Exam Information – Year 11
This page contains useful information about our assessment systems and qualifications that are relevant now that your child is in Year 11.
Key Internal Assessment and Reporting Dates
| External (actual) exams | Timetable for Summer Exams 2026: (Please note – Sixth form exams are indicated by the blue rows) |
| Mock exams | w/c 20th October 2025 w/c 9th February 2026 |
| Parents’ evening | 27th November 2025 |
Revision Information
Revision Evening Information
Hints and Tips
Year 11 Revision Hints and Tips
Assessment in Lessons and Reviewing Progress
Assessment in Lessons
We regularly use assessment within lessons to ensure that our students are making progress at, and to inform our future teaching. This assessment may come in many different forms, such as essays, small tests, multiple choice questions or past paper problems.
Within each subject, teachers will use these regular assessments in lessons to check that students are progressing towards the relevant end points in their subject area.
Reviewing Progress
Up to two times a year each subject reports on student progress within their area. Staff judge students based on regular and recent assessment as follows:
Following assessment, students receive one of three judgements:
Attitude To Learning (ATL)
We report on the ATL of every student three times each year. Learners receive an ATL score from each individual subject.
A positive Attitude to Learning (ATL) plays a vital part in raising the outcomes for students at Horsforth School. We expect all learners at our School to achieve the maximum possible ATL, regardless of academic ability.
Each Horsforth Learner is judged on a scale of 1-6, with 4 being the minimum standard expected.
An average ATL of 5 or more will be rewarded with a ‘Fab 5’ extended lunch, where eligible students can enjoy an extra twenty minutes of lunch break with other Fab 5 learners.
Students who fall close to or below the minimum ATL expectation may be placed on an ATL report by either a Form Tutor, Year Co-ordinator, Pastoral and Behaviour Officer or a member of the Senior Leadership Team. An ATL report monitors the attitude to learning in each individual lesson to highlight areas where the learner may require support or intervention.
Progress Review information is available electronically if you download the SIMs Parent App here.