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YEAR 11 INFORMATION
EVENINGSeptember 29th 2016
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A very warm welcome
◦ A new and exciting year.
◦ Working together as a community.
◦ High levels of support coupled with high expectations.
◦ Communication is the key!
◦ Every individual matters!
◦ We want to be the best by working together.
◦ Self-belief whatever your background and what ever hurdles you
face.
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What are my expectations?
◦ Collective vision.
◦ Recognition, expectation, accountability, honesty.
◦ We support each other.
◦ We are honest with each other.
◦ We want to test each other to get better without the need to judge unfairly.
◦ Professional, robust, confident, collective determination.
◦ Gaining strength from each other to deal with problems head on, to celebrate success genuinely and to be the best.
◦ Clarity of purpose. Eg Staff better informed about the reasoning behind decisions. Staff feel part of decision making.
◦ Togetherness.
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What are my expectations?
◦ The students:
◦ They are by far our best asset! We need to celebrate them more and
get them more involved. They have the best ideas!
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GCSE/BTEC Results
Attainment
5+ A*-C (Inc Eng&Maths): 2016: 56%
◦ 2015: 46%
◦ 2014: 41%
◦ 2013: 55%
◦ 2012: 55%
◦ 2011: 49%
◦ 2010: 46%
◦ 2009: 35%
◦ 2008: 38%
◦ 2007: 38%
◦ 2006: 35%
◦ 2005: 39%
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GCSE/BTEC Results
Attainment
◦ English and Maths A*-C: 62% (Valley Park: 58%).
Progress
◦ Progress 8: 0.22.
Context:
These schools ‘opted in’ for P8 last year:
◦ OPGS: P8: 0.11 Ofsted rating: outstanding.
◦ Gravesend Grammar: P8: 0.16 Ofsted (2015) rating: outstanding.
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Year 11: The best approach
◦ Stay organised and set high standards. Be
proactive:
1. Speak to Mrs Mortley. Establish what you
want to do with your future.
2. Now you have a goal you can work hard to
achieve it!
3. Treat everything as an opportunity. Eg
mocks, coursework, controlled assessment
after school sessions, one to one sessions
with staff.
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What we will do to help you
◦ Period 6
◦ Intervention form groups
◦ Holiday lessons: amazing record breaking attendance
◦ Listening to how to really answer exam questions
◦ Walking, talking mocks
◦ Monthly Mocks-revision
◦ Extra lessons during the day
◦ Revision organised way in advance
◦ Zero tolerance
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You need to be on board!!
◦We are not interested in last year.
◦ If you were in trouble all the time or lazy
last year, we are only interested in
supporting you this year.
◦You have an advantage over last
year’s group:
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◦The support started earlier than last
year eg intervention groups, more
formal Y10 mock etc.
◦You have shown you can achieve
higher grades.
◦We are even more determined!!
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ExpectationsAspirational Targets
Key Stage 2 Level Minimum GCSE/BTEC Target
3 C, Pass, 4/5
4 B, Merit, 5/6
5 A, Distinction, 7/8/9
Minimum Targets
Key Stage 2 Level Minimum GCSE /BTEC Target
3 D/C, Pass, 3
4 C/B, Pass, 4/5
5 B/A, Merit, 5/6+
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GCSE ‘LETTER’
GRADES TO
‘NUMBER’ GRADES.
MATHS AND
ENGLISH ONLY.
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BTEC: Coursework. GCSE: Controlled Assessments
◦ Coursework/CAs can help boost grades. Make sure coursework is the
best it can possibly be!
◦ Keep asking your teacher how you can improve your coursework.
◦ Departments put on extra lessons for coursework/CA preparation. Find
out when these are.
◦ Make sure you are fully prepared for CAs:
◦ Take preparation sessions seriously as though they are the real thing!
◦ Be a perfectionist! Ask for detail on how you can make your coursework a
‘good’ target grade or higher!
◦ Check for CA dates and times.
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Exam Preparation.
