policies & applications

How a student's Predicted Grade is Determined:

• Staff will determine your grade by considering your realistic, attainable performance based on the accumulated evidence over the course over year 12 and the beginning of year 13.

• A preliminary predicted grade is set out in a draft transcript at the end of year 12. This grade may be reviewed following an opportunity to demonstrate additional performance in the beginning of year 13.

• When issuing these predicted grades, your teachers will be looking at your performance in assessments throughout the year. This will include the end of year assessment and any number of other assignments or tests that have been formally graded. If you have completed some of your IA’s or BTEC units that will help determine your final grade.

• Teachers will use your CEM data, I/GCSE's, evidencer assessments and ultimately their teacher judgment to inform subject predictions.

• As all subjects are slightly different, teachers will be using their own professional judgment based on their experience. Your skills and understanding may progress over the remainder of the course and this will vary between different courses and individual students. The predicted grades schedule allows for these changes to occur in time for all year 13 students to apply to universities from October each year.

• The Core points are predicted using the score from the TOK year 12 exhibition and the EE teacher prediction.

All school transcripts:

• For all transcripts provided by the school, it is school policy that the transcript will ONLY record courses taken by a student as part of their Island School curriculum. Courses such as GCSEs and A level papers taken outside of school may be self-reported by a student but will not be incorporated in the Island School transcript.

Transcripts for year 11 and below:

• All transcripts for year 11 (up until May of year 12) and years below (for summer schools, boarding school applications etc) are coordinated with the School's General Office and provided by the Senior Head of House. Please notify your tutor and the Senior Head of House if you require a transcript.

Transcripts for Year 12 and 13 students:

• The Higher Education office coordinates transcripts for students from the start of Year 12 and all of Year 13.

• The school's policy is to provide all school documents, including transcripts, directly to the institution that requires them. For example, if you need a transcript for a university application you should contact the Higher Education Office about this. In most cases, you should be highlighting the need for a transcript in your HEAS form. Transcripts will only be provided to institutions where the student has declared that they would like the school to provide these transcripts. In the case of applications to universities, students must make this declaration by completing an HEAS form and providing this information on the HE/ Application Summary section of the Gateway.

• Where an application system requires that a student uploads a transcript directly, this will ONLY be provided in a dated and locked pdf format.

• These measures are to preserve the integrity of the school's verification of your achieved and predicted grades.

• If you have arrived in Island School after year 10 it is your responsibility to request and supply the previous schools transcript to the IS HE office, who will then add this to your IS transcript when sending as part of your application. You should also bring to school verified and chopped/signed copies for our records as gthese may also need to be sent off by IS HE.