Welcome

New Year 12 Parent information evening.

Head Teacher Ms Maguire

Head of Sixth Form Mrs Cirino

Head of y12Assistant Heads of y12

Mr WillisDr Moran & Mrs Cooke

Teachers Mr Honeyfield, Miss Jackson,Mrs Sherratt & Miss Hill

7: 00 pm Welcome and introductions

7: 20 pm Session 1

7: 40 pm Session 2

8: 00 pm Session 3

8: 20 pm Return to hall for PTFA details & refreshments

How the evening will run

A Year 12 Student’s Day

• Starts at 8:45am each day for all sixth formers with form time

• Assembly on Wednesday begins at 8.35am

• 5 one hour lessons

• Ten minute gaps between lessons

• Lessons end at 3:35pm on the main site, 3:45pm at Stone House

• Option to sign out at 2:35pm but only if free

A Year 12 Student’s Week

• 25 timetabled hours per week

• 4 AS subjects, each of 4.5 hours/week

• General R.E. 1 hour/week

• Supervised private study 2 hours/week

• Enrichment 2 hours/week

• Free periods

Four AS subject choices, plus ASDAN Cert. of Personal Effectiveness for all students

As a student in a Catholic School, students will…

• Experience daily prayer• Lead a form reflection• Be expected to attend all

masses and liturgies throughout the year

• Participate in a General RE programme

5Th December Progress reviews issued (data collected in November)

28th November Prefect application deadline

11th December Parents’ evening

17th December Carol service, Victoria Hall

9th January Closing date for Sierra Leone applications

28th-30th January

Encounter retreat

Year 12 Key Dates 2013 - 2014

9th February AS mock exams begin

27th March Reports issued

8th May Study leave begins

AS exams begin (4 weeks)

8th June Y12 Students return as Year 13

22nd June Higher education evening

Progress Review

Target grade

Working at grade

Effort

English Lit. A A 1

French B C 1

History B D 3

Sociology B C 1

Name: A. Student Form: 12 AB

General information

• Telephone 01782 848008

• Importance of AS results for university/employment.

• Attendance

• Develop the whole student

• Any questions please?

Year 12 Parents’Information Evening

Challenges that AS students face…

The Form Tutor’s View

Organisation

Learn to take responsibility and develop personal discipline

• Be in the right place at the right time - school starts at 8.45 (8.30 on Wednesday)

• Meet deadlines• Plan Independent Study• Make good use of Study Periods

A copy of their timetable may help you

Making use of what is available

Use initiative to develop background knowledge – there is ALWAYS something they can do

• Read newspapers / magazines• Use the internet• Television programmes

Discuss issues with them Buy newspaper

Distractions

Minimise things that may harm their progress

• Late nights out• Jobs – excessive/ unreasonable hours• Appointments during lessons

Don’t make phone calls during lessons

Developing the whole person

Join in and have fun:• Extra curricular activities – sport, drama, etc• Enrichment• Retreat• Assemblies• School Council

Encourage the students to broaden

their experience and get involved

Certificate of Personal Effectiveness

CoPE - 3 modules in Year 12,

1.Individual Presentation:

Thought for the Day

2. Group Presentation:

Working With Others

3. Improving Learning:

Monitoring at review meetings with tutor

Thought for the Day

An individual 10 minute “thought provoking presentation” to the form on a topic of their choice.

Form Time

Programme:

Monday: Planner Check

Tuesday: Thought for the Day

Wednesday: Assembly at Main school (8.30)

Thursday : Thought for the Day

Friday: Quiz / Debate – General Studies – Science and Culture– Develop a broader general knowledge

Debate / Quiz

Debate:

This house believes…

Speakers for / against

Quiz:

Students research and prepare questions

Points for good performance -

contribute to the House system

Debate / Quiz

Examples of topics:

•Evolution

•Carbon Emissions

•Nuclear power

•Alternative medicines

•Animal Rights activists

•Recession

•Funding for the Arts

Thank You

Any Questions

“In working with young people, do

not try to call them back to where they

were, and do not call them to

where you are, beautiful as that place may seem to you. You must

have the courage to go with them to a place neither you nor they have been.”

W. J. Donovan

What our students ask us to tell New Year 12’s!

Attend all lessons

Revise Earlier

Work consistently throughout the year

Summarise notes throughout the year (not just before exams)

Ask for help if you have a problem

What our students ask us to tell New Year 12’s!

Use study time in school productively

Work more at home

Meet Deadlines

Organise folders and files

Do work as soon as it’s set

Why it goes wrong for some students!

Too many distractions

Social Life needed to come second

Monday nights out effected performance in school all week.

Working too many hours in a part time job (especially in the run up to Christmas)

Too many demands - from parents, organisations, sport etc.

Give me space and quiet time

to work on my own.

Push me to study each night

What our students ask us to tell their parents!

What our students ask us to tell their parents!

Spend time with me and talk to me about my work.

Test me on topics.

Help me write my personal statement.

Make sure I have time to relax exercise and unwind.

SJC 6th Form – Who are we?

•We are a community•We take personal development seriously

•We seek to have a working relationship of equals with your son and daughter.

