Year 7 Target Setting and Assessment Evening

National Context Levels were introduced with the new national curriculum in 1988 An assessment system which measures students’ progress against a national framework

National Context “….As part of our reforms to the national curriculum, the current system of ‘levels’ used to report children’s attainment and progress will be removed. It will not be replaced….” (DfE, 2013a)

National Context GCSEs are becoming harder Letters are changing to numbers Schools will no longer be judged on 5 A*-C with English and Maths but on the progress made from KS2 to 4 measured by the outcomes in 8 GCSEs. Pupils are not coming to us from Primary Schools with levels any more.

Life without Levels National Context Whether you agree or disagree with this Government policy we are in new world…. Life without Levels

What do we want to achieve? A system that: •Is based on developing the key knowledge and skills required for success in KS4 •Is based on our high expected standards of students •Is based heavily on qualitative feedback and allows all students to succeed.

What do we want to achieve? A system that: Incorporates periodic quantitative assessment to support this ongoing formative feedback •Is simple and easy to understand – for staff, parents and students •Has consistent principles, to be used across subjects, but the flexibility to be suitable for all subjects

How is it different from Levels? Students are not assigned an end of Year or End of KS3 target level but now an end of KS4 flightpath Assessment is based on progress made along their assigned flightpath – so celebrates effort of all students, with different starting points. Students are given feedback designed to encourage them to think about how to develop their learning to progress.

How do we establish the flight path? The flightpath is generated by the Fischer Family Trust (FFT) against which Davenant is measured. FFT processes national data for the Government. They use this information to produce data for schools to support high quality target-setting. We have used FFT to establish a target flightpath for each of the subjects your child takes this year

New GCSE Grades

Overall 8 subjects will be judged as a marker. What's new? What the Government wants schools to get. ENGLISH MATHS English Lit SCIENCE x2 HISTORY GEOG MFL COMPUTER SCIENCE EVERYTHING ELSE ART/MUSIC DRAMA/DT/RE Buss St. PE Textiles/Food And more BASKET 1 BASKET 2 BASKET 3 2 from here 3 from here 3 from here Overall 8 subjects will be judged as a marker.

What do the Teachers Use?

What will the Students see? Showing their target and extension flight path

What do parents see?

Student “working grade” & reporting to parents Comparison Predicted Vs Current Flightpath Working Grade Description Predicted is 1 or more grades above current flightpath W++ Working above Predicted is the same as current flightpath W+ Working at Predicted is 1 below current flightpath W Working towards Predicted is 2 or more below current flightpath W- Working below

Behaviour for Learning

Are flight paths reviewed? Yes they are – students can be moved up a flight path depending on their progress They will not hop about from flight path to flight path throughout the year They will be moved up following a careful monitoring and it will be at the discretion of the teacher and head of department

Tracking to GCSE G6 G5 100 7 8 9 10 11 Health Warning: Students do not learn in a linear fashion and may be above or below the flight path at any given time – we are tracking towards the end destination.

In Summary No more levels – flight paths are assigned Established based on starting point “scored” at the end of KS2 Base & Extension flight paths (Students are aware of both and what they need to do to progress (Grade 4 = Grade C) Staff continually monitoring progress with flight path reviews at the end of the year

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