Reporting & Assessment

We recognise the importance of providing students and their parents/carers with regular feedback on their progress as well as the impact that student attitude has on academic progress. Parents receive a report by post every October, February and July.

For all year groups we provide an attitudes to learning grade in October and then in every subsequent report.

At Key Stage 3 we follow a mastery pathway which involves us reporting to parents twice yearly, in February and July. Parents receive a summary of their child’s performance against the key components of each subject’s learning journey, ranging from – emerging, developing, secure, excelling. The table below provides a guide for each performance level.

Student Performance Descriptors

Level	Students can ….
Excelling	Employ a range of core and advanced skills within open activities Consistently apply advanced skills, for their age, in line with our learning journeys, within open activities Evaluate the performance of others and offer meaningful feedback in order to improve their work Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the key task principles by combining a range of core and advanced skills
Secure	Consistently apply the core skills for their age, in line with our learning journeys, within open activities Regularly apply advanced skills within structured activities Evaluate their own performance and apply their knowledge to improve their work Demonstrate a confident understanding of the key task principles
Developing	Sometimes apply the core skills for their age, in line with our learning journeys, within open activities Usually apply the core skills within structured activities Demonstrate a basic understanding of the key task principles
Emerging	Sometimes apply the core skills for their age, in line with our learning journeys, within structured activities Demonstrate a limited understanding of the key task principles

	Indicates that …
+	The student is working on the cusp of the level above
=	The student is working consistently within the current level
–	The student is working on the cusp of the level below

At Key Stage 4 and 5 we provide current and projected grades along with students target grades.