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To aspire, endeavour and thrive together Welcome to Year 8 Parents’ Information Evening
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Welcome toYear 8 Parents’
InformationEvening
The relationship between home and school
“Parental engagement in children’s learning and the quality of the home learning environment are
associated with improved academic outcomes at all ages.”
Vision
To aspire, endeavour and thrive together
Mission
To develop in each of our students the academic skills, learning habits,
values and character traits necessary to thrive and
achieve excellence.
This Evening
• The Whole Child: Our Vision and Learning Values for all students
• Classcharts (app) and our Rewards System• How your child will be taught and the learning
habits we promote - Maths and English and the route to GCSE
• Assessment and reporting• Learning Habits, Study Skills and how to
support your child
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Vision and Values
Personal Development
Every tutor period will incorporate information relating to THRIVE
Two main strands
PSHE: Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education•Religion, wellbeing, metacognition and study skills,
citizenship, Equality and Diversity, values, sex and relationships, online safety and cyberbullying, drugs and alcohol, character development, financial literacy, student council and student leadership
IAG: Information, Advice and Guidance
•Careers Education and Guidance.
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Literacy in tutor time
Reading for pleasure as a group - discussing the story at the end of each chapter
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THRIVE Rewards
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Rewards
To consolidate our THRIVE values and embed them as part of the narrative/language used in school, our rewards system now reflects this:
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Rewards System
• Rewards points are popular with our students; they ask for them, care about how many they have and are competitive about it amongst themselves & between tutor groups
• This year has seen record number of points awarded - over 6000 for the top tutor groups across the school
• Students and parents/carers enjoy seeing ‘Student of the Week’ and daily rewards points logged on Classcharts; thus improving communication and creating a culture of partnership & working together for the best outcomes for your children
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∙ Students will be able to earn THRIVE badges for earning 100 points in each category –these will be awarded in progress assemblies each ½ term.
Each ½ term will have a THRIVE focus – and double points will be awarded for that category
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Rewards
Equivalent to ‘Star of the Week’
Worth 3 achievement points
Logged on Classcharts and 1 card drawn in assembly each week
One per class, per week and one in tutor time
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ClassCharts for Parents
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What is ClassCharts?
•ClassCharts is a platform that allows you to keep up to date with your child’s achievements and behaviour in school
•Within the app you can see instantly when your child receives reward points for all their T.H.R.I.V.E. achievements including Thrive Student of the Week awards
•You can also see positive comments associated with these awards that staff can leave to explain the reason for the reward further
•ClassCharts also allows you to monitor any detentions that your child may receive; these will also be emailed to you, using the address that you sign up with.
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How do staff use ClassCharts?
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What rewards & behaviour will parents be able to see?
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How can you access ClassCharts?
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Maths : A 8 year Journey
How Does it work?
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Homework
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English - What to expect in Year 8
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rAssessment and reporting
• Students will be assessed throughout the year to determine their progress.
• Students will have more formal exams in all years.
• Reports will be sent home twice a year for years 7 and 8 and three times for other years.
• There is a parents’ evening for each year for parents and carers to speak with subject teachers about their child’s progress.
• The school will have ambitious targets for all students for the end of year 11.
• Targets may be raised if appropriate.
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Learning Habits and Study Skills
The destination. By this time in… your child will have:
•2023: Completed GCSEs•2025: Completed ‘A’
Levels/BTECs/Apprenticeship•2028: Completed a degree?
The differences since 2017
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Personal and academic expectations
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It’s not about exams, it’s about the journey
The Science of Learning
•Long term and working memory•Forgetting curve•Making links
Working Memory
The digit span test
Long term memory
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Principles
•Spaced learning•Knowledge retrieval•Meta-cognition strategies•Learning habits
Spaced Learning
Ebbinghaus’ Forgetting Curve
Knowledge retrieval
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Glossopdale School Learning Habits
Curriculum Design
Feedback and Rewind
Knowledge Retrieval
Knowledge Organisers
Homework
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Suggested homework tasks
• Revision of a knowledge organiser followed by testing in class
• Summarising notes from a lesson into a mindmap/flash cards
• Completing a graphic organiser• Exam question practice• Guided research
Setting and recording
Student planners
Home study: not revision for exams!
Study skills • Review-Transform-Recall• Flash cards• Mindmaps• Self-quizzing• Chunking and categorising
Memorise this sequence
Now memorise this sequence
Effective study skills
Effective study skills
Poor study skills
CrammingRe-readingHighlightingLong sessions with no breaks Distractions on desks (phones)Copying notes
What parents can do
Helpful resources
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