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Welcome to Hamble Community Sports College’s

Year 7 Curriculum Evening

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Your hosts this evening:

• Mrs S Ballanger – Head of Year 7
• Miss T Lock – Director of Learning for Key

Stage 3

• Mr J Beck – Deputy Headteacher
• Mr D Griffiths – Assistant Headteacher
• Mrs F Eddie – Director of Behaviour and

Inclusion

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Your hosts this evening:

• Miss N Twining –Assistant Director of

Learning (Mathematics)

• Ms E Bridges – Director of Learning (English)

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The Evening Ahead

• The team will present on the following aspects
• f your child’s schooling:

– Homework – Reports – Marking and feedback – Intervention – English, Maths and Science – Behaviour

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The Evening Ahead

Continued:

– Resilience – Parental support – Attendance – School council, the House system, rewards – Lockers – Forthcoming key dates

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At the end of the evening:

• Staff will be here as you depart if

you wish to talk to them.

• Please fill in an evaluation form

and post it in one of the boxes.

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A Guide to Homework and ShowMyHomework

You can find SMHW on the College website or Go to www.showmyhomework.com

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Any issues with passwords:

Mrs Westwood in the Main Office

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To log in, just go to the home page:

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Type in your email address. Type in your SMHW password Or just type in your pin number which your tutor gave you. If you have forgotten your pass word you can select this. Don’t worry about these.

Achieving Excellence Together If the ‘Forgotten Password’ is selected this screen appears. Type your email address in here and then select the ‘Reset Password’ button. An email will be sent to you with the instructions on how to change your password.

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If you have forgotten all of your login details go to the home page and type Hamble into the search bar.

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Look for Hamble Community Sports College and select it by clicking here.

This page will appear.

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You can use this box and its filters to find your class and the work that has been set.

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Or you could look through this calendar page which shows you what homework is due on the set days across the top. Select the homework.

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Homework title When it was set and when it is due A description of the work to be done Other information and resources

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There’s even a video if you get really stuck…

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Key Points

• Remember username and password for best

experience.

• SMH can be used without username and password.
• If students forget login details, they should see
• Mrs Westwood in the office.
• Students get a PIN that they can use to login and set

new login details.

• SMH helps students to organise their homework.

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Frequently asked questions

1. Why don’t you have a homework timetable? 2. How much homework should my child get? 3. How long should homework take? 4. What do I do if my child needs help with homework? 5. What happens if we don’t have access to computers/tablets/printers or the internet at home? 6. What do I do if I have concerns about homework?

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Marking and Assessment

• Books should be regularly coming home for

you to look at.

• High expectations of students.

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Expectations

• Good spelling, punctuation and grammar.
• Excellent presentation.
• Good rate of work and high completion rates.
• Responses to feedback.

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Tools we use

• Marking codes
• SPaG marking
• Active Learning and Effort scores
• Marking sticker/pro-forma
• “Green pen strategy”

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The marking codes

High performance = 3 marks Words are spelt accurately 99% of the time. Capitals, full stops and commas are used accurately 99% of the time. Other punctuation marks are also used accurately 99% of the time, such as question marks and semi colons. Paragraphs are always shown clearly by leaving a line between them. Sentences make sense and flow together well due to the use of punctuation and connectives. Key subject words are always used correctly. Intermediate performance = 2 marks There might be some spelling errors in the writing, but these are not that frequent. Capitals, full stops and commas are used accurately most of the time. Other punctuation marks are also used accurately most of the time, such as question marks and semi colons. Paragraphs are normally shown clearly by leaving a line between them. Sentences are clear and make sense due to the use of punctuation and connectives. Key subject words are normally used correctly. Threshold performance = 1 mark

• Although there are quite a few spelling errors, it is still possible to understand what has been written.
• Capitals, full stops and commas are sometimes used properly. There is not much accurate use of other

punctuation marks.

• Paragraphs are not always clearly shown by leaving a line between them.
• Sentences are written clearly enough to show meaning, but they are not well connected.
• A few key subject words are used.

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Active Learning and Effort Scores

Grade Criteria 1

Student consistently works to the best of their ability, contributes and makes the full use of resources available to aid learning and problem solving.

2

Student often works to the best of their ability and asks questions when necessary to support their learning. Some teacher guidance is needed.

