ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT
Assessments in Window 3
4/11 – 22/11
Find out what assessments are happening in the current assessment window, with links to appropriate revision resources. Check the full assessment schedule to see what’s coming up later in the year.
Year 7
Compulsory
Using 3rd person limited narrative voice Skill Check
Revise with this guide
Controlling time in a story Skill Check
Revise with this guide
3 Grammar and syntax Knowledge Checks
The terms you’ll need to know are: Conjunction, Determiner, Modal verb, Object (of a sentence), Pronoun, Subject (of a sentence), Verb
Revise using the Glossary
Optional bonus assessments
Describing a setting in vivid detail Bonus Skill Check
Writing direct speech Bonus Skill Check
Discourse Bonus Knowledge Check
Year 8
Compulsory
Mini-essay holistic assessment on Lord of the Flies
- Revise using whichever essay writing guides you need based on your past feedback.
- You might particularly want to look at the linking analysis to big ideas guide since this is a new skill you’ve not practised before.
3 Poetry and drama Knowledge Checks
The terms you’ll need to know are: Caesura, Couplet, End-stop, Enjambment, Free verse, Length (of a verse line), Quatrain, Rhyme scheme, Speaker (of a poem), Stanza
Revise using the Glossary
Optional bonus assessments
Selecting relevant, meaningful evidence Bonus Skill Check
Analysing language, form and structure Bonus Skill Check
Rhetorical devices Bonus Knowledge Check
Year 9
Compulsory
Selecting relevant, meaningful evidence Skill Check
Revise with this guide
Embedding and contextualising evidence Skill Check
Revise with this guide
3 Poetry and drama Knowledge Checks
The terms you’ll need to know are: Caesura, Couplet, End-stop, Enjambment, Free verse, Length (of a verse line), Quatrain, Rhyme scheme, Speaker (of a poem), Stanza
Revise using the Glossary
Optional bonus assessments
Making an argument Bonus Skill Check
Linking analysis to big ideas Bonus Skill Check
Discourse Bonus Knowledge Check
Year 10
Compulsory
Making an argument Skill Check
Revise with the 3rd guide in the series
Linking analysis to context and the writer’s perspective Skill Check
Revise with this guide
Describing a setting in vivid detail Skill Check
Revise with this guide
3 Poetry and drama Knowledge Checks
The terms you’ll need to know are: Caesura, Couplet, End-stop, Enjambment, Free verse, Length (of a verse line), Quatrain, Rhyme scheme, Speaker (of a poem), Stanza
Revise using the Glossary
Optional bonus assessments
Analysing language, form and structure Bonus Skill Check
Linking analysis to big ideas Bonus Skill Check
Creating a character Bonus Skill Check
Discourse Bonus Knowledge Check
Year 11
Selecting relevant, meaningful evidence Skill Check
Revise with this guide
Embedding and contextualising evidence Skill Check
Revise with this guide
3 Structure Knowledge Checks
The terms you’ll need to know are: Climax, Denouement, Exposition, Falling action, Foreshadowing, In medias res, Inciting incident, Juxtaposition, Resolution, Rising action
Revise using the Glossary