Social Inquiry - Analyse current asstle date.

Friday afterschool at 3.30 I met up with Mark. The purpose of this get-together was to gain more understanding on the  Asstle reading / writing tests. We started by looking at the criteria on how Asstle was marked and we studied the results of 9KJs.  He mentioned that at Year 9 students overall National score should be between 4P and 5P. However looking at 9KJs'  current results, this was not the case. Many of our students were at level 3 if not lower.

                                                    9KJs Asstle results for March 2017

New Inquiry Focus - Astle Writing for Junior Boys Term 3 Week 9

Having spoken with my HOD I have now been moved to conduct an inquiry that looks at ways to improve our boys writing in Year 9 by using asstle data, Some boys, I find can  have a lot to say in the classroom but when it comes to expressing it in writing, they choose to keep it brief leaving out information and details. My first step is to have a better understanding of how student writing works, so I will meet up with Mark, (Literacy expert) after school to gain some knowledge there.