3

Student has varied motivation, needs frequent reminders to engage on task and has a limited ability to work independently.

4

Student regularly requires teacher support to remain focused and lacks confidence in problem solving and using initiative.

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How does a student respond to the feedback they are given?

• Imagine you have been asked to do this task in Science:

Task: Explain the scientific processes that occur when an ice cube melts. Success criteria:

• Identifies the states of matter involved in the process
• Describes, using diagrams, the structure of the states of matter
• Refers to the physical properties of the ice cube during the process
• Links the physical properties to the structure
• Discusses the role of energy in this process

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A student completes the task, and gets this

• feedback. What does it all mean?

Boxes ticked to show who marked your work and what for

Your Attitude to Learning and Effort mark Your grade (or level) and SPAG mark

A comment about what you did well Suggestions for how to improve

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What should the student do with the suggestions below about how to improve? Answer the following:

• What are the physical properties of a solid?
• What connections can you make about a

solid’s properties and its structure?

This is what the student wrote in response. How have they shown their progress in their response?

The student’s response

This box shows that the teacher agrees that the target has been met.

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Look for green pen use

• Proofreading
• Peer- and self-assessment
• Responding to targets and questions
• Correcting spelling and grammar identified by

peers or the teacher

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Reporting and Interpreting Data

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Attitudes to Learning - Behaviour

1 Student demonstrates exemplary behaviour at all times, being

attentive and fully involved in the learning and a good role model to others.

2 Student demonstrates good behaviour, following instructions

and showing respect for others for the majority of the time, though can be distracted by others.

3 Student can at times disrupt his/her learning and the learning of

• thers but will regain focus once spoken to by the teacher.

4 Student frequently disrupts his/her learning and the learning

progress of others and finds it difficult to modify this behaviour when it is addressed by the teacher.

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Attitudes to Learning – Active Learning and effort

1 Student consistently works to the best of their ability,

contributes and makes the full use of resources available to aid learning and problem solving.

2 Student often works to the best of their ability and asks

questions when necessary to support their learning. Some teacher guidance is needed.

3 Student has varied motivation, needs frequent reminders to

engage on task and has a limited ability to work independently.

4 Student regularly requires teacher support to remain focused

and lacks skills in problem solving and using initiative.

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Attitudes to Learning – Homework and organisation

1 Student is consistently well-equipped, meets all deadlines and is fully up to date with coursework/tasks. Homework is always completed to a high standard and handed in on time. 2 Student is usually well-equipped and meets the vast majority of deadlines. Homework is usually completed to a good standard and mostly handed in on time. 3 Student has a tendency to be unprepared for lessons at times and/or

• ccasionally misses deadlines.

Homework is sometimes not completed and the standard of work completed is below that expected of the student. 4 Student is consistently unprepared and ill-equipped for lessons and/or frequently misses deadlines. Homework is not completed on a regular basis.

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Grades / Levels

• For Year 7 and 8 we are sticking with levels for the time being.
• These are the grades your child has achieved throughout years 1 to 6.
• Levels go from level 1 up to level 8 and are broken into three parts A, B

and C with A being the highest.

• The current level will be based on teacher assessments, tests, classwork

and homework. It is a “snapshot” of performance as it is now.

• The predicted level is the level the teacher expects the student to

achieve if they continue to work at the same rate.

• The target level has been generated by the College based on Key Stage

2 attainment or baseline tests for each subject.

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Progress Review

Subject Current Level Predicted Level End of Year 8 Target Level End of Year 8 Aspirational Level End of Year 8 Attitude to Learning Active Learning and Effort Attitude to Learning Behaviour Attitude to Learning Homework and Organisation Art 5C 6C 6B 7C 1 1 2 Design Technology 5B 6B 6B 7C 1 1 1 Drama 5A 6A 6B 7C 2 2 2

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Progress Review – Full Report

A full report will contain:

• All the information of a normal progress review
• Teacher comments for every subject
• Targets for every subject

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Reporting

• Progress Review 1 (Attitude to Learning

grades only) -7 October

• Progress Review 2 – 20 January
• Progress Review 3 - Full report – 16 March
• Progress Review 4 – 15 June

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Intervention

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Key stage 3 Intervention

• Students not making expected progress
• Literacy and numeracy focus
• Buddy reading programme
• Intervention groups
• Quiz time

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English, Maths and Science

Year 7 English Curriculum

Sub title

Extended writing about life events Reading Shakespeare and poetry Debating skills Study of a novel Non-fiction writing skills Creative writing

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How can I support my child’s literacy?

