ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT

Year 11 assessments

what you’ll be doing in each assessment window this year

KEY: SC = Skill Check | KC = Knowledge Check

JUMP TO A WINDOW: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9

WINDOW 0: 2/9 – 13/9

There will be no assessments at the very start of the year.

WINDOW 1: 16/9 – 4/10

  1. SC: Analysing language, form and structure

  2. SC: Linking analysis to big ideas

  3. Holistic assessment: English Language Paper 2 writing

  4. KCs: 3 x Poetry and drama

WINDOW 2: 7/10 – 25/10

  1. Holistic assessment: English Literature poetry anthology essay

  2. KCs: 3 x Rhetorical devices

WINDOW 3: 4/11 – 22/11

  1. SC: Embedding and contextualising evidence

  2. SC: Selecting relevant, meaningful evidence

  3. KCs: 3 x Structure

WINDOW 4: 25/11 – 13/12

  1. SC: Making an argument

  2. SC: Linking analysis to context and the writer’s perspective

  3. KCs: 3 x Discourse

WINDOW 5: 6/1 – 25/1

  1. English Literature PPE examination: Poetry anthology and An Inspector Calls

  2. English Language PPE examination: Paper 2

WINDOW 6: 28/1 – 14/2

Your teacher will decide the assessments you do in this window.

WINDOW 7: 24/2 – 14/3

Your teacher will decide the assessments you do in this window.

WINDOW 8: 17/3 – 4/4

Your teacher will decide the assessments you do in this window.

WINDOW 9: 22/4 – 9/5

  1. Holistic assessment: English Literature unseen poetry essay

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