Year 8 & 9 Focus Evening: Excelling in Learning and Responsibility

1. Plan of the evening • 7pm – 7.25pm Appointments with tutors • 7.30pm – 8.15pm Talk in the Hall While appointments are taking place Mr Harty, Miss May, Ms Evans & Mrs Collingwood are available to answer questions.

2. The Hemel Hempstead School Parent Focus Evening Strive to Excel Respect, Relationships and Responsibility

6. 190 Days

8. Purpose of the evening • To give you some year-specific information for the year ahead • To look at KS3 Assessment without Levels • To answer questions

9. Ms Irene Evans Head of Year 8

11. Changes for this year • Year 8 FPQ • Some setting arrangements

12. Gail May– Assistant Head Responsible for KS3 • Priorities for Year 8 & 9 • Further engagement of pupils and parents • Preparing students to become independent learners • Ensuring students make the best possible progress

13. DATA from September 2015-July 2016 Year 8 & 9 Attendance Target 97% Ratio for R & C = 2:1

14. YEAR 9 OPTIONS

15. Year 9 Key Dates • Friday 3rd March History Trip to the Somme • Early June – Year 9 Exams (Maths & Eng) • Wednesday 1st July – Prize Giving • Activities Week – PE trip to Newlands

16. Reporting • ClickCeop (Security & Passwords) • www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents • Internet Watch Foundation • www.iwf.org.uk • Childline – 0800 1111 • Inappropriate Social Media Content

17. Assessment without Levels

18. Rationale We emphasise the importance of establishing a very direct and clear relationship between ‘that which is to be taught and learned’ and assessment (both formative and ongoing and periodic and summative).  Imprecise Attainment Targets and the current abstracted, descriptive ‘levels’ are of concern since they reduce the clarity of this relationship. Relationship between learning and assessmentReport by the Expert Panel for the National Curriculum review December 2011

19. … all assessment and other processes should bring people back to the content of the curriculum (and the extent to which it has been taught and learned), instead of focusing on abstracted and arbitrary expressions of the curriculum such as ‘levels’. Curriculum focused assessmentReport by the Expert Panel for the National Curriculum ReviewDecember 2011

20. Our Approach • A KS2-4 approach • Subject descriptors for the 3 bands by age • Ongoing assessment and dialogue so students are aware of progress • Review after 2 reporting cycles to establish adjustments required

21. KS2 to 4 ‘Flight Path’

22. Our Approach • A KS2-4 approach • Subject descriptors for the 3 bands by age • Ongoing assessment and dialogue so students are aware of progress • Review after 2 reporting cycles to establish adjustments required

23. Descriptors

25. Our Approach • A KS2-4 approach • Subject descriptors for the 3 bands by age • Ongoing assessment and dialogue so students are aware of progress • Review after 2 reporting cycles to establish adjustments required

26. Report Format

28. Our Approach • A KS2-4 approach • Subject descriptors for the 3 bands by age • Ongoing assessment and dialogue so students are aware of progress • Review after 2 reporting cycles to establish adjustments required