ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT

Year 9 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. Skill Check 1: Analysing language, form and structure

  2. Skill Check 2: Linking analysis to big ideas

  3. Knowledge Check 1: Grammar and syntax

ROUND 2: 6/10 – 24/10

  1. Holistic assessment: Purple Hibiscus mini-essay

  2. Knowledge Check 2: Discourse

HALF TERM

ROUND 3: 3/11 – 21/11

  1. Skill Check 3: Selecting relevant, meaningful evidence

  2. Skill Check 4: Embedding and contextualising evidence

  3. Knowledge Check 3: Poetry and drama

ROUND 4: 24/11 – 19/12

  1. Skill Check 5: Making an argument

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

  3. Knowledge Check 4: Grammar and syntax

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY

ROUND 5: 5/1 – 23/1

  1. Skill Check 7: Linking analysis to context and the writer’s perspective

  2. Skill Check 8: Analysing language, form and structure

  3. Knowledge Check 5: Lexis and semantics

ROUND 6: 26/1 – 13/2

  1. Skill Check 9: Creating a conceptualised response around a clear thesis

  2. Skill Check 10: Writing an opening and matched closing

  3. Knowledge Check 6: Structure

HALF TERM

ROUND 7: 23/2 – 13/3

  1. Holistic assessment: The Yellow Wallpaper full essay

  2. Knowledge Check 7: Rhetorical devices

ROUND 8: 16/3 – 27/3

  1. Skill Check 11: Writing an opening and matched closing

  2. Skill Check 12: Writing an opinion paragraph

  3. Knowledge Check 8: Discourse

EASTER HOLIDAY

ROUND 9: 13/4 – 1/5

  1. Skill Check 13: Writing an opinion paragraph

  2. Skill Check 14: Creating an effective structure (non-fiction)

  3. Knowledge Check 9: Grammar and syntax

ROUND 10: 4/5 – 22/5

  1. Holistic assessment: ‘Scary Stories’ non-fiction writing

HALF TERM

ROUND 11: 1/6 – 19/6

  1. Holistic assessment: End-of-year examination non-fiction writing

  2. Knowledge Check 11: Rhetorical devices

ROUND 12: 30/6 – 18-7

  1. Skill Check 15: Creating an effective structure (non-fiction)

  2. Skill Check 16: Creating a conceptualised response around a clear thesis

  3. Knowledge Check 12: Poetry and drama

SUMMER HOLIDAY

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