ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT
Assessments in Window 2
7/10 – 25/10
Find out what assessments are happening in the current assessment window, with links to appropriate revision resources. Check the full assessment schedule to see what’s coming up later in the year.
Year 7
Compulsory
Describing a setting in vivid detail Skill Check
Revise with this guide
Writing direct speech Skill check
Revise with this guide
3 x Discourse Knowledge Checks
Revise with the Glossary using the terms in your Knowledge Organiser
Optional bonus assessments
Creating a character Bonus Skill Check
Describing a setting in vivid detail Bonus Skill Check
Year 8
Compulsory
Selecting relevant, meaningful evidence Skill Check
Revise with this guide
Analysing language, form and structure Skill Check
Revise with the first two guides in this series
3 x Rhetorical devices Knowledge Checks
Revise with the Glossary using the terms in your Knowledge Organiser
Optional bonus assessments
Embedding and contextualising evidence Bonus Skill Check
Making an argument Bonus Skill Check
Year 9
Compulsory
Mini-essay holistic assessment on Purple Hibiscus
Revise using whichever essay writing guides you need based on your past feedback
3 x Discourse Knowledge Checks
Revise with the Glossary using the terms in your Knowledge Organiser
Optional bonus assessments
Analysing language, form and structure Bonus Skill Check
Linking analysis to big ideas Bonus Skill Check
Year 10
Compulsory
Analysing language, form and structure Skill Check
Revise with the first 3 guides in this series
Linking analysis to big ideas
Revise with this guide
Creating a character Skill Check
Revise with this guide
3 x Discourse Knowledge Checks
Revise with the Glossary using the terms in your Knowledge Organiser
Optional bonus assessments
Selecting relevant, meaningful evidence Bonus Skill Check
Embedding and contextualising evidence Bonus Skill Check
Year 11
Full GCSE essay on the Poetry Anthology
Revise using the revision resources on this page
Revise using whichever essay writing guides you need based on your past feedback