Progress & Reporting
We believe that rigorous and on-going assessment is a vital tool for monitoring and improving pupils' learning.
We assess every pupil's effort and attainment regularly, through lessons, homework, coursework, tests and internal or external examinations. Pupils do homework on a timetabled basis every night and teachers provide on-going feedback in their weekly marking. Information about each pupil's progress is then formalised in grades and reports, which Form tutors discuss with pupils. We also hold parents' meetings at least once a year for each form.
Our comments in marking, grades, reports and parent meetings always place positive emphasis on pupils' efforts and on ways in which they can improve their performance. We aim to make pupils active participants in their own learning by building their confidence and self-awareness, and by helping them to identify their own targets and develop the independent means to attain them.