Transcript Welcome to Key Stage 4 Information Evening

Welcome to Key Stage 4
Information Evening
Supporting your child’s
progress in English
Jemma Fisher
Head of English
• Structure of the
new KS4
curriculum
• Ways to get
involved at home
Many changes…
• Y9 students will be the first year to experience
the new GCSE exams in English
• Y9 are also the first year to experience the
new 1-9 marking system introduced by the
government (this will already be being
employed now on your child’s work)
Structure of the KS4 English
Curriculum at High Storrs
Year 9: Foundation for GCSE
• Taught GCSE skills (reading and writing)
• Study variety of texts similar to those at GCSE
(modern prose/drama, Shakespeare, pre
C20th texts, non fiction texts)
• Analysing seen and unseen poetry
• Study aspects of spelling, punctuation and
grammar (as this will be worth 40% of GCSE
Language)
Y10 and Y11:
GCSE English Language and Literature (2 GCSEs)
Or
GCSE English (1 GCSE)
• This will cover the same skills as in Y9
• There will be no coursework or controlled assessment
• GCSE Exams are currently being developed and we will
know more of exact exam questions and content later
this year
Marking and Feedback
What should you expect to see?
Work will be marked regularly in a variety of ways:
• Deep marking at least once every half term
• Specific marking of one assessment objective
• Self and peer marking
• Symbols and highlighting
• Use of mark bands
• Targets / Action points / EBI (Even better if…)
Students are expected to act on the action points
• Praise
• Oral feedback
How can you get involved?
• Discussing targets and action points
• Encouraging your child to work on what they
don’t understand (and to seek help)
• Encouraging reading and discussion at home both fiction and non-fiction:
novels, short stories, autobiographies,
travel journals, guide books,
poems/song lyrics, magazines,
newspapers, written adverts,
online texts/articles/webpages
Revision they could try…
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Mind maps
Post-its
Notebooks
Revision guides
Charts
Revision cards
Condensing and expanding information
REMEMBER – they shouldn’t revise what they
already know but focus on the difficult bits!
Book Groups
Y7 Ms Woolley
Y8 Mrs Cose
Y9 Ms Kpakra / Mr Simm
Y10 Mrs Fisher / Ms Baldwin
Y11 Mrs McGrail
Thursdays (on rotation) in the LRC
To join a book group ask the teachers above or Mrs
Rowan /Miss Ainslie in the LRC