Assessment Information

At Melksham Oak School, ongoing assessment of student work is an integral part of the learning process and helps us to track where students are excelling and where they are falling behind so we can both support and challenge them. We send reports home electronically three times during the academic year for each year group (see below for our assessment schedule).

How we assess our students’ work

Summative assessments are generally longer assessments, including content from a range of sub topic areas linked to the curriculum and/or exam specification. These take place in all subjects in order to develop students’ learning and to gather progress data for the three assessment and reporting points. The work generated from these summative assessments is used for feedback, reflection and redrafting as part of our cycle of student feedback.

Qualification-linked exam papers, or parts thereof, are used in KS4 and KS5 with internal exams taking place in order to give students the experience of public examinations. KS3 assessments are linked to each subject’s curriculum, which is closely aligned to the National Curriculum.

The grades from these summative assessments are used by subject teachers to inform their judgements on current progress for reporting home, as well as for analysis and targeted support for students. We also expect our teachers to use ongoing shorter ‘formative’ style assessments to inform lesson planning and ensure students continue to progress.

Attitude to Learning

In Key Stages 3 and 4, instead of a detailed comment we report home an ‘attitude to learning’ judgement which can be one of the following four categories for each subject area.

These are designed to represent the student’s typical attitude to learning during their lessons in each subject.

RATING: EXCELLENT GOOD INCONSISTENT UNSATISFACTORY

Descriptors on which each rating is based:
  • I show resilience and I don’t give up in my learning, even when I find an activity or idea challenging.
  • I complete my work on time and to the best of my ability, setting a positive example to other students.
  • I try hard to use feedback to improve my work.
  • I often show resilience and I rarely give up in my learning.
  • I often complete my work on time and to the best of my ability.
  • I usually try hard to use feedback to improve my work.
  • I sometimes show resilience but I occasionally give up too easily.
  • I usually complete my work, but I sometimes need to put more effort into completing it.
  • I sometimes need to spend more time and effort improving my work after feedback.
  • I often give up too easily. I don’t spend enough time on my work in class and I don’t take enough pride in my work.
  • I often don’t put enough effort into my work.
  • I often don’t act upon the feedback I receive.

The following links will take you to the most recent performance data published by The Government relating to Melksham Oak School’s exam results at Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5.

Key Stage 4 performance data can be found here:

KEY STAGE 4 PERFORMANCE DATA

Key Stage 5 performance data can be found here:

KEY STAGE 5 PERFORMANCE DATA

Nationally, there is no test or exam data published for 2022 and 2021.

Visit the Performance Tables website information for Melksham Oak Community School.