KS3 Assessment 

We aim to create high-quality assessments across every department, which accurately assess student knowledge and skills. This will ensure all teachers will have an accurate and precise understanding of every student's academic achievement, ensuring that any gaps in their subject knowledge or skills can be addressed to make the best possible progress.  

Within each unit of work, it is expected that there will be: 

  • A key work test – to check and develop Students’ use of specialist vocabulary.  
  • A POP task – Proof of Progress task  
  • An end of unit assessment.     

POP tasks are Proof of Progress tasks which may be completed in class or as homework to enable students to demonstrate the knowledge and skills they are currently learning.  POP tasks and end of unit assessments have banded assessment criteria linked to the trust assessment framework The purpose of assessments is always developmental, and assessments are designed to allow students of all abilities to succeed and subsequently improve learning by developing a can-do attitude.  

  • The KS3 assessment results are reported on the trust wide KS3 framework.  
  • Students are assessed then placed into attainment bands. 
  • Acquiring is the lowest band, and Extending is the highest attainment band.  
  • Techers Enter a grade as shown below (N, A, D, S, E) 
  • Each attainment band is based on a set of curriculum expectations which have been agreed across the trust schools.

 

  • The planned curriculum is our progression model.  
  • As students move from one academic year to the next, the level of knowledge and skills increase.  
  • Therefore, the level of knowledge and skills required at each attainment band also increases. The table below shows the progression in the attainments bands and how they map to the Key Stage 4 GCSE assessment framework.  

Learning Characteristics Effort Grades

Student’s progress is reported to parents and carers three times at year at the end of the Autumn, Spring and Summer terms. In the student report parents and carers will receive subject band that their child achieved in each subject and also an A* to C grade for their learning characteristics. The Learning Characteristic grades are effort grades awarded for Attitude to Learning, Organisation, and Homework. The grades may be interpreted as follows:  

 

 

Year 7 Assessments

 

Year 8 Assessments

 

Year 9 Assessments