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Year 12 Parents’ Information Evening
Welcome
Please take a seat
The presentation will start shortly
• New staff– Philip Berry, Head of English
– Paul Schofield, Head of Geography
– Connie Bennett, Head of Psychology
– Megan Cottam, Head of French
– Sarah Blaine, Deputy Director of Music
– Charlotte Barrett, teacher of chemistry
– Harry Drummond, teacher of English
– Billy Keates, teacher of geography
• Welcome back– Emily King, part-time PE
– Fiona Lewis, returns as Head of RS
– Susannah Hughes, part-time English
– Tracey MacLean, returns as Head of Technology
Summer Works1. New website2. Chapel roof + several others3. Band Room refurbished (with clock)4. Two China classrooms 5. Science, new wireless ICT classroom6. Gravesend prep room refurbished (new RS base)7. Plasma screens: Gravesend, Training Room,
Kensington classrooms, Business Studies, Balmoral Prep, Chapel House and new China classrooms.
8. Dining Hall refurbished (plus new service and menu)9. Sports Pavilion (on track for autumn half-term break)
Plus 3 new GCSEs – photography, ICT and Computing
Dining Hall
Sports Pavilion
2012/13 Results
38
47
42 43 42
87
9189
93
86
91
96
90
97 97
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2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
% G
rade
s A
* - C
% A*-A 5+A*-C (inc. EM) 5+A*-C
GCSE Results
A level Results
Subject 1 Subject 2 Subject 3 Subject 4 Subject 5
Student 1 A* A* A
Student 2 A* A* A
Student 3 A* A A A A
Student 4 A* A A
Student 5 A* A A B
Student 6 A* A A
Student 7 A* A B
Student 8 A* A B B
Student 9 A* A B B
Student 10 A A A
Student 11 A A A
Student 12 A A A
Student 13 A A B
Student 14 A A B
Student 15 A A B
Student 16 A A B
Student 17 A A B
Student 18 A A B
¼ of entriesachieved at least AAB
A level - Value Added
Over the last 3 years student progress (the distance
students have ‘travelled’) has been equivalent to the top
10% nationally.
Tonight’s Aims
For you to leave with a better understanding of:
• 2012/13 results• Key Stage 5 Ethos• Target Grades• Student Support, Care & Guidance• Assessment, Recording & Reporting (ARR)
The Key Stage 5 Ethos
Achievement
Work Ethic
Securing the future
Balance
School
Student Home
Helping students’ realise their
potential Learning
Student Support, Care & Guidance
What level am I
working at?
How do I know?
What are my next steps?
The fundamental learning process at Gordon’s
Assessment events
Clear, specific targets related to students’ work
School
‘Position’ Statement
AS level Target Grades
School
Year 12 Target Grades
AS Level
Grades
Average GCSE Grades
D C B A*A
A
B
C
D
Represents ‘average’ student
performance
Represents top 10% student performance
School
AS Results 2012
School
Student GCSE Pts AS Target Grades AS Grades
1 5.4 B/C BBBD
2 5.7 B/C DEUU
3 7.2 A/B AAAB
4 7.3 A/B ABCD
GCSE Pts
A* = 8, A = 7, B = 6, C = 5
1
1
2.3
2
Average Effort Grade
Effort Grades 1 - 4
• High quality teaching and learning
- Lesson observations, student voice, data analysis• Regular ‘next steps’ advice in lessons
- Tri weekly feedback & half termly ‘Key Assessments’• Department reviews
- Triennial • Work sampling
- Students’ books/ folders audited
School
• Prep
- Weekly ‘mini audits’.
- Prep Timetable ‘on trial’ for 1 week
School
School
• Assessment, Recording & Reporting (ARR)
- Statute• Gordon’s ARR Philosophy
- Little & Often
- Conversation is better than written dialogue
- Teacher’s judgement is valued
School
• ARR Working Party
- Met three times in summer term
- Comprised of teachers & parents
- Lots of discussion about many aspects of the
Curriculum
- Main outcomes of ARR working party
- Modified effort grade criteria
- More context to KS3 NC levels
School
• Effort Grades 2013 – 14
1 = Outstanding
2 = Very Good
3 = Good but occasionally inconsistent
4 = Cause for concern
5 = Unacceptable
School
School
Each half term there is a progress report sent home including:•Target Grade•Working Grade•Effort Grade•Next Steps advice*
ReportingReporting
Target
Grade
A statistically generated AS grade that is personal to each student and subject.
Working
Grade
The AS grade that a student is currently working at.
Effort Grade
The grade that reflects how hard a student is working. It is not a reflection of academic ability or performance.
• Curriculum
- New school day this year
- More teaching time in almost all subjects
- 5 lessons per subject per week
- Less duties for teachers• Examinations
- Linear (taken at the end of Year 12)
- Includes Controlled Assessments through KS5
School
• There is no ‘magic dust’ at Gordon’s
• Those students who achieve great grades:
- work very hard
- have 100% attendance
- do the ‘simple things well’
- prioritise their studies & make sacrifices
- see Sixth Form as their ‘full time job’
- spend the right amount of time on prep.
- are resilient
Student
Home
• Think of Year 12 as ‘Year 11 who have had a 10 week holiday’
• Check books/ folders for quality of work/marking & organisation
• Regularly discuss school and specific subjects.
• Ensure students prioritise prep & get into good study habits
• Reward/ sanction consistently and regularly (accountability)
• Think ahead to career aspirations including University and/ or employment. www.ucas.co.uk
Miss Connery
Head of Sixth Form & Assistant Headteacher