Assessment and Student Tracking
Key Message
Year 7, 8 and 9 (Key Stage 3) targets describe where students need to reach by the end of Year 7, 8 or 9 to be making good progress towards GCSE success. Subsequent targets in Years 10 / 11 will show students and parents / carers what success for them will look like at GCSE.
Student Tracking
In order to provide regular information on your child's progress, we will collect and provide you with information about their progress towards their end of year targets. This will happen twice during the academic year following internal examinations, at Student Tracking points (called ST1 and ST2).
The ST1 report will indicate whether your child is on course to exceed target (T+), meet target (T) or be below their end of year target (T-). The ST2 report will indicate where they have got to by the end of the year. Teachers will provide 'What Went Well' (WWW) comments and 'Even Better If' (EBI) advice, illustrating what students need to do to further improve.
Targets
During the Autumn term, students will receive personalised targets in each subject they are studying. These targets are:
- End of year targets at Key Stage 3;
- Challenging but achievable;
- The minimum we would expect to be achieved and
- Generated using the national Fischer Family Trust (FFT) database.
FFT Targets
The FFT database generates personalised targets for each student in each subject they are studying. The database takes a student's KS2 data, looks for similar students with similar KS2 scores and generates an end of Year 11 target in each subject.
KS3 Targets at The County High School, Leftwich
Subject Leaders and their teams have analysed the new GCSEs and have worked out how much progress each student should make by the end of each year to reach their end of Year 11 target in their subject. In doing so Subject Leaders and their teams have created subject-specific flight paths through their subjects using GCSE grades which have been split into three sections:
- Upper (e.g. 5U)
- Middle (e.g. 3M)
- Lower (e.g. 6L)
Please see below for an example of how subject flight paths might look, for two different end of Year 11 GCSE target grades:
Example Flight Path 1 |
Example Flight Path 2 |
|
End of Year 7 Target |
2U |
4M |
End of Year 8 Target |
3M |
5L |
End of Year 9 Target |
4L |
6M |
Likely Range of FFT GCSE Target Grade |
4-7 |
6-9 |
Student Tracking Reports Issue Dates
Student Tracking 1 Reports issued during week commencing: |
Student Tracking 2 Reports issued during week commencing: |
|
Year 7 |
20th January 2020 |
29th June 2020 |
Year 8 |
20th January 2020 |
29th June 2020 |
Year 9 |
18th November 2019 |
2nd March 2020 for Electives' subjects, |
Year 10 |
13th January 2020 |
13th July 2020 |
Year 11 |
16th December 2019 |
23rd March 2020 |
Guide to KS3 Monitoring and Reporting Progress 2019-20
Useful Links
Department for Education GCSE Factsheet for Parents
Guide to KS3 Monitoring and Reporting Progress 2019-20
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