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Year 10: Raising Achievement

Year 10: Raising Achievement. 6pm on Thursday 21 th March 2019. Mr Blunsum – Deputy Headteacher New GCSE and Year 10 exams. Mr Moloney – Head of Year Health and Wellbeing - Preparing Year 10. Ms Harvey – Literacy Coordinator Academic Voice.

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Year 10: Raising Achievement

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  1. Year 10: Raising Achievement 6pm on Thursday 21th March 2019

  2. Mr Blunsum – Deputy Headteacher New GCSE and Year 10 exams Mr Moloney– Head of Year Health and Wellbeing - Preparing Year 10 Ms Harvey – Literacy Coordinator Academic Voice Mrs Dalling– Work Experience Coordinator Representatives from local colleges

  3. Aims of this Evening To pass on good practice Revision techniques and study skills Students be more confident Bolster self-esteem Advice to reduce stress Improve exam success Assist post 16 transition (local colleges represented here) Empower parents and students This PPT is available from the school website in the Exams – Revision page

  4. …. the Team approach ….

  5. New GCSEs • 9-1 in most subjects • Reduction in Controlled Assessment • Increased reliance on terminal exam • Increased importance of SPAG • Reduction in Foundation and Higher tier papers

  6. Year 10 Exams Only 5 weeks away Tues 23th April to Tues 30th April Active revision in all lesson commences Mon 25th March Results day Wednesday22nd May EBI activities in class from Monday 22nd May Internal exams, used as preparation for the Year 11 external exams.

  7. Your Y10 exam timetable will be circulated today, Keep it safe

  8. Teacher feedback: .…‘Far more focused’ ….‘very good progress’ But, • Homework systems and clear routines • Organisation of time • Work ethic for some • Confidence in own revision skills & techniques

  9. …. Advice from the Experts …. Step 1: Know your syllabus Create a syllabus checklist or get from your Teachers Or download syllabus from exam board websites AQA Edexcel OCR

  10. …. Advice from the Experts …. Step 2: Make a note-making planner (A4 folder with dividers) • Reduce long notes into effective notes (by about 80%) • Mind mapping (use colour, pictures, visualise) • Regular reviews

  11. Subject: Topic: Revision Notes Key Questions 1: Revision Notes Area: Record notes from your text book, exercise book, video clip etc. Keep as short but as meaningfully as possible. 2: Key Question Column: As you're taking notes, keep question column empty. Soon after completing the revision notes think of questions that the revision notes are the answers for. 3: Summaries: Sum up each page of your notes in a sentence or two or by recording a summary of key terms. 1: Read text and write “shorthand notes” of key points 2: For each “note” think of a question that could be asked 4: Cover the “notes” and use the questions to test yourself. Cornell Note Taking Technique 3: Now write a summary of 5-10 key terms

  12. Cornell Note Taking Template • Available from our website in the Exams – Revision page

  13. Main Headings Sub Headings Bullet Points Trigger Words

  14. …. Advice from the Experts …. Step 3: Regular Reviews • End of lesson review • Pre lesson review • Monthly review • Interweave your reviews • Will make recall easy • Reinforces knowledge & understanding • Gives confidence USE EVERY PAST PAPER YOU CAN FIND!

  15. Revision is vital for success

  16. …. Advice from the Experts …. • Step 1: Know your syllabus • Step 2: Make a note-making planner (A4 folder with dividers) syllabus checklist • Reduce long notes into effective notes • Mind mapping (use colour, pictures, visualise) • Step 3: Regular reviews • Practice Past Papers – model perfect answers • Practice Questions – timed & marked • Regular reviews and interweaving – REALLY KNOW IT!

  17. Think about where it’s best for you to revise – somewhere quiet where you won’t be interrupted!! Avoid distractions

  18. Careful preparation gives you the confidence to succeed and helps alleviate the stress and pressure associated with last minute cramming.

  19. Mr Moloney– Head of Year Health and Wellbeing - Preparing Year 10

  20. During Curriculum Days, Year 10 students have already received advice on how to revise. ELEVATE Google: “Elevate Education”

  21. Student Wellbeing • Is paramount to my role as Head of Year. • It is natural for students to feel overwhelmed, stressed or anxious. • All of these feelings are normal. However, how we manage them is important. Elements of stress in our lives is healthy. It enables us to develop resilience and coping mechanisms.

