The Assessment Pack:

Provides baseline assessment

§ Find out what your pupils already know with 'Quick Quizzes'.

§ Use this to choose the most appropriate teaching approach for each pupil.

Includes formative assessment opportunities throughout

§ 'Quick Checks' allow pupils to judge for themselves how well they are learning, and identify ways in which to improve.

§ 'Target Sheets' encourage pupils to measure their own progress.

Differentiated summative assessment

§ With end-of-unit tests for every unit, containing SAT-style and How Science Works questions.

§ Plus an open-ended summative task for every unit with levelled outcomes.

§ End-of-year tests provided at different levels (L3-5 and L5-7 level descriptors, marking guidance and sample answers are provided).

AT1 assessment

§ Practical activities designed to develop strands of AT1.

§ Suggests a full AT1 investigation for each unit.

§ Level descriptions are adapted for each investigation, which can be used as a mark scheme.