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Information for Parents Key Stage 3 Statutory Assessment Arrangements

Information for Parents Key Stage 3 Statutory Assessment Arrangements. The Curriculum and Learning. The Northern Ireland Curriculum defines what your child should be learning through Areas of Learning: subject knowledge , understanding and skills Cross-Curricular Skills

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Information for Parents Key Stage 3 Statutory Assessment Arrangements

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  1. Information for Parents Key Stage 3 Statutory Assessment Arrangements

  2. The Curriculum and Learning The Northern Ireland Curriculum defines what your child should be learning through Areas of Learning: • subject knowledge, understanding and skills • Cross-Curricular Skills • Thinking Skills and Personal Capabilities.

  3. The Curriculum and Learning The three Cross-Curricular Skills are: • Communication • Talking and Listening • Reading • Writing • Using Mathematics • Using ICT

  4. The Curriculum and Learning The Thinking Skills and Personal Capabilities are: Thinking Skills • Managing Information • Thinking, Problem-Solving and Decision-Making • Being Creative Personal Capabilities • Working with Others • Self-Management

  5. Subject Learning In each subject your child is taught: • knowledge and understanding of the subject • subject skills • Cross-Curricular Skills • Thinking Skills and Personal Capabilities.

  6. Key Stage 3 Assessment To improve your child’s learning, we need to know: • what stage they are at in their learning • how well they are doing • how we can help them do better. We assess each child’s learning through: • classroom observation • discussion and asking questions • homework • class tests • school examinations • tasks and assessment activities.

  7. Key Stage 3 Statutory Assessment Your child’s progress will be assessed each year in: • subject learning (knowledge, understanding and skills) • Thinking Skills and Personal Capabilities • Cross-Curricular Skills. Assessing the Cross-Curricular Skills In Years 8–10, schools must use the Levels of Progression for assessing and reporting pupils’ progress. In Year 10, the numerical level your child has achieved will be reported to you.

  8. Statutory Assessment of the Cross-Curricular Skills The Levels of Progression: • apply to Communication, UsingMathematics and UsingICT • range from Level 1 to Level 7 • describe what ‘pupils can’ do • indicate the knowledge, understanding and skills your child needs to demonstrate to achieve each level. See www.ccea.org.uk/assess_progress

  9. Levels of Progression Writing

  10. Key Stage 3 Statutory Assessmentof the Cross-Curricular Skills Teachers assess your child’s skills in an ongoing way through: • classroom observation • discussion and asking questions • monitoring their work and progress. This helps them understand: • the level at which your child is working • how best to help your child improve their learning.

  11. End of Key Stage 3 Statutory Assessment At the end of Key Stage 3, teachers will decide the level your child has achieved in each skill, based on: • their knowledge of your child • assessment information they have gathered and • your child’s performance in planned assessment activities/tasks.

  12. Expected Levels for theCross-Curricular Skills The Levels through the Key Stages

  13. Expected Levels for theCross-Curricular Skills

  14. Expected Levels for theCross-Curricular Skills There is also: ‘a very clear expectation that individual pupils should progress at least one levelbetween each Key Stage.’ (Department of Education, May 2010)

  15. Levels of Progressionand Levels of Attainment Note The Levels of Progression replace Levels of Attainment. The new levels place greater emphasis on skills (not only knowledge and understanding) – so they are expected to be more challenging.

  16. Quality Assuranceand Quality Control The Moderation Process This will involve: • teachers in each school working together to agree standards • schools providing samples of pupil work to CCEA for external moderation.

  17. Annual Reports The Annual Report will give you information about your child's progress in every aspect of the curriculum, including: For pupils in Years 8 and 9 a teacher’s comment only about progress in Communication, Using Mathematics and Using ICT For pupils in Year 10 a numerical level and a teacher’s comment • for Communication, Using Mathematics and Using ICT.

  18. Annual Reports For pupils in Year 10 The Annual Report will tell you the percentage of pupils in your school who: • attained this level • attained the expected level (Level 5) or above • are working towards the expected level • are exempt from assessment.

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