1. Key Stage 4 Focus evening 18 January 2017
From Mock Exams to GCSE’s
Assessment
Feedback
Support

2. 23 January Mock Exam Results report issued
.. Although most students have most of their results already

3. ENGLISH Total Mark Targets Comments Include detailed ideas on context
Total Mark
Targets
Include detailed ideas on context
Refer back to the question
Analyse language in detail and zoom in on specific words and phrases
Use subject terminology accurately
Work on SPAG
Use quotations to back up your points
Comments

4. MATHS
Teachers have gone through the mock exam paper highlighting common mistakes and how to improve Students have completed assessment review sheets looking at the number of marks they achieved for each question and highlighting key areas for revision

5. MUSIC Teachers have identified common concerns
Confident knowledge and use of key musical terms is top of the list
Students currently working on a controlled assessment, so working on mock exam feedback will happen after half-term
Compositions!

6. GEOGRAPHY
During the recent mock exams the students showed an overall weakness in producing Level 3 case study responses.
There are 3 case study questions in the main exam paper (Key Geographical Themes – worth 50% of the course). Each case study question is worth 9 marks, plus 3 marks for spelling and grammar.
In order to address this Year 11 students are being set a case study revision task once a week for their homework. Each week they will revise/create a revision resource on a single case study and then be assessed on it in class.
Students were given a case study booklet (containing all the content they need for success in the summer) prior to their mock exams to help with case study revision.

7. Assessment and feedback
Assessment will be either:
1. Summative – eg: tests or reports
Right or wrong
Level attained
2. Diagnostic – eg: feedback to assignments
Highlights strengths and weaknesses
Assessment refers to targets
Minimum target vs aspirational target
Specific guidance given about how to improve/refine/progress 6

8. Responding to feedback
Students are expected to act on feedback in order to improve a particular piece of work. Over time the process of refining work becomes a consistent working habit; students learn how to evaluate their own work and recognise common shortcomings.
What does this look like?

9. English
Student response
Student self-evaluation
Teacher comment

10. Drama
Even Better If
Now Try This

11. French
Specific feedback
If you continued to work like this..!

12. German
Student-teacher dialogue!
Small gains add up..!

13. R E Points now explained in more depth Small gains add up..!
From this…
…to this!
Points now explained in more depth
Small gains add up..!

14. P E
PINK highlighter = act on this!

15. Maths Student self-evaluation Teacher guidance Teacher comment
Follow-up questions to check understanding

16. Science Feedback sheet related to topic The work with improvements
Student self-evaluation
Student response in green

17. Art Student response, indicating what has been added where
Teacher comments added regularly

18. It is important to remember that:
Detailed feedback will not happen for every piece of work!
Often feedback will be given to a group for students to refer to
Feedback can also be verbal

19. Support on offer Support sessions are liable to change
Some subjects will add sessions after half-term
Some sessions will be invitation-only or deadline specific