Assessment at Al Basma British School Welcome Assessment at Al Basma British School

Principles for Assessment Assessment is … At the heart of teaching and learning Providing meaningful and understandable information for: Pupils Parents Teachers School Leaders & Governors Inspectors Honest Fair Appropriate Consistent Ambitious Inspiring greater effort and belief that, through hard work and practise, more can be achieved.

If we think of children as plants… Summative assessment of the plants is the process of simply measuring them. The measurements might be interesting to compare and analyse, but, in themselves, they do not affect the growth of the plants. Formative assessment, on the other hand, is the garden equivalent of feeding and watering the plants – directly affecting their growth.

Assessment Tracking Based on ongoing formative assessment. Evidence observed. Testing will check embedded knowledge to confirm judgements.

Terminology Emerging – some understanding is evidenced of the objective. Expected – evidence of understanding of the objective. Exceeding – deeper understanding across a range of evidence

Support at home

Assessment Week Week beginning Sunday 6th December Any tests will be checking embedded knowledge. No revision required. No pressure Scores and percentages will not be shared with the children or parents.

Secondary School Assessment Assessment is integrated into every lesson Each learning intention is implicitly linked to the national curriculum which can be located on the school website and also at: http://tinyurl.com/oya3s2k Home learning (homework) is a vital part of learning, this will cover valuable content.

Secondary School – December checkpoint Covers material explored in lesson from September to now. Students embedded knowledge will be assessed. Scores and percentages will not be shared with the children but G5-8 will review the assessments so they can see where and how they can improve. KS3 and KS4 assessments will be completed in lesson time; students will not be taken from lessons.

New GCSE Grading Structure Ofqual and the Department for Education set the regulations. Current Grade 8 will be our first cohort of students to be awarded iGCSE’s under the new grading system. A* - G replaced by 9-1 system Foundation tier will cover 1-5 Higher tier will cover 4-9 The new grading system will allow for greater differentiation of student achievement.

What is the grading structure for the new GCSE specifications?

New GCSE grades link to KS3 End of Key Stage 3 Grade Predicted New iGCSE Grade Exceeding 9 8 7 Expected 6 5 4 Pass Emerging 3 2 1

KG2

G1-4

G5-8

Terminology Emerging – some understanding is evidenced of the objective. Expected – evidence of understanding of the objective. Exceeding – deeper understanding across a range of evidence

Deeper Learning - Mastery

Key Attainment Emerging (Em) → Expected (Exp) → Exceeding (Exc) Effort & Progress 1 – Outstanding, 2 – Good, 3 – Satisfactory, 4 – Improvement needed, 5 – Poor Barriers to Learning A – Attendance, P – Punctuality, H – Homework, O – Organisation, B – Behaviour Below average will indicate a barrier to learning in any of the commented areas.