ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT

Year 10 assessments

what you’ll be doing in each assessment round in 2025-26

JUMP TO A SPECIFIC ROUND: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12

ROUND 0: 4/9 – 12/9

There will be no assessments at the very start of the year.

ROUND 1: 15/9 – 3/10

  1. Literature Skill Check 1: Selecting relevant, meaningful evidence

  2. Literature Skill Check 2: Embedding and contextualising evidence

  3. Language Skill Check 1: Creating an effective structure (fiction)

  4. Knowledge Check 1: Grammar and syntax

ROUND 2: 6/10 – 24/10

  1. Literature Skill Check 3: Linking analysis to big ideas

  2. Literature Skill Check 4: Analysing language, form and structure

  3. Language Skill Check 2: Creating a character

  4. Knowledge Check 2: Discourse

HALF TERM

ROUND 3: 3/11 – 21/11

  1. Literature Skill Check 5: Making an argument

  2. Literature Skill Check 6: Linking analysis to context and the writer’s perspective

  3. Language Skill Check 3: Describing a setting in vivid detail

  4. Knowledge Check 3: Poetry and drama

ROUND 4: 24/11 – 19/12

  1. Holistic assessment: English Literature A Christmas Carol essay

  2. Holistic assessment:: English Language Paper 1 Writing

  3. Knowledge Check 4: Grammar and syntax

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY

ROUND 5: 5/1 – 23/1

  1. Literature Skill Check 7: Embedding and contextualising evidence

  2. Literature Skill Check 8: Creating a conceptualised response around a clear thesis

  3. Language Skill Check 4: Creating an effective structure (fiction)

  4. Knowledge Check 5: Lexis and semantics

ROUND 6: 26/1 – 13/2

  1. Literature Skill Check 9: Selecting relevant, meaningful evidence

  2. Literature Skill Check 10: Analysing language, form and structure

  3. Holistic assessment: English Language Paper 1 Reading

  4. Knowledge Check 6: Structure

HALF TERM

ROUND 7: 23/2 – 13/3

  1. Literature Skill Check 11: Linking analysis to big ideas

  2. Literature Skill Check 12: Linking analysis to context and the writer’s perspective

  3. Language Skill Check 5: Creating a character

  4. Knowledge Check 7: Rhetorical devices

ROUND 8: 16/3 – 27/3

  1. Literature Skill Check 13: Making an argument

  2. Language Skill Check 6: Describing a setting in vivid detail

  3. Knowledge Check 8: Grammar and syntax

EASTER HOLIDAY

ROUND 9: 13/4 – 1/5

  1. Holistic assessment: English Literature PPE examinations (A Christmas Carol)

  2. Holistic assessment: English Language PPE examinations (Paper 1)

ROUND 10: 4/5 – 22/5

  1. Literature Skill Check 14: Linking analysis to big ideas

  2. Literature Skill Check 15: Creating a conceptualised response around a clear thesis

  3. Language Skill Check 7: Writing an opening and matched closing

  4. Knowledge Check 9: Rhetorical devices

HALF TERM

ROUND 11: 1/6 – 19/6

  1. Holistic assessment: English Literature Macbeth essay

  2. Language Skill Check 8: Writing an opinion paragraph

  3. Knowledge Check 10: Poetry and drama

ROUND 12: 22/6 – 17/7

  1. Language Skill Check 9: Creating an effective structure (non-fiction)

  2. Knowledge Check 11: Discourse

SUMMER HOLIDAY

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