Derbyshire County Council Children and Younger Adults Department

Secondary Update

Autumn 2013

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Derbyshire County Council Children and Younger Adults Department

Context-Changes Summer 2013

     Ofqual letter published July 2013: Forewarned of several differences with GCSEs this summer. For example: There were more entries this year from students in Year 10 or earlier years (students being entered early, before the end of Key Stage 4). Entries for International GCSEs1 (IGCSEs) increased significantly this summer. Some students, particularly in maths, entered for more than one qualification in the same subject, either with the same exam board or with different exam boards. Changes were made to the GCSE science suite to make these qualifications more challenging. 2

Derbyshire County Council Children and Younger Adults Department

Context-Changes Summer 2013

  iGCSE English language entries rose from 18,000 in 2012 to 78,000 in 2013 Science - new GCSEs are designed to be more challenging, because “the previous syllabuses did not adequately test the subject content and were not sufficiently demanding.” 3

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Aims

 To build a curriculum vision for the Derbyshire family of schools  To brief governors on the new national curriculum’s aims and programmes of study  To support change management 4

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New National Curriculum

 New statutory secondary national curriculum, including programmes of study and attainment targets for all subjects at key stages 3 and 4, except key stage 4 English, mathematics and science, which will follow after a public consultation on their draft programmes of study.

 These are to be taught in all maintained secondary schools in England from September 2014. English, mathematics and science for key stage 4 will be phased in from September 2015.

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New National Curriculum

 The national curriculum is just one element in the education of every child. There is time and space in the school day and in each week, term and year to range beyond the national curriculum specifications. The national curriculum provides an outline of core knowledge around which teachers can develop exciting and stimulating lessons to promote the development of pupils’ knowledge, understanding and skills as part of the wider school curriculum.’

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New National Curriculum

    First Aim: “The national curriculum provides pupils with an introduction to the

essential knowledge

that they need to be educated citizens. It introduces pupils to the best that has been thought and said; and helps engender an appreciation of human creativity and achievement.”  Subtle shift from skill based curriculum to knowledge based.

No major changes to statutory subjects KS3: Core – En, Ma, Sci; Foundation - Art, Citizenship, Computing, DT, Languages, Geog, Hist, Music, RE, SRE KS4: Core – En, Ma, Sci, Citizenship, Computing, PE, RE, SRE 7

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Key stage 4 entitlement areas

    The arts (comprising art and design, music, dance, drama and media arts), design and technology, the humanities (comprising geography and history) and modern foreign language are not compulsory national curriculum subjects after the age of 14, but all pupils in maintained schools have a statutory entitlement to be able to study a subject in each of those four areas.

 The statutory requirements in relation to the entitlement areas are: schools must provide access to a minimum of one course in each of the four entitlement areas schools must provide the opportunity for pupils to take a course in all four areas, should they wish to do so a course that meets the entitlement requirements must give pupils the opportunity to obtain an approved qualification.

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Assessment

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New KS1 and 2 tests start for Y2 and Y6 children in 2016

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Assessment Proposals

 national curriculum levels removed and not replaced  schools determine their own approach to formative assessment and progress tracking  end of KS2 SATS to be more demanding with an expectation that 85% pupils achieve and are considered

“secondary ready.

” 85% will be a floor standard  baseline to measure progress maybe from YR or from KS1 dependent on outcome of consultation 10

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Timeline

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Start of term 2014 Curriculum and qualifications

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First teaching of the new national curriculum. Excluding KS4 English, maths and science which starts in 2015

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Other Changes – Post 16 En and MA

 Over one third of all young people leave post-16 education each year without having a GCSE A*-C in English and maths - in 2011 to 2012, 44% did not achieve this in both subjects.

 From 2014 students who have not achieved an A*-C GCSE in these subjects by age 16 will continue to study towards achieving them as a part of their 16 to 19 study programmes. This requirement will be enforced by making the study of English and mathematics a condition of the student place being funded from September 2014.

 Where a student does not have a GCSE A*-C, they must take either: - English and mathematics GCSEs or i-GCSEs (including level 1/level 2 certificates) that count towards the English Baccalaureate (Ebacc) measure in KS4 performance tables - functional skills and free-standing mathematics qualifications registered with Ofqual, as a stepping stone to GCSE study - English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) qualifications registered with Ofqual, as a stepping stone to GCSE study 12

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Changes to Performance Tables

 The performance tables for 14-16 year olds so that from 2014, will:  include only qualifications judged against a rigorous new set of characteristics to be truly equivalent to a GCSE;  count all qualifications as equivalent to no more than one GCSE.

 These reforms apply to all qualifications achieved by pupils completing Key Stage 4 in 2014 (those currently in Y11), including qualifications which are taken early.

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