Year 7

Assessment

1) Each topic will have a written end of topic test which will take no more than 1 lesson. This will consist of a range of levelled questions from L3-L6 . It will be marked by the teacher and the NC level fed back to the students eg 3a, 5c etc. Students will then be asked to RAG (red, amber, green) rate each question in terms of how well they did and will be directed to complete self-improvement tasks for the questions they did less well on.

2) In 3 topics there will also be a Required Practical (C1, P1, B2). These are completed over 3 lessons and a homework as follows:

Lesson 1 – prediction, results table, start method (to be completed for homework)

Lesson 2 – experiment, graph

Lesson 3 – conclusion, evaluation

Each task has levelled Success Criteria printed on the worksheet so students can see what they need to do for the level they are working towards. After the RP is marked, an overall NC level will be fed back and students will then be directed to identify 3 areas they did less well on with ways to improve next time. They may also be asked to make improvements as part of the DIRT (directed improvement reflection time) process.