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Rygaards International Secondary School

Rygaards International Secondary School. An introduction to the English National Curriculum and the National Curriculum Levels of Assessment September 17th 2013. What is the English National Curriculum?.

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Rygaards International Secondary School

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  1. Rygaards International Secondary School An introduction to the English National Curriculum and the National Curriculum Levels of Assessment September 17th 2013

  2. What is the English National Curriculum? • A statutory framework of what is to be studied and how students are to be assessed from age 3 through to age 14 • Introduced as a result of the Education Reform Act of 1988 • Used by many international schools around the world - Why?

  3. Key Stages

  4. Key Stage 3 • Covers the phase of a child’s education between ages 11-14 (Years 7, 8 and 9) Curriculum The NC (National Curriculum) provides a broad, balanced, consistent and progressive core curriculum. Each curriculum subject is guided by a Programme of Study to ensure year-on-year progression. See: http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/teachingandlearning/curriculum/secondary

  5. KS 3 Subjects at Rygaards • English • Mathematics • Science • Social Studies (History and Geography) • French/German • Art (& Design) • Music • Gym • Religion • Danish • ICT (Across the Curriculum) • Class Period: Learning to Lead

  6. Why is following the NC a good idea? • Consistency • Transparency • Progression and Pathways • Accountability • Comparible Data • A respected, established and criteria-referenced model of ASSESSMENT

  7. Old model of KS3 Assessment at Rygaards • Letter grades A-E plus Effort Grades 1-4 • Attainment Grades = prone to subjectivity, inconsistency and lacking accountability and ‘value-added’ • Effort Grades will remain as a report feature EX = Excellent Effort; GD = Good; ST = Satisfactory; NI = Needs Improvement

  8. Revised Rygaards Assessment Model • Will use NATIONAL CURRICULUM LEVELS OF ATTAINMENT • Numeric based grading system (1 – 8) rather than traditional letter based (A-E) system • Levels do not change beween Primary and Secondary – thus ensuring continuity and tracking across a ctudents’ whole education • Students’ performance/attainment can be compared within the class, school, region, country • Well- resourced for teachers/students/parents

  9. Level Progression Steps

  10. Benchmarks, Tracking and Monitoring • End of Key Stage 3 Tests that used to be provided by the UK government are no longer used. Thus, as an external benchmark/check/balance we use ... • CEM Midyis Adaptive Assessments Y7 and Y8 provide excellent predictive/baseline data. As do the Y9 end of year Insight Core tests • Data to inform learning and to help track, monitor and celebrate collective and individual success. In addition, provide targetted support to those who need it.

  11. So how is my child performing? In general it is expected that a student should improve 2 Levels across KS3 (from Y7 – Y9)

  12. End of Term 1 – So how id my child doing? French and German BE = Below Expactations WT = Working Towards ME = Meeting Expectations EX = Exceeding Expectations

  13. Assessment for Learning: Formative and Summative Assesment • Summative Levels and Grades are important but it is the ongoing Formative Assessment that has the greatest impact upon learning • Formative Assessment = Constructive Teacher Feedback in a range of forms, target setting, learning discussions, peer assessment, self assessment • The criteia referenced NC Levels support formative assessment strategies and assessment for learning • In a relatively short time, students and parents will be ‘Level Literate’

  14. Student Friendly Level Descriptors

  15. Levels for Learning • Therefore, for our KS3 students the introduction of the NC Levels as a means of assessment will create a more effective, robust and accountable system • Although the nomenclature is different – the KS3 National Curriculum is designed to compliment the Key Stage 4 I/GCSE two-year programme used here at Rygaards

  16. Important Dates Term 1 • Parent Teacher Consultations : 28th and 29th October • December 20th: Term 1 Full Academic Report Issued On this set of reports, students will receive a NC Level and an Effort Grade for each subject* plus at least 3 constructive targets as to how to improve. • However, parents are not limited to these dates to initiate a dialogue as to how their child is progressing. If you have questions or concens, please contact the subject teacher. *Not, at this stage a NC Level in Danish, Gym or Religion

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