ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT
Assessments in Window 8
17/3 – 4/4
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 assessments
Dystopian Fiction story opening assessment
- Revise the creative writing skills you are least confident in
3 x Grammar and syntax Knowledge Checks
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Determiner, Modal verb, Participles (past and present), Preposition, Tense (present, past, perfect and progressive), Verb, Voice (active and passive)
Optional extra revision tasks
Writing paragraph points Bonus Skill Check
Selecting relevant, meaningful evidence Bonus Skill Check
Year 8
Compulsory assessments
Creative writing assessment based on the Storytelling anthology
- Revise the creative writing skills you are least confident in
3 x Poetry and drama Knowledge Checks
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Aside, Blank verse, Caesura, End-stop, Enjambment, Free verse, Metre, Speaker (of a poem), Staging and stage directions, Verse
Optional extra revision tasks
Creating a character Bonus Skill Check
Describing a setting in vivid detail Bonus Skill Check
Year 9
Compulsory assessments
Writing an opening and matched closing Skill Check
- Revise using this guide, which contains several examples
Writing an opinion paragraph Skill Check
- Revise using the guide to this skill
3 x Discourse Knowledge Checks
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Allegory, Biography, Direct address, Discourse marker, Fiction, Paragraph, Prose, Suspense, Tension, Unreliable narrator
Optional extra revision tasks
Embedding and contextualising evidence Bonus Skill Check
Creating a conceptualised response around a clear thesis Bonus Skill Check
Year 10
Compulsory assessments
Making an argument Skill Check
- Revise using our guide to extending a paragraph with more analysis
Creating a conceptualised response around a clear thesis Skill Check
- Revise using our guide to this skill
Describing a setting in vivid detail Skill Check
- Revising using our guide to this skill
3 x Grammar and syntax Knowledge Checks
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Article, Complex sentence, Compound sentence, Conjunction, Morphology, Participles (past and present), Simple sentence, Subordinate clause, Tense (present, past, perfect and progressive), Voice (active and passive)
Optional extra revision tasks
Linking analysis to big ideas Bonus Skill Check
Linking analysis to context and the writer’s perspective Bonus Skill Check
Creating a character Bonus Skill Check