A. The Role of the Pastoral Team

1. Remind the Form of 6th Form Procedures2. Monitor and support the Form as they prepare

and also present an individual “Thought for the Day” to the Form.

3. Encourage and support the student in their independent learning with weekly action plan.

4. Make judgements about each student’s commitment to the Sixth Form Agreement.

5. Speak on a 1:1 basis with students whom there is any negative feedback about.

6. To encourage and support the Enrichment of students as people

7. To encourage a broader understanding of the wider world in which they live.

1. Remind the students of 6th Form Procedures

The Form Tutor’s Mantra:

“I’m not going to ask you to do

anything that I don’thave to do!”

Communication

Students Home

School

Absence from School

All unforeseen absences must be authorised by a note / phone call from home before if possible or before 10am on the day of absence

Phone : 01782 848008

Option 1.

Requests for time off school

Please collect an absence permission form from Mrs Parker in the sixth form office for requests for absence.If the request is granted Ms Maguire will pass this information to Mrs Parker who will communicate it to all subject teachers, thus authorising the absence.

• Is it possible to attend all lessons?

Possible reasons why students may be absent from school/ lessons

Dental/ medical appointments

Trips out

Rehearsals

Sports Fixtures

Prefect Duties

Funerals

Family circumstances

Religious Festivals

Driving test

Sickness on the morning of a school day Sickness or injury

during school day

Absence from Lessons

It is the responsibility of students to plan carefully to catch up on missed work

Students are registered for all lessons

Any absences from lessons are reported to students in form time

Students can request an itemised breakdown of their absences and speak to the Head of year to discuss these absences and the plans they have to catch up on work.

85%

Once 15% of lessons have been missed in a three week period, students will have three weeks without free periods.

Punctuality to Assembly (8.35am Wednesdays) and Form time (8.45)is essential.

3 lates in a half term result in paying back an hour of extra study.

Punctuality to Tutor Time

2. “Thought for the Day”

• An individual 10 minute “thought provoking presentation” to the form on a topic of their choice. This forms part of their General RE/ Asdan qualification.

My To-Do List

When I’ll

Do It

3. Using Planners in Form time

“Work Set By Me” – The Aim

• Consolidate

• Extend

“Revise as you go along”

Timetabled study is not time in which to complete work set by teachers. (i.e. NOT Homework!)

Guidance on independent learning is accessed through the Network’s Shared Area (To be placed on VLE at a future date)

The Independent Learning folder contains a separate folder for each AS course.

The Fideliter Building & School IT Network

1. A Course Outline – stating when each topic is taught and by whom;

2. A “Menu” of Generic tasks to choose from;

3. A “Menu” of Subject / Topic Specific tasks to choose from;

Each course folder contains:

Generic Consolidation TasksSubject: Biology Topic: Any topic Consolidation: Look over my notes from the lesson and use time to make a glossary of key terms and

words which I have already used in the topic.

Subject: Biology Topic: End of a topic / Preparation for a test. Consolidation: Make a mind map or other "poster type " piece of work that links all of the key terms

together.

Subject / Topic Specific Extension Tasks

Subject: RS Topic: Situation Ethics Extension: Choose an article from the Situation ethics folder at the back of the Study Area.

Respond to this article in your own chosen way: i.e. A set of questions you want to bring to class next lesson. A set of supplementary notes to those you have done / been given in class. Improve a previous answer to a question by including some of this new material in it.

Subject: RS Topic: Situation Ethics Extension: Watch the film Pleasantville.

Make as many connections that you can between this film and the topic of Situation Ethics / the key words we have been using in lessons. Find a clip on You Tube that you would like to be shown in class.

“How can it be independent if we are suggesting what they

do?”*1. It is additional – on top of homework.

2. The deadline is student set.

3. It is not assessed – even though teachers will draw on it and refer to it in future lessons.)

*How is this any different to homework?

*In the same way that the revision they did at GCSE is different to homework they did during GCSE!!

“Revise as you go along”

Sixth Formers should be working harder

than their Teachers!

4. Make judgements about each student’s commitment to the Sixth Form Agreement.

5. Speak on a 1:1 basis with students whom there is any negative feedback about and reward for positive feedback

Students who did not get the DDD or points equivalent grades needed to get back into Year had what three things in common?

1. They did not make use of their planners correctly throughout the year.

3. They had an attendance below 85%.

2. They used their study sessions to do work set by the teacher (in the hope this meant they did not have to do

anything at home!)

AS Results Day:

50 hours per year of extracurricular activities

It must include 12 hrs of service activity

Enrichment can be done at anytime during Free periods or after school or in the holidays

6. Enrichment Activities in Year 12

The time is now for them to do this!

One Pledge to Enrich

Many Words

The Time for others is Now

And how can we make sure that at least 12 hours of these activities enriches other people?

SJC 6th Form – Who are we?

•We are a community•We take personal development seriously

•We seek to have a working relationship of equals with your son and daughter.

“In working with young people, do

not try to call them back to where they

were, and do not call them to

where you are, beautiful as that place may seem to you. You must

have the courage to go with them to a place neither you nor they have been.”

W. J. Donovan