The Framework for secondary English and Assessing Pupils' Progress (APP)

The renewed Framework for secondary English and APP guidelines

The Framework for secondary English is for planning teaching and learning and the APP guidelines are for assessing pupils' progress.

Making the link between learning objectives and assessment criteria supports periodic assessment, which enables teachers and subject leaders to identify key substrands or specific groups of learning objectives within the Framework to shape planning and related future assessment. In this way curricular targets derived from APP can then inform planning from the Framework and learning in the classroom.

This continuous cycle of learning, progress and assessment is shown in the diagram below.

The default level ranges between APP assessment criteria and learning objectives for Years 7, 8 and 9 are 4–6, 4–6 and 5–7 respectively.