ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT

Year 11 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 - GCSEs!

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. Skill Check 1: Analysing language, form and structure

  2. Skill Check 2: Selecting relevant, meaningful evidence

  3. Holistic assessment: English Language Paper 2 writing

  4. Knowledge Check 1: Structure

ROUND 2: 6/10 – 24/10

  1. Holistic assessment: English Literature poetry anthology essay

  2. Knowledge Check 2: Poetry and drama

HALF TERM

ROUND 3: 3/11 – 21/11

  1. Skill Check 3: Making an argument

  2. Skill Check 4: Embedding and contextualising evidence

  3. Knowledge Check 3: Rhetorical devices

ROUND 4: 24/11 – 19/12

  1. Skill Check 5: Linking analysis to context and the writer’s perspective

  2. Skill Check 6: Creating a conceptualised response

  3. Knowledge Check 4: Discourse

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY

ROUND 5: 5/1 – 23/1

  1. English Literature PPE examination: Poetry anthology and An Inspector Calls

  2. English Language PPE examination: Paper 2

ROUND 6: 26/1 – 13/2

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HALF TERM

ROUND 7: 23/2 – 13/3

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ROUND 8: 16/3 – 27/3

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EASTER HOLIDAY

ROUND 9: 13/4 – 1/5

  1. Holistic assessment: English Literature unseen poetry essay

GCSE EXAMINATIONS

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