KS4 Teacher Assessed Grades Assessment schedule 2021

KS4

Teacher Assessed Grades

Assessment schedule 2021

Contents Welcome

Business

Child Development

Computer Science

Drama

English Language & English Literature

Food Preparation and Nutrition

Geography

History

iMedia

Mathematics

Music

Science (combined)

Sociology

Spanish

BTEC Vocational Subjects:

Construction

Engineering

Sport

Welcome

Due to the Summer 2021 examinations series not going ahead as

planned, teachers have been instructed to inform final student grades

based on a range of evidence.

This booklet contains the following information:

1. Details of the range of evidence that will be used to inform Teacher

Assessed Grades for students in each examination subject.

2. Details of the focus/topic of any assessments which are to be

completed to gain the required evidence.

3. Details of the dates of any assessments which are to be

completed .

It is important that students are aware of the above information to

allow them to prepare accordingly.

Please can I remind students that JCQ (Joint Council for Qualifications)

states that:

Teachers will make the final judgment about what evidence will be

included and this cannot be negotiated.

Teachers will be able to provide feedback on any assessments but

will not be able to tell you the grade they have submitted the

examination board.

All Teacher Assessed Grades will be reviewed by examination

boards before the awarding of final grades.

I hope you find this information useful as you plan for your upcoming

assessments.

Mr Hall

Vice Principal

Business GCSE

Course component

Paper

Component

Unit

Assessment Focus

Topics included

Focus of assessment

Date

Completed

Week beginning (w/b)

Specific date if known

1 Check in tests Business 1

Business 2

All units

Completed

2 Business 1 Nov 2020 Mock exam Completed

3 Business 1

Paper 1

Parts A & B

Topics to include:

Business planning

Business ownership

Business aims & objectives

Market research

Marketing mix – price, promotion

Different ways of working

Recruitment & selection

Motivation & retention

Training

Employment law

+ multiple choice question

w/b 19 April

4 Business 2

Paper 2

Parts A & B

Topics to include:

Quality of goods & services

Business location

Working with suppliers

Sources of finance

Revenues, costs, profit, loss

Break even

Environmental considerations

Economic climate

Globalisation

+ multiple choice question

w/b 26 April

5 Exam board

material TBC w/b 10 May

Computer Science GCSE

Course

component

Paper

Component

Unit

Assessment Focus

Topics included

Focus of assessment

Date

Completed



1 Examination

paper Networks

Cloud Storage

Network Layers

File management

Embedded systems

Compilers/Translators

IDE

Logic gates

Data types

CPU

Secondary

storage

Programming

constructs

Binary Sort

Arrays

Subroutine

Variables

22 April

2 Examination

paper Network topology

Memory ROM and

RAM

Suitable storage

Binary and Hex

Boolean

operators

Data

representation

29 April

3 Examination

paper Types of network

Utility system software

Legislation

Computational

thinking

pseudocode

6 May

4 Examination

paper Wired and wireless

Operating systems

Digital divide- cultural

Searching

Algorithms

SQ

13 May

5 Examination

paper Network protocols

Identifying

vulnerabilities within

networks

Sorting algorithms

Sequence

Selection

iteration

20 May

6 Examination

paper Performance of

networks

System security- forms

of attack.

Environmental issues

Validation and

testing

Types of testing

Binary

27 May

7 Classwork Completed Small classroom test over the year

Child Development CACHE

Course component

Paper

Component

Unit

Assessment Focus

Topics included

Focus of assessment

Date

Completed



1 Unit 1 + 2

Coursework Unit 1+2 coursework to be

moderated by the examination

board 50%

Completed by Easter

2 Unit 3 Examination October 2020 examination 50% Completed

3 Unit 3 Examination

resit Unit 3 - Childcare and

Development 0-5 years

w/b 3 May 2021

Drama GCSE

Course component

Paper

Component

Unit

Assessment Focus

Topics included

Focus of assessment

Date

Completed



1 Component 1 Portfolio supporting devised work Completed

2 Component 1 Performance of devised piece Completed

3 Component 1 Evaluation of devised piece Completed by 3 May

4 Component 2 Performance of scripted piece w/b 26 April

5 Component 3 Written examination - DNA w/b 17 May

English Language &

English Literature GCSE

Course component

Paper

Component

Unit

Assessment Focus

Topics included

Focus of assessment

Date

Completed



1 English Language

Paper 2 Q4

Comparing writers’ views and

perspectives

(Reading)

29 March

2 English Language

Paper 2 Q5 Writing to argue/persuade

(Writing)

31 March

3 English Language

Paper 1 Q4 To what extent do you agree…?

