Year 11 Motto:

Excellence is not an act, it is an attitude

– you are what you repeatedly do

Welcome

Expectations Evening

Programme for the evening:

Mike Moss - to talk about school performance and new grading system.

Lucy Owen - Roadmap to GCSEs, understanding the demands of new GCSE and

supporting the student

Sarah Pope, Laura Cooke & Carolyn Kelleway - Core Subjects - How to prepare for

exam and what to expect.

Rob Klippel - Mocks & Post 16 Pathways

The new grading system

and

our school performance last year

Mike Moss

A* v Grade 9

At GCSE we are the 6th best school in Hertfordshire with a progress 8 score of +0.68. Based on last year’s results this would again place us in the top 5% of schools nationally.

Headlines – New Grades 9-1

• 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%)

• Over a third of students achieved the Ebacc.

Roadmap to GCSEs

Understanding the demands of new

GCSE

Supporting the students

Lucy Owen

Pathway to the GCSE

21st November - 6th Form Open Evening

4th-21st December - Mocks

8th January - Mock Results Day

18th January - Year 11 Parents’ Evening

30th March - Easter holidays

15th May - Exams begin

March - 2nd round of Mocks for Core (TBC)

5 weeks until Mocks

21 weeks until Exams

Every moment counts

Apply yourself in class in each lesson

Come fully equipped

Complete homework to the best of your ability

Develop an outstanding attitude to learning

Power of first

point of

delivery.

Anything else

is to

supplement

this.

What is does an outstanding attitude to learning look like?

➢ You are highly motivated with high aspirations

➢ You seek challenge and frequently exceed expectations

➢ Homework is always completed and to the best of your ability

➢ You take responsibility for your own learning

➢ You show independence and extend your learning outside of lessons

➢ You listen actively and work well with others

Mindset matters

Just 17 days

absence from

school a year

could result in a

drop in a GCSE

grade in all

subjects.

Attendance and Attainment

95% = 50 lessons

missed

90% = 100 lessons

missed

85% = 150 lessons

missed

5% = 2 weeks

absence

Realities of the new exams

Old GCSEs

13 exams

18¾ hours in total

Exams represent around 49% of

total GCSE assessment

New GCSEs

22 exams

33 hours in total

Exams represent around 86.5% of

total GCSE assessment

An example of the change in demands for a

student

Rising to the new demands

Active learning

rather than passive

learning

Starting early

Rising to the new demands

Rising to the new demands

Rising to the new demands

In school support - academic

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

LUNCH GENERAL KS4

SUPPORT, in IT1

HISTORY revision in H1

MATHS HOMEWORK in

M4

GENERAL KS4

SUPPORT, in IT1

GEO, HIST, PRE,

BUSINESS STUDIES in

G2

P.D in DT4

GENERAL KS4

SUPPORT, in IT1

KS4 H/WORK, in E3

MFL French in L2 and L5

MFL Spanish support

sessions

L4 and L5

AFTER-

SCHOOL

SCIENCE in S5

3:25 -4:30

P.D in DT4, 15:25-16:30

CATERING, 3.30-4.30

PRODUCT DESIGN in

DT4 3:25 - 4:30

ART, in Art 1 & 3

3:25 - 4:25pm

ENGLISH REVISION in

E3 & E6, 3:30 -4:30

P.D in DT4 3:25 - 4:30

MATHS, in M4

3:25 - 4:30

Plus 6th Form mentoring - hugely successful:➔ 100% positive parental feedback

➔ On average 1 grade improvement as a result of tutoring

➔ 65% hit target grades

➢ Learning for Life content during Lesson 5

➢ Wellbeing and Exam Stress Management Programme

➢ Extra-curricular Programme

➢ Mentoring

➢ Links with home

In school support - pastoral

Supporting at home

➢ 5 Ways to Wellbeing

➢ Sleep and nutrition

➢ Support with planning and managing time - including R&R

➢ Help them to manage the highs and lows

➢ Spend time together where exams/revision is not mentioned

Booklet

GCSE Maths

Sarah Pope

Structure

• There are 3 papers each lasting 90 minutes.

• One non-calculator paper and two papers where calculators are allowed.

• Students can be entered at either Foundation Tier or Higher Tier

Tier of Entry

• It is important to remember that the new Foundation Tier exam covers grades from 1 to 5. Therefore for a lot of students, Foundation Tier is the right exam for them to take.

