback and analysis alongside model answers and markschemes.

In Year 12 and 13 students and parents/carers will receive three (yr12) or two (yr13) progress review updates per academic year, in addition to a progress report and an invitation to a Review Evening each academic year. Furthermore in Year 12 and Year 13, students and parents / carers will be invited to attend a Success in the Sixth Form Information evening which breaks down all the key information regarding the expectations and assessments that year.   

Each progress update will include a current progress grade (the grade a student is currently working at) and an estimated grade (the grade teacher’s believe students could achieve at the end of Year 13 if the student continues to work they way they are) and the individual grades achieved in the summative assessments. Both the current and estimated grade is calculated using all of the formative and summative assessments completed up until that point.

The current progress and estimated grade update will be in the below format. The grade will have a fine grade next to it e.g an 1, 2 or 3.  A 1 means the grade is very safe within that level and the student could push to achieve higher, a 2 means that the grade is safe within that level, and a 3 means that this grade is not safe and could drop below without increased focus.