Cambridge Lower Secondary is typically for learners aged 11 to 14 years. Schools can shape the programme around how they want their students to learn, developing young learners who are confident, responsible, reflective, innovative and engaged. The programme provides a natural progression for children from lower secondary education and prepares them for post-14 education programmes that lead to formal qualifications.
Assessment
Choose from a range of optional assessments that prove and improve learning, whether you are looking to assess learner performance, inform teaching or report progress to students and parents:
Measure potential: Accurately measuring a student’s potential and progress can transform learning and help you make informed decisions about individual students and their educational needs. Our baseline and diagnostic assessments from Cambridge CEM, help you measure and benchmark learners’ potential.
Provide feedback: We encourage you to assess our creative subjects in the classroom through discussion, observation and lesson outputs as opposed to asking learners to sit a test. We provide assessment guidance to help you give formative feedback on the skills you want learners to develop so that they can reflect on, and improve, their performance.
Monitor progress:
Cambridge Lower Secondary Progression Tests will help you check learners’ progress at the end of stages 7, 8 and 9. The tests are marked in school and, from 2022 onwards, will be updated annually.
Measure achievement:
Monitor individual and group performance at the end of the lower secondary programme using Cambridge Checkpoint tests. See how your learners are performing in comparison to the rest of their class and against an international benchmark. Marked by Cambridge International.