Approaches to Learning and Assessment

Our approach to teaching and learning changes as the years progress.

At Key Stage 3, students have a variety of different forms of assessment. From formal classroom assessments to opportunities for speaking and listening and exhibition. We are lucky to have the Keswick Room on the ground floor of the block – this is a large space in which, three times a year, complete exhibitions of students work are exhibited for parents to come and see.

At GCSE, there are rigorous protocols embedded into the units of learning that ensure the necessary knowledge of skills for external examination are there. Students’ books are regularly marked and they are given the skills and knowledge to effectively peer and self-assess their own work to an accurate standard.

The same is true of A Level assessment and teaching.