  22. Changing your MINDSET.

  23. Preparation • Marginal gains. Little and often. Don’t give up. Change the techniques. • The time is now. Maintaining high standards is difficult. Turning a sinking ship is difficult. Parents Evening Thursday 4thApril Advice from teachers about how to prepare over Easter.

  24. Student Wellbeing • SLEEP. Try and get 8-hours in, every night. • CONSUMPTION. Hydration - water. Brain Foods - Omega 3 – fish. • Distraction – good and bad. It is important to plan for ‘downtime’. Go for a walk, listen to music, spend time on other interests. Electronic devices are a no.

  25. Ms Harvey – Literacy Coordinator Academic Voice

  26. Academic Voice GCSE reforms: • More demanding subject content • More rigorous assessment • Terminal assessments • Mainly untiered • Exams as the default method of assessment • Exams only in the summer • 1-9 grading – pass rate will be set higher

  27. Academic Voice The challenges: • Students write the same way they speak. • Students understand what they learn in lessons but find it hard to write it down. • Students need to be able to articulate much more complex subject knowledge in exam conditions. • Students need explicit teaching of ways in which they can raise their ‘academic voice’.

  28. Academic Voice Academic voice is a formal style of writing. It raises the quality of written responses and improves clarity and confidence.

  29. Nominalisation : Nominalisation is changing verbs into nouns. GermanyinvadedPoland in 1939. This immediately caused the Second World War to break out becomes Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 was the immediate cause of the outbreak of the Second World War.

  30. Hedging Use modal verbs and modifiers to talk about likelihood, ability, permission, obligation. They give subtlety and nuance of meaning.

  31. Imprecise Pronouns Compare these two paragraphs: They develop over many years in places where snow has fallen but not melted. Itis compacted and turns to ice. Thismeans that it starts to slip down mountain sides over time. Glaciers develop over many years in places where snow has fallen but not melted. Snow is compacted and turns to ice. The weight of the ice means that it starts to slip down mountain sides over time.

  32. Discourse markers

  33. Why should you use these techniquesin your writing? • It makes you sound like an expert – gives your writing formality, objectivity and authority • Meaning is clearer • It makes writing succinct • It gives you ‘ACADEMIC VOICE’ • It will impress your examiners and get you higher marks! GUARANTEED.

  34. Vocabulary Matters You need to know 95% of the words in a text in order to understand it. David Didau

  35. Tier 2 Vocabulary Fairly low frequency in spoken language. More formal, sophisticated words ……obstinate, ambiguous, concept, remorse, beneficial, gregarious, nostalgia, futile……..

  36. Word of the Week Word: nostalgia Definition: a wistful or sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time Example sentence: Looking at my childhood photographs always brings me a sense of nostalgia. Synonyms: reminiscence, sentimentality, recollection, homesickness Word group: (abstract) noun estimate sufficient prohibit emphasise unanimous collaborate concept dominant manipulate sequence ambiguous transformation

  37. “Every hour spent reading is an hour spent learning to write.”

  38. Everyone Loves Stories

  39. Mrs Dalling– Work Experience Coordinator

  40. Work Experience 1st to 5th July 2019 • Launched Oct 2018 to students in assembly • Parent /Student info packs given to students Oct 2018 • Parents messaged to inform them this had happened. • Medical forms .. a few students still  have not returned the medical form in the info pack. • We work tirelessly to help students find places but there are still many  students to place. • 2 days a week supporting Work experience • Please support/help your son/daughter to find a place and return all paper work.  • Big push in the next few months. (In county deadline mid-May)

  41. www.careerpilot.org.uk

  42. Representatives from Local Colleges

  43. Progression Routes after Bishop Fox’s… There are five main directions to choose from… • A Levels • International Baccalaureate • Vocational study programmes • T Levels • Apprenticeships Young people have to stay in full-time education, apprenticeship or traineeship until they are 18.

  44. Progression Routes after Bishop Fox’s… GCSEs = Level 2 Level 3 natural progress to college

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