This is what the Association for Citizenship Teaching Advises: (21st June 2011)

Several colleagues in LAs and schools have been contacting ACT regarding the writing of reports to parents using the 8 level scale and completion of local data forms. Advice from DfE and Capita is confusing and possibly unhelpful, often contradicting earlier advice.

ACT has passed on its concerns to DfE who are currently looking into this matter.

To clarify, the QCDA TARA booklet for KS3 for 2011 (ie next assessment arrangements for next year) misses out Citizenship from page 10 where there is a list of subjects which you have to assess and report a level for. This information is incorrect as the Citizenship attainment target, which is described as level descriptions, was introduced in 2007 with the revised secondary National Curriculum programme of study of the same year. Schools are legally required to give a level related judgement for all pupils completing key stage 3 from the summer of 2010. The arrangements were introduced to align Citizenship with all the other National Curriculum Foundation subjects. The fact that the planned revised levels from 2008 did not become statutory has no bearing on the original version of levels or assessment arrangements.

This will need correcting and DfE will hopefully lets us know more about this as soon as possible

 

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