Attendance is a key component to your child’s success

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ruskin high school

Assessment in KS4
at Ruskin High School

At KS4 we use assessment to track students’ learning against our Key Stage 4 curriculum and also criteria detailed in the qualification specifications. Each student’s knowledge acquisition are carefully monitored to ensure they are well prepared for both their examinations and future studies.
Learn More About Our Curriculum

How do we assess
our students
during KS4?

We assess our students’ retention of essential knowledge and application of skills identified in the course specification. Through using different forms of assessment in the classroom, teachers will monitor learning of this knowledge and provide targeted intervention where necessary. Such assessment may take the form of retrieval quizzes, written tasks, end of topic tests or mock examinations.

All assessment styles will help to prepare students for external examinations at the end of Year 11. Additionally, to enable students to practise for the demands of the examinations at the end of Year 11, we conduct mock examination weeks in both Year 10 and 11. Students experience the routine of sitting a series of exams in our Sports Hall supervised by our Exam Invigilators, which enables them to feel more confident when approaching the external exams.

Students are graded using the GCSE 1-9 grades or Vocational Level1/2 Pass/Merit/Distinction grades.

Key Stage 4 Grades

How often will we report progress to parents?

We will hold one Parent Consultation Evening per year, where parents can discuss their child’s progress with their subject teachers. Additionally, each term, parents will either receive a short report or a long report. The following information will be shared on the reports:

What should I do if I have concerns about my child’s progress?

If you have concerns regarding your child’s progress in a specific subject please contact their subject teacher in the first instance. This can be done either by contacting our school office, or using the message function on ClassCharts to contact them directly.

Where you have wider concerns regarding your child’s academic progress or their attitudes to learning, please contact either their Form Tutor, or their Year Achievement Manager.

Year 10

Mrs Bennett

Year 11

Mrs Managh

Our commitment to ensuring students are supported.

During Key Stage 4, particularly during Year 11, Ruskin staff are committed to providing extra free support to students in preparation for their final examinations. Teachers routinely offer extra intervention to targeted students in the form of Lesson 6. Every week on Tuesday – Friday, 3.00pm – 4.00pm, there are a range of small group lessons taking place to enable students to address misconceptions in their learning. Please see the intervention page for further information.

Visit Our Intervention Page

Attitudes to Learning

Through the following focus points, we break down five attitudes to learning for each. To see the explanation click the numbered blocks.

Attitudes to Learning are scored from 1 to 5. Number 1 being the optimal score that can be obtained.

Effort and High Aspiration

1

2

3

4

5

Behaviour and Respect

1

2

3

4

5

Independence and Motivation

1

2

3

4

5