• The Higher Tier exam covers grades from 4 to 9. Therefore if students entered for Higher Tier do not achieve a grade 4 they will be ungraded.

• This means that students who would traditionally have been on the D/C border and would have taken Higher Tier are now better off taking Foundation Tier.

Lessons Learnt from Last Year• The exam is significantly more difficult than previous

specifications

• Most students make a lot of progress during the course of Year 11 (it takes time to adjust to the new papers)

• Tier of Entry is critical

• We need to do a lot of practice on setting out work clearly

• Exam practice is more vital than ever

• We now have an idea of grade boundaries but are expecting them to change

Revision for Maths

• Students are currently being given a set of questions to revise a specific topic area, every week for homework. They should make sure they do these questions and use Mathswatch/Corbett Maths or a revision guide to look up any questions on which they need help.

• Continuous revision and following up on topics covered in class will be far more beneficial than last minute cramming.

• Following the mock in December we will make use of papers provided by the exam board for homework

• Exam papers from previous specifications are useful but may not cover all the topics for the current GCSE

Support in Maths

• Thursday after school – general revision and help with homework

• Tuesday lunchtime – homework support

Sean works for a company.

His normal rate of pay is £12 per hour.

When Sean works more than 8 hours a day, he is paid overtime for each hour he

works more than 8 hours.

Sean’s rate of overtime pay per hour is

times his normal rate of pay per hour.

On Monday Sean worked for 10 hours.

Work out the total amount of money Sean earned on Monday.

This was question 9 (of 27) from one of the Foundation Tier papers this summer. This would be considered to be a grade 2 question. In previous years this would be around question 15.

The area of square

ABCD is 10 cm2.

Show that x2 + 6x = 1

This was question 24 on the Foundation paper and question 4 on the Higher Tier paper. This would be considered to be a grade 4 question. In previous years this would not have appeared on the Foundation Tier paper.

White shapes and black shapes are used in a game.

Some of the shapes are circles.

All the other shapes are squares.

The ratio of the number of white shapes to the number of black shapes is 3:7

The ratio of the number of white circles to the number of white squares is 4:5

The ratio of the number of black circles to the number of black squares is 2:5

Work out what fraction of all the shapes are circles.

This was question 14 (Higher Tier) and would therefore be considered to be a grade 7 question.

The diagram shows a hexagon ABCDEF.ABEF and CBED are congruent parallelograms where AB = BC = x cm.

P is the point on AF and Q is the point on CD such that BP = BQ = 10 cm.

Given that angle ABC = 30°,

prove that cos PBQ = 1 – x2

This was the last question and would previously only appeared at A Level.

GCSE English

Laura Cooke

English Language 8700Paper 1

• Unseen Literature passage with questions to test:

– reading comprehension

– analysis of language

– Analysis of structure

– evaluation

• Choice of:

Writing to describe from a picture stimulus

or Writing a story

Paper 2• Two unseen non-fiction texts with

questions to test:

– comprehension,

– comparative summary

– Language analysis

– Comparison of attitudes

• Writing to express a point of view

The three passages will include texts from 19th, 20th and 21st centuries

Paper 1Reading

& Writing

Paper 2Reading

& Writing

English Literature 8702Paper 1

Two extract based questions:

• Macbeth

• The Strange Case of Dr

Jekyll and Mr Hyde

• Textual analysis; links to

context and elsewhere in the

play/novella

Paper 2• Choice of two essay-type

questions on An Inspector Calls

• Comparison between a named poem and one other of your choice from the AQA ‘Love and Relationships’ anthology (15 poems)

• Two unseen poems to analyse/compare

No books will be taken into the exam so good knowledge of texts, including quotes is essential

Paper 1

Paper 2

How to secure your best gradeEnglish Language

✓ Read a wide range of texts including media and non-fiction

✓ Question language choices and the way writing is organised.

