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Welcome to Year 10 Parents’ Evening

Welcome to Year 10 Parents’ Evening. Please take a seat. The presentation will begin shortly. Presentation timings – 5.45pm, 6.30pm, 7.15pm. Topics. GCSE Performance & Target Grades AS/A level Performance & Target Grades Progress report analysis Key Stage 4 Study habits - Students

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Welcome to Year 10 Parents’ Evening

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  1. Welcome to Year 10 Parents’ Evening Please take a seat. The presentation will begin shortly. Presentation timings – 5.45pm, 6.30pm, 7.15pm

  2. Topics GCSE Performance & Target Grades AS/A level Performance & Target Grades Progress report analysis Key Stage 4 Study habits - Students - Parents

  3. Students’ GCSE Target Grades . . . . Student X - GCSE Target Grades A* A B C D 90th percentile or “outstanding” performance 50th percentile or “average” performance I in 2 Gordon’s students ‘hit’ their target grades in 2012 3b 3a 4c 4b 4a 5c 5b 5a Student X - Average Key Stage 2 level

  4. GCSE Points A* = 8 pts; A = 7 pts; B = 6 pts; C = 5 pts; D = 4 pts How A level students performed nationally in 2012 compared to their GCSE grades

  5. 2012 A level performance in the UK What the top 25% of A level students achieved in 2012

  6. Year 10 Progress Report Analysis - March 2013 • Average effort grade = 1.4 • Total ‘gap’ between Target grade and Working grade = -7

  7. Year 10 Progress Report Analysis March 2013 * The total gap between the working grade and target grade

  8. "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got." Henry Ford (1863-1947), American founder of the Ford Motor Company • With losses of 730million DM, in 1991, Lufthansa Airlines was on the brink of collapse. Only 8 years later, In 1999, Jurgen Weber, Lufthansa's CEO reported record results in the whole of the airline's 70 year history. • In the space of 8 years, the company moved from disaster to a pre-tax profit of 2.5 billion DM - a feat many would have believed unachievable. The Lufthansa experience has become a famous case study conducted by entities such as the London Business School.

  9. Student Task Tonight, not tomorrow, students write down between 1 and 3 things that they are going to change in order to give themselves the best chance to achieve their potential at the end of Year 11.

  10. Suggestions • Stay for prep every night from 6pm to 7.30pm • Sit away from friends in all lessons • Spend at least 90 minutes per night on prep. • Make revision notes as an on going process • Write down things you don’t understand and ask subject teacher to explain it (privately) • Go to www.ucas.com once per week for 30 mins.

  11. Suggestions for Parents • Give lots of feedback – rewards & sanctions • Check exercise books • Check marking • Test students • Equip students well • No holidays Easter 2014 or May half term 2014 • Discuss the future regularly; UCAS etc

  12. Thanks for listening

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