Pool Academy

Monitoring Achievement

Understanding what our students know and planning to support them in their journey through our curriculum is key to ensuring that we are successful in our mission:

Our students will succeed at university, or a real alternative, thrive in a chosen career and have a happy, healthy and fulfilling life.

Throughout a student's time at Pool Academy, we will regularly monitor and assess their understanding and progress.  Within lessons these may be focused questions to assess understanding or address misconceptions or small, low stakes tests used to gauge recall. Exam style questions and other methods may also be used to assess understanding and application of skills.

There will be points during a school year that we use more formal summative tests and these will typically take place in the assessment week of our learning cycles. These assessments will be the basis of the feedback to students, parents and carers.

In reporting the achievement of our students, we will report the percentage scored in the assessment, the mean average score for the year group or class and the percentage required to be in the top 20%.  

We will give feedback to parents and carers three times during the academic year. Two of these will be data driven, detailing the assessment score with numerical grades also given for effort and behaviour in class as well as the standard of homework produced.  The third report will contain data alongside a teacher’s written comment. 

The dates for the reports are given below:

Pool Academy is committed to supporting students in achieving their full potential and while we will send reports home, we would also encourage parents and carers to contact us if they wish to know more about how their child is performing outside of these reporting windows.  If this is the case please contact enquiries@ or your child's head of year to discuss any questions you have.