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Musselburgh Grammar School

Musselburgh Grammar School. A Curriculum for Excellence What now in S2? Meeting with S2 Parents Ronnie Summers June 2011. Session last September. 4 capacities 8 Curriculum areas and Broad General Education Development of skills, knowledge, attributes Qualifications

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Musselburgh Grammar School

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  1. Musselburgh Grammar School A Curriculum for Excellence What now in S2? Meeting with S2 Parents • Ronnie Summers • June 2011

  2. Session last September • 4 capacities • 8 Curriculum areas and Broad General Education • Development of skills, knowledge, attributes • Qualifications • Reporting and assessment • Recognising achievement • General questions and discussion

  3. Why are we doing it? • To help pupils connect their learning better • To get broader and deeper learning • To give pupils space to use their learning • To make learning better and more relevant • To close the gap between our strongest and our weakest pupils • To prepare pupils for 21st century life – skills for learning, for life and for work

  4. Organisers - 4 capacities • Successful learners – motivated, open, enthused • Responsible citizens – respect, committed • Confident individuals - ambitious, self-respect • Effective contributors – enterprising, partners

  5. What now in S2? • School Improvement Plan • Subjects – changes from S1 • Skills period • Suspended timetable • Subject choices in February/ March • SQA qualifications • Supporting parents

  6. CFE in School Improvement Plan • Review of S1 courses • Implementation of S2 courses • Introduction of Skills period for S2 • Planning for suspended timetable 3 times a year • Themed weeks • Ethos –quality of teaching and learning

  7. Organisers - 8 curriculum areas • Expressive Arts – Art, Music • Languages – English, Modern Languages • Mathematics – Mathematics • Sciences – Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics • Social Subjects – Citizenship, History, Geography, Modern Studies • Religious and Moral – Citizenship, RME • Technologies – CDT, Computing, Bus Ed • Health and Well Being – PE, Home Economics, PSE • But there are developing linkages between subjects

  8. Subjects – shifts from S1 • Importance of subjects in S1after general primary • Broader deeper learning important • Citizenship – back to individual courses in History, Geography, Modern Studies and RME • Science – back to individual courses in Biology, Chemistry and Physics • French – drops to 2 periods from 3 • New Skills period • All subjects contributing to Literacy, Numeracy and Health and Well Being - important skills development

  9. Skills period – why? • To assist pupils in realising all the skills they have already • To appreciate how these skills can assist them to progress in school and beyond • To develop new skills and add to current ones– take on new challenges positively, to build from failure, to develop resilience, to develop a don’t give up mentality, to work to a high standard

  10. Types of skills classes- 6-8 period blocks • Crisis management • Holidays • Games strategies • Organising a children’s party/ quiz • Preparing for a radio broadcast • Fairtrade activities worldwide • Organising an orienteering course for bikes • Health awareness strategies/ CPR

  11. Suspended timetable – why? • Allows pupils to try out different non-subject based activities • Breaks the tyranny of the single period lesson • Allows pupils to apply knowledge and skills in different and new situations • S1 – Health Day • S2 – Disaster Day • 3 days each year for each yeargroup • Themed days/ weeks a possibility

  12. Organisers - S1-3 Broad General Curriculum • Development of skills, knowledge and attributes • Pupils should keep studying in all eight curricular areas but can begin to specialise, so there will be choice after S2. • S3 choices will be carried over to S4 for certification and SQA qualifications • No plan for early presentation for exams

  13. Subject choices for S3 • High degree of continuity with the past • PSE programme will start to explain this to pupils from January, S2 Parents Information Meeting in February, Choice sheet completed in March • All will take English, Mathematics, RME, PE, PSE as a core group of subjects – 10 periods • Then choose one subject from each of the other 5 curriculum areas – 15 periods • Retains a broad general education S1-S3

  14. SQA Certification • S3 S4 • Choice 1-5 (3 periods x5) Choice 1 (3p x5) • Enhancement (2 periods) Dropped • English (3 periods) English and Literacy (4p) • Mathematics (3 periods) Mathematics and Numeracy (4p) RME RME (1p) Broad Certificated General Education

  15. New qualification structure Now From 2013/14 • Access 1and Access 2 Revised Access 1+2 • Access 3/ Foundation Revised Access 3 • General/ Intermediate 1 National 4 • Credit/ Intermediate 2 National 5 • Higher Higher (Revised) • Advanced Higher Adv Higher (Revised)

  16. Development of new qualifications • New S2 pupils will be the first to sit the new qualifications • SQA personnel working on new courses and drafts already out for consultation • New courses will align with outcomes and experiences of CFE levels • Colleges, universities and employers aware of new qualifications developments • Leaflet issued to you with S1 reports

  17. Supporting parents • Talk to S1 parents last September • Questionnaire at S1 Parents’ Meeting • Covering letter with S1 Reports • S2 Questionnaire tonight and out to other parents before end of term • SQA leaflet • Factfiles on Learning and Teaching Scotland website, Parentzone

  18. We believe in you • Do you believe in yourselves?

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