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Year Ahead 2018: Sixth Form Team Working Together for Success

Get ready for the next steps in your career with the support of our Sixth Form Team. From pastoral care to academic success, we offer a range of programs and resources to help you excel in A Levels or BTECs and prepare for university and the modern workplace. Our experienced staff and outstanding academic results ensure that you will reach your goals. Join us to experience a year of growth, resilience, and achievement.

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Year Ahead 2018: Sixth Form Team Working Together for Success

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  1. Year Ahead 2018Year 12 Sixth Form

  2. SIXTH FORM TEAM Mr Eagleton – Assistant Head Ms Carey – Head of Sixth Form MsKashap – Sixth Form Administrator Ms Barker – Connexions Advisor

  3. Sixth Form Team

  4. Working Together “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together”. Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize-Winner

  5. Pastoral Support Tutor teams Resilience workshop Counselling provision Enrichment programme

  6. Enrichment

  7. PSCHE

  8. EPHSGraduate Gateway Preparing you for the next steps in your career A Level / BTEC success Ready for the modern workplace Successful university application

  9. Applications and Careers • UCAS Days • What Career Live • UCAS Exhibition • Career Fair – 20th/21st March • Unifrog.org • opendays.com

  10. Early Entrants Programme • Lumina Summer School • Targeted super-curricular • Specialists personal statement support • Practice interviews • Advice from successful candidates

  11. Outstanding Academic Results A levels A*-A 22%, A*-B 59%, A*-C 82% BTECs A*-A 42%, A*-B 71%, A*-C 88% 83 university applications made 70% of applicants successful in gaining place at their FIRM choice university 24 students awarded an UNCONDITIONAL OFFER 21% of applicants attending Oxbridge / Russell Group universities

  12. Post-16 barriers • Linear courses (A Level) • Single submission and external assessment (BTEC) • Greater depth of study • More freedom and responsibility around the school • Post-18 options

  13. Staff Expertise • The bar has clearly been raised for • post 16 Qualifications – We are • confident that our students will be • successful because of: • Support given to ensure each student is on the correct curriculum pathway • Outstanding teaching & learning expertise across subject areas • Robust tracking and intervention strategies to celebrate success address any underperformance.

  14. Transition Skills Day • Academic reading • Organisation and time management • Revision Skills • Note taking • Assessment • Team building • Mental health awareness • Library induction • Importance of super-curricular and wider reading

  15. Super curricular L3 – Extended Project Qualification Academic subscription for every student University lectures, workshops and residentials

  16. Student Expectations • Excellent attendance and punctuality • Effective use of study time. • Prepared for school day and lessons. • Exemplary behaviour and adherence to school policies. • Positive contribution to lessons, Sixth Form, wider school and community.

  17. INDEPENDENT STUDY “The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.” 20+ hours per week (3-4 per weekday and 5-6 over the weekend) Use study periods for studying! Supervised study. No such thing as “I have no work”

  18. C BLOCK STUDY AREAS E BLOCK STUDY AREAS E201 BTEC STUDY AREA FOCUSED WORK ON LESSON PREP AND HOME LEARNING DISCUSSION WHERE NECESSARY E202 BTEC STUDY AREA FOCUSED WORK ON ASSIGNMENTS DISCUSSION WHERE NECESSARY CAFÉ INFORMAL STUDY AREA WORK ON ASSIGNMENTS DISCUSSION WHERE NECESSARY E204 FORMAL STUDY AREA SILENCE: COMPULSORY REGISTER ATTENDANCE WITH MS KASHAP ON ARRIVAL LIBRARY FORMAL STUDY AREA SILENCE: COMPULSORY

  19. “I don’t know” becomes “I don’t know yet!” Outstanding Academic Success

  20. Attendance and Punctuality • School still starts at 8.40. Every day. • Afternoon registration if students have period 5 or 6. • Punctuality to lessons. • Use of study periods. • Reporting absences. • Poor attendance and punctuality has a huge impact on: • Progress and results • Applications • School community

  21. Year 12 ASsessment • Transition Examinations w/b 8th October • Formal mock examinations – January • Formal mock examinations – June • AS examinations will only be taken where students are opting to discontinue a course at the end of Year 12. • All formal public examinations (A Level) will take place at the end of Year 13 • BTEC formal public examinations will take place at 4 points across the 2 year period • Transition conversations where necessary at the end of year 12.

  22. Each of the colours on the grid is a code indicating where your common assessments will take place and how formal they will be When is it assessed? What do thecoloursmean? • These assessments will take place in class during the course of your normal lessons. • These assessments may not take the full lesson. • These assessments make take a variety of forms including practical projects, extended writing or examination style questions. • These assessments will be conducted in formal examination conditions in C101 or alternative examination base • These assessments will be timetabled and may take longer than 55 minutes • These assessments will be designed by your teachers to look and feel like a GCSE style examination. • These assessments will be conducted in formal examination conditions in C101 or alternative examination base • These assessments will be designed by your teachers to look and feel like an A level / BTEC style examination. • These assessments are designed to test learning across an extended period of time (academic year / key stage) rather than across a set number of lessons.

  23. Progress and Reports Minimum Target Grade Expected grade [if he/she continues working at the same level this is what the teacher expects him/her to achieve] Classwork (1-4) Lesson prep (1-4) Super curricular (1-4) Overall progress (1-4) Specific curricular target [not for the first report]

  24. How is it assessed? All students have a pathway and an end of Y13 target grade Above track Working above target On track Working at target Working below target Below track Working well below target Serious concern When teachers enter data that will be shared with home they will use the terms above. They will using their judgement to say whether they feel you are on track to meet your end of Y13 target grade.

  25. Washington Trip

  26. Beijing Trip

  27. Iceland Trip

  28. Iceland Trip

  29. How Can Parents Support? • Managing time Meeting deadlines – know the course Revision timetable • Creating structured study time at home • Post-18 options • Managing any ‘paid work’ time • Encouraging effort • Remind to act on feedback.

  30. Bursary and the discretionary fund Students are eligible for small payments each month if they were claiming Free School Meals in Year 11. We also have a fund all students can apply to for travel, courses and resources to help their studies. Directly linked to attendance and meeting of deadlines. Paid directly in to bank account at the end of each month.

  31. Year 12 - Key dates Transition Exams: w/b 8th October Safe Drive trip: 10th October What career live: 12thOctober GCSE re sits: w/b 5th November Parents’ evening: 7th February

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