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

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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

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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