KS3 Geography Progress Book inc. skills checklist & promotion of literacy in Geography- 12 side, A5

To overcome the problem of my pupils losing their exercise books and assessments, I developed this booklet to enable me to to track progress from Year 7 to Year 9. I have used these books with great success in my department; they have been adopted and adapted across the school by the majority of other departments, who have provided me with lots of positive feedback. Ofsted were very impressed with this idea!

At the beginning of Year 7, all pupils are issued with a copy of this A5 progress book, in addition to a manila folder (each cohort has the same colour folder and I keep class sets at the back of my room, each in a large A3 sealable plastic folder with a class sticker on the front). Pupils are not allowed to take their folders containing their progress books home until the end of Year 9, to ensure they do not get lost. All geography assessments are completed on paper and stored in these folders, thereby providing continuos evidence of progress over time throughout KS3.

The booklet is completed by its owner throughout the year includes the following sections:
* Front cover (school logo can be uploaded here)
* Outline of learning journey for the year.
* A progress tracker to be updated at the end of each assessment against the individual pupil target for the year
* A progress review page which is completed at the end of each unit of work, once the assessed piece of work has been marked and handed back. This requires pupils to evaluate the extent to which their knowledge and understanding has changed, as well as asking them to comment on their progress against targets set at the end of their previous progress review. Pupils then take control of setting their own targets with the view to improving their attainment in the next unit of work.
*To promote literacy in Geography, I have included a 'Geo-Literacy' self-review section.
* Termly target review page.
* Geography skills checklist.
* End of year progress review page, focusing on presentation, subject knowledge and Geo-Literacy.

I have built in a lesson at the end of each unit of work whereby each class is handed back their marked assessments and are required to complete a progress review page, which must be signed off by the teacher to ensure quality targets have been set.

This year 7 version is easily adapted for Year 8 and Year 9; unit names just need to be altered. I have each year printed with a different coloured paper front cover to allow for ease of recognition.
At the end of each year you simply need to pass the class set of manila folders containing the progress books & assessments to the next class teacher inheriting your group.