Assessment
Assessments at HACH
The purpose of assessment here at HACH is to guide teachers in their planning and teaching of your child. Great teaching is informed by regular low stakes quizzing which informs teaching so we can ensure your child is learning the curriculum and remembering it. In lessons student shave regular Do Now Quizzes which are low stakes quizzes on the powerful knowledge of the curriculum. This is a research-driven way to ensure your child learns more knowledge over time and we have seen huge success with this.
Every child in the school has two summative assessments across ana academic year. These assessments are more formal than a Do Now Quiz and are in timed conditions with no teacher guidance. The aim of these assessments is to test if your child is remembering the curriculum as intended. The purpose is for teachers to understand what your child knows and use this information to inform their teaching.
We will report home to you on these assessments after teachers have reviewed your child's progress. Although reports home help you understand your child’s progress, we want to emphasise that we will not be using high stakes language with students about them. They are a useful tool to ensure we can support them to learn the curriculum and therefore we will not be using pressurising language with them, especially in non-exam year groups.
KS3 Assessments
At KS3, assessments are designed to be age appropriate for your child and test on the curriculum since they joined us in Year 7. Assessments will be sat in class and review a cumulation of their knowledge. Knowledge Organiser will be the main tool encouraged for revision should your child want to prepare for these assessments.
KS3 Communication after the assessments:
After an assessment window you will receive a report containing the results from recent assessments. This report will contain:
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Forecast Grade An aspirational target grade predicted for the end of GCSE
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Attitude to Learning grade for each subject
This will help you understand your child’s effort and behaviour
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A percentage score from their assessment
This will highlight how much knowledge has been learned from the curriculum
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A forecast quartile which indicates the performance grouping that your child sits in within in their year group.
This will help you understand how well they did in relation to their peers
Future assessment information:
| Assessment 1 | Assessment 2 | |
| Year 7 | WC 9th Jan – WC 16th Jan | WC 5TH June – WC 12th June |
| Year 8 | WC 5th Dec – WC 12th Dec | WC 15th May – WC 22ND May |
| Year 9 | WC 9th Jan – WC 16th Jan | WC 15th May – WC 22ND May |
KS4 and 5 Assessment
As KS4 and KS5 students are studying towards their GCSE and A-level exams their assessments will be a mixture of classroom based and in the exam hall. Revision for Year 10 and 11 students is expected to be much higher as they prepare for important end of school exams which are more high stakes than those in KS3.
KS4 and KS5 Communication after the assessments:
After an assessment window you will receive a report containing the results from recent assessments. This report will contain:
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Forecast Grade An aspirational target grade predicted for the end of GCSE
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Attitude to Learning grade for each subject
This will help you understand your child’s effort and behaviour
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A percentage score from their assessment
This will highlight how much knowledge has been learned from the curriculum
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A TMLG (Teacher Most Likely Grade)
This will share with you the grade most likely to be achieved based on recent progress. GCSE 1-9; A level A*-U or Dist/Merit** for vocational courses
Future Assessment Information
| Assessment 1 | Assessment 2 | |
| Year 10 | WC 9th Jan – WC 16th Jan | WC 1st May – WC 8th May Mock Timetable TBC |
| Year 11 | WC 7th Nov- WC 14th Nov |
WC 27th Feb - WC 13th March Mock Timetable TBC |
| Year 12 | WC 30th Jan - WC 6th Feb |
WC 19th June - WC 26th June Mock Timetable TBC |
| Year 13 | WC 21st Nov - WC 28th Nov | WC 27th Feb - WC 13th March Mock Timetable TBC |
Guidance on subjects:
A reminder that all of the long-term plans for every subject can be found here should you seek further clarity on what will be assessed from the curriculum: http://www.grmcna.com/511/subjects
