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Life beyond levels: Focus 2015-2016

Aims: to achieve curriculum cohesion Years 7-11 by September 2016
to achieve assessment cohesion Years 7-11 by September 2016

Following discussion at SLT, the FWTSA Life Beyond Levels group, and the Enrich group of area secondary and primary head teachers…

January 2015 – July 2016 Brookvale will:

Continue to use levels to measure attainment and progress at Key Stage 3, until July 2016
Work towards curriculum cohesion Years 7-11, in collaboration with Groby College

Mapping the development of skills, knowledge and understanding to be learned in each year
Creating the flight paths students of different abilities will need to follow
Preparing them for the new GCSE final exams where students will be required to show their learning in greater depth

Take curriculum change at Key Stage 2 into consideration, especially in Years 5 and 6 in order to build effectively on previous learning

By September 2016, Brookvale will implement new assessment procedures at Key Stage 3.

The new assessment procedures will:

Be coherent 11-16
Provide an accurate framework for measuring attainment and progress at Key Stage 3, so that teachers and senior leaders can monitor, analyse, give accurate feedback and provide intervention as appropriate
Take Key Stage 2 outcomes as a starting point
Ensure that progress is effectively reported to parents so that

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