Y10 Information Evening

1st October 2015

We recognise it’s difficult…

• Video clip

• Loreto message

Support available

• Tutors/teachers• House Teams• Mrs Maxey

• Mr Rogers/ Ms Cox-Brown

What will work…

• Attendance & Punctuality• Uniform • Organisation• High expectations• Engagement• Acting as a role model• Grasping opportunity• Parental support

Attendance

• 100% excellent/outstanding• 96-99% good• 93-95% learning affected• 85-92% learning significant• 85% serious concern/potential legal

action

Planner

Homework

• Key to success• At least 1 ½ hours per day• What if none has been set?

– KOL– SAM Learning– GCSE Bitesize

Independent work timetable

Examples of independent study

• Writing notes• Reading aloud• Recording onto

MP3 etc• Revision partners• Testing yourself• Designing tests• Creating lists• Creating mind

maps/brainstorms

• Summarising topics• Creating pass

notes/prompt cards• Mnemonics and

other word play• Post it notes to stick

around the house• Giant posters in

your bedroom

Extra curricular activities

• Break from work• Stress relief• Rounded individual…

...But let’s both keep our eye on this.

How can parents help?

• Help them get prepared• Discuss learning and feedback• Discuss homework• Reflect on progress

Home -SchoolCommunication

There are various ways that communication between home and school can take place• Email eg t.rogers@...• Website www.kingwsay.stockport.sch.uk

Which includes links to Twitter• Our Parent Portal where details about your

son/daughter can be accessed. Access can be requested via the school website

• Any issues please contact House Teams in the first instance

Maintaining Standards at Kingsway

• Uniform policy on page 7/8 of organiser

• Mobile Phones• Contacting your child 0161 428 7706• Planner

How do we monitor progress?

• Controlled assessments

• Past papers

• Class work

• Homework

• Professional experience

• Attitude to Learning

All used to inform the projected grade

Target grades

• 9-1 English & Maths• A*-G all other GCSEs

Reporting progress

RewardsGood homeworkOutstanding homework

+2+4  

Reward point Good Learning/LessonOutstanding Learning/LessonSignificant improvementExcellent teamworkCompleted extended and challenging activityExtra curriculum activityPositive Contribution To School Outstanding Contribution To School100% punctuality per term100% attendance per term97% and above attendance per term100% uniform per term 

 

+1+2+4+3+2+1+1+2+4+10+10+5+10  

Key Dates for Y10

October

16th – Y10 English Aspire Day

November

10th – Y10 Drama Theatre Trip

23rd – 2nd December Y10 Autumn Monitoring Window

26th & 27th Y10 Artist in Residence

December

11th Y10 Autumn Data released

Key DatesJanuary

8th Review Day

25th Core Science ISA Intervention

February

1st Y10 Food practical exam

22nd – 2nd March Spring monitoring window

March

3th -4th Y10/11 PE High Adventure Trip

11th March Y10 Monitoring data released

17th Y10 Parents’ Evening

29th Y10 Mock interviews

Final word…

“I wish I’d started working hard earlier in Y11”

English

Language Paper 1: Explorations in creative reading and writing

Exam information

Summary: Section A: Students will be given one

literature fiction text to analyse from 20th or 21st Century. Students will spend 15 minutes reading this and answer 4 questions based on this extract. Students will have 45 minutes to complete section A

Section B: Students will complete descriptive/narrative writing for 45 minutes.

1 hour 45 minutes long 50% of GCSE in English Language

Question breakdown: Q1 – comprehension/inference (4 marks) Q2 – language analysis (8 marks) Q3 – structure analysis (8 marks) Q4 – critical evaluation (20 marks) Q5 – descriptive/narrative writing (40 marks)

Assessment of skills breakdown: Q1 – A01: Identify and interpret information from

a text Q2 – A02: Explain, comment and analyse on

how writers use language for effect Q3 AO2: Explain, comment and analyse on how

writers use structure for effect Q4: A04: Evaluate texts critically Q5: AO5&6: Communicate clearly, effectively

and imaginatively using structural and grammatical features. Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structure with accurate spelling and punctuation.

Language Paper 2: Writer’s viewpoints and perspectives

Exam information

Summary:Students will receive and read two sources.Section A: Students will use the two sources to answer 4 questions.Section B: Students will complete persuasive/viewpoint writing

1 hour 45 minutes long 

Question breakdown: Q1 – comprehension/inference (4 marks) Q2 –

comprehension/inference/comparative (8 marks)

Q3 – language analysis (12 marks) Q4 – comparative response (16 marks) Q5 – persuasive/viewpoint writing (40

marks)

Assessment of skills breakdown: Q1 – A01: Identify and interpret information

from a text Q2 – A01: Identify and interpret information

from a text Q3 AO2: Explain, comment and analyse on

how writers use language for effect Q4: A03: Compare writer’s ideas and

perspectives Q5: AO5&6: Communicate clearly, effectively

and imaginatively using structural and grammatical features. Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structure with accurate spelling and punctuation.

Literature Paper 1: Shakespeare and the 19th Century Novel

Exam information

Summary: Section A: Students will answer a

question on Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ looking at an identified extract and then the play as a whole.

Section B: Students will answer a question on Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ looking at an identified extract and then the novel as a whole.

1 hour 45 minutes long

Question breakdown: Section A: Part a) Answer a question on

the extract provided. Part b) Answer the question looking at the rest of the play.

