Skip to content ↓
The Gateway Learning Community

The Gateway Learning Community

All Different: All Equal
Together, Improving Upon Our Best

Assessments and Examinations

Click on the links below to access the relevant exam timetable for this academic year 
Summer 2025 GCSE Timetable
Autumn Term Assessments [October / November 2024]: 
Year 11 PPE Timetable
Year 7 assessment timetable Year 8 assessment timetable
Year 9 assessment timetable Year 10 assessment timetable
Spring Term Assessments [January / February / March 2025]
Year 11 PPE 2 Timetable [TBC]
Year 7 Assessment Timetable [TBC] Year 8 Assessment Timetable [TBC]
Year 9 Assessment Timetable [TBC] Year 10 Assessment Timetable [TBC]
Summer Term Assessments [June 2025]
Year 7 Assessment Timetable [TBC] Year 8 Assessment Timetable [TBC]
Year 9 Assessment Timetable [TBC] Year 10 PPE Timetable [TBC]
Creating an effective revision timetable

At the Gateway Academy, there are two types of assessments that we utilise to inform us about exactly what each individual student knows and can do, and what we need to do to support and challenge them to reach the next grade.  The two types of assessment are called formative and summative.

Formative – used to close the gap between students' current understanding and the desired goals for individual lessons/topics. (ongoing monitoring of student learning)

Summative – this mirrors the actual examination and identifies students' strengths and areas to develop based on everything they have learnt since September/start of the course.  This is a cumulative analysis of student learning over a longer period of time.

Additionally, every Year 7 student will complete baseline assessments in every subject to give us a very clear indication of how strong students' knowledge and application from KS2 is and what we need to do to support and challenge them further in each department.  This is carried out in weeks 4 and 5 of the school year to ensure we are gaining early data to allow us to provide a rapid response in order to maximise students' learning and progress immediately.

Furthermore, Year 11 students (and Year 10s in the Summer Term) will complete PPE’s (Pre-Public Exams) twice over the course of the year.  In these assessments, they will sit the actual exam board papers in the sports hall, so they have a very good indication of what the real exams will feel like, the skills needed, and it also allows the staff here at the Gateway Academy to have a very clear indication of where any student gaps or misconceptions are and what we need to do to address them.

Instructions for candidates for written examinations

You have not allowed cookies and this content may contain cookies.

If you would like to view this content please

More information to help with your assessments: 
Click here for a student guide on coping with exam pressure How to manage your time
Procrastination-how to beat it JCQ IFC Coursework Assessments 2024 
JCQ IFC On-Screen Examinations 2024 JCQ Social Media
JCQ Preparing to sit your exams in 2024 IFC Written Examinations Sep 2024
JCQ IFC NE Assessments 2024 Using Flashcards to help revisit information Parent Pamphlet
The Interleaving technique to revisit information Parent Pamphlet The chunking technique to revisit information Parent Pamphlet
Spacing and Timing of Revision Parent Pamphlet Cognitive Load Theory Parent Pamphlet
Keeping active during Revision Parent Pamphlet  
Exams Policies - click on the links below to view our various policies in relation to exams
Exams - Conflict of Interest Exams - Emergency Evacuation
Exams - Equalities Exams - Whistle Blowing
Exams - Word Processor Exams - Contingency Plan
Exams - Malpractice [GA] Exams Policy