Transcript Year 9 Pre-option Survey

Curriculum Awareness
Evening 2012
Giving your child the options they need
Our Aim
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give all students the opportunity to gain
qualifications and experiences that will
maximise their choice of employment,
training or further education at the end of
Year 11.
CORE Curriculum
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English
Foreign Language
ICT
Maths
Personal
Development
Physical Education
Religious Education
Science
Optional Curriculum
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believe that
students should be
offered as free a
choice of options
as possible working
within budgetary
and curriculum
constraints.
Practical Considerations
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A small number of option clashes will
make certain combinations of subjects
impossible.
If subjects attract very low numbers of
students they may not run.
Choices must be matched to student
ability and interest.
Promise
 We
will work with students to put together
a curriculum that is appropriate in meeting
the needs of the individual.
What’s New?
 English
Baccalaureate
 Linear GCSEs
 Qualifications review
 Triple Science
 Computer Science
 Engineering GCSE
English Baccalaureate
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A*-C passes in:
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English Language
GCSE
Maths GCSE
2 Science GCSE
1 Foreign Language
GCSE
Geography or History
GCSE
Linear GCSEs
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courses to be assessed by
examinations at the end of Year 11
 No module exams
 No re-sits except in English and Maths
Qualifications review
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Professor Alison Wolf
The government has made
changes in response to the ‘Wolf’
review
Must be high quality,
rigorous and enable
progression to a range of
study, training and
employment opportunities
 20% external assessment
compulsory (exam, on-line
testing, controlled
assessment)
 Worth at least one GCSE
Triple
Science
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All students will have the opportunity to do Core
(1 GCSE) and Additional science (1GCSE)
 Some students may wish to opt for ‘Triple
science’. This would yield GCSEs in Biology,
Chemistry and Physics (total of three)
 Appropriate for students who really enjoy
Science, are good at Science and/or wish to
pursue Science based further study, training or
employment
 Choose ‘Triple Science’ on the options form as
well as a language and two other choices
Computer Science GCSE
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New qualification
recently announced
by government (11th
January)
 Move away from use
of software
applications to
developing
programming abilities.
 New specifications
due out for
September
Sir Jonathan Ives
Engineering GCSE
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Part of a suite of subjects
offered in the Design and
Technology faculty
 Reflects move towards
knowledge based and
creative economy
Sir James Dyson
How to Choose
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Encourage your child:
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To discuss their
options with staff
To stick to deadlines
NOT to follow mates
NOT to choose
because they like their
teacher
NOT to choose
options that are too
easy / hard
Timeline
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Booklets out now
 Parents’ Evening 06/03
 March 9th - Final
Deadline for handing in
forms to tutors
 Interviews and clashes
 May – final choices
confirmation