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Assessment at Ellowes Hall School is productive and conducive of the learning that takes place. We ensure that assessment is done to support learning, and used to recognise strengths and weaknesses found along the way throughout a curriculum journey. We ensure that when gaps in knowledge or misconceptions are found, we adapt our teaching to focus on these areas. Assessment is aligned to subject knowledge and the skills needed to be successful in all subject areas that we teach here at Ellowes Hall School and in all year groups.

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Teachers use a range of assessment techniques to analyse performance and to support development in each subject area. Daily teachers can be seen assessing performance and understanding in the classroom and ensuring their practices are adapted to get the very best from each student. We are committed to the highest standard of knowledge being imparted and understood by our students in all year groups, and this level of assessment ensures that this can take place.

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We also have a comprehensive quizzing programme that we regularly use at key stage three. These quizzes feature questions that align with the knowledge that has been deemed as essential over the course of a unit or topic. These quizzes are interactive for students and allow for self-regulation of performance as they are marked instantly using an online programme. These quizzes are a consistent feature across all subject areas at key stage three and allow for analysis of an individual, a piece of knowledge, a subject or group. Our internal tracking of each quiz allow for an in depth look at performance over a period of time and not just at a singular moment in a student’s term. Using a sophisticated dashboard we can quickly see areas of strength and weakness, performance over time and across subjects, all of which is then productively used in the classroom to continue to strive for a very high level of knowledge and understanding through our teaching and learning principles.

Reporting to parents at key stage three takes into consideration the performance across these quizzes over time and gives an accumulative average score. This average is aligned to prior attainment averages also, to allow parents an easy and quick comparison of how their child is performing against the average of their peers.