HeadStart International School

1. HeadStart International School Presentation for Primary Parents Monday 11th March 2013

2. Overview • Attainment target levels and Cambridge • Homework at HeadStart Primary School • School growth over the years • Academic year 2013 - 2014

3. Expected Level of Attainment when leaving the year group

4. Cambridge Curriculum at HeadStart • English, mathematics and science; • Cambridge Progression Tests from years 3–9 • Cambridge Checkpoint Tests in Year 6 and Year 9 • Cambridge IGCSE in Year 11

5. Cambridge Progression Tests • English (2), mathematics (3) and science (2); • Once a year; • Marked in house; • Entered online; • Compared with results of schools worldwide;

6. Statistics 2011 - 2012

10. Cambridge Checkpoint Y6 An overview……………..

11. Who is this for?

12. Who marks the tests?

13. The diagnostic reports generated by Cambridge Primary Checkpoint enable schools to:

19. IGCSE’s at HeadStart

20. Why Cambridge IGCSE?

21. Where are they accepted?

22. 2012/13 IGCSE Subjects

23. 2013/14 IGCSE Subjects

24. M6 Equivalence

25. Homework at HeadStart • Weekly spellings • Increase in amount and difficulty; • Teach spelling rules; • Reading • Test the reading age (twice this year); • Assign appropriate books; • Reading books in the classroom and library; • Online reading programmes:

26. RAZ-kids Bug Club • American; • Levelled; • Listen to, read and record your own voice; • Multiple choice quiz at the end; • Little or no teacher control required; • UK; • Levelled AND linked to ATL; • Listen to and read; • Variety of questions throughout the books; • More teacher control and follow-up required; • Teaching Tools available; Online Reading Programmes

27. Homework at HeadStart • MyiMaths • Once a week; • 3 or more tasks; • Automatic marking; • Linked to the ATL; • Lesson module; • Homework module; • Games module;

28. 430 417 320 170 62

29. 27 26 20 11 8

30. 117 105 92 77 46

31. TEACHERSRETENTION 94% 91% 65% 65%

32. Academic Year 2013 - 2014 • Mixing up classes • 4 years; • Students come and go; • Imbalance of nationalities and gender in some classes; • Accreditation visit with CfBT

34. Who are CfBT?

35. The purposes of accreditation

37. Principles underpinning the CfBT accreditation model

40. Levels of accreditation • Schools are awarded the ISQM for a period of 3 years at one of 4 levels:

46. CfBT Accreditation Standards