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Yr10 Parents Information Evening Class of 2020 WELCOME
Yr10 Parents Information Evening
Class of 2020
WELCOME
Presentations this evening
- Mr Beeching; Head of Year 10- Mr Watkins- Mrs Duffy- Mrs Veall
• Key Dates
• How we can help…
• How we hope you can help…
• How we can do this together…
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Student
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The importance of Year 10
With new GCSE specifications, students can no longer make up lost ground in Year 11.
Planners
Check on a regular basis…
These tell you if your child is doing what is expected of them in lessons.
Teacher notes/communication = not meeting expectations
Reflections – need to be attended, not missed!
How we hope you can help…
• Be aware of and use the KEY DATES• Publish these at home
• Help get your child organised
• Support your child with time management and prioritisation
• Encourage good habits early in the year…• Sleep patterns• School time – a new mind set!• Diet and exercise• PS4/Xbox time!
• Know they might get stressed, anxious and worried!!!
School
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Attendance
Simon is in Yr 11. His attendance is always around 90%. He thinks this is pretty good.
90% attendance =
½ day missed every week!
But...
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
am pm am pm am pm am pm am pm
1 school year at 90% attendance =
4 whole weeks of lessons MISSED!
90% attendance over 5 years of
secondary school…
= ½ a school year missed!
Attendance
Attendance Days absent Weeks Number lessons missed
95% 9 2 45
90% 19 4 95
85% 29 6 145
80% 39 8 195
75% 48 10 240
70% 57 11.5 285
65% 67 13.5 335
Research suggests that…
17 missed school days a year = GCSE grade DROP in achievement. (DfE)
Key Dates this year…DISCLAIMER! Please be aware this list is not exhaustive.
Some key dates to pick out…
Progress Tracker 1 Monday 10th December 2018
Year 10 Parents’ Evening Wednesday 30th January 2019
Progress Tracker 2 Monday 18th March 2019
Year 10 PPE Exams 23rd April – 3rd May 2019
Progress Tracker 3 Monday 24th June 2019
Please remember, those dates are NOT the only opportunities you have to find
our about your child's progress.
Who else can I contact?
• Subject Teachers/Heads of Department• Tutor• Head of Year
“Practice Makes Perfect”
“Perfect Practice Makes Perfect”
‘Practice’ Exams…
Treat them like the real thing…
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Revision
When to start?
What to revise?
How do I help?
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Helpful hints
Environment
Sleep
Diet
Exercise
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• Mind maps• Make a timetable• Wake up early and work• Audio clips• Appropriate nutrition• Turn off distractions• Down time• Don’t be scared of failure
Ideas
Anything else?
• Support Revision
• Small chunks with breaks• Quiet Zones• Internet access• Revision Guides• Check techniques – NOT just
reading!
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Post 16 Steps
Start applying to sixth form colleges from October 2019
Careers Support in Year 10 & 11
Help from Tutors and Head of Year
Additional information at Parents Evenings
Why has the progress model been refined?
• To provide increased detail on your child’s short term and long term progress
• To provide a continuous progress measure from Year 7 – Year 11
• To better track progress and initiate therapies for your child as a proactive measure rather than a reactive measure to keep your child on a pathway to success
• To better inform you and your child when it comes to guided to choices
The performance band & Year 7 baseline will remain fixed for the student’s entire career at BHCS. The student’s final outcome may however be; in, above or below the expected
band depending on their overall progress from Yr7.
SEN1 Baseline will be applied to students just below 1j. The aim being to have progressed that student to 1j by TA1 of Yr7.
Students considered lower than this being allocated and SEN2 baseline (these are effectively students with an FFT20 grade of 3c or lower).
The number of fine grades of progress compared to the previous progress tracker’s ‘current working at fine grade’.
BHCS is committed to delivering a minimum expected progress of one fine grade per term.
Generated from the SIMS teacher assessment entry for the given term as a result of class assessments and professional opinion.
AQA Combined
Science Trilogy
6 exams totalling 7hr30mins resulting in equivalent of 2 GCSE’s
AQA Single Sciences
6 exams totalling 10hr 30mins resulting in 3 GCSE’s
Key Resources for Home Learning
www.kerboodle.com
www.bbc.com/bitesizeSearch either AQA Science Trilogy or AQA Science Single
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Brighton Hill Community School
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KS 4 Maths
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Final assessment
Paper 1 Non-calculator 90mins (33.3%)
Paper 2 Calculator 90mins (33.3%)
Paper 3 Calculator 90 mins (33.3%)
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Old vs New
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Home learning
Set weekly
Designed to help consolidate learning and extend pupils understanding
Variety of tasks from research to worksheets to revision.
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Pixl maths app and timestable app
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What You Can Do to help
Ensure your child has the correct equipmentRevision Guide and Workbook
Feel the love for maths What did you do in Maths today?Encourage Maths revision between now and
April exams. Even in the holidays! Little and often
Be positive about maths even if you find it difficult.
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What You Can Do to help
Support and encourage.
Home learning
Provide a quiet and calm space to work
Formula post it notes
Share real life maths with your child.
Bills
Shopping
Wages and Tax
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Year 10 Maths Teachers
Mrs Duffy [email protected]
Mr Goldsworthy [email protected]
Miss [email protected]
Mrs Williams [email protected]
Mr Beeching [email protected]
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Useful Websites
www.drfrostmaths.com
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/maths/
https://mathsapp.pixl.org.uk/
https://timestable.pixl.org.uk/
EnglishLiterature
What will the GCSE be like for your child?
100% Exam.
Across the exams, they will demonstrate their understanding
and analysis of a number of different texts.
What are they studying?
Romeo and Juliet
A Christmas Carol
Blood Brothers
What are they studying?An anthology of poems which include poems such as:
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ozymandias
William Blake - London
Robert Browning - My Last Duchess
Alfred Lord Tennyson - The Charge of the Light Brigade
Wilfred Owen - Exposure
Simon Armitage - Remains
Carol Ann Duffy - War Photographer
John Agard Checking - Out Me History
What else do they need to know:
How to explore and compare unseen poetry.
How can I help my child revise?
Ask questions about character/setting/plot/messages;
Practice questions in timed conditions;
Find different poems on the internet and explore what they think it means and how the poet has achieved this meaning;
Create revision tools using class notes and bitesize;
Watch the film – we don’t recommend this for all texts but there are a number of good versions of R&J!
How can I help my child revise?Ask questions about
character/setting/plot/messages/context;
Practice questions in timed conditions;
Select different poems from the anthology and get them to explain it you;
Create revision tools using class notes and bitesize;
EnglishLanguage
What will the GCSE be like for your child?
100% Exam.
Across the exams, they will respond to questions which will help them demonstrate different reading and
writing skills.
The Reading Part of the Exam
How has a writer used creative writing to effect the reader?
How have writers presented viewpoints and perspectives?
How can I help my child revise? Practice questions in timed conditions
Encourage students to read different texts and use the different question strands to explore them:
How has the writer used language been used? They will need to spot language devices and say why they have been used!
How has the writer structured the text to interest the reader?
What is the writer’s viewpoint? How do you know?
What overall effect does this text have on you as a reader? Why?
The Writing Part of the Exam
Showing they can write a piece of creative writing successfully.
Showing they can write a piece presenting a viewpoint.
How can I help my child revise?
Set them writing challenges. You could give them a picture and ask them to write a piece inspired by that picture.
Once you have watched a programme together, get them to write a piece persuading others to watch the programme or arguing a particular viewpoint presented in the programme.
Use BBC Bitesize to revise skills relating to spelling, punctuation and grammar.
