Year 10 New Curriculum Information Night

Tuesday 20 February 2018

Welcome

Chris Capra

Executive Principal

Welcome

Acknowledgement to Country

Alyce Cleary

A/ Principal – Senior School

Introduction to SATE

Senior School Team

Cathy ClipsonDean of Studies

Steve JonesSenior School Guidance

Officer

Alyce ClearyA/ Principal Senior School

Mitch KennedyA/ Deputy Principal Senior School

Mick McDougallHOD - Senior School

Amanda StewartYear Coordinator -

Year 10

Brad DixonDean of Students –

Year 10/11

Preparation for SATEBe assured that we are well underway with our preparations for the change, already we have:

• Adjusted all year 10 courses to reflect the new senior material

• Introduced one unseen exam per year 10 course that your students will sit this year.

• Sent more than 60 of our senior staff to professional development around the new syllabus.

• Engaged with a Southern Collegiate of schools to ensure we are supporting each other through the change.

Introduction to Changes to QLD Curriculum

Video

The new QCE

QCE

• SETP will be very important as there will be limited opportunities to change subjects ( Year 11 only)

• Under the new rules students cannot change subject in Year 12

• To enable time to prepare for exams students will commence Year 12 work in term 4 of Year 11

Subjects – new syllabuses and names• All subjects will have had new syllabuses developed

• OP subjects now called General subjects

• Non OP subjects now called Applied subjects

• All General Subjects will have 4 Internal assessments in Year 11 and 3 Internal and 1 external in Year 12

• All Applied Subjects will have 4 Internal assessments in both Year 11 and 12 ( no external exam)

• Students will typically undertake 6 subjects across 11 and 12

New names

• General Maths = Maths A

• Mathematical Methods = Maths B

• Specialist Maths = Maths C

• Essential English = English Communication

• Essential Maths = Prevocational Maths

Mick McDougall

HOD – Senior School

What does it mean for you?

External Assessment and ATAR

Senior Assessment

• Combine school- based and external assessment to derive final subject results.

• 4 assessments (3 school-based + 1 external) per subject.

• School-based assessment will generally contribute 75% to a student’s final subject result: 50% in Maths and Science

• QCAA will endorse and confirm school-based assessments and ratify subject results

• Students will receive a numerical and A to E final subject result ( A to E only for applied subjects)

Goodbye QCS

• External exams will be subject specific

• No general scaling exam but inter subject scaling

• No QCS exam

• Cohort performance will not affect individual students

ATAR

• 99.95 and decrease in increments of 0.05

• Students must pass English however it doesn’t

need to count towards ATAR

• Calculated from best 5 General subjects or

best 4 General subjects plus an applied

subject or Cert III, Cert IV or Diploma

• Year 12 students will not get an ATAR from just doing a Cert III, Cert IV or Diploma course

• Articulation agreements still in place with Griff & SCU

ATAR- University Pathway

• Approximate conversion of OP 1-5 is ATAR 91 or above.

• OP1-15 is ATAR 65 or above

• QTAC will provide Year 10 guidelines and University prerequisites later this year before SETP ( Year 10 booklet)

Resources – QCAA and QTAC websites

Video

•https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/multimedia/snr_syllabus_subject_result.mp4

•https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/senior/snr_new_assess_syllabus_to_subject.pdf

FAQ

•https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/senior/snr_new_assess_qce_faq_student_families.pdf

Resources – QCAA and QTAC websites

Presentation

•https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/senior/snr_new_assess_syllabus_to_subject.pdf

Comparison of 2 systems

•https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/senior/snr_new_assess_te_school_comparison.pdf

Mitch Kennedy

Deputy Principal – Senior School

What does your student need to do

right now?

Currently…

• Year 10 students are 4 weeks away from their first Senior Exam Shutdown period

• Renewed focus on ‘application’ to the learning environment

• Working towards the highly important Semester 1 Report – which will impact their pathway in 2019 and beyond

Pathways for Senior Schooling

Personalised Pathway ATAR Pathway

Which students?

All students eligible Only students achieving a B or above in English and Maths at the end of Semester

1 Year 10 eligible

Which Subjects?

All students must take 6 subjects

Up to 3 general subjects +Atleast 1 certificate +

Applied subjects

5 general subjects or

4 general subjects + a certificate

What is the end outcome?

Students will have pathways into the workforce, further training, and those

who do a certificate 3 or higher will still have pathways to university.

Students will get a rank out of 99.95 for admission to university.

Required Results

2019 Subject Selection 2018 Required Results-End of Semester 1

General Maths (Maths A) C5 in Maths

Mathematical Methods/SpecialistMaths (Maths B/C)

B10 in Maths

General English C5 in English

Physics/Chemistry/Biology B5 in Science

Securing an ATAR Pathway

• Year 10 students need to be exhibiting study behaviours and application this year to meet the required academic standards

• With reduced opportunities to change subjects and tightened pre-requisites, Senior Study Programs have never been more important

Preparation & Support

Preparation & Support

Next Steps – Set Plan Information Night

Cathy Clipson

Dean of Studies

21st Century Learning Skills

Study Skills

Consider this……

• Supposing 3 people were frozen and 2 of them died. How many people were left?

• (Answer will be at the end)

What can you do as a parent to support your child to study more effectively?

1. BYOD

2. Students will need help to:

• Study• Get organised• Manage time and stress• Revise and achieve their very best

in both internal and external assessments

Revising and remembering

Love1914

𝑎2 + 𝑏2 = 𝑐2

Remembering facts

1. Let’s look at the list….Pythagoras’ theorem, a butterfly, a thong, a kangaroo, the word ‘love’ and the year 1895 (the first time Waltzing Matilda was sung in public in Winton)...

2. Choose your first object, and use your imagination to create a memorable image for this in your mind. An equation alone is no good. Imagine the triangle with the sides labelled.

3. Now link this first item to the next. In this case it’s the butterfly. Perhaps a huge, blue, fluttering butterfly had flown into a giant triangle and along the hypotenuse and you were calculating how far it had flown.

Remembering facts

1. Now link the thong to the roo. And make it memorable. So the roo could be wearing thongs which made it flip flop off into the bush.

2. Continue linking each item to the next in a story. Just make sure that each link is really visual, unusual and memorable. Go wild – make it funny, surreal, even rude (ssh). Whatever works for you.

3. Rehearse the whole story in your mind a couple of times. You should now able to remember the list in order and maybe even backwards too! http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/brainsmart/memory/rememberinglists.shtml

Kahoot

https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/b44adf0e-bac6-4e9a-a4e6-041c35b078ce

We will see you again soon

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