Assessment
At Bishop’s Hatfield Girls’ School our key aim is that all pupils will achieve their potential and enjoy the journey. We believe that this will be accomplished through a close partnership with parents/carers and pupils taking responsibility for their own learning.
The purpose of assessment is to help pupils know what they are doing well and what they need to do to improve. The knowledge gained will be used to inform teaching and to direct learning. We believe that the sense of achievement that pupils gain through undertaking a range of assessments contributes to their enjoyment of their learning. To view your child’s report, please click here – and this will take you to the Parent Log In page of Go4Schools (not their home page). For an explanation of how to access and use Go4Schools, please see ‘Using Go4School’ further below. The following document provides both parents and pupils with information and guidance to better understand assessment and reporting procedures at Bishop’s Hatfield Girls’ School. strategies for parents to support their children in managing stress and workload.
It outlines how parents and the school can help and support Y11 pupils and provides some practical revision
Listed below are the key assessment and proposed parents’ evening dates for 2023-24
Examinations & Progress Checks
Parents’ Evenings
We always welcome feedback from parents/carers; if you have any questions about our assessment process or if there are ways you feel we could improve it please contact the school via email at admin@bishophatfield.herts.sch.uk for the attention of Mrs Langston, Assistant Headteacher in charge of Pupil Progress and Assessment. The reports we issue to parents/carers will include some terminology you may not be familiar with so to help your understanding the key terms are explained below: Each report also has effort grades from Exceptional, Good, Inconsistent and Below expected in four areas: behaviour for learning homework and organisation. The criteria for these effort grades are shown underneath the report. As a school we consider any effort grades of inconsistent or below as a cause for concern. If you have any concerns about your daughter’s progress in a particular subject, talk to your daughter to check that she is aware of what she needs to do to make progress in the subject. Is she following the guidance from her teachers on how she needs to improve? Has she spoken to her teachers to help her to understand the targets that have been set? If you still have concerns contact the subject teacher (you can see who teaches your daughter by looking at her timetable on the GO 4 Schools website) in the first instance, or the Head of Faculty if you think that is appropriate. If you have a more general concern about progress across a range of subjects then you should contact Mr Pandya, Assistant Headteacher in charge of Progress Data and Assessment. Year 7 and 8 reporting At Bishop’s we have decided to focus our reports in Years 7 to 9 to comment on the level of progress pupils are making in the various subjects they are studying. Each pupil will be assigned an individual Pathways for each subject, from Year 8. These Pathways are not an indication of the pupil’s current ability but instead give an indication of the potential level of achievement at GCSE. Reports will measure the level of progress pupils are making in relation to their individual Pathway. Pupils are placed on a Pathway based on a nationally recognised formula that uses Key Stage 2 standard assessment scores. We aim to make these Pathways challenging but realistic for pupils. The Pathways give pupils an idea of the path they are on in terms of their attainment. We consider it too soon to give Year 7 an accurate Pathway until the summer tracking report as they are still settling into secondary education and have yet to complete enough work in some subjects to provide reliable assessment data. Years 10 and 11 reporting We use an online reporting system called Go 4 Schools, it allows you to access your daughter’s academic achievement and progress in addition to other information the school holds about your daughter. Logging on to Go 4 Schools In order to log on to Go 4 Schools you will need to visit www.go4schools.com and click on the ‘Parents’ icon at the top right hand side. If it is the first time using the website, enter the email address registered with the school into the ‘first time user’ section and click ‘send me a password’. Go 4 Schools will then send you a password directly to the inbox of your registered email. Upon receipt of the password, enter your email and new password into the top two boxes of the login page to gain access to the system. Once logged in you will be directed to a page to choose your daughter’s name, if you have more than one daughter at the school all their names will be listed. Clicking on your daughter’s name directs you to their pupil page which includes various information including: Residual scores – these show at a glance whether a pupil is on/above/below/well below their target grade in each subject. It should be noted that this data may depend on the point in the year when reports are produced, e.g. early in the year you might expect a greater number of grades to be below target.Our reporting systems
In Years 10 -11, we use GCSE 9-1 grades. We also use a combination of Target Grades, Predicted Grades and Current Grades to help us to track progress. To show how a pupil is progressing we compare the Predicted Grade with the Target Grade. This shows in a visual way whether a pupil is on target to meet or exceed her Target Grade.
Using Go 4 Schools
