Peer Assessment Y11

I've just spent 2 lessons going over the mock paper (2 x 50 minutes). 

Rather than going over it in a linear way, I put the students into trios and had them produce "perfect answers" against the assessment objectives in the answer scheme. Students had the opportunity to double check and talk to other teams, a few did.

The process allowed students to share patterns of answers, and even the more able were able to see where the construction of their answers, despite obvious knowledge, didn't score all the marks available.

The obvious extension of this is to get them to write the answer scheme, which I think I'll get them to do...

Parents' Evening Feedback

As SGS we agreed to trial the feedback method suggested by Jon Blackbourne for Y11 parents evening with a roll out to other year groups if successful.  Our SIMs controller adapted a periodic grade sheet for the purpose. 

The form will include summative grade data, the formative comments from the profile (school report) and space for parents to make notes. 

Issues that concerned colleagues included the extra time it would take to fill in the profiles where previously colleagues had only one space to fill in previously, now they have two.  Secondly, colleagues felt that splitting comments between summative and formative was in some way artificial.

We overcome both these by allowing teachers to chose whether to make a comment, or not.  A market solution?

We still need to ask parents whether they found the measures useful.  I intend to use a senior student, to conduct a questionnaire for the purpose but need to develop the questions.  Suggestions would be appreciated!!