Key website content for Year 11

Assessment criteria and WAGOLL

• Skill Check assessment criteria and WAGOLL
  This area shows you what you need to do to get equals, plus and star for each skill. Alongside the assessment criteria there is an example of what a good one looks like (WAGOLL). You should check this before each Skill Check to make sure you know what you need to do to succeed.

Most important guides for Year 11

There is nothing new to learn this year in terms of skills, but these are the guides that you should definitely read again before Christmas.

• Selecting relevant, meaningful evidence guide
  Students are notoriously bad at this, even in Year 11

• Making an argument guide 3 — 3rd  guide in the 3-part series
  You’ll be assessed on your ability to extend an argument with more evidence and analysis — students are generally quite bad at this too.

• Analysing language, form and structure guide 4 — 4th guide in the series
  The final guide in the methods analysis series is where the big marks come at GCSE — you definitely need to read this before your Skill Checks this year.

• Linking analysis to context and the writer’s perspective
  You’ll be doing this again this year, so it’s worth refreshing yourself on how it works.

• Creating a conceptualised response around a clear thesis
  This is hugely important for the actual GCSE and you’ll be assessed on it in a Skill Check this year.

English Language creative writing skills

• Creating an effective structure (fiction and non-fiction)

• Writing an opening and matched closing for a given text text 2 - 2nd guide in this 2 part series

• Writing an opinion paragraph for a given text type