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Regular assessment and mock exams

Weekly homework, fortnightly class-based assessment and termly mock examinations provide a rigorous approach which keeps students on track.

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A fundamental aspect of College life is in ensuring that strong relationships are abundant between teachers and students. A relationship of trust is quickly established. The College has a rigorous assessment schedule which ensures that students have the best chance of success.

This involves:

  • Weekly homework
  • Fortnightly testing
  • Termly formal internal exams

Students are also expected to be well prepared, maintaining a high standard of organisation within their folders and exercise books, keeping their planners up to date and following up marked worked by returning the dialogue through green pen marking.

Close monitoring, by class teachers and form tutors, ensures that this discipline is maintained.

Marking and feedback

At Ealing, we have worked to create an environment which promotes regular, transparent and effective communication between staff, pupils and parents or guardians. This is present within all means of communication - during lessons, in reports, when providing progress updates to parents, and, perhaps most importantly, through the College marking policy.

Due to the small class sizes, opportunities to provide detailed feedback for students are maximised and capitalised on, and students get into the habit of reflecting on their work and then formulating ways and means to improve.

All students at the College are issued with a green pen and they use it to actively respond to teacher feedback concerning their work. By doing this, the students 'own' their mistakes and the remedying of them, or are set challenging questions to extend their answers further. Due to the small class sizes, opportunities to provide detailed feedback for students are maximised and capitalised on, and students get into the habit of reflecting on their work and then formulating ways and means to improve.

Though most of the assessment within the College is formative, aimed at maximising student improvement, summative assessment is also deployed at the end of each term, with Christmas and Easter Mock exams, skilfully formed by our staff to stretch and challenge students. Results from these exams are reviewed across the College, with results analysed, weaknesses identified, and teaching tweaked to remedy issues which have arisen. Several rewards are given to the students who have excelled in these assessments, increasing confidence and drive to go further.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supervised study - with students in College from their first lesson to their last. 

Read about our approach to supervised study, where students are monitored throughout the day during breaks in their timetable. This ensures that they maintain a purposeful work ethic while they are in College.

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