(Reading)

22/23 April

4 English Language

Paper 1 Q5 Description or narrative based on

image or prompt

(Writing)

29/30 April

5 English Literature

Modern text An inspector Calls

Choice of 2 questions

6/7 May


Shakespeare Macbeth

Extract and links to whole text

13/14 May


19th Century Novel A Christmas Carol

Extract and links to whole text

20/21 May

8 Mock examination Mock examination November 2020 Completed

Food Preparation and Nutrition

GCSE

Course component

Paper

Component

Unit

Assessment Focus

Topics included

Focus of assessment

Date

Completed



1 Mock Exam Food Preparation and nutrition Completed

2 NEA Written research coursework Completed

3 NEA Practical skills

Plans

Nutritional analysis

Sensory analysis

19 April – 27 May

4 Examination

Questions

Part A

Selection of exam board topic

based questions.

w/b 3 May

5 Examination

Questions

Part B

Selection of examination board

topic based questions.

w/b 10 May

6 Examination

Questions

Part C

Selection of examination board

topic based questions.

w/b 24 May

Geography GCSE Course component

Paper

Component

Unit

Assessment Focus

Topics included

Focus of assessment

Date

Completed



1 Paper 3 Pre-release assessment using 2019

paper.

Completed or w/b 19 April

2 Paper 1 Hazards w/b 19 April

3 Paper 1 Physical Landscapes UK w/b 26 April

4 Paper 2 Urban Issues and Challenges w/b 2 May

5 Paper 2 Changing Economic World w/b10 May

6 Paper 1 & 2 Mock Examinations Completed

7 All End of unit assessments (purple

folders) and assessment books.

Completed

History GCSE

Course component

Paper

Component

Unit

Assessment Focus

Topics included

Focus of assessment

Date

Completed



1 Paper 1 Medicine through time w/b 10 May

2 Paper 1 Anglo Saxon and Norman England w/b 24 May

3 Paper 3 Weimar and Nazi Germany w/b 19 April

4 Paper 1 & 2 Mock examinations Completed

5 Paper 1, 2 & 3 Exam board assessments being

released in March (to be used if

necessary)

w/b 24 May

6 All papers Purple assessment books full of in-

class assessments (only to be used in

extreme cases if necessary)

Completed

i-Media

Cambridge National Course component

Paper

Component

Unit

Assessment Focus

Topics included

Focus of assessment

Date

Completed



1 Examination paper Mock examinations November 2020 Completed

2 Examination paper Preproduction Documents:

Storyboards

Mindmaps

Script

Visualisation Diagrams

Moodboards

Workplan

w/b 26 April

During IT lesson within the

week.

3 Examination paper Digital Graphics:

Health & Safety

File Formats

Target Audience

Legislations - Data protection Act,

Copyright and patent Act, Freedom

of information Act

w/b 3 May

During IT lessons within the

week

4 R082 Digital Graphic coursework On going - to be

completed by 28th May

5 R084 Storytelling with comic strip

coursework

On going - to be

completed by 28th May

Mathematics GCSE Course component

Paper

Component

Unit

Assessment Focus

Topics included

Focus of assessment

Date

Completed



1 Maths Paper 1/2/3 or 4/5/6 June 2019 Mock exam Completed

2 Half a paper

Calculator:

Higher Paper 4

11x1, 11x2, 11x3

Foundation Paper 1 11x4,

11y1, 11y2, 11y3, 11y4

Number, Algebra, Shape and

Measure, Data, Ratio and

Proportion

Completed

3 Half a paper

Non-Calculator:

Higher Paper 5

11x1, 11x2, 11x3


11y1, 11y2, 11y3, 11y4



Proportion

Completed

4 Half a paper

Calculator:

