Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College Over the year the students will be assessed on a variety of Assessment Focuses which will then contribute to their overall level of attainment

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College These AFs will cover: Speaking & Listening Reading for Understanding Writing

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College Autumn A All About Me

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College Autumn B All About School

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College Spring Term A Twisted Tales

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College Spring Term B Shakespeare ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College Summer Term A Travel Writing

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College Summer Term B Titanic & Novel

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College YEAR 7 SCIENCE

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College THEMES MAN EARTHS RESOURCES ICE CAPS BEYOND EARTH Throughout Key Stage 3 we teach Science as Themes containing a variety of linked Topics. To be able to link topics in Science requires higher level thinking and this is encouraged from the start of year 7.

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College TOPICS INCLUDED IN YEAR 7 THEMES: CELLS REPRODUCTION DIGESTION AND RESPIRATION PARTICLES REVERSIBLE AND NON-REVERSIBLE REACTIONS HEAT TRANSFER FEEDING RELATIONSHIPS HABITATS AND ADAPTATIONS ROCKS ENERGY AND ELECTRICITY SOLAR SYSTEM SPEED

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College Throughout the year we also develop a series of Essential Key Skills as part of the delivery of the courses. Essential Key Skills: COMMUNICATION HANDLING DATA GRAPHS MODELLING These skills will be assessed at the same time as subject content

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College ASSESSMENT PROCESS Each half term the students will compete an assessment week. This involves: SUBJECT TEST SKILL TEST APP TASK The students will receive feedback and will be expected to set personal targets for the next half term

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College APP Assessing pupils’ progress (APP) is a national approach to assessment that equips teachers to make judgements on pupils’ progress. It helps teachers to fine-tune their understanding of pupils’ needs and tailor their planning and teaching accordingly, by enabling them to: track pupils’ progress use diagnostic information about pupils’ strengths and weaknesses to improve teaching, learning and pupils’ progress make reliable judgements related to national standards drawing on a wide range of evidence.

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College APP Students will be expected to complete a range of APP activities. These will include: PROJECT WORK PRESENTATIONS MODEL MAKING WRITTEN TASKS MOVIE MAKING USING DATA TO INFORM THE PUBLIC

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College

UNDERSTANDING Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College By taking part in the course you learn, understand and appreciate the important issues that affect people throughout the world and will affect you in your adult life. Through Religious Education you learn about religion and faith, something that has affected life on this planet over the last two millennia. We want you to have fun, to enjoy your learning and achieve your true potential. Through your study you learn and gain understanding about the relationships with other people. You may become more appreciative of others and be able to understand another person's motives, ideas and beliefs. By studying the subject you learn about the spiritual aspect to all life and may learn to experience this aspect in more detail in your own life. You will also want you to care for each other and support your form members through the next 5 years RESPECT AFFECTION HUMOUR

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College An overview of what we learn each term Year 7 Term 1a Weeks 7 Term 1b Weeks 7 Term 2a Weeks 7 Term 2b Weeks 7 Term 3a Weeks 7 Term 3b Weeks 7 Topics covered Community: Family, Local, Global and Plural. BASELINE ASSESSMENT LEVEL ASSESSMENT 1 Advent and Christmas The History of the Church LEVEL ASSESSMENT 2 God and the Trinity Prayer: different types and the purpose of prayer LEVEL ASSESSMNET 3 World Religious: Hinduism SRE SETTING FOR YEAR 8

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College Term 1 Community: Family, Local, Global and Plural communities.

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College Term 2 the History of the Church: Saint Stephen, Saint Paul, how the message of Christianity spread to Europe.

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College Term 2 The Blessed Trinity The role of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College Term 3 the importance of Prayer Why we prayer, how we pray and How to help others.

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College Term 3 Hinduism Key features and practices of the religion of Hinduism.

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College ENRICHMENT

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College Pupils are set by ability from September using KS2 Data. All year 7 pupils completed an additional baseline assessment last week.

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College Every pupil will follow the same curriculum covering: Number and Algebra Geometry and Measures Statistics

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College Classes will study each element at different levels dependent upon current attainment and end of year target.

Engage Enable Empower Thornleigh Salesian College - A Sports College Pupils will be assessed at the end of each half term. Pupils will sit formal assessments at Christmas, Easter and at the end of the school year.

Year 7 AIG Meeting September 2011 How we use Assessment Data

What Assessment Data do we already have? When your child is enrolled at Thornleigh we are able to access their KS2 results as soon as they are published. This is not just simple levels like: English: Level 4 Maths: Level 3 We receive a full break down of how each student performed in each test paper.

Detailed KS2 Data Reading Total Mark Reading Level Writing Total Mark Writing Level English Total Mark English Test Overall Level English Test Sub-Level English TA Level Maths Total Mark Maths Test Overall Level Maths Test Sub-Level Maths TA Level Student a48155c5 Student a59255b4

What do we use KS2 results for? At Thornleigh we set all students for English and Maths right from the beginning of Year 7. There are 5 sets in each half of the year This setting is refined as the year progresses. We also use the KS2 data to set each student targets in all their subjects.

Target Setting at Key Stage 3 The Government expects all students to make a minimum of two levels of progress between the end of KS2 and the end of KS3. In English and Maths we take a student’s KS2 sub-level in that subject to set the target. In all other areas of the curriculum we use an average of a student’s English and maths sub- levels.

CAT Tests All Year 7 students took a series of Cognitive Abilities Tests (CATs) last week. These are currently being marked. We use these to give every class teacher additional information about each student’s strengths and weaknesses.

Class Teacher’s Use of Key Data

On-Going Teacher Assessment A teacher’s assessment of their students is on- going all the time. However, we collect a formal assessment of every student 3 times a year. Parents are informed of these results through a Progress Report or a more detailed Full Report. We also use this data to track how well each student is doing relative to their targets.