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How to succeed in Year 10
Parents Information and Support
Evening
Tuesday 14th January 2014
In this session:
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To explain our aims for your children.
To explain the work experience process.
To raise the issue of controlled assessment.
To show the relevance of excellent attendance to high
achievement.
To discuss our tracking and monitoring systems.
To reintroduce the Parental Consultation System.
To alert you to some key dates for Year 10.
To show you where key school information can be
found and who to contact.
Our aims
 To work together to be successful.
 Open, transparent and frequent communications.
 The highest possible achievement for every individual
by fostering responsibility in students.
 To be at a school with a good reputation both locally
and nationally.
 To develop academically, socially and personally.
 To enjoy learning experiences at Edgecliff so that
students become even more successful learners.
Attendance
 Every day counts!
 Well documented links between poor attendance and
lower outcomes.
 Well documented links between high attendance and
higher exam outcomes.
 Great focus from Department for Education,
Staffordshire LA and OFSTED.
 Attendance
Attendance concerns?
 See your child’s planner each fortnight with regards to information of
their attendance.
 Ring Mrs Banner the school’s Attendance Officer. 01384 551000.
 Ring your child’s tutor if you want information on punctuality and
attendance.
 If you still have unanswered questions contact your child’s Head of Year
– Mrs Darby or the Assistant Headteacher Support Mr Walker.
 You can also contact the Local Support Team to speak to an
Educational Welfare Officer
 01902 696 575
 [email protected]
How will we monitor your child’s
progress in Year 10?
 Subject teachers monitor progress through assessments.
 Heads of Learning School oversee this process.
 Personal Tutors, Heads of Year, Head of Learning Support,
Assistant Head Experience and Support monitor progress
by using our student progress data base called Go4Schools.
 Review and Guidance with tutors.
 Contact your child’s subject teacher or Head of Learning
School at any point to discuss their progress. If it is about
more than one subject, contact their tutor as well.
Assessment and Reporting Year 10
key dates.
 By the end of January Year 10 Full Reports will be sent
home.
 8th April Year 10 Parents Evening.
 16th June – 27th June 2013 Year 10 mock GCSE exams.
 10th July Year 10 progress reports will go home.
Expected levels of progress
 The different levels you can expect to see on your
child’s report.
 End of year target level- FFTd (except SEN)
 Aspirational level-
Set by staff.
 Current
 Predicted-
Not currently set for
Y10 but it is what staff
think they will get.
Homework
 Homework is now extremely important:
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Helps to develop:
habits of independent learning and personal organisation.
develop research skills.
Consolidates and/or extends work covered in class or prepares for
new learning activities.
 Offers feedback to the student and teacher on the quality of learning
that has taken place.
 Is vital to the planning of subsequent teaching.
 Encourages parental co-operation and support.
 As a guideline, students in Key Stage 4 should be set one hour of
homework per subject per week.
Independent study
 Revisit your work independently.
 There are lots of secret workers out there.
 Friends might say they are doing no work, when actually
they doing lots and lots.
 Don’t believe everything your friends tell you!
 Work hard, aim to revisit your notes from class every night.
 Make sure you begin to revise your work well in advance of
your mocks!
Two things which can make a
massive difference to outcomes!
Stress
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Study skills in PSHE.
Revision techniques in lessons.
Peer Support Groups.
Personal Tutors.
Review and Guidance Sessions.
The Inclusion Manager
Head of Year
RELATE Counsellor.
 If the issue becomes more serious then it is possible to
engage outside agencies.
The key to success.
 Your child’s success is based on mutual cooperation and
support. It is based around a tripartite learning agreement,
between staff, parents and students.
 When we work together we are stronger and ultimately
more successful.
Contacts
 Lots of key information is available on the school
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website throughout the year. www.edgecliff.co.uk
We also use the text messaging system.
Letters
Phone calls.
Please can you ensure that the school office has up to
date mobile telephone, landline, email and address
information for your families.