Higher Paper 6

11x1, 11x2, 11x3


11y1, 11y2, 11y3, 11y4



Proportion

Wednesday 21 April

5 Half a paper

Calculator:

Higher Paper 4

11x1, 11x2, 11x3


11y1, 11y2, 11y3, 11y4



Proportion

Wednesday 5 May

6 Half a paper

Non-Calculator:

Higher Paper 5

11x1, 11x2, 11x3


11y1, 11y2, 11y3, 11y4



Proportion

Wednesday 12 May

7 Half a paper

Calculator:

Higher Paper 6

11x1, 11x2, 11x3


11y1, 11y2, 11y3, 11y4



Proportion

Wednesday 19 May

Music GCSE Course component

Paper

Component

Unit

Assessment Focus

Topics included

Focus of assessment

Date

Completed



1 Composition Composition to candidates own

brief

Completed by 15 May

2 Performance Performance of own choice Completed by 15 May

3 Listening Area of Study 2 (Concerto Through

Time) from the 2020, 2019 and 2018

paper.

w/b 26 April

4 Listening Area of Study 3 (Rhythms of the

World) from the 2020, 2019 and

2018 paper.

w/b 3 May

5 Listening Area of Study 4 (Film Music) from

the 2020, 2019 and 2018 paper.

w/b 10 May

6 Listening Area of Study 5 (Conventions of

Pop) from the 2020, 2019 and 2018

paper.

w/b 17 May

Psychology GCSE Course component

Paper

Component

Unit

Assessment Focus

Topics included

Focus of assessment

Date

Completed



1 5 x end of topic

assessment Criminal psychology, psychological

problems, research methods, social

influence

Completed

2 Paper 1 – studies

and applications in

psychology

Mock paper on all topics covered

November 2020

Completed

3 Paper 1- Criminal

psychology and

psychological

problems

Criminal Psychology:

Cooper and Mackie

Types of crime and how to measure

Crime as a social construct

Social Learning theory of crime

Ways of dealing with offenders – fine,

community service, prison

Eysenck Criminal Personality

Psychological Problems:

Biological explanations of schizophrenia

Stigma and discrimination

Symptoms of schizophrenia and

depression

Psychotherapy

Tandoc’s research

Social Rank theory

21 April

4 Paper 1- part 2

Research methods

Design a study:

Questionnaires and how to design them

Sampling methods

Rating scales

Social desirability bias

Graphs

Research Methods:

Observations

Primary data

Inter-rater reliability

Medians

Interpreting information from a table/

graph

Alternative hypotheses

Self-selected samples

Validity

Internal reliability

Graphs

28 April

Psychology cont... Course component

Paper

Component

Unit

Assessment Focus

Topics included

Focus of assessment

Date

Completed



5 Paper 2- part A

Social influence and

sleeping and

dreaming

Social Influence :

Bickman’s research

Authoritarian Personality/ authority

figures

Deindividuation

NatCen study

Hippocampus and dispositional

factors

Sleep and Dreaming:

Activation Synthesis Theory

Functions of sleep

Stages of sleep

Freuds theory of dreaming

Williams research

Ways of getting better sleep

12 May

6 Paper 2- part B

Holistic essay-

assessing

understanding of

psychology as a

whole.

