Year 11 Aspiration and Expectation evening

1. Year 11 Aspiration and Expectation evening

2. The year 11 team Tradition * Innovation * Community * Achievement

3. Contact with school • Your daughter’s form tutor should be the first person you contact with any concerns; however, if your concern is curriculum based, then please contact the teacher, or Head of Department. • You will find the e mail addresses for all HODs in your pack. Tradition * Innovation * Community * Achievement

4. Key DAtes • 26th – 30th September – Work Experience • 6th October – Havering RPA event (evening) • 19th October – Year 11 6thForm Taster Day • 20th October – Data Report & Parents’ Evening • 9th November – Prospective 6th form evening • 10th November – Safe Drive Stay Alive • 28th Nov to 9th Dec – Mock Examinations Tradition * Innovation * Community * Achievement

5. Key DAtes • 26th January – Mock Results Day • 27th Feb – 10th March – Mock Examinations • 29th March – Mock Results Day • 30th March – Parents’ Evening • 3rd April – Easter revision sessions start • Formal Examinations – May and June • 13th July – Leavers’ Day and Prom Tradition * Innovation * Community * Achievement

6. Attendance and punctuality New School day • Registration time remains at 8:35 • Period 1 starts at 8:40 • Traffic issues, buses Tradition * Innovation * Community * Achievement

7. Attendance and punctuality • Natalie was in Year 11 last year. Her attendance was always around 90%. She thought that this was pretty good. • However ……. • 90% attendance means that she was absent from lessons for the equivalent of • one half day every week. Tradition * Innovation * Community * Achievement

8. Percentage Attendance Weekly 90% = ½ day 80% = 1 day Percentage Attendance Termly 90% = 1 week 2 days 80% = 2 weeks 4 days Percentage Attendance Yearly 90% = 4 weeks 80% = 8 weeks Tradition * Innovation * Community * Achievement

9. GCSE Grades • A* - G grades • 1 – 9 grades for English and Mathematics Tougher to get the higher grades Progress 8 Guidance video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IAEgFMSGDY Tradition * Innovation * Community * Achievement

10. New Grading System Tradition * Innovation * Community * Achievement

11. Assessment Data Secure Likely Insecure Tradition * Innovation * Community * Achievement

12. In-School support

13. Support in School • Form time and form tutors • Revision classes – AM, lunch and after school • Intervention in English and Mathematics • Easter revision classes • Mock examinations • Pre-exam prep (including breakfast sessions) Tradition * Innovation * Community * Achievement

14. Form time Preparation over the past 3 years • Study skills in Year 8 • Revision techniques in Year 9 & 10 • Flashcards • Time management and planning Working Wednesdays

15. Regular Clubs and Support • Study Hall • Friday after school until 4:30 in the 6th Form Study Room. • quiet area to work • computer access • light refreshments • Department Revision sessions • Information will be published on the website and will be updated • Coursework support after school

16. Easter • Many subject staff offer revision sessions. • These encompass both weeks. • We strongly encourage girls to attend. • We recommend that girls do not go on holiday over this very important period just before GCSEs commence in May.

17. Pre-exam prep Before most of the written GCSEs beginning in May, teachers will hold additional revision sessions to give students that extra boost and encouragement; this will include breakfast sessions

18. Digital Resources available from home PowerPoint – Year 11 Revision Online Resources Online revision & using technology to revise A summary of digital resources are listed in the booklet. Shortly you will find two documents on the website namely a student and a parent ICT guide. Contact email addresses are in the booklet.

19. Preparation for Post-16 study • 6th October - RPA event • 19th October - Taster Day • 9th November – Prospective 6th form evening • Careers Advice – Miss Woods • References and applications Tradition * Innovation * Community * Achievement

20. Mrs Victoria WheelhouseMathematics Teacher

21. How to raise a grade in Mathematics • GCSE questions are predictable • Concentrate on key topics

22. Regular Practice • Fortnightly practice on past paper questions. • Before: Revision Homework • After: CTG Homework

23. What Can I Do as a Parent? • Monitor your daughter’s progress, ensure she seeks help when it is clear she does not understand • Encourage her to set up a regular revision schedule; little and often is the best way to learn

24. What Support is Available? • Maths Clinic runs most lunchtimes • Anyone can come • Bring your lunch • Bring your friends • Nice and warm and dry • Intervention lessons • Mymaths.co.uk • Anyone can log on using username “frances” and password “hexagon”

25. What Support is Available? • Loads of great sites on the internet a quick Google search will turn up literally thousands. • Textbooks are available as PDFs from their teacher or Amazon. • All students will be given a revision guide to use for practising questions. • Mr Barton’s Maths Takeaway and Corbett Maths have topic booklets. • We have old textbooks full of extra questions available.

26. GCSE English Mr Perrott Head of English

27. GCSE English Made up of two separate GCSE qualifications and two separate grades will be awarded • English Language • English Literature

28. English Language AQA GCSE Qualification

29. English Language

30. English Literature

31. English Literature

32. What students need to do • Have copies of the texts they are studying and read them at home – not just once in class! • Appreciate that the Language GCSE needs students to demonstrate transferable literacy skills such as summary writing, knowledge of structure and content of different types of text, scanning for information and writing to argue a point of view.

33. Examination Skills English Language • Reading and writing are both assessed Key areas for improvement: • Spelling, punctuation and grammar • Summary writing and writer’s craft • Expanding vocabulary • Reading a wide variety of texts – 19th century and modern newspaper articles, fiction, non-fiction (e.g. autobiography), blogs, online news • Knowing what the question is asking, how to tackle it and how many marks it is worth

34. Examination Skills English Literature • Reading and extended writing skills are assessed Key areas for improvement: • Knowing the texts studied for Literature • Structuring extended answers • Learning the context, content, structure and style of a novel, poems, and a play • Being analytical in responses

35. Extra Help and Support • Intervention for some students – timetabled lessons or form time • Revision sessions run by the English Department • Seeking advice from the classroom teacher • Exam board websites – aqa.org.uk; cie.org.uk • The English Office

36. Help at home • Homework and planner checks • Creating good work habits • Start now • Key websites; reading; creating flashcards • Discussing the work with your daughter • Grasping all opportunities for help