1. How will I know if my son is doing well?
Student Progress
How will I know if my son is doing well?
Karen Velissarides – Deputy Headteacher

2. Coombe expects that your son….
makes friends and is happy
is engaged in his learning
is taught by up to date and knowledgeable teachers
does his homework
behaves impeccably
ENJOYS learning
gets involved

3. Academic Progress Each student is an individual
Wide range of subjects and skills
Catch up CAT and Baseline testing in the first 3 weeks
Building on skills, knowledge and understanding year on year
7 year flight path to GCSE and beyond!

4. Changes at Key Stage 2
Year 7 students – your son - arrived at Coombe in September with a standardised score based around 100 (average) which is an average of his performance in aspects of English and mathematics. This replaced the old KS2 levels (i.e. 5a or 4b etc).
In March 2014, the Department for Education (DfE) published information for schools on the National Curriculum and assessment from September which stated that level descriptors were being removed so that “Schools have the freedom to develop their own means of assessing pupils' progress towards end of Key Stage (KS) expectations”.
This meant that every school could choose their own way of assessing progress – both infant, primary and secondary!
In September 2016 Coombe moved away from levels.

5. What data do we have in September?
English KS2 Test 1
What data do we have in September?
English KS2 Test 2
KS2 Teacher assessment
Maths KS2 Test
KS2 Teacher assessment
Cognitive Abilities Tests

6. Assessing progress without levels
Coombe assessments are based on skills development, knowledge and understanding
General principle – students study fewer things in greater depth, developing a deeper understanding of central concepts and ideas
Assessments focus on this – selective assessment based on progress made
Celebrates the progress of all students regardless of their starting points

7. Teachers have identified the ‘big ideas’/concepts in their subjects
For each year group the teachers have decided what they would expect students to achieve at their age/stage (based on prior attainment at KS2)
Assessments are designed to measure student attainment against the expected progress and a conclusion as to whether the student is working
Exceeding expected progress
Expected progress
Below expected progress

8. The curriculum is planned with a spiral approach to skills and knowledge in mind
Skills and knowledge are revisited with an increasing level of difficulty as the students progress in the school
Educational research (Rohrer ‘Spatial Effects in Learning’, 2008) showed that long term retention can be tripled if this approach is taken:
“To achieve enduring retention, people must usually study information on multiple occasions”
Year 9
Year 8
Year 7

9. Important Dates for you and your son
Progress Reports
Uploaded to Insight
Parent/Carers Evenings
Examination
Weeks
Examination Results reported
Autumn Data Capture
Progress and
attitude to
learning report
Academic Mentoring Day Friday 14th December 2018
Spring Data Capture
Academic Mentoring Day Friday 29th March 2019
Wednesday 27th February 2019
Summer 1 Data Capture 5
Summer 2 Data Capture 6
Full Report
Wednesday 17th July 2019
Week of 5th -11th June 2019
Exam Report

10. Working Towards

11. Academic Mentoring December 2018