During the first phase of introducing our new approach to assessment we have focused on how we build in opportunities within the Learning Journey to directly assess students against our Age-Related Expectations. In doing so staff were encouraged to explore ways of providing students with feedback that was timely and helped move students forward throughoutContinue reading “Feedback NOT Marking”
Category Archives: Curriculum
Implementing a New Assessment Model
My last (very long) blog on Assessment introduced the ideas I’ve been exploring over the past year to introduce a new approach to assessment that complements our improved curriculum. This past half term we have focused on introducing our assessment strategy with KS3, Year 7-9. We had a vision for the half term to workContinue reading “Implementing a New Assessment Model”
Subject Knowledge and Misconceptions in Science – Part 2
Part 1 – considering specialist v. non-specialist teaching in science can be found HERE. Having had my ambitions to explore subject knowledge and misconceptions across the KS2/3 transition with our feeder schools derailed by the pandemic, I settled for a more in depth focus over the last seven months on the KS3 curriculum. As aContinue reading “Subject Knowledge and Misconceptions in Science – Part 2”
Educating Melon 