Ideas for Working with Assessment Focuses

• Laminate each AF onto A3 and string them up on a hook in your classroom. Whichever one you are currently working on, hang it up.
• Make sure the pupils have copies of the AFs in their books for reference.
• Link your Learning Objective to the relevent AF.
• Print out each AF onto card. Give pupils the cards and get them to rank them in terms of difficulty - perhaps working towards a Diamond 9. This is great for the start of the GCSE course.
• Or, more simply, get pupils to card sort the AFs into Speaking and Listening, Reading and Writing. They find this harder than you might think!
• Use the AFs to structure a group learning activity - set up learning stations for target AFs around the room. Pupils have to know their targets to know where to go!