Work Experience
Work Experience
 WE is no longer compulsory, however we feel the
benefits of WE are worth us still including it in the
KS4 curriculum.
 13th to the 17th October 2014
 Students will go on a prelim the last week of term in
July 2014
Anywhere within
reason!!!!
Constraints
 We don’t like students to go with parents unless
the company is big enough for them not be
working with you.
 We don’t like the students to go with their friends
if they are going to be working together.
 We don’t really like the students to go too far away.
 We don’t like the students to come to Edgecliff that
week.
 There are certain places due to HS they are not
allowed to go…sole traders, butchers! brewery
About the placement
Students need to research a placement using the
guidance given. Some students will have a good idea
where they want to go and what they want to do.
Other students will have a more general idea of the
area they would like to work i.e. work with animals,
retail, construction.
Once they have suitable contact, an enquiry must be
made by letter, phone, email or in person.
HOWEVER ALL PLACEMENTS MUST BE
CONFIRMED IN WRITING
Cont.
 Once the placement has been confirmed by the company,
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details must be brought in to the school office to ensure
H&S checks have been completed ( we will come back to
this in a minute)
Company name, name of contact, address, postcode,
telephone number ( we provide a crib sheet for them to
complete)
Most students will attend a Prelim visit before the actual
experience. This is to complete necessary paperwork and
allow the students to find out essential information.
All students will receive a staff visit during the placement.
All students will receive a WE report from the employer to
put into the Progress file
All students will complete a diary while on placement
Health and Safety
 All placements have to be Health and Safety
checked by Dudley EBP otherwise the student is
not covered by our insurance.
 If the placement is not on the database we have to
request a Health and Safety check. These checks
can take up to 12 weeks. Students must hand in
placement details ASAP.
 If the placement is classed as “ out of area” we may
be charged to check. We cannot pay for these
checks but we will contact you and ask what you
want us to do….it can be up to £60
Areas that charge
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London
Buckinghamshire
Berkshire
Cambridgeshire
Derbyshire
Cheshire
Gloucestershire
Hertfordshire
Leicestershire
Lincoln
Manchester
Middlesex
Northamptonshire
Surrey
Birmingham depends on the company
sometimes a charge is made
depending if they are already Health
and Safety checked
Unfortunately in the current climate some
companies will say no. Please try and
persevere and don’t give up.
If your son/ daughter doesn’t find a
placement they are required to join me in
school!
What support do the students get?
 Already had a presentation on this
 Complete the work experience booklet in PSHE
over the next few lessons. This has advice on
placements, how to write the letter, how to find a
place, how to behave etc. and health and safety.
 Make an appt to see Miss Masters or Mrs Fowler
 Form tutors
 You?
What does this entail?
 Coursework replaced.
 Control level dependant on subject.
 e.g. Art – Low control
 French & Spanish - Medium control
–High control
 Teacher input, preparation time and allowed resources
dependant on subject.
Absence
 Try to avoid!
 Very little Possibility of re-schedule
 Holidays – Impact on study time and class input.
 Request to be made to Mr Rogers
 Please be aware that a request will no longer
authorised unless deemed exceptional circumstances.
Individual subject information on
controlled assessment will be
updated and available for viewing
shortly
www.edgecliff.co.uk
Examinations
 Return to final exam
 The only modular exams to be taken by current Year 10
are:
 Core Science in June
 A handful of students may sit Maths in June. This would
be an actual GCSE NOT a module.
 All other subjects now linear(final end of Year 11 exam)
and will be taken in May/June 2015
Examination dates will be posted on the school website
www.edgecliff.co.uk
SAM Learning
www.samlearning.com
 All students have a private work area on an online
package called SAM learning.
 If no formal HW is set in KS4 then activities from this
package can be used to support learning.
 All students know how to access (details in planner),
if you would like more details please contact us
Raised participation level
 Students are now required to be in education or
training until they are 18 years old.
 That doesn’t mean they have to stay at school until
they are 18.
 However they will need to stay in sixth form, go to
college, or access work based learning e.g.
apprenticeships