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Faculty of Communications and Enterprise
Agenda:
1 Intervention & Behaviour Monitoring2 Learning values and
skills3 T&L and CPD4 Exams analysis and QLA5 Year 9 Options
& 6th form6 Homework7 Competitions
AOB
Minutes:
Competitions
Faculty competitions: Business and ICT to combine on running a
competition possible focus to design a marketing campaign for a
business outsidejudge for competition TBA. Is this worth looking
for an external partner fromlocal community?
Intervention and Behaviour Monitoring
Intervention completed and point made that behaviour monitoring
sheetsreplicate some of the process of intervention is this a good
use of time or isit making work for the sake of it?
Weekly behaviour analysis being used to inform on-going
intervention but notanalytically to spot trends
Exams analysis
Exams analysis completed and ICT already doing QLA though not
formalised.
FL produces an overview for students of the strength and
weaknesses inexams as a standard part of the ICT intervention. CL
noted that BusinessGCSE is multiple choice making a QLA relatively
easy to complete. Bothaiming to complete these on this years mocks
to continue the good practicealready underway.
Point made that this kind of intervention is not always
formalised when butalways obvious from the marking and discussed in
departments beforefeeding back to students.
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Learning skills and Values
Not embedded in displays at present but all departments are keen
for this tohappen HL to send Values display panels to Anna for
lamination for whole of
faculty.
Skills being used in most subjects because of the nature of
those subjectsand the fact that those skills are embedded into the
specs. Language istherefore also being used in class (MI observed
MO this week) but thereperhaps room to remind students of it
through display and SoW.
CPD
Not all of faculty have completed online CPD and this needs to
be done ASAPand then signed off.
SUBJECT REVIEWS
ICT underway will be copied to HL
Year 9 options and 6th
form
Departments not in the loop for options choices planning
departments missCMT and the dissemination of information through
that forum. HL I thinkthere is an argument to have CMT once a term
while formalising Facultymeets to discuss points raised in CMT and
developments from.
ICT request to be in A&B if BTEC in B&C so that BTEC
students can alsochoose ICT this could improve numbers.Business is
happy to run BTEC option from year 10 for suitable students aswell
as GCSE.
6th form Evening point made that 20 subjects each presenting for
2-3minutes with possible overruns will mean an hour+ of chat and
slides forparents and students not necessarily the best use of the
evening. It wassuggested that Faculty Head and Core should present
on behalf keepingthis shorter and also raising the profile of the
faculties as entities. Not to
diminish the importance of subjects but to better communicate to
the parentsand prospective students. HL to discuss with HU and
email DL regardingaction for next weeks open evening.
Choices at 6th raised discussion about MY: why Physics is not
offered, howEngineering could be a good choice for some of our
students but we are notable to offer at present. CL Engineering and
German go well together andprovide good skills for employment. CL A
level Business is asked for. FL some students say that ICT is a
soft A level computer science discussed
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but also identified as very difficult and needs involvement from
Maths. HL could we nurture in KS3 through extra curricula and
collaboration with Maths.CL 6
thform need better promotion to help retention.
MY - Econ didnt get to present today to year 11 in Theatre
because othersubjects overran.
Homework
All departments setting HW regularly Economics keeps a homework
book.ICT have regular homeworks as part of SoW. Business GCSE have
revisionbased homeworks tested each week. Media has homework both
formativelyand summative assessed.
HL - Maybe check in departments any connections between
behaviourincidents and HW.
HL
