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Welcome Year 10: The Year Ahead and Meet the Tutor

Welcome Year 10: The Year Ahead and Meet the Tutor. 19 th September 2018 5-6pm. Ms Borde. Year 10 Leader. Year 10 Team. Year 10 Vision. To continue to be the greatest by being proud , persevering, principled & prepared. The Year Ahead. Year Group Day: Thurs 5 th Sept 2019

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Welcome Year 10: The Year Ahead and Meet the Tutor

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  1. WelcomeYear 10: The Year Ahead and Meet the Tutor 19th September 2018 5-6pm

  2. Ms Borde Year 10 Leader

  3. Year 10 Team

  4. Year 10 Vision To continue to be the greatest by being proud, persevering, principled & prepared.

  5. The Year Ahead • Year Group Day: Thurs 5th Sept 2019 • Year Ahead Evening: Thurs 19th Sept 2019 • Transition Exams Fortnight: 7th Oct – 18th Oct 2019 • Year 10 Class Assessments: 27th Jan – 7th Feb 2020 • Year 10 Parents Evening: Thurs 5th Mar 2020 • Year 10 PPE Exams: 27th April – 7th May 2020

  6. Ms Reeves Assistant Headteacher

  7. Student Welfare • The school has a large team of staff supporting your child to ensure they stay safe and healthy: • Individual Tutors – supporting each student on a daily basis • Year Leaders and Assistant Year Leaders – overview of student well being. • Pastoral Support Worker – attached to each Year group for day to day support and mentoring. • Attendance Officer – ensure students attend school each day and are safe. • Counsellors – used to support students with a range of issues and concerns. • External agencies - and group provision to support individual and group needs. • Please contact your child’s Year Leader if your child requires support.

  8. What are some of the risks and concerns facing teenagers? • Road safety: travelling to and from school • Social media: child sexual exploitation and threats • Bullying: face to face and online • Substance misuse: alcohol and drugs • Stranger danger • Anti social behaviour and knife crime • Mental health concerns • Running into gangs or gang involvement At Elthorne Park High school, we run a well developed PSHCE curriculum providing an opportunity for your child to discuss these risks and what to do to keep themselves safe.

  9. Immediate Risk and Harm to Students What to do if an argument or conflict develops? Our advice to students: • De-escalate the situation …… • Stay calm and do not react or respond • Walk away from the situation • Inform and adult - your parents, a teacher or any adult • If there is immediate threat, call 999 and ask for the emergency services

  10. Mr S Ward Deputy Headteacher

  11. A Parent’s Guide to Show My Homework

  12. How Show My Homework can help you • Receive clear instructions and support materials for each homework task • Support your child to organise his/her time in order to meet homework deadlines • See when homework has been submitted

  13. Homework Description Here is a task’s title and description, issue and due dates and how it should be submitted.

  14. The Homework Calendar Homework appears as a block, stretching from the issue date to the due date.

  15. Frequency of homework

  16. The Gradebook The Gradebook helps you keep track of the submission status of homework and grades, if applicable.

  17. Downloading the App • Please all get your mobile devices out and download the Show My Homework App. • Open the app and type in your school’s name. • Type in your email/username and password. • You will be taken to your child’s To-do List • You can start using Show My Homework on the go

  18. Get Notified In Settings, you can manage notifications

  19. More Than One Child? More than one child at the school? Don’t worry they’ll appear on the same page.

  20. Mr R Ward Head of English

  21. English Language & English Literature GCSE: the headlines • All students are entered for two GCSEs: English Language and English Literature. • Qualifications award Grades 1-9 and are not separated into Higher and Foundation tiers. • Both qualifications are linear: all examinations will be taken at the end of the course in Year 11. • Both qualifications are 100% exam; there is no coursework or controlled assessment element. • All exams are ‘closed book’ and therefore require students to have a highly developed familiarity with examined texts. Students should memorise a wide range of quotations.

  22. How will your child’s English teacher support your child in Year 10? • Regular assessment: 45 minute ‘Checking Point’ exams conducted in lessons on a monthly basis and assessed using GCSE mark schemes. • Timely guidance about how to best prepare revision materials to support exam preparation. • Examination texts to support home learning. Each student in provided with a copy of Macbeth, A Christmas Carol and the GCSE Poetry anthology to annotate as a study tool.

  23. English Language GCSE

  24. English Literature GCSE

  25. How will your child’s English teacher support your child in Year 10? • Regular assessment: 45 minute ‘Checking Point’ exams conducted in lessons on a monthly basis and assessed using GCSE mark schemes. • Timely guidance about how to best prepare revision materials to support exam preparation. • Examination texts to support home learning. Each student in provided with a copy of Macbeth, A Christmas Carol and the GCSE Poetry anthology to annotate as a study tool.

  26. English Language – Top Tip for Home Learning 25% of this qualification assesses students’ abilities to interpret and analyse non-fiction. The unseen extracts used for this exam are taken in part from contemporary journalism. Read non-fiction (either online or paper) taken from quality broadsheet newspapers and identify: • Author’s viewpoint • Purpose of the text • Techniques deployed to achieve their purpose

  27. Mr Heffernan Head of Science

  28. GCSE Science • Help us instil belief in our students so they can reach their potential. • We will be expecting students to demonstrate a responsible and proactive approach to their learning by accessing all the available interventions inside and outside of the classroom. • Encouragethem to build on what they have already achieved, and access help to progress when necessary

  29. GCSE Science • Please discuss with your child what their strengths and weaknesses are using your child’s • progress tests • national practice examination papers (PPE’S) • performance on SENECA and ACTIVE LEARN • Six mark question homeworks • Notebooks – do they understand the scientific vocabulary? Use your discussions to make a list of areas they need to improve. They should then seek help from their teachers

  30. Year 10 Ahead Booklet

  31. Ms Ahmad Joint Head of Maths

  32. GCSE Edexcel Mathematics • Two tiers: • Higher grades 9-4 • Foundation grades 5-1 • Three 1½ hour exams: • One non-calculator paper • Two calculator papers Please make sure your child has a calculator every day.

  33. Key dates for Maths PPEs • Y10 Summer Term: Full set of 3 papers • Y11 Autumn Term: Full set of 3 papers • Y11 Spring Term: Full set of 3 papers Decisions on set and tier changes will be made after both assessment points.

  34. How best to help your child revise maths • They should have revision sheets from each unit of work that they have been building up since year 9. Please check that they have all of this organised in a revision folder. • We sell Target Grade books (at Grades 3,5 7 and 9) £3 each • They will receive a Higher or Foundation Revision Workbook at the beginning of Year 11(£2 for replacement)

  35. Maths ROSE

  36. PPEs Student Analysis

  37. How best to help your child revise maths • MyMaths – teaching tool • Username: Elthorne • Password: Octagon • MathsWatch – revision tool • Username: 3 - 6 numbers @ephs • Password: p@ssword (unless they have changed it) • Kerboodle website – text book • Username: first initial and surname • Password: their own • Institution code: bg2

  38. Meet The Tutor Meet the tutor will take place in the following rooms:

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