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Year 11 Parents Engagement Evening

Wednesday 21st March 2018 6:00pm-7:30pm

What do you need to know?

 How we are supporting your child?  Useful Links  The new GCSEs  How to keep the motivation up  Support with revision in core subjects  What to do if your child is absent for an exam

What are HFUTC doing to support my child?

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Ensure the mental and physical wellbeing of our students

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Lessons

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Arrange intervention and support/catch up lessons

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Monitor attendance and punctuality

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Work closely with teachers to support behaviour

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Additional lessons

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Tutor time support

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Email/contact

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Pastoral support

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Resources bought in (online)

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Study revision guides

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Practice papers

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Study periods

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Holiday school

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Study skills sessions (revision timetable planning)

What are HFUTC doing to support my child?

 www.connect.collins.co.uk This is an online resource that has been bought by the School to support your child’s progress. They have their own login and are able to access the information on the go as well as in formal revision times.  www.gcsepod.com

GCSEpod is a new addition to the many revision tools available to the students. On this site, students can find a great number of podcasts which they can download to their phone, tablet or computer and watch/listen to them in their spare time (such as riding on the bus or train!).

 www.samlearning.com

If you have any problems using this resource, maybe a trip to see Mrs Perry will help!

During Tutorial?

During form time last week:

 Progress graphs  Progress targets set  Revision timetables being created  Exam tips being shared!

Q u a n t i t y Q u a l i t y Read-Cover-Recall-Check Read the information you want to remember. Cover it up, write out what you remember. Check to see how much you forgot. Use it to test yourself on; Spellings, Lists, A sequence of simple events Flashcards For key information and facts. You can carry them around with you and test yourself anywhere. Use it to remind and test yourself on; Spellings Lists, A sequence of simple events Online quizzes or revision guide exam questions Answer the questions, note down your score, revise the topic some more, have another go at the questions later. Did you improve? Use it to test yourself on; Simple scientific facts and processes Make a card sort Make a set of cards that you can cut out, mix up and match. Use them; When you need to remember pieces of information that go together. Key word cards Include definitions on the back. You can test yourself on the definitions, sort them into scientifically relevant categories, put them into a sequence. Describe or explain a process/scenario to someone who does not know it or a classmate. They can ask questions to fill in any gaps you missed and if they are also revising it may help them understand the work better. Use it when; Explaining a series of events or a process that has some detail Graphic organisers Decide if you are describing, analysing parts, comparing, analysing cause and effect, predicting or evaluating and display your arguments in a graphic organiser. Use it to; look at topics in more detail. Mind maps Start with a central theme and organise the information from it, grouped into subtopics. Label the branches with the relationships. To summarise a whole topic after revising it in detail. Only put in the key words, everything else should come to mind when you read it. Past exam questions and analysis Complete some past exam questions. Mark your answers. Fill in the answers you missed. Go through the paper and colour code each topic (Red-need to revise, Amber-Need to go over a few bits again, Green-I’ve got it) Use it to test your ability to; recall the information you have revised, to answer the question asked, not just write down everything you know, to follow the command words in an exam.

What do the new grades mean?

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The first new exams for GCSE Maths and English were in summer 2017. The new GCSE exams for Geography, History, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Combined Science, Modern Foreign Languages, Business Studies, Physical Education and Computer Science will start in summer 2018.

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This year , nearly all GCSE’s sat will be under the 9-1 grading structure.

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There's no Foundation Level in the new English GCSEs — students of all abilities will take the same exams.

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The government’s definition of a ‘good pass’ will be set at grade 5 for reformed GCSEs.

Core Subject Exam support!

How can you help..?!

English Tips!

 Please encourage your child to read their set texts over

and over again! They need to know their texts and specific quotes.

 Students have the use of Collins Connect to access

revision sources for English.

 They are also actively encouraged to access GCSEpod

for support with Literature.

Revision Materials - English

 All students have been issued with booklets to help

structure their revision (there are 6 in total) and these are being used in form time to support them.

