ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT
Assessments in Round 8
16/3 – 27/3
Find out what assessments are happening in the current assessment round, with links to appropriate revision resources. Check the full assessment schedule to see what’s coming up later in the year.
Year 7
Creative writing holistic assessment on Dystopian Fiction
- Revise the creative writing skills you are least confident in
Grammar and syntax Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Determiner, Modal verb, Participles (past and present), Preposition, Tense (present, past, perfect and progressive), Verb, Voice (active and passive)
Year 8
Creative writing holistic assessment on the Storytelling anthology
- Revise the creative writing skills you are least confident in
Poetry and drama Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Aside, Blank verse, Caesura, End-stop, Enjambment, Free verse, Metre, Speaker (of a poem), Staging and stage directions, Verse
Year 9
Writing an opening and matched closing Skill Check
- Revise using this guide, which contains several examples
Writing an opinion paragraph Skill Check
- Revise using the guide to this skill
Discourse Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Allegory, Biography, Direct address, Discourse marker, Fiction, Paragraph, Prose, Suspense, Tension, Unreliable narrator
Year 10
Making an argument Skill Check
- Revise using our guide to extending a paragraph with more analysis
Describing a setting in vivid detail Skill Check
- Revising using our guide to this skill
Grammar and syntax Knowledge Check
- Revise using the glossary
- Terms to revise: Article, Complex sentence, Compound sentence, Conjunction, Morphology, Participles (past and present), Simple sentence, Subordinate clause, Tense (present, past, perfect and progressive), Voice (active and passive)