Year 11 Information

Year 11 students will be undertaking a second round of formal assessments the first week back after the February half term.  

Students will be assessed in their Core subjects between Monday 24 February and Friday 28 February. Students will sit these formal assessments in the Main Hall and as far as possible, assessments have been timetabled to take place during the course of students’ Core lessons. The timetable for these assessments can be found here.  Students will be given specific instructions regarding when and where to line up for these assessments in their scheduled Year 11 assembly week, beginning 10 Feb.  

Students are expected to attend school as normal during the course of this week and go to their timetabled Options and Core lessons, as per their timetable.  During the course of this week, students will not be set home learning that is not related to their retrieval or revision for their core subject examinations. 

Some Options subjects may also choose to set a further formal assessment during this week or the following week (Monday, 03 March to Friday, 07 March). If this is the case, teachers will inform students of the arrangements for these assessments prior to the February half term and they will take place during students’ usual lessons for that subject.   Teachers of Core subjects will already have informed Year 11 students of the contents and structure of the forthcoming assessments in these subjects.  As not all Options subjects will be setting formal assessments during the course of this week, home learning will continue to be set, either in the form of retrieval and practice, or activities related to classwork that remains to be covered.   

The second round of assessments is both an opportunity for students to practise papers that they were not examined on in the December mocks and/or repeat a paper/exam that  they have already practised.  Students and parents will receive a final progress report Monday, 24 March detailing a current working grade.  For Core subjects, this will be determined primarily by the grade obtained in their second round of assessments and progress they have made since their last assessment; for Options subjects, this will be determined by the progress they have made since their last assessment (and attainment in any recent assessments).   

Thank you in advance for your support in ensuring that students are fully prepared for the above assessments so that they experience success in February.  If you have any questions or queries regarding any of your son/daughters’ assessments, please do get in touch with your son/daughter’s subject teacher or the Subject Lead for the department in question.  

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