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Diary of an NQT: Life after Levels

Life after levels NQTs
Our NQT is helping her school to prepare for life after national curriculum levels with a new approach being planned for September

Having had a year’s grace and planning opportunity for our “Life after Levels” strategy, it is now time to decide on and implement the new structure before the new academic year in September. We have spent recent “Department Development Time” focused on this task.

As our school embarks on progress checking with a more flexible and “home-grown” levelling system, I have been working within the philosophy department to support work devising a progress tracking strategy that fits for our new year 7 cohort and which they can adopt in September. 

There is a planned phase out of the old levelling format whereby in September the new year 8 and 9 cohorts will run with the “old” (existing) criteria and year 7 with the new approach.

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