Academic Tracking

Academic Tracking in Kingswood Community College

Academic tracking promotes reflection and acts as a catalyst to change a grade, attitude or indeed the experience of being assessed. In addition, academic tracking is a successful intervention programme that is rooted in students reviewing their own work, tracking their progress and working to set their own goals and targets in order to realise their full potential.

Students in Kingswood Community College receive a number of supports during their time here, including:

• One to one attainment meetings / check ins every academic year
• Study Skills workshops
• Accelerated Reader
• Homework Club
• After School Study
• Three semesterly assessments
• Learning logs
• Lunch time subject focused groups
• Target setting and reflections

Below is a list of our lunch time clubs that help to promote academics within our school.

Here at Kingswood Community College we use the Athena Analytics system. The Athena Tracker is an academic monitoring tool which creates a student’s baseline potential in each subject and highlights when a student falls below this potential and may need further support. This baseline is based on a statistical model built using the exam results of all of the previous results of students on the software. The purpose is to highlight when a student’s performance falls below this potential and may need further support. When a student falls below their potential in any subject, the teacher receives an alert and can investigate what is going on with the student and whether any additional support or intervention is required. Thus ensuring no student gets missed in a very busy school system.

If you are a parent who would like to know more about our academic tracking software, check out the Athena Tracker Guide at this LINK.