CARDINAL NEWMAN HIGH SCHOOL

Moving into Senior Phase

Parents’ Information Evening

What we want for your children

• Opportunities to develop

• The confidence to move on

• The best exam results

Opportunities to develop

• Leadership roles: pupil council

• Responsibilities; Uniform; Common Room

• Sports & Extra-Curricular

• Mentoring younger pupils / Homeroom

• Representing the school

*ROLE MODEL!

Employability

‘Over 50% of our young people do not go to university and, of these, very few leave school with vocational qualifications with labour market currency’

Wood Report 2014

Senior Phase employability:Vocational coursesWork experience opportunitiesSkills development awards

Our expectations…– Attendance

– Time keeping

– Uniform

– Reliability

– Hard working

– Initiative

*ROLE MODEL!

Careers support…

– Careers Advisor –Ruth Robertson

– Lisa McAvoy (Partnership Officer)

– Pupil Support Team

– Home Room Programme

– Invited speakers / Lecturers

– Mrs Skea (librarian

– Individual careers interview

– My World of Work : careers website

Our Options Process

• Senior Phase Pathways issued

• Individual interviews

• Parent approves & returns form

• Student is allocated to a Department

• Department agrees an initial level of study with each student

Our Options Policy

• Every pupil must choose 5 courses

• Only English is compulsory

• Pupils must progress in the same Departments

The Upper School 0ptions ‘Contract’

S5 curriculum recommendations are based on students:

– SQA achievement in S4

– Performance in individual exams

– Career intentions

– Personal qualities

The Upper School 0ptions ‘Contract’

For students we identify• strongest subjects for Higher

• targets (based on national average)• 2 year higher if appropriate

We expect• No changes of subjects after August• No dropping• Level changes ONLY if progressive

The Optimal Curriculum: A Scientific Approach

• Based on sound research

• Unified Point Scale system

• Achievable targets

• Improved exam results

Student 1 Student 2 Student 3

Exam Band UPS Exam Band UPS Exam Band UPS

English (N5) 2 42 English (N5) 2 42 PE (N5) 4 35

Geography (N5) 1 45 Music (N5) 2 42 English (N5) 3 38

Physics (N5) 3 38 History (N4) P 45 Graph C (N5) 4 35

Maths (N5) 2 42 PE (N4) P 35 History (N5) 5 31

Spanish (N5) 2 42 Art (N4) P 21 Maths (N4) P 21

Info Syst (N5) 2 42 Maths (N4) P 21 Spanish (N4) P 21

Hosp (N5) 2 42 Spanish (N4) P 21 Hosp (N4) P 21

Ave: 41 Ave: 32 Ave: 28

Our recommended cut-offs:

5H 4H 3H 2H 1H

33.5 29 25 23 20

Agreeing the Optimal Curriculum

Supports during S5

• Higher Teams/ Study Groups/ HomeRoom

• ICT: GLOW / Edmodo/ Websites

• Parental Tracking interviews

• Supported Study & Easter School

• Individual tuition

• Departmental study plans

• Homework