Transcript Year 11 welcome evening 2014

Year 11
Welcome Parents Evening
School
Home
Student
How can we assist students to
achieve their full potential?
School
Home
Student
Does this sound familiar?
“I don’t have any
homework”
But…..
 The mock exams are just a few weeks off….
 They start on 1 December and will run for approximately 3
weeks.
 This is the students only chance to have a trail run
 They produce very important information for us
 They must be taken seriously
How can you assist at home?
 Allow students to take ownership
 3 different approaches:
- Subtle approach
- Negotiate
- Encouragement
School
Home
Student
Things you can do
 Ensure that everyone in the family knows
the importance of external examinations
and that study rooms are free from
disturbance
 Equipping: provide pens, paper, cards
highlighters, folders, etc
 Offer support and advice
School
Home
Student
Negotiate
 Periods of time for revision well in advance,
during holiday times, especially at Easter
 Paid work should be kept to a sensible amount of
time & may need to be reduced during examinations
 The most appropriate revision periods during the
day, when distractions are least likely
 Reduce distractions in the revision room
(e.g. TV, radio, and switch off mobile phones)
Encouragement
 Assist with timetable preparation so that you are
aware of the weekly programme
 Provide space to relax and take refreshments
after a maximum 2 hour revision period (outside of
the revision room)
 Offer to test material
 Use of revision websites,
e.g. BBC Bitesize,exam board websites (past
papers)
Revision Timetables
 www.myrevisionplan.com
 Suggest 2 sessions per day (during term time)
 Discuss the best times to revise, their most
alert/receptive times. Plan to revise the most
difficult topics at these times
 Study more than 1 subject each day (e.g.
Science in the morning, English in the
afternoon)
Revision Timetables
 Keep the sessions short
Set targets to be met for each session
 Take regular breaks- every 40 minutes -hour
 Ensure time is allocated for:
Repetition and recall
Frequent testing- at different levels of
difficulty
Re-testing
Making a Mind Map
 Turn paper Landscape
 Put title in the middle
 Split into sections
 Use different colours for each section
 Keep splitting up the sections
 Use pictures when needed
 Keep viewing the mind map
Revision method 2 The cards
 Can make them out of paper if you want
 Or buy a set of cards
 Wilkinson, Tesco and WH Smith all sell these cards
Making the cards
 The idea is that you put the things you must know on,
 1 concept or topic per card
 Can design them how you want
 Can include colours if you want and pictures
 These are kept and can be used to revise in a short space
of time.
What will we be doing at school?
Tracking of Data
• Grade Gathers of current grades
• MOCK PERIOD – Full reports
• Target grades
• Teacher Predictions
• Effort grades
What will we be doing at school?
Interventions
• 1-1 mentoring
• Reward Trip
• Post Mock Clinic
• Motivational Group
Controlled Assessment
 GCSE Coursework has gone
 It has been replaced by controlled
assessment
 All work has to be completed at
school under controlled conditions
within a set time limit
 Timetable is on the website!
“Study Leave”
 No longer exists. There is now whole
school planned revision.
 Targeted revision sessions for all
students based on examination and
revision timetables
 Departments organise sessions based on
ability and the papers being taken
English Language GCSE – current position
 Modular examinations were removed at the end of the
academic year 2012-13. Students now only have one
chance to gain their qualification.
 The Speaking and listening element has been removed
and is no longer part of the overall qualification grade.
This 20% has now been added to the examination.
 The weightings of the qualification is now 40%
controlled assessment and 60% terminal exam.
 English is essential to progress to most other courses.
SPAG
 Spelling, punctuation and grammar marks are awarded in any
subject that has a significant written element for example,
RE, Geography, History and English etc.
 When spellings are corrected in work students need to learn
them especially key words and specialist terms.
Maths
 Students will not be entered for the statistics examination in
addition to maths
Important Dates
 Week beginning 15/9 interview evening
 23 October 2014: 6th Form Information Evening
 13 November 2014: Parents Evening
 1-19 December 2014: Mock Period
 Week beginning 19 January 2015: Mock Results Day
 Week beginning 9 February 2015:Post mock clinic
 Week beginning 9 & 23 February English and Maths mocks
 Week beginning 23 March Final countdown evening
 11 May 2015: Summer Exam Series begins
 Week beginning 22 June 2015: Prom ( 26/6to be confirmed)
 25 June 2015: 6th Form Induction Day
 20 August 2015: Results Day (to be confirmed)
Contact
• Mrs S Martin: HOY 11 or tutor
[email protected]