Transcript YEAR 10 & 11 PARENTS’ INFORMATION EVENING 2010

YEAR 10 & 11
PARENTS’
INFORMATION
EVENING
2011
PARENTAL INFORMATION
EVENING
• To re-enforce strong links between
home and school
• To inform you of what’s going on
• To focus on how you can support your
child’s learning
• To ensure you know where to get
support
• To raise any issues
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
Provisional : 2011 Examination
Performances
• A level (year 13)
UCAS pt. av. 329 (2010 312)
Subject point average 102 (2010: 96)
99% Pass rate
59% Passes at grades A*-B (2010 51%)
• AS Level (year 12)
Subject point average 39 (2010: 39)
Student point average 137 (2010: 130)
A-D % 83 (2010: 83)
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
Provisional : 2011 Examination
Performances
• GCSE : 88.8 % 5+ A*-C (87.9 %)
inc. Eng & Maths 75.7% (78%)
( Boys: 66.4 %; Girls: 84.7%)
( Boys:77%; Girls:79%)
99% 5+ A*-G (97%)
• % of passes at grade A/A* 28% (31%)
KEY ISSUES 2011/12
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Raising student achievement with a
particular emphasis on boys‘ achievement.
Raising student self-esteem and
participation
Independent learning
Further development of the VLE
Improving attendance
Ofsted Inspection?
Calendar dates for Year 10
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Year 10 Interim reports .. Nov. 25th
Parents’ Evening 21st March**
Internal Exams April 16th to 20th
External GCSE exams including Statistics,
Science, Fast Track PE & History ..
May/June
• Full end of year reports June 29th
Calendar Dates for year 11
• Mock exams 21st – 25th Nov.
• Sixth form information evening 12th
December
• Exam results and predicted grades sent
home early January 2012
• Parents’ Evening 12th January 2012
• Full reports sent 16th March 2012
• GCSE exams begin early May
Exams …
• Exam timetables will be on the web site
approximately 4 weeks before the exam
season
• Students will receive their own timetable
via their form tutor around Feb/March..
Please keep in a safe place!
• Parents will receive correspondence via
email advising of exam procedure.
Subjects
• MFL: the writing and oral components in the GCSE
syllabus each constitute 30% of the final grade ie;
combined 60%. Students need to prepare thoroughly for
controlled assessments, especially speaking. It is critical
that year 10/11 students follow the advice of their
teachers and prepare thoroughly for both writing and
speaking assessments if they are to achieve their target
grade.
• Child Development & Food ..between June of year 10
and February half term of year 11 students will do 45
hours of controlled assessment tasks which must be
done under teacher supervision.
Subjects
0%
In some subjects there will be no controlled assessment
at all eg. mathematics, religious studies
25% In other subjects controlled assessment will be 25%
eg business studies, English literature, geography, history,
statistics.
60%
In some subjects, mostly practical subjects the
controlled assessment will be as high as 60% eg
applied business, art and design, construction, dance, design and
technology, drama, English language, ICT, modern foreign languages,
music, physical education.
Year 10 Science
• Board: AQA Science A or Biology,
Chemistry or Physics
• Two courses being offered, Double or
Triple
• Triple is being offered to sets 1&2 in both
half year groups.
• Everyone has access to ‘kerboodle’ a
comprehensive online resource.
Double in year 10
• Students will complete one GCSE by the end
of year 10 named Core Science GCSE.
• Biology, Chemistry and Physics are studied
as discreet subjects which are examined in
May/June.
• A practical exam called an ISA is worth 25%
of this GCSE.
• The practical exam will be taking place in
Science lessons the week preceding and
proceeding October half term.
Triple in year 10
• Students will complete three GCSE’s over
two years.
• They will obtain three separate GCSE’s in
Biology, Chemistry and Physics.
• Again a practical exam for each subject
will be taken and for triple they are likely to
be in May/June.
TRIPLE in year 10
• Each GCSE has three externally
assessed units, units 1, 2 and 3 and
they are worth 25% each. The first of
these will be assed in Jan 2012.
• Students cannot drop a Science
subject and will continue with all three
Sciences even if they are in triple.
Year 11 Science
• Board: AQA Additional Science,
Additional Applied Science and Separate
Science GCSE’s (legacy)
• Four pathways: Separate (fast track),
Separate (triple option), Additional and
Additional Applied.
• All students have been issued textbooks
for their appropriate course.
Separate Science (fast track)
• Fast track students have an opportunity to resit their module 2’s in January. Students
have been given their re-sit forms to take
home.
• Fast track students will sit a unit 3 (scaled
down) mock in November. They will also take
an ISA in the preliminary exams. They will sit
their final exams in May/June of their year 11.
Separate Science (Triple
Option)
• Triple Option students will take their unit
2’s in Januaray and will receive their
results in March.
• They will perform a unit 2 mock in their
preliminary exams alongside an ISA.
• Finally they will sit their unit 3’s alongside
the fast track students in May/June.
Additional Science
• Students study Biology, Chemistry and
Physics discreetly. They will undertake
three unitised exams in May/June.
• They will take an ISA in their preliminary’s
as well as a scaled down unit 2.
• They will obtain a GCSE in Additional
Science at the end of year 11.
Additional Applied Science
• This course has 60% of it’s content assessed
internally.