◦ Mocks are really important. Treat them like the real thing. Mock
Dates: 22nd November-5th December.
◦ Learn from your mocks. Don’t just accept the grade and move
on. Find out what you need to do to get a higher grade.
◦ Exam preparation is about knowledge and technique: Practise
papers, learn about question style, find out how mark schemes
work.
◦ Mock Grades will be given out in envelopes like the real thing!
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Exam Preparation.
◦ Exams are getting more challenging.
◦ Despite this, the school’s results are fantastic so you can do it!
◦ But you will have to raise your game.
◦ Don’t be the student that got 179 points and needed 180 to get a
C in English! Grade Boundaries are rising. Assume you need the
next grade up.
◦ Students cannot drop courses in Year 11!!
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Organisation +Determination = Confidence
◦ Confidence comes when you feel in control.
◦ Get mum and dad to help.
◦ They can help with your organisation eg check your bag/folders
each week to make sure your filing is organised.
◦ Get them to help manage your homework.
◦ Get them to help when you don’t understand.
◦ Get them to contact the school if you are worried about work or
falling behind.
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Communication
◦ Never think you are pestering.
◦ Always make sure you have fully understood.
◦ Don’t let things fester.
◦ Parents: if you are suspicious your son/daughter is not working
hard enough you are probably right!
◦ Find time to sit down with your son/daughter and work with them.
Go through their work. Check they have completed work and
that it is accurate/correct.
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Internet
◦ There are a wealth of resources.
◦ Organise your revision timetable now!! Mocks are not far away.
◦ www.getrevising.co.uk
◦ Sometimes visual resources help.
◦ Lots of websites, revision guides and other useful information.
◦ Revision Guide available.
◦ Look in Department pages on school website.
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From a student’s perspective
◦ Work as hard at the start of the year as you work at the end so the
work load doesn’t build up.
◦ Build on your grades gradually.
◦ Get a revision timetable together at the start of revision.
◦ Take breaks every hour not every 10 minutes!
◦ Don’t be disheartened by lower grades-the only way is up!
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From a student’s perspective
◦ Feel rewarded by good grades.
◦ Take it one assessment grade at a time. Work for good
assessment grades.
◦ Look forward to parents evenings!
◦ Past papers, past papers, past papers!
◦ When you revise, turn off mobile phones, switch off facebook and
concentrate properly!
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Year 11 is over very quickly!
◦ Stage 1: Before Christmas
◦ Mocks
◦ If you leave it until January to focus, its almost too late!
◦ See Christmas Holidays as a chance to relax
◦ Stage 2: January to Easter
◦ Intensive preparation
◦ Take every chance to improve and stay organised. (Holiday revision
classes etc)
◦ Next grade up
◦ Stage 3: Easter to May ½ term
◦ Last chance re Exam technique
◦ Revision timetable
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Beyond Year 11◦ 6th Form Opportunities Evening is: November 8th.
◦ Be sensible about your choices. Get lots of advice.
◦ Our 6th Form is now hugely over subscribed. Last year’s results were record-
breaking: 100% pass rate! (A*-C: 70%)
◦ Maplesden students get first choice over externals but entrance
requirements are challenging.
◦ 6th Form: Be careful. Check course entrance requirements. You can use
these to motivate you to achieve the right grades at GCSE! Have a plan B
re subject choice.
◦ English/maths GCSE at grade 4 now a requirement for all Post-16 students.
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International Baccalaureate Careers Programme
◦ Employers involved in its construction.
◦ Recognised and valued by universities.
◦ Fantastic for students who want a pathway to employment.
◦ Ms Moody here to explain.
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You can do it!!
◦ Recent employers interview day:
◦ ‘This is the best group of students we have ever interviewed at your
school’
◦ ‘We would happily employ the majority of them on the spot!’
◦ Year 11 is an intense, exciting and ultimately rewarding year.
◦ Blood, sweat and tears are likely but we will be here for you to
support you all the way so:
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HAVE A
FANTASTIC
YEAR!