• Make space and time for reading for pleasure (library visits,

book tokens, Amazon vouchers, magazines). Keep a note of this reading in the reading log in your child’s planner.

• Purchase/borrow a copy of the ‘conflict’ novel your child is

studying: ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’, ‘War Horse’ or ‘Private Peaceful’ – you could read the novel too and discuss it with your son or daughter.

• Encourage your child to write at home – from shopping lists to

diaries to their first novel – all writing is helpful.

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How can I support my child’s literacy?

• Have a family ‘screen free’ meal at least once a week, and talk

to each other about your day, your opinions or whose turn it is to load the dishwasher!

• Keep a dictionary handy for homework.
• Encourage your child to proofread all homework, for every
• subject. Common mistakes:
• capital letters and full stops;
• paragraphs;
• spelling their/they’re/there correctly.

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Maths Year 7 current topics

Year 7 SOW Number, Calculations & BIDMAS Negative Numbers Expressions & Substitution Balancing & Equations Autumn Half Term Fractions Decimals & Approximation Percentages Ratio Probability Christmas Holidays Angles 2D Shapes, Area & Perimeter

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Science year 7 current topics

Curriculum: Year 7 have started a new five year curriculum for GCSE success. It focuses on the mastery of the Big Ideas:

• Force
• Cells
• Energy
• Particles

Each topic focuses on forming links between the Big Ideas by students working out implications of their learning and practical investigations.

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Science year 7 current topics

• In each topic students demonstrate their development
• f practical enquiry skills.
• After each topic students will complete a keyword

definition and recall task, checking their revision skills.

• They will also complete an extended progress
• bservation opportunity in which they get to

demonstrate their understanding. Developing literacy skills.

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Science year 7 current topics

What has been covered so far?

By the end of term 1 all students will have completed an introduction to cells, particles and forces.

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• Students can be supported during homework tasks where

they are asked to learn key word definitions.

• Students should be able to recite the definition of the 20 key

words for each topic they are asked to learn.

• Activities to support this:

– Students give the definition when told the key word – Students give the key word when told the definition – Challenge your child to explain anything in technology or nature using their knowledge of the Big Ideas; use the news for inspiration of topics

How can I support my child at home?

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Behaviour for Learning, Resilience and Attendance

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Behaviour for Learning

• Year 7 students are in a really good place
• Careful monitoring of the behaviour records
• Intervention early on
• Rewarding good behaviour
• Students see the impact of consistent good

behaviour

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Resilience

• Building a culture of resilience
• It is ok to get it wrong but it is not ok to ever

give up

• Teaching our children these skills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm3HU5f3vzQ

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Attendance

The link between attendance and achievement in school: Increasing your attendance raises your chances to achieve.

Research suggests that 17 missed school days a year = 1 GCSE grade drop in achievement.

That could be the difference between a Grade 4 and a Grade 5 in Maths or English

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% attendance Days attended Lessons missed in a year Lessons missed in five years 100 190 99 188 10 50 97 184 30 150 94 179 55 275 92 175 75 375 <92 <175 >75 >375

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Simon

• His attendance is 90%- is this ok?

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Simon thinks his attendance is ok.

• 90% attendance = ½ a day missed every week
• (Would your boss be happy if you took half a

day off each week?!)

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

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Attendance

• Looking in more detail:
• 1 school year at 90% = 4 weeks of lessons

missed, that is 100 lessons missed

• 90% over five school years is half a year

missed.

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Rewards

Current position - students receive house points. Certificates are awarded at end of each half term through celebration assemblies.

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Rewards - 2016

• School Council are debating this topic this

half term

• User friendly
• Timely
• Achievable
• Realistic
• Supports study and progress

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School Council

• In its infancy:

– Elections have taken place and tutor group representation has been agreed. – The council members are to be chosen from within this group. – The school council will disseminate information to the year group councils.

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Purpose of School Council

• To gain insight into pupil understanding of

current issues

• To ensure that the needs of the College are

reviewed holistically

• To ensure