Welcome to Year 10 Parents’ Evening

Please take a seat. The presentation will begin shortly.

Presentation timings – 5.45pm, 6.30pm, 7.15pm

Topics

• GCSE Performance & Target Grades• AS/A level Performance & Target Grades• Progress report analysis• Key Stage 4 Study habits

- Students - Parents

Students’ GCSE Target Grades

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3b 3a 4c 4b 4a 5c 5b 5a

Student X - Average Key Stage 2 level

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B

C

D

50th percentile or “average”

performance

90th percentile or “outstanding” performance

I in 2 Gordon’s students ‘hit’ their target grades

in 2012

GCSE PointsA* = 8 pts; A = 7 pts; B = 6 pts; C = 5 pts; D = 4 pts

How A level students performed nationally in 2012 compared to their GCSE grades

2012 A level performance in the UK

What the top 25% of A level students achieved in 2012

Year 10 Progress Report Analysis - March 2013

• Average effort grade = 1.4• Total ‘gap’ between Target grade and Working grade = -7

Year 10 Progress Report AnalysisMarch 2013

Average Effort Grade Average Progress Gap*

Top 25% 1.3 or lower 6 to -4

Middle 50% Between 1.3 and 1.9 -5 to -11

Bottom 25% 1.9 or higher -12 to -21

* The total gap between the working grade and target grade

• "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got." Henry Ford (1863-1947), American founder of the Ford Motor Company

• With losses of 730million DM, in 1991, Lufthansa Airlines was on the brink of collapse. Only 8 years later, In 1999, Jurgen Weber, Lufthansa's CEO reported record results in the whole of the airline's 70 year history.

• In the space of 8 years, the company moved from disaster to a pre-tax profit of 2.5 billion DM - a feat many would have believed unachievable. The Lufthansa experience has become a famous case study conducted by entities such as the London Business School.

Student TaskTonight, not tomorrow, students write down between 1 and 3 things that they are going to change in order to give themselves the best

chance to achieve their potential at the end of Year 11.

Suggestions• Stay for prep every night from 6pm to 7.30pm• Sit away from friends in all lessons• Spend at least 90 minutes per night on prep.• Make revision notes as an on going process• Write down things you don’t understand and ask

subject teacher to explain it (privately)• Go to www.ucas.com once per week for 30 mins.

Suggestions for Parents• Give lots of feedback – rewards & sanctions• Check exercise books• Check marking• Test students• Equip students well• No holidays Easter 2014 or May half term 2014• Discuss the future regularly; UCAS etc

Thanks for listening