 Students have also been issued with a CGP guide for

English Language which contains some practice questions.

 They also have access to a range of marked responses

which will help them ascertain where they can improve.

 The students have been emailed with booklets

containing exam style questions for them to practise at home.

Set Texts for English

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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

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An Inspector Calls by JB Priestley

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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

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Power and Conflict poetry anthology

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Online resources are also widely available to support.

Intervention/Extra Support

 All students have all been invited to attend an extra

session on a Wednesday P8 (which has been running since September)

 Students who are working below their target grade have

also been invited to attend a more focused intervention session with their teacher to help them brush up on specific skills.

 Easter School

The Year 11 Quote Off

 This week, the students will also receive a booklet

containing a list of key quotations for each text.

 They will be challenged to learn these and then

compete against each other to demonstrate how many they know.

 We have been practising these as starters in classes for

some time now so this should be quite straightforward for them.

 Do encourage them to talk to you about the key

quotations!

Recommended Extras….

 Revision guides are available for all of the set texts

(priced around £5 on Amazon) CGP ones are popular because they are easy to read!

 The Quotation Bank range are also really useful (again

priced at around £5 on Amazon) and are available for each text.

Maths Tips!

Reducing the REDs:

 Each half term pupils are given a question level analysis,

identifying areas of improvement and strengths These are ‘ragged’.

 Pupils will revise each ‘red’ and ‘amber’ topic areas, by

watching the clip on Mathswatch, answering the interactive questions and finally completing the worksheet. Ticking off a red/amber as they successfully complete each topic.

www.vle.mathswatch.co.uk

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Maths Tips!

 Reducing the REDs:  All pupils should know their logins!!  Login: Surname.Firstname@healthfuturesutc  Password: date of birth! Eg: 12/02/2001

www.vle.mathswatch.co.uk

Maths Tips!

https://www.mathsgenie.co.uk/gcse.html

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This is a fantastic free website which allows pupils access to practice papers, GCSE questions on specific topics, with worked solutions!

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As well as all students have all been invited to attend an extra session on a Thursday P8 (which has been running since January). Most likely topics on both higher and foundation.

Science Tips!

 Each Year 11 student has been assigned a mentor in science which

they meet with each week to recap some of the more difficult topics covered throughout the GCSE.

 Year 11 students are encouraged to make use of their Educake,

giving them access to revision and exam practice. (www.educake.co.uk)

 Searching for GCSE Exam Practice Questions:

 Students will need to visit the AQA Qualification website:

(www.aqa.org.uk)

Exam Papers:

Step One: go to www.aqa.org.uk and click on past papers Step Two: choose the options from the drop down menus

Exam Papers (cont):

Step Three: Select which specification you require from the drop down menu and it will show the available papers As these are new exams, past papers are not yet available but specimen papers are provided to help students prepare.

Exam Day Information!

If your child is unwell on the day of an exam

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Students should make every effort to ensure that they attend all exams. If they miss any, it cannot be taken at any other time.

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If they are ill and unable to get to school on the day, you must do the following:

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Inform us BEFORE 09:00am on the day of the exam by calling 0121 794 2888.

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Get a medical note from your doctor and give the note to Miss Kubicek, the Examinations Officer, as soon as possible.

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If medical evidence cannot be provided, parents/carers will be asked to pay the fees for the missed exams.

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Routine medical, dental and other appointments should be re-arranged to avoid clashes with examination times.

If your child is late to an exam

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Students that are up to an hour late MAY be allowed to enter the exam room and have the full amount of time depending on their reason for lateness and if it is a one off.

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If students are an hour late or more, they will not be allowed to enter the exam room or sit the paper.

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Students are advised to leave earlier than normal to ensure they account for unexpected delays such as traffic or problems with public transport.

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Parents/Carers will be contacted if students are persistently late.

Exam Day Information!

‘The bus was late’ or ‘I was stuck in traffic’ are not acceptable excuses.

Thank you for listening..