Year 9 Assessment Booklet 2025 by Red Bend Catholic College

RED BEND CATHOLIC COLLEGE

YEAR 9 ASSESSMENT POLICY

This booklet outlines the Year 9 assessment policy and includes assessment schedules for all Year 9 courses.

What are Assessment Tasks?

Assessment tasks are used to measure total student achievement throughout Year 9. They cover core syllabus content and outcomes, but do not include information about student attitudes, behaviour and conduct. Student assessment marks are gathered during Year 9 through a variety of assessment tasks. These are used to allocate marks and grades for the Semesters 1 and 2 academic reports.

Assessment Guidelines

1. Notification and Feedback of Assessments

Students must be notified by their teacher that an Assessment Task is approaching. Notification of the task will be given to students, a minimum of 2 weeks before the task date. Students will be informed of:

• The type of task (test, assignment, Speaking presentation, etc)

• The content covered by the task

• The best way to prepare for the task (organisation, study etc)

• Clear and meaningful feedback up to 2 weeks from the due date about their performance on specific tasks.

2. Honesty in Assessments

It is your responsibility to complete all assessment tasks to the best of your ability. You must also make sure that each assessment item is your own work. Malpractice is any activity that allows students an unfair advantage over other students. It can include:

• presentation of another student’s work

• plagiarism

• copying

• getting assistance from other sources where this is not allowed using material directly from books, journals, or the internet without reference to the source

• buying, stealing or borrowing another person’s

work and presenting it as your own

• using words, ideas, designs or the workmanship of others in practical and performance tasks with appropriate acknowledgement

• submitting work to which another person such as a parent, coach or subject expert has contributed substantially

• paying someone to write or prepare material

• breaching school examination rules

• using non-approved aides during an assessment task

• contriving false explanations to explain work not handed in by the due date

• unauthorised use of generative AI (artificial intelligence) tools

• giving false reasons for not handing in work by the due date

3. Lateness

You will lose marks if assessed tasks are handed in late. You will lose 10% of your marks for each day late. Any item which is more than 3 days late may result in a zero mark. You will still be expected to complete the item by attending a ‘catch up’ at Friday lunchtime in Room 30. Parents/Guardians will be notified if you fail to hand in an assessment item.

4. Extensions

If you have a good reason (eg. illness, family or sporting commitments) for not completing an assessed item on time, you can apply for an extension. Extension request forms are available from the Student Services Office or you can access a copy on the Year 7 Google Share Drive. Complete the form and return to the Faculty Coordinator, who will review your request and advise you and your class teacher of the decision. You should make your request well in advance of the due date. If there are exceptional medical or misadventure circumstances, parents/ caregivers are to contact Mrs Martin dsc@ redbendcc.nsw. edu.au.

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your request well in advance of the due date. If there are exceptional medical or misadventure circumstances, parents/caregivers are to contact Mrs Martin (dsc@redbendcc.nsw.edu.au)

5. Missing an In-class Assessment Item

If you miss an in class assessment item, and your absence from school is explained, you may be asked to complete the task when you return to school. If this is not possible, you will be given an estimated mark for the assessment. Deliberately missing an in class assessment may result in a zero mark.

6. Appeals

You may appeal to your teacher if you believe the mark for an assessment item is unfair. It is your responsibility to see your teacher as soon as possible after the item has been returned. Should you believe that you did not get a fair hearing, take your case to the Faculty Coordinator. The Faculty Coordinator may pass your case on to Mrs Martin if they are unable to reach a resolution.

7. Year 9 Assessment Drive

Students use Google G Suite to complete assessments. Copies of assessment notifications are placed on the Year 10 Team Assessment Drive, which can be accessed at any time.

8. Responsibility of Students in Examinations

• Be well prepared

• Correct school uniform must be worn to all examinations.

• Have pencils, pens, calculator etc in a clear plastic sleeve – pencil cases are not permitted in the examination room.

• Leave all books, paper and study notes in your locker.

• No paper is to be brought into the examination room – writing paper will be supplied.

• Respond properly to all directions given by the supervisor.

• Use the full time allocated for an examination – no student will be permitted to leave the examination room early.

• There is to be no borrowing of equipment

during the examination.

• Raise your hand to ask a question.

• Do not disturb any person during the time you are in an examination room.

• Put up your hand and ask permission if you need to go to the toilet. Permission will not be granted to go to the toilet in the first 15 minutes or the final 15 minutes of the examination.

• Mobile phones are not permitted. Students who bring a mobile phone into an exam may incur a penalty of zero for the exam.

9. Disability Provisions

Students are eligible to apply for disability provisions if they have permanent or temporary disability that would, in a normal examination situation, prevent him or her from:

1. Reading the examination questions; and/or 2. Communicating his or her responses

Conditions are listed under the categories of medical, learning difficulty, hearing and vision. Provisions may include; large print papers, use of a writer, use of a reader, extension of test time, rest breaks, establishment of a special test space, small group supervision, individual supervision, permission to take medication, or other provisions as judged appropriate. Please see Mrs Umbers (Diverse Learning Coordinator) if you have any questions about disability provisions.