• Unit 1- Science in the workplace
• Unit 2- Science at work – sports science, forensics
science & food science.
• Unit 3 – A scientific investigation
• Unit 2 is the only examined unit and that will be sat in
May/June.
• Unit 1 is worth 25% and the deadline for this piece of
work is December (set by individual teachers)
• Students studying this GCSE will obtain a GCSE in
additional Applied.
Controlled Assessments
… have now taken the place of
coursework!!
Controlled Assessment
In June 2008 there was a review of
coursework and as a result Controlled
Assessment was introduced
Increased control over:• the setting of tasks
• the preparation of tasks
• How/where the tasks are to be completed
What is involved?
• Task setting – teachers can choose from a
wide range of tasks set by awarding bodies,
which can be contextualised to suit local
circumstances. Arrangements will differ by
subject, with some subjects allowing centres to
set tasks.
Task preparation***
• The general pattern will be a period of
preparation and research mostly based
in class followed by the taking of a task or
range of tasks under supervision. The
degree of supervision will vary with
practical subjects having more informal
supervision and non practical ones having
formal supervision
• Exact timetable will be on the website
What is involved?
• Task taking – there are several levels
(and types) of supervision under which
assessment can take place, depending on
the skills involved; generally this will be
done by subject teachers in regular
lesson time
• Task marking – awarding bodies provide
mark schemes or criteria.
Where/when will it happen?
Controlled assessment is designed to take
place within the normal teaching
timetable, for example in the classroom,
lab or workshop. There may be
occasions, however, when it is more
appropriate or convenient to have all
students in a larger venue under close
supervision, but this will be the exception.
How attendance affects exam results.
• % Attendance
% of students who achieved 5 or more A* - C GCSEs
Inc Maths & English
• 96 – 100%
92.4%
87.12%
• 91 – 95%
91.25%
76.25%
• 90 – 85%
81.48%
59.26%
• Below 85%
70%
55%
• School Average
88%
78%
This is Simone. She is in Year 10
and has 90% attendance.
• Is that good?
• What does this mean?
Simone thinks this is pretty
good, so do her parents
90% attendance = ½ day missed
every week
(Would your boss like you to be off work this
much??). That’s practically part time!
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thur
Fri
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Absent half a day every week
90% attendance over 5 years of
secondary school….
= ½ a school year missed
Sept
July
Y7
Y8
Y9
Y10
Y11
½ a year absent
from school
Research suggests that 17
missed
school days a year = GCSE grade
DROP in achievement. (DfES)
The greater the attendance the greater the
achievement.
Maximising Potential
Develop a study ethos
• Place, model behaviour, review, study timetable,
routine.
• So much to learn and so little time to do it!• Learning, Four Steps to success - Understand,
Condense, Memorise and Review
• Understanding- theme, main idea and details
• Titles, paragraphing, repetition and connections
• ‘I keep six honest serving men, the taught me all I
knew Their names are WHAT and WHY and WHEN
and HOW and WHERE and WHO’- Rudyard Kipling
Maximising Potential
• Condensing-the best bits
– Flow diagrams
– Bullet Points
– Association maps
• Mixing logic and imagination
– Language, numbers and sequencing
– Pictures, rhythm and pictures
• Memorising
– Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain
– Method of Loci, journey
– Peg words
Maximising Potential
• Review- strengthening learning
– How to review, reading through/redrawing
– How often, 10 mins down to 2 mins
– How long, 30-45 mins, time management, study
timetable
• Exam Preparation
– Revision, Key words,
– Dealing with stress
Maximising Potential
• I don’t have any homework!– Samlearning, Centre Number= wd23qs, Identification
and Password=dob + initials e.g. 120997ds
– GCSE bitesize
– VLE, Kaleidos Learning Platform, username=imahon,
Password sent or emailed.
([email protected])
• Review-the 3 R’s, review, revise and remember
CAREERS : YEAR 10
• There is a Careers unit in the Year 10 PSE programme.
Students learn about the world of work, learn to put
together a CV and have a group session with a Youth
Connexions PA.
• Students are introduced to a careers programme called
Kudos which can be accessed at home:
www.cascaid.co.uk/kudos
• Also there is information on the school website just look
in the careers subject area.
• Workshadowing for 2 days during Enrichment week.
Forms for this will go home in March
CAREERS : YEAR 11
• Careers unit in PSE where students are shown how to
access Careerscape (same user name and password as
Kudos) and taught about Higher ideas.
• Every student in Year 11 will have an individual interview
by a Youth Connexions PA (interview must be kept)
• Mock interviews beginning of February
• Year 11 information evening for sixth form 12th
December
• Apprenticeships and vocational training ‘It our Future’
careers fair will be held at Watford Football Club on 19th
October from 5pm till 8pm.
STAFF EMAIL ADDRESSES
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Office [email protected]
Mrs Meldrum [email protected]
Mrs Clarke [email protected]
Miss Palmer [email protected]
Mrs Serrao [email protected]
Mrs Davies [email protected]
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Heads of House:
Miss Besse (N) [email protected]
Mrs Griffiths (S) [email protected]
Mrs Ash (A) [email protected]
Mr Swift (D) [email protected]
Times
• ‘Parental support is eight times more
important in determining a child’s
academic success than social class.
Parental involvement can make the
difference between an A* and a D grade at
GCSE’ –
The Campaign for Learning