Student Assessment Calendar : 2018/2019 GCSE English Maths Date 10/09/18 Diagnostic online Assessment 1 / Free writing Results: 17/09/18 Reading: Martin Luther King Speech Writing: Descriptive character writing Content: Prejudice/Stereotypes/ Identify information in text/Characterisation/Adjectives and Adverbs/ British Values 24/09/18 Reading: British Empire/OBEs – Benjamin Zephaniah text Writing: Writers’ views and perspectives/Unrequited gifts Content: Language analysis Descriptive writing (Adj/Adverbs) 01/10/18 Reading: ‘The Waste Land’ - Character Writing: Descriptive writing - Mood and atmosphere Content: Extracting information from text/PEAL paragraphs/Character- Language/ Fear – mood and atmosphere/ British Values 08/10/18 Assessment week ‘Glass, Bricks & Dust’ / Isolation 15/10/18 Reading: A child in time Writing: Descriptive writing Content: PEAL paragraphs, ‘How the writer uses sentence structure & foreshadowing to create tension & fear in in the extract.’ 22/10/18 HALF TERM 29/10/18 Reading: Feedback from Assessment and work on issues raised-whole class Writing: Tattoos Content : Short Sentences/ Persuasive documents 5/11/18 Reading: ‘Big Brother’ –Structure / Oppression Writing: Descriptive text embedding structural features - Future Content: Structural features analysis / British Values
12/11/18 Assessment week Floella Benjamin extract / Arriving in a new country descriptive writing 19/11/18 Reading: ‘Naked Rambler’/ ‘God’s own Country’ Writing: Character Descriptive writing Content: Characterisation / Analysis of structure cont. 26/11/18 Reading – ‘Cider with Rosie’ Writing – Descriptive writing/tone Content- Tone / Language / Structure 3/12/18 Reading: ‘Next Term, We’ll Mash You’ Writing: Descriptive writing Content-: Language / structure / tone / Comma Splicing / British Values 10/12/18 Reading: Assessment review and feedback Writing: Persuasive writing Content: Women’s hour 17/12/18 Reading: ‘Okay, you try teaching 13 year olds’ Writing: Christmas Quiz Content: Revision/ All areas covered so far 24/12/18 – 05/01/19 CHRISTMAS BREAK (Begins Dec 24th) 7/1/19 Term Begins Thursday 7th January Reading: ‘Woman’s Hour’ / ‘Sugar and Spice’ Writing: Argument written task Content: Writers’ perspectives / Synthesising / tone / Persuasive language / Proof Reading 14/1/19 Reading: ‘Homelessness’ Writing: Argument written task Content: Writers’ perspectives / Synthesising / tone / Persuasive Language / Verb Subject Agreement 21/1/19 Assessment week ‘Parenting’ / Magazine Article – disciplining children 28/1/19 Reading: No session Writing: SLC mop up (controlled assessments) Content: Perform speaking and listening presentations
29/4/19 Reading: ‘Crime and Punishment’ Writing: Descriptive written task Content: P2 Q1-5/ Connectives / Discourse markers / Crime & Law 6/5/19 Reading: ‘The Goldfinch’ Writing: Descriptive written task Content: P1 Q1-5/ Connectives / Discourse markers / Outsiders 13/05/19 Reading: ‘Aberfan’ Writing: Descriptive written task Content: P2 Q1-5/ Connectives / Discourse markers / Disaster 20/05/19 Reading: Revision workshop P1 Writing: Revision workshop P2 Content: P1 & P2 Q1-5, Students Folders 27/05/19 – 31/05/19 HALF TERM 03/06/19 Reading: Revision workshop P1 Writing: Revision workshop P2 Content: P1 & P2 Q1-5, Students Folders 04/06/19 GCSE English Exam Paper I Tuesday 4th June 2019 07/06/19 GCSE English Exam Paper 2 Friday 7th June 2019