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Year 13 Parents’ Information Evening
Welcome
Please take a seat
The presentation will start shortly
• New staff
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Philip Berry, Head of English
Paul Schofield, Head of Geography
Connie Bennett, Head of Psychology
Megan Cottam, Head of French
Sarah Blaine, Deputy Director of Music
Charlotte Barrett, teacher of chemistry
Harry Drummond, teacher of English
Billy Keates, teacher of geography
• Welcome back
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Emily King, part-time PE
Fiona Lewis, returns as Head of RS
Susannah Hughes, part-time English
Tracey MacLean, returns as Head of Technology
Summer Works
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New website
Chapel roof + several others
Band Room refurbished (with clock)
Two China classrooms
Science, new wireless ICT classroom
Gravesend prep room refurbished (new RS base)
Plasma screens: Gravesend, Training Room,
Kensington classrooms, Business Studies, Balmoral
Prep, Chapel House and new China classrooms.
8. Dining Hall refurbished (plus new service and menu)
9. Sports Pavilion (on track for autumn half-term break)
Plus 3 new GCSEs – photography, ICT and Computing
Dining Hall
Sports Pavilion
2012/13 Results
GCSE Results
Daily Telegraph’s 30 Top Comprehensive Schools
Gordon's School
Year 11 gaining 5+ A*-C GCSE Grades
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% Grades A* - C
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% A*-A
5+A*-C (inc. EM)
2012
5+A*-C
2013
A Level Results
Daily Telegraph’s 100 Top Comprehensive Schools
A level Results
Subject 1 Subject 2 Subject 3 Subject 4 Subject 5
Student 1
A*
A*
A
Student 2
A*
A*
A
Student 3
A*
A
A
Student 4
A*
A
A
Student 5
A*
A
A
Student 6
A*
A
A
Student 7
A*
A
B
Student 8
A*
A
B
B
Student 9
A*
A
B
B
Student 10
A
A
A
Student 11
A
A
A
Student 12
A
A
A
Student 13
A
A
B
Student 14
A
A
B
Student 15
A
A
B
Student 16
A
A
B
Student 17
A
A
B
Student 18
A
A
B
A
B
A
¼ of entries
achieved at least AAB
A level - Value Added
Over the last 3 years student
progress (the distance
students have ‘travelled’) has
been equivalent to the top
10% nationally.
Tonight’s Aims
For you to leave with a better understanding of:
• Summer developments
• 2012/13 results
• Key Stage 5 Ethos
• Target Grades
• Student Support, Care & Guidance
• Assessment, Recording & Reporting (ARR)
The Key Stage 5 Ethos
Achievement
Work Ethic
Securing the future
Students have to prioritise
Student Support,
Care & Guidance
Helping students’
realise their
potential
Student
School
Learning
Home
School
The fundamental learning process at Gordon’s
Clear, specific targets
related to students’ work
‘Position’
Statement
What level
am I
working at?
What are my
next steps?
How do
I know?
Assessment
events
School
A level Target Grades
Year 13 Target Grades
School
Represents top
10% student
performance
A
Represents
‘average’
student
performance
B
A Level
Grades
C
D
D
C
B
A
Average GCSE Grades
A*
School
Effort Grades 1 - 4
Average Effort Grade
A level Results 2013
Student
1
GCSE Pts
5.8
Target Grades
B/C 1
Grades
BBB
2
3
4
6.1
7.3
7.1
B/C
A/B
A/B
DDE
A*AA
BBC
2.3
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2
GCSE Pts
A* = 8, A = 7, B = 6, C = 5
School
• High quality teaching and learning
- Lesson observations, student voice, data analysis
• Regular ‘next steps’ advice in lessons
- Tri weekly feedback & half termly ‘Key Assessments’
• Department reviews
- Triennial
• Work sampling
- Students’ books/ folders audited
School
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• Assessment, Recording & Reporting (ARR)
- Statute
• Gordon’s ARR Philosophy
- Little & Often
- Conversation is better than written dialogue
- Teacher’s judgement is valued
School
• ARR Working Party
- Met three times in summer term
- Comprised of teachers & parents
- Lots of discussion about many aspects of the
Curriculum
- Main outcomes of ARR working party
- Modified effort grade criteria
- More context to KS3 NC levels
School
• Effort Grades 2013 – 14
1 = Outstanding
2 = Very Good
3 = Good but occasionally inconsistent
4 = Cause for concern
5 = Unacceptable
School
Each half term there is a progress report sent
home including:
• Target Grade
• Working Grade
• Effort Grade
• Next Steps advice*
Reporting
Target
Grade
Working
Grade
Effort
Grade
A statistically generated A level grade that
is personal to each student and subject.
The A level grade that a student is
currently working at.
The grade that reflects how hard a student
is working. It is not a reflection of academic
ability or performance.
School
• Curriculum
- New school day this year
- More teaching time in almost all subjects
- 5 lessons per subject per week
- Less duties for teachers
• Examinations
- Linear (taken at the end of Year 13)
- Includes Controlled Assessments through KS5
Home
• Prescribe/ discuss what the sacrifices are going to be
• Contact us if you’re concerned
• Check books/ folders for quality of work/marking & organisation
• Regularly discuss school and specific subjects.
• Ensure students prioritise prep & get into good study habits
• Reward/ sanction consistently and regularly (accountability)
• Think ahead to career aspirations including University and/ or
employment. www.ucas.co.uk
Student
• There
is no ‘magic dust’ at Gordon’s
• Those students who achieve great grades:
- see Sixth Form as their ‘full time job’
- have 100% attendance
- do the ‘simple things well’
- work very hard
- prioritise their studies & make sacrifices
- spend the right amount of time on prep.
- ‘read around’ the subject
- are resilient
Miss Connery
Head of Sixth Form & Assistant Headteacher