KS3 Assessment

Key Stage 3 (Years 7 to 9)

At Key Stage 3, there is no agreed criteria for grading or assessing student’s work and most schools will take differing approaches to this. There are no SATs or external assessments at Key Stage 3 so schools are required to decide how best to assess students and what to report to parents/carers to best explain how students are doing in each subject.

At Allerton High, we have chosen to issue a year group version of a GCSE grade which has been derived for each subject based on the nature and difficulty of the assessment taken by students. Using a GCSE grading scale, gives a relative indication of how a student is doing and how they might do at the end of a course if they were to continue that subject in Key Stage 4. This can be especially helpful for students and parents/carers when deciding on Options courses.

Grading is either based on combined scores from a specified set of assessments or a pre-determined set of grade descriptors used to allocate a grade to a piece of work (usually used in practical subjects).

Details of when summative assessments take place, what is assessed and how for each subject and which summative assessments form the basis of each Progress Review grade can be found for each year group using the links below.