The Coronavirus pandemic has continued to bring challenges to educators and students. With the continued disruption caused by school closures over the last 18 months, there has been worldwide concern on the impact this pandemic is having on the students and their learning. At Uplands, to provide the best educational experience, we have done our utmost in being adaptive during these difficult times in order to allow us to continue to provide the academic excellence that our school community is accustomed to.
Standardised Testing at Uplands
As these are exceptional times, it is especially crucial to monitor the progress of our students to ensure that we do indeed provide the best education for our students. Standardised benchmarking tools allow us to evaluate our students’ learning and help us to plan our strategies and interventions in supporting our students moving forward.
The standardised benchmarking tests that we use are the Progress Tests in English, Mathematics, and Science that are part of the GL Assessments testing suite. These Progress Tests are standardised against the UK curriculum and are used to benchmark achievement specific to the expected learning for students at specific year levels. Students cannot revise for these tests as there are no past papers or revision materials that are linked to this testing system.
“The English Faculty has worked to solidify our focus on Language and Literature concepts and Approaches to Learning in every unit. We think that this allows students to not only learn within the text and task they are studying at the time, but to see how the ideas and skills they develop apply to new situations. It is clear that our students are high achieving in general, and that the curriculum supports their continued growth no matter where they start.” Shannon Kerry, Head of Language A Faculty
We are delighted that our students have continued to be resilient in these difficult times, and their love of learning has not waned despite spending a significant amount of time learning online. Our students should be very proud of what they have achieved. For more information, please visit our website.
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