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 Fisher 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 score 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

FFT End of GCSE Target Grade

5

8


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

2nd March 2020 for Electives' subjects,
15th June 2020 full report

Year 10

13th January 2020

13th July 2020

Year 11

16th December 2019

23rd March 2020


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