10. RoSA (Record of School Achievement)

The Assessment items completed in Year 9 can contribute to the RoSA credential. The RoSA is issued by NESA at the conclusion of Year 10. It reports on A to E grades achieved in all courses by the end of the Year 10 Assessment period. The grades are based on your results in assessment tasks and are mapped against the NESA Course Performance Descriptors. If students only study an elective course in Year 9, then their Year 9 assessment results will be used for the RoSA grade. It is most important that you do your best in all Year 9 Assessment tasks.

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11. ‘N’ Determinations

A student must meet the following criteria in order to qualify for a RoSA grade in a course:

• Have completed a sufficient number of hours of study in a course developed or endorsed by NESA.

• Have participated in the set tasks provided in the course and made the required effort.

• Have achieved some of the course outcomes. A student who does not comply with these requirements may receive an ‘N’ determination to denote an unsatisfactory performance on their RoSA.

A student who is at risk of receiving an ‘N’ determination must be warned as soon as possible and the Principal must advise the parent or guardian in writing. This warning must be issued in time for the problem to be rectified. A student who has received two written warnings and not complied with requirements will be deemed to have not satisfactorily completed the course. If a student receives an ‘N’ determination they are able to appeal.

Do you have questions? Please see either your class teacher, the Faculty Coordinator, or the Director of Curriculum (Mrs Martin)

Year 9 | 2025 ASSESSMENT CALENDAR

Year 9 | SUBJECT ASSESSMENTS

Semester 1

Semester 2

English

Semester 1

Year 9 | SUBJECT ASSESSMENTS

Semester 2

Food Technology

Semester 1

Semester 2

Year 9 | SUBJECT ASSESSMENTS

HSIE | History

Semester 1

HT5-1,HT5-2, HT5-4, HT5-6, HT5-8, HT5-9, HT5-10

HT5-1,HT5-2, HT5-3, HT5-4, HT5-6, HT5-9, Semester 1

HSIE | Geography Semester 2

GE5.1, GE5.2, GE5.3, GE5.5, GE5.7, GE5.8 Research task

GE5.2, GE5.3, GE5.4, GE5.7, GE5.8, Semester 2

3 Week 8

History Elective

Semester 1

Year 9 | SUBJECT ASSESSMENTS

Industrial Technology Metal

Semester 1

IND5-4, IND5-5, IND5-8, IND5-10

IND5-3

Semester 2

ND5-3

Year 9 | SUBJECT ASSESSMENTS

Industrial Technology Timber

Semester 1

1 IND5-2, ND5-4 IND5-5, IND5-8, IND5-10

2 IND5-1, IND5-3

Semester 2

Semester 1

Year 9 | SUBJECT ASSESSMENTS

ST5-1, ST5-2, ST5-3, ST5-4, ST5-5, ST5-6, ST5-7, ST5-8, ST5-9, ST5-10

ST5-1, ST5-2, ST5-4, ST5-5, ST5-6, ST5-8, ST5-10

Semester 2

ST5-1, ST5-2, ST5-3, ST5-4, ST5-5, ST5-6, ST5-7, ST5-8, ST5-9, ST5-10

Year 9 | SUBJECT ASSESSMENTS

1 MA5-ALG-C-01, MA5-ARE-C-01, MA5-ARE-P-01

MA5-ALG-C-01,

MA5-ARE-C-01,

MA5-ARE-P-01,

MA5-FIN-C-01

MA5-MAG-C-01,

MA5-IND-C-01,

MA5-TRG-C-01,

MA5-TRG-C-02

MA5-MAG-C-01,

MA5-IND-C-01, A5-TRG-C-01, MA5-TRG-C-02, MA5-EQU-C-01,

MA5-PRO-C-01

Year 9 | SUBJECT ASSESSMENTS

Personal Development, Health & Physical Education

Semester 1

PD5-10

3 PD-5-1, PD5-2, PD5-3, PD5-6, PD5-7, PD5-8

Semester 2

PD-5-1, PD5-3, PD5-6, PD-5-9, PD5-10

Year 9 | SUBJECT ASSESSMENTS

Personal Activity and Sports Studies (PASS)

Semester 1

PASS5-1, PASS5-2, PASS5-5, PASS5-6, PASS5-9, PASS5-10

Semester 2

Year 9 | SUBJECT ASSESSMENTS

Students recognise that God alone is the source of true happiness and fulfilment and interprets the call of the Beatitudes or commandment to apply this to a range of life situations

Year 9 | SUBJECT ASSESSMENTS

Science

Semester 1

Semester 2