✓ Make sure your writing skills are good and that you habitually use standard English correctly (spelling, punctuation & grammar

English Literature

✓ Know your texts as well as you possibly can: watching film versions may be more confusing than helpful

✓ Learn quotes early on and practice using them

✓ Make sure you have a confident understanding of context : events, beliefs and values of the writer and first readers or audience

Learning and applying key terminology for English will help with progress in both subjects

man is not truly one, but truly twothe hate

that now divided them was equal on each side”

To be thus is nothing;But to be safely thus

Such unscientific balderdash

Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark

A drum, a drumMacbeth doth come

The door, ...was blistered and distained

the man seems hardly human”

haggard shaft of daylightthe spirit of hell awoke in me and raged

I sought with tears and prayers to smother down the crowd of hideous images

A little water clears us of this deed:

I have almost forgot the taste of fears;

Unsex me here;

that is a stepOn which I must fall down, or else o'erleap,For in my way it lies.

Bring forth men-children only; For thy undaunted mettle should compose Nothing but males

Deep-seated terror of the mind”

Poole and I are going to force our way into the cabinet

life would be relieved of all that was unbearable

Time and the hour run through the roughest day

ape-like fury

Stars hide your fires Art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

So foul and fair a day I have not seen

look like the innocent flower,But be the serpent under't

GCSE Science

Carolyn Kelleway

The New GCSE science courses.

9-1

Exam Structure

In summary

• Triples have 10 ½ hrs exams

• Doubles have 7 ½ hrs exams

TRIPLE DOUBLE

Biology - paper 1 1 ¾ hrs B1-4 1 ¼ hrs B1-4

- paper 2 1 ¾ hrs B 5-7 1 ¼ hrs B 5-7

Chemistry – paper 1 1 ¾ hrs C1-5 1 ¼ hrs C1-5

- paper 2 1 ¾ hrs C 6-10 1 ¼ hrs C 6-10

Physics - paper 1 1 ¾ hrs P 1-4 1 ¼ hrs P 1-4

- paper 2 1 ¾ hrs P 5-8 1 ¼ hrs P 5-8

Tiers of entry

•There are 2 tiers of entry

•Foundation Level 1-5

•Higher Level 4-9

•So it is important we get the correct tier of entry

•The mocks will help us to decide this

Grading

How will it be assessed?

Knowledge

Application

Analysis

Revision

•Must take into account skills and not just content (40%)

•Skills are

•Maths, practical skills from required practicals, analyse information and ideas, interpret and evaluate; make judgements and draw conclusions; develop and improve experimental procedures.

Maths in Physics

• There are 23 physics equations to learn• There are 9 physics equations given

• Important to learn the equations (in some lower demand questions equations may be given but we don’t know which ones)

Required practical- 15%

• Questions will be based around practical techniques from required practicals

• All clearly labelled, marked and highlighted in their exercise books

• Don’t forget to revise these fully as they will be examined

Revision Guides

Available from science preproom

Biology/Chemistry/Physics – £3 each

Combined Trilogy - £3.50 for just one and covers all 3 topics

How to revise for 60% of the paper

•= science SKILLS

•Practise exam questions over and over

•Use the mark schemes as tools not as tests

•Know what the Command words are asking for such as “describe”, “explain”, “evaluate”

Specification

Where can you find them?

Support

•Monday after school

Mock information and Post-16 pathways

Rob Klippel

▶ Plan is to have 3 sessions per day – students will need to identify where they have exams

▶ Only expected to be in when they have exams BUT they can use the allocated rooms for revision if they wish

▶ Part of the process is to practice how to use their time between exams – stay at school, take a break, refreshments, go home.

Mock exams Dec 2017

▶ We will allocate some slots for revisiting coursework –these will be compulsory

▶ There will be some revision slots at the end of these exams for those taking public exams in January

▶ Exams are a stressful time.▶ Prepare well – plan out YOUR timetable▶ Get a good night’s sleep – eat breakfast▶ Bring everything you need!

Other things to consider

▶ Our evening is on Tuesday 21st Nov▶ An opportunity to discuss possible options with staff and

sixth form students▶ Very popular…. but you are our priority▶ New subjects should be investigated▶ Need to review the criteria needed to take specific subjects▶ Interviews with the sixth form team after your mock

results and parents evening in January

Sixth form /college / apprenticeships

Post-16 requirements

In the ASCL survey, 185 schools and colleges indicated they have a GSCE entry

requirement in English and Maths for access to post-16 provision. These requirements

were generally as follows:

Year 11 Motto:

Excellence is not an act, it is an attitude

– you are what you repeatedly do

Thank you

Expectations Evening