How we report on progress

At Fullhurst we have very high expectations and aspirations for students in term of the progress they make with their learning. In each of your child’s subjects, teachers will be assessing how well your child is doing and feeding back to them what they need to do to improve. Teachers will use this assessment data to monitor that students are ‘on track’ to reach their potential in each subject.

In Key Stage 3 (Year 7-9) we will report home to parents three times per year. Within these reports we will outline the % your child achieved in their latest skills or recall assessment, which will be compared to the class average % for these assessments.

In Year 10, we will report home twice a year. The first report will contain the % that you child achieved in their PPE, a guide as to the kind of grade they can achieve if they continue to work at that level as at the time of the first PPEs they will have only done a small portion of the course. We will also include a predicted grade as to what we think they can achieve at the end of Year 11 based on all of the progress they have made since starting with use. The second report will contain a PPE grade and a Predicted grade for the end of Year 11 as by the end of Year 10, students will have completed over half of the course.

In Year 11, we will report home twice a year. The first report will come during the autumn term and include our current prediction for the end of Year 11. The second report will come after the spring term PPEs and will include their result from the PPE and their final predicted grade for the summer exams.

All reports are published to parents via the Fullhurst app.

An Introduction to PPE's

Key Stage 3 assessment

In Key Stage 3 (Years 7-9), our curriculum and assessment model is broken down into three, 13 weeks cycles. Students in Year 7 or 8 will have either a recall assessment, a skills assessment or both during the 3 week assessment week, depending on the subject. These are spread throughout the assessment window to help students manage their revision time. In Year 9, students will just complete a skills assessment in each of their subjects.

Once students have completed the assessments and they have been marked, student will enter the ‘RR’ phase of the cycle. At Fullhurst, this means to Reteach and Reassess, so students can work on the feedback given to them following each assessment.

Have a look at the video below for more information on the KS3 Assessments .

KS3 Assessments Overview

Key Stage 4 assessment

In Key Stage 4 (Year 10 and 11), our curriculum and assessment model moves to 2 cycles per year. In Year 10 these cycles build up to students sitting 2 sets of Pre-Public Exams (PPEs), one in the spring term and one in the summer term. Students sit PPEs in full exam conditions to help prepare them for the experience of their GSCE exams. Students in Year 10 will sit their exams over a 2-week period to help students manage their revision time, they will sit anywhere between 1 – 3 papers during the Year 10 PPEs depending on the subject and how much of the course they have completed. After each set of PPEs, students will be given feedback on how to continue to improve and progress in their subjects

In Year 11, the first cycle builds up to the PPEs that students sit at the start of the spring term. This will take place over a 3 week window to help students manage their revision time and they will sit between 1 and 3 exams depending on the subject. Students will then receive feedback on how to improve and progress in the last cycle, which builds up to the final summer GCSE exams.

PPE Rules & Expectations