ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT
Assessments in Window 7
24/2 – 14/3
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
Essay writing holistic assessment - you will be assessed on all four Year 7 essay writing skills
3 Discourse Knowledge Checks
The terms you’ll need to know are: Antagonist, Biography, Fiction, Paragraph, Prose, Suspense, Tension
Revise using the Glossary
Optional bonus assessments
Embedding and contextualising evidence Bonus Skill Check
Making an argument Bonus Skill Check
Year 8
Compulsory
Creating a character Skill Check
- Revise using this guide
Describing a setting in vivid detail Skill Check
- Revise using this guide
3 Discourse Knowledge Checks
The terms you’ll need to know are: Biography, Pathetic fallacy, Direct address, Unreliable narrator, Dramatic irony, Form, Paragraph, Prose, Suspense, Tension
Revise using the Glossary
Optional bonus assessments
None
Year 9
Compulsory
Full GCSE-style essay on ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’
- Revise using your copy of the story and notes from class; you can also revise the skills you’re least confident with using our essay writing guides
3 Rhetorical devices Knowledge Checks
The terms you’ll need to know are: Alliteration, Assonance, Listing, Metaphor, Oxymoron, Personification, Repetition, Rule of three, Sibilance, Simile
Revise using the Glossary
Optional bonus assessments
Creating a conceptualised response around a clear thesis Bonus Skill Check
Writing an opening and matched closing Bonus Skill Check
Year 10
Compulsory
Linking analysis to big ideas Skill Check
- Revise using our guide to this skill
Linking analysis to context and the writer’s perspective Skill Check
- Revise using our guide to this skill
Creating a character Skill Check
- Revise using our guide to this skill
3 Rhetorical devices Knowledge Checks
The terms you’ll need to know are: Alliteration, Assonance, Listing, Metaphor, Oxymoron, Personification, Repetition, Rule of three, Sibilance, Simile
Revise using the Glossary
Optional bonus assessments
Selecting relevant, meaningful evidence Bonus Skill Check
Analysing language, form and structure Bonus Skill Check