Welcome to

Year 10 2019-2020

TONIGHT

➢ Welcome from Mr Scoble

➢ Careers

➢ Calendar – the year ahead

➢ Core Subjects and changes to grading of

qualifications

➢ Resilience

➢ Elevate Education

Moments of significance:

3

Start with the Why

‘Do something you love’

Teaching Career: 25 years in grammars, 4 years in upper schools

I am in teaching to make a difference to young people’s lives

‘You’re bright; do something that doesn’t get your hands dirty’

Academic Excellence

4

My values

Holistic

Safe and Inclusive

5

‘My family’

6

My ‘Happy place’

1. Moral Compass

7

Expectations

2. Prepared to Learn

3. Respect

4. Engage

KEY PERSONNEL

Mrs RustHead of Year 10

Mrs Westcott Student Welfare Co-ordinator

Mrs Faulkner KS4 Pastoral Support Assistant

Laura Franklin Connexions Careers

Miss Brigden Assistant Head KS4 Link

NEW THINGS TO GET INVOLVED IN...

Sport clubs Other clubsHouse eventsMusic clubs

CAREERS

CAREERS

• Careers lunches/guest speakers

• Careers Google Classroom (access code is

displayed on notice board outside the IT

Office)

• L4L lesson with Laura Franklin with

follow up individual and group sessions

• Morrisby test

THE YEAR AHEAD

10 Oct Elevate Study Sensei 4pm

w/b 11 Nov Autumn Term Data Home

26 Nov Consultation Evening 5pm

4 Feb Elevate Memory Mnemonics 4pm

w/b 2 Mar Spring Term Data Home

w/b 4 May Y10 Summer Exam Week

w/b 15 Jun Y10 Reports and Exam Results and Summer Term Data Home

ACTIVITY DAYS

▪ International Day

▪ Wellbeing Day

STUDENT INFORMATION

EXAM INFORMATION

GCSE GRADING

GCSE grades A* to U no longer exist for the majority of subjects

NON EXAMINED ASSESSMENTS (NEAs)

▪ Different levels of control

▪ Spread out over the GCSE course – timetable of dates and subjects on the Yr 10 website page

GCSE MATHEMATICS

AQA GCSE MATHS

➢ GCSE with grades 9 to 1

➢ All exams in summer 2021

➢ Three 1 hour 30 minute papers

➢ One paper without a calculator

➢ All students entered for Higher Level

MATHS SETTING

• Students split into two bands (M & N) depending on

option choices

• Within each band split into 3 sets

• All sets do Higher GCSE (AQA 8300)

• Sets 1 and 2 also study Level 2 Certificate in Further

Mathematics

• All students who get a grade 7 or above can go on to

study A Level Mathematics at AHS

GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND

ENGLISH LITERATURE

CHANGES in ENGLISH

➢ Edexcel exam board➢ Assessment 9-1

➢ No Controlled Assessments

➢ Assessment by terminal exam at the end of Y11

➢ Closed book examination

➢ More emphasis on Literary Heritage

➢ Emphasis on wider reading

ENGLISH LANGUAGEComponent 1: Fiction and Imaginative Writing (40%)

Content• Study selections from a range of prose fiction• Develop skills to analyse and evaluate C19 fiction extracts• Develop imaginative writing skills to engage the reader• Use SPaG accurately

Component 2: Non-fiction and Transactional Writing (60%)

Content• Study a range of C20 and C21 non-fiction texts• Develop skills to analyse, evaluate and compare non-fiction extracts• Develop transactional writing skills for a variety of forms, purposes and

audiences• Use SPaG accurately

Overview• Develop skills to analyse how the language, form, structure and

context of texts can create meanings and effects• Develop skills to maintain a critical style and informed personal

response• Develop comparison skills

Component 1: Shakespeare and Post-1914 Literature (50%)• Macbeth and Lord of the Flies as set texts

Component 2: C19 Novel and Poetry since 1789 (50%)• Jekyll and Hyde and poetry from the Edexcel anthology

ENGLISH LITERATURE

GCSE SCIENCES

AQA SPECIFICATIONS

➢ 8461 Biology

➢ 8462 Chemistry

➢ 8463 Physics

TRIPLE AWARD

➢ All students

➢ Taught by subject specialists

➢ Three separate GCSEsBiology

Chemistry

Physics

STRUCTURE OF THE 3 COURSES

Biology Chemistry Physics

Paper 1

(Topics 1-4)

Paper 2

(Topics 5-7)

Paper 1

(Topics 1-5)

Paper 2

(Topics 6-10)

Paper 1(Topics 2, 4, 6 & 7)

Paper 2(Topics 1, 3, 5 & 8)

Cell biology; Organisation; Infection and response and Bioenergetics.

Homeostasis and response; Inheritance, variation and evolution and Ecology.

Atomic structure and the periodic table; Bonding, structure, and the properties ofmatter; Quantitative chemistry, Chemical changes and Energy changes.

The rate and extent of chemical change; Organic chemistry; Chemical analysis,Chemistry of the atmosphere and Using resources.

Energy; Electricity; Particle model of matter; Atomic structure.

Forces; Waves; Magnetism and electromagnetism; Space physics

Each science assessed by two written exams

Each exam worth 100 marks and constitutes 50% of the GCSE

Each paper covers a different range of topics and contains a mixture of multiple choice, structured, closed short answer and open questions

All exams taken at the end of Year 11, resulting in a grade from 9-1Foundation Tier (grades 5 to 1)

Higher Tier (grades 9 to 5)

PRACTICAL ENDORSEMENT

➢ Students must complete 7 or 8 Required Practicals in each separate Science

➢ Required Practicals take place in lessons as a standard part of the curriculum

➢ Pupils complete practical write-ups and AHS must satisfy AQA that pupils have completed each task

➢ Although not a graded unit, it is a pre-requisite for being awarded the GCSE

➢ Absences?

RESILIENCE

RESILIENCE

➢ Using your personal strengths and coping ability to adapt to challenges in life

Respect

Self-esteem Self-belief/Self-worth

Problem-solving Perspective

Confidence Open-mindedness

Independence Communication

What you can do to help

➢ At Home➢ Encourage a healthy balance of manageable chores, school work and play!

➢ Encourage a healthy and balanced diet

➢ Sleep is important

➢ Keep communications open about how they are feeling and why

➢ Mobile phones!

➢ At School➢ Encourage participation in co-curricular activities

➢ Promote positive school experiences: friendships and academic

➢ Encourage your daughter to discuss a range of strategies to tackle a situation to see what works best

ATTENDANCE

DON’T STRUGGLE ALONE!

➢ Tell us early

➢ Don’t let work pile up

➢ Try to be proactive, rather than reactive

➢ We can support you….

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