Section B: Part a) Answer a question on the extract provided. Part b) Answer the question looking at the rest of the novel

Assessment of skills breakdown: A01: Maintain a critical style using textual

references to illustrate interpretations A02: Analyse language, form and structure

used by the writer AO3: Show understanding of influence of

the context in which a text is written A04: Use a range of vocabulary and

sentence structures. Accuracy with spelling and grammar

Literature Paper 2: Modern texts and poetry Exam information

Summary: Section A: Students will answer one

question from Section A on Dennis Kelly’s ‘DNA’ text as modern prose

Section B: Students will answer one question from Section B on Conflict poetry.

Section C: Students will answer both questions from section C on unseen poetry

2 hours 15 minutes long

Question breakdown: Section A: One question exploring a theme

of idea in the novel (30 marks) Section B: One question comparing two

poems from conflict cluster studies (30 marks)

Section C: Two questions on two unseen poems (24 marks) (8 marks)

Assessment of skills breakdown: A01: Maintain a critical style using textual

references to illustrate interpretations A02: Analyse language, form and structure used

by the writer AO3: Show understanding of influence of the

context in which a text is written A04: Use a range of vocabulary and sentence

structures. Accuracy with spelling and grammar

Useful books/resources How to access them

Text books/Revision guides available for exam papers and specific texts

Aqa.org.uk/approved-textbooks

General reading available alongside studied texts

AQA English E-Library at English-GCSE@awa.org.ukKOL – English website for reading lists

MathsMathsWatch https://www.mathswatchvle.com/

online homeworks via both http://www.mymaths.co.uk/ and www.pearsonactivelearn.com

The Year 10 students will have personal logins for all three websites very shortly.

Homework is set approximately 3 times per week and one piece per fortnight will be an teacher assessed piece of work. The students will be informed when this piece is set.

History

History GCSE

Paper One

Interwar Years 1919-1939

Depth Study –Land of Freedom 1945-

1975

Paper Two British Society 1890-1918

Controlled assessment Germany

1918-1945

Reminder about the Structure of your GCSE...

Paper One- Spring /summerYr 10

• The Interwar Years 1919-1939

Key Question 1: Were the Peace Treaties of 1919-23 fair?

Key Question 2: To what extent was the League of Nations a Success?

Key Question 3: Why had international peace collapse by 1939?

Paper One Part 2- year 11

Depth Study: The USA, 1945–1975: Land of Freedom?

Key Question 1: Why was there a ‘Red Scare’ in the USA?

Key Question 2: How successful was the struggle for civil rights in the 1950s?

Key Question 3: Who improved civil rights the most in the 1960s and 1970s?

Key Question 4: How far did other groups achieve civil rights in America?

Controlled assessment: 25% Yr 10 AND 11.

Depth study: Germany 1918-1945

Key Question 1: Was the Weimar Republic doomed by the start?

Key Question 2: Why was Hitler able to dominate Germany by 1933?

Key Question 3a:The Nazi Regime; How effectively did the Nazi’s control Germany 1933-1945?

Key Question 3b: The Nazi Regime; What was it like to live in Nazi Germany?

Your Paper One Exam is worth 45% of your GCSE.

Paper Two 30%

• How was British society changed, 1890 – 1918?

• Home front • Women’s rights.• Liberal Reforms.

RE

• Revision Guide and workbooks for GCSE Religious Studies.

• They are available from Mr Williams in B8 at a reduced cost of £5 for the set. If students are identified as PP a set has been purchased on their behalf which they can pick up from me.

MFL

• Controlled assessment slots for MFL:

Writing assessment 1 wc 18th April 2016 Speaking assessment 1 wc 6th June 2016

Each assessment accounts for 15% of the total GCSE grade.Students are preparing for the assessments in the Autumn and Spring term of Y10.They are required to learn large quantities of language for the assessments and therefore need to start their learning as soon as they have prepared answers in class.This is an ongoing process which requires a great deal of independent study.

GCSE Health & Social Care Assessment

• Pupils are completing 60% of their GCSE assessment in YEAR 10. This is based on the study of a person’s health and the services they use to help them.

• Pupils should have already identified an individual person to use as a case study for their controlled assessment. Their name/identity is to be kept confidential and not shared with anyone at school including their teacher. This person should either have an illness/disease, disability, be in later adulthood needing support or pregnant and due over the next few months.

• The person should also use at least four health or social care services.

They will have a significant number of research homeworks that will include interviewing this person. This homework is VITAL to the success of their work. Pupils will be carrying out the first interview with their chosen individual in the next few weeks.

GCSE Food & Nutrition – 20% GCSE

• Pupils will complete 20% of final grade in Y10 and therefore must make sure all research homeworks are completed.

• Start to practise dishes at home that contain fruit and vegetables.

• Parents/carers must contact the school well in advance if there is an issue with providing ingredients so we can support your child. Pupils who turn up without ingredients on the day cannot be catered for and will therefore make little progress.

GCSE WJEC Catering- 20% • Pupils are about to begin their 15 hour assessment

worth 20% of their final GCSE Grade.• Pupils have been emailed an Afternoon tea

research project for this assessment they must complete this over the next two weeks.

• At home they must practise making different baked dishes for their practical examination. Photograph these and send them in.

• Parents/carers must contact the school well in advance if there is an issue with providing ingredients so we can support your child. Pupils who turn up without ingredients on the day cannot be catered for and will therefore make little progress.

GCSE Fashion and Interior design

During year 10 Pupils will begin their controlled assessment (60% of final grade) where they will design and make a fabric item. If parents/carers need support with this they must contact school as we will be happy to help.

In preparation for this pupils should be practising the sewing techniques learnt in class at home. They should identify an item they could make for fun and practise at home on a weekly basis.

They must ensure all research homeworks are completed as these will be used for future lessons.