Forthcoming Exams

EXAMS 2020-2021

GCSE and A level examinations have been cancelled in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Qualifications will be awarded based on Centre Assessed Grades (CAGs) submitted to the exam boards by the school. Schools will be expected to provide evidence to show how the grades were awarded. The evidence used will include internal school exams, class tests, coursework and essays produced throughout the course. This year the Government will not be using an algorithm to standardise grades across the country.

Y10 students will not be sitting their GCSE in Religious Studies, Y11 students will not be sitting their GCSEs and Y13 will not be sitting their A levels. Instead, the school will submit Centre Assessed Grades (CAGs) to the exam boards as per the explanation above.

The majority of Y12 pupils who were due to sit AS exams have now been withdrawn from those exams. Instead, Y12 will sit internal school exams in late June, from which grades and reports will be issued to parents. CAGs will not be submitted to the exam boards for Y12.

The following dates are provisional, and therefore subject to change. However, they will give parents an approximate idea of when exams and assessments are scheduled for their children for the academic year 2020-21. Detailed exam timetables for each year-group will appear on this page as soon as they are finalised.

Parents are reminded that they should not make plans to take their children out of school during term-time, and that medical appointments etc should on no account be arranged when pupils have exams. Exams cannot be rescheduled to fit around other commitments, and missing an exam is likely to have a negative effect on a pupil’s academic progress. Pupils who miss an in-school exam (for whatever reason, including illness) will not be allowed to take the exam on another day or at another time.

YEAR 7

End-of-year exams in late April 2021, results to be sent home in the post before the end of the academic year.
Year 7 End of Year Examination Timetable April 2021

YEAR 8

Mid-year exams in mid March 2021 (before Easter). End-of-year exams in mid June 2021, results to be sent home in the post by the end of the academic year.

YEAR 9

Mid-year exams in late March 2021 (before Easter). End-of-Key Stage 3 exams in mid-June 2021. Results of end-of-KS3 exams to be sent home in the post by the end of the academic year.

YEAR 10

Mock GCSE exams in late November 2020. Year 10 pupils will not be sitting their GCSE Religious Studies exams in the summer of 2021 – instead, Centre Assessed Grades will be submitted as per the explanation above. There will be internal school assessments (for Religious Studies only) in May. CAGs will be submitted to the exam board for Religious Studies, as per the explanation above. There will be mock GCSE exams (in all subjects apart from Religious Studies) in late June 2021, results from these will be sent home in the post by the end of the academic year. Y10 students will receive their GCSE Religious Studies result when they return to school in September 2021.
Year 10 May 2021 Exam Timetable

YEAR 11

Initial assessments in late September/early October, followed by ‘Expectations Evening’ just before the half term holiday. Mock GCSE exams in December 2020 (the final 2 weeks of the Autumn term pupils are on ‘study leave’ – i.e. only coming in to school when they have an exam). There will be internal school assessments in the first 3 weeks in May. CAGs will be submitted to the exam boards, as per the explanation above. GCSE results to be published on 12-08-21.
Year 11 May 2021 Exam Timetable

YEAR 12

Initial assessments in late September/early October 2020. Y12 Assessment week just before the October half term holiday. CAGs will not be submitted to the exam boards for the majority of Y12. End-of-year school exams in late June 2021. Results to be sent home in the post at the end of the academic year.

YEAR 13

Y13 Assessment Week just before the October half term holiday 2020. There will be internal school assessments during the first three weeks in May. CAGs will be submitted to the exam boards, as per the explanation above. A level results to be published on 10-08-21.
Year 13 May 2021 Exam Timetable