1. Assessment at Al Basma British School
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Assessment at Al Basma British School

2. 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.

4. 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.

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

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

12. Support at home

13. 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.

14. 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:
Home learning (homework) is a vital part of learning, this will cover valuable content.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. What is the grading structure for the new GCSE specifications?

18. 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

19. KG2

20. G1-4

21. G5-8

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

23. Deeper Learning - Mastery

24. 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.