Lab experiments versus non-lab

studies e.g. observations or field

studies

Choose one study which has used a

lab study and one study which has

used a different way of collecting

data

26 May

Religious Studies GCSE Course component

Paper

Component

Unit

Assessment Focus

Topics included

Focus of assessment

Date

Completed



1 Paper 1 Christianity Nov 2020 Mock Examination Completed

2 Paper 2 Islam Topic 1 Muslim Beliefs Completed

3 Paper 2 Islam Topic 2 Living the Muslim Life Thursday 1 April

4 Paper 2 Islam Topic 3 Crime and Punishment w/b 26 April

5 Paper 1 Christianity Topic 3 Marriage and the Family w/b 17 May

Science (combined) GCSE

Course component

Paper

Component

Unit

Assessment Focus

Topics included

Focus of assessment

Date

Completed



1 Biology paper 1 Cell Biology, Organisation,

Infection and Response

w/b 26 April

2 Chemistry paper 1 Atomic Structure and The

Periodic Table, Bonding

Structure and the Properties

of Matter, Quantitative

Chemistry

w/b 26 April

3 Physics paper 1 Energy, particle model of

matter

w/b 26 April

4 Biology paper 2 Organisation, Bioenergetics,

Homeostasis and response,

Inheritance, Variation and

Evolution,

w/b 10 May

5 Chemistry paper 2 Chemical Changes, Energy

Changes, The Rate and

Extent of Chemical Change

w/b 10 May

6 Physics paper 2

Circuits, Mains Electricity,

Atomic model and Radiation

w/b 10 May

7 Biology paper 3 Homeostasis and response,

Inheritance, Variation and

Evolution

w/b 24 May

8 Chemistry paper 3 Organic Chemistry,

Chemical Analysis, and

Using Resources

w/b 24 May

9 Physics paper 3 Forces, Motion and

Magnetism

w/b 24 May

Sociology GCSE Course component

Paper

Component

Unit

Assessment Focus

Topics included

Focus of assessment

Date

Completed



1 Stratification Assessment

(paper 2)

50 marks – 55mins

Range of different questions

taken from the stratification

specification that has been

covered (social inequality,

gender, ethnicity, social class,

New Right, Marxism, Feminism

+ social mobility)

28 April

2 Families Assessment

(paper 1)

50 marks – 55mins

Family diversity, dual earners,

cohabitation, Functionalism,

Marxism, symmetrical families,

feminists view, Interviews,

Questionnaires

12 May

3 Education Assessment

(paper 1)

50 marks – 55min

Marketisation, functions of

school, Functionalism, Marxism,

Ethnicity and Achievement,

Observations, Correspondence

principle, Longitudinal Studies,

Gender and Achievement

14 May

4 Crime Assessment

(paper 2)

50 marks – 55mins

Crime and the media, group

interviews, Merton and Strain

Theory, Official statistics, Dark

figure of crime, women and

crime, Deviance, Functionalist

view on positives of crime,

Marxism views on crime.

21 May

5 October 2020 Mock

exam (already sat Education – paper 50 marks Completed October Mock

examination

6 November 2020 Mock

exam 2019 paper 1

(already sat

Families/Education/Research

Methods

100 marks

Completed November

mocks

7 March 2021 mock exam

Crime 2019 paper 2

(already sat)

2019 paper 2 – Crime +

Research Methods

50 marks

Completed March 2022

Spanish GCSE

Course component

Paper

Component

Unit

Assessment Focus

Topics included

Focus of assessment

Date

Completed



1 AQA GCSE MOCK

Papers 1, 3 & 4

Listening, reading &

writing

All 3 themes

Mock examinations November 2020

Completed

2 AQA GSCE

SPEAKING

Paper 2

All 3 themes

Mock examinations November 2020

Completed

3 AQA GCSE NOV

2020

Papers 1,3 & 4


writing

All 3 themes w/b 15 March

4 Writing

Theme 1 Topics 1 & 2

Family friends & relationships /

Technology

Monday 19 April

5 Listening & reading

Theme 1 Topic 3

Free time and leisure

Wednesday 21 April

6 Writing


Home, town & local area / Health

Monday 26 April


Theme 2 Topic 7

Travel & Tourism

Weds 28 April

8 Writing

Theme 3 Topics 9-12

My studies & future plans

Monday 3 May



My studies and school life

Weds 5 May

10 AQA GCSE

Papers 1, 3 & 4


writing

All 3 themes / 12 topics W/C 24 May

BTEC Vocational Subjects

BTEC Construction

BTEC Engineering

BTEC Sport

All vocational courses are intended to be completed in full where possible.

Pearson have already reduced internal assessments in the following ways:

1. Reduced unit assessment (3 units not 4)

2. In unit adaptation assessment evidence (reduction in the amount of

assessment evidence required.

Externally assessed units (examinations) will be assessed through ongoing

classroom assessments and mock examination evidence. Many of these units

have already been completed.

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