Assessment and Reporting
Assessment and Reporting 2023-24
At the Cowplain School (TCS) we have a regular and rigorous whole school assessments for all year groups twice a year and all assessment results are published in students reports and available on Insight.
Every report for every student in every year group contains the following:
1) The assessment results in form of a percentage and the average assessment result of all the students who have completed the assessment.
2) The students’ pathway, which gives students a target grade range not limiting students to one specific target grade.
In the guided pathway students are aiming for a grade 5. The scaffolded students are aiming for a 5 to 7 grade range and the independent students are aiming for a 7 to 9 grade range. The terms guided, scaffolded and independent describe the type of learning we would expect student to do, e.g. scaffolded students receive more support by the teacher scaffolding the learning for them, while independent students are expected to work more independently.
3) An attitude to learning and an attitude to home learning grade (ATL and ATH criteria can be found here).
4) An indication whether the student is currently exceeding (E), meeting (M) or a concern (C) in relation to their target pathway.
5) A rank order position for each subject and the average KS2 rank order (based on English and Maths, if available) on entry for comparison. This rank order information will be used to change class sets. This especially applies to students from Year 7 to Year 10 as sets in Y11 are generally kept the same.
All assessments for all year groups, except for practical assessments take place in the hall in Year 11 and the second assessment for Y10. For all other year groups assessment take place in the classroom. Students have an assessment themed reflection time three weeks before the assessments start, followed by two weeks of revision in class and home learning is based around revision too.
Year 11:
The 1st Assessment Cycle takes place from Friday 17th November to Friday 24th November, except for one English Literature assessment, which will be on Friday 10th November. This assessment period is followed by students’ reports in January and a Year 11 parents evening on Thursday 11th January.
The 2nd Assessment Cycle takes place from Tuesday 27th February to Friday 8th March followed by students’ reports and a Year 11 parents evening on the 28th March.
Link to Year 11 report example
Year 10:
The 1st Assessment Cycle takes place from Monday 15th to Friday 19th January, followed by students’ reports and a parents evening on Thursday 8th February.
The 2nd Assessment Cycle takes place from Monday 17th to the 28th of June, followed by students’ reports.
Link to Year 10 report example
Year 9:
The 1st Assessment Cycle takes place from Monday 22nd to Friday 25th January, followed by students’ reports and a parents evening on the 29th of February.
The 2nd Assessment Cycle takes place from Monday 20th to 24th May followed by students’ reports.
Year 8:
The 1st Assessment Cycle takes place from Monday 6th to the 10th November, followed by students’ reports and a parents evening on the 30th November.
The 2nd Assessment Cycle takes place from the 24th to 28th June followed by students’ reports.
Year 7:
The 1st Assessment Cycle takes place from Monday 13th to the 17th November, followed by students’ reports and a parents evening on the 7th December.
The 2nd Assessment Cycle takes place from Monday 7th to 10th May followed by the students’ reports and a parents evening on the 6th of June.