Welcome to Y10

Expectations Evening Mrs Ahmet & Mr Pooley

Vision for Y10

High aspirations, high expectation.

How you can support?

Check Go for Schools regularly

Make sure homework is being completed after school

Check books and read through work

Ask questions

Making sure students are properly equipped

Support in school

All staff emails available online

Parents evening

HOY performance clinic

Revision sessions at lunch and after school

Learning for Life

Well being

Science - Revision guides can be purchased from the prep room

Triple science - three individual revision guides (£3 each)

Double - one revision guide (£3.50)

Geography - Field trip to Norfolk in March

Information on cost out later in the year

Revision guide included into the price of trip

MFL - Weekly homework to learn vocabulary.

Followed by a weekly vocabulary, grammar or translation test.

Students will be using the vocabulary express. Please encourage the use of the at home.

Importance of Attendance

Students must be in school every

day

If off for illness, students should

email the class teacher and catch

up before the next lesson

Parents to key evening

New form

Y10 Booklet - Website

Grades

Revision guidance

Key Dates

Exam specification - Head of Department, exam details

Key dates - Roadmap

November - Performance clinics

21st February - Parents evening

26th-29th March - Geography field trip

2nd-9th May - Internal exams

GCSEs: overhaul means results are ‘incomparable to previous years’

2017 Results

Threshold measure 2015 2016 2017

5A*-C inc Eng and

Maths73% 80% 76%

2+ A*-C inc Science 75% 84% 81%

Ebac 41 32 34

Y11’s looking back

Keep working hard

throughout the

year

SBAS 2017 Headlines – New Grades 1-9

Attainment 8 - Average per student is 5.7 which is between a grade A(7) and B (5.5)

76% of students gained level 4 and above in English and Maths

English

32% grade 7 (previous A grade) and above

9 students achieving grade 9 (national average is 3.2 - SBAS is 5.8%)

Maths

30% grade 7 (previous A grade) and above

8 students achieving grade 9 (national average is 3% - SBAS is 5%)

New Climate Parent Fact sheet

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/626681/GCSE_Factsheet_parentFormatted1.pdf

The main conversion points are as follows: Grades 4 and higher are equivalent to grades C and above. Grades A and A*

are being replaced by numerical grades 7, 8 and 9

Steve:

YR12 Student

● In the summer of 2016 he took GCSEs in:

-English Language

-Maths

-Additional Science

-Spanish

-RE

-Resistant Materials

-History

-Drama

● He already had GCSEs from the previous summer in:

-English Literature

-Core Science

GCSE Assessment in YR 11 for Steve-English Language - One 2¼hr exam worth 60% of assessment, plus 40% CA

- Maths - Two 1¾ hr exams

-Science - Three 1 hr exams (75%), plus ISA (25%)

-Spanish - One 50 min exam (20%), one 40 min exam (20%), plus 60%CA

-PRE - Two 1½ hrs exams

-Product Design - One 2hr exam worth 40% of assessment, plus 60% CA

-History - One exam 2 hrs (45%) and one exam 1½ hr (30%), plus 25% CA

-Drama - No exam, 100% practical assessment with written elements

Total number of exam - 13

Total exam length - 18 hrs

Year 11 summer exams represent 49% of total GCSE assessment

Steph:

Currently year 10● In the summer of 2019 she will take GCSEs in:

- English Language

- English Literature

- Maths

- Combined Science

- Spanish

- PRE

- Product Design

- History

GCSE Assessment in Y11 for Steph

● In the summer of 2019 she will take GCSEs in:

- English Language - Two 1¾ hr exams

- English Literature - One 2¼ hr exam, one 1¾ hr exam

- Maths - Three 1 hr exams

- Combined Science - Six 1¼ hr exams

- Spanish - One 45 min exam, one 1hr exam, one 1¼ hr exam plus 25% NEA

- PRE - Two 1¾ hr exams

- History - Two 1 hr exams

- Drama - One 1½ hr exam (40%), plus 60% NEA

Key messaging for students

● Grade 4 equivalent to a low to medium grade C, the threshold for a level 2

qualification.

● A grade 5 is broadly equivalent to a high C to low B.

● Fewer students are expected to get a grade 9 than previously got and A*

● Employers and post 16 providers encouraged to ask for a 4 where they would

have asked for a C

● A level study

● University

Go 4 Schools - Targets

Regular monitoring of progress, homework and attendance.

Targets – They will be targets for the End of Y11. They are aspirational.

Reports are created and published on go4Schools after each half term

Some reports include data only

Twice a year reports include brief comments from subject teachers – what is going well, what needs to improve

and targets

One report, towards the end of the year, will include a character report from a student’s form tutor

All reports include a current grade (where your child currently is) which is colour coded to show if they are on track

or not. They also include an attitude to learning (ATL) grade.

Behaviour points - You will be emailed and have to then log into Go4schools to see more detail.

Post 16 Pathways

Students need the equivalent of at least 5 4 grades to enter the sixth form

Average GCSE

Points

Curriculum Paths Length of Course Sixth Form Course

6 or above in

most subjects

Pathway 1 2 Year 3 A levels may also include and EPQ or a

4th A level

Mixture of 5s

with a few 6s

Pathway 2 2 Year A mixture of 1 or 2 A Levels and 1 or 2 of

the technical subjects listed below.

Mainly 4s with

some 5s

Pathway 3 2 Year OCR Technicals in ICT or Business

Studies

BTEC Sport, BTEC Health and Social

Care some of these may be the equivalent

of more than 1 A level

GCSE English/Maths re-sit if needed

Why aim for Simon Balle Sixth Form?

Why choose Simon Balle Sixth Form?

● Range of subjects for all abilities at level 4

● Designated support for all students

● Opportunities for extra curricular and involvement around school

● More autonomy but still with the support network you are used to at SBS

● Own area that has sections for silent or group study plus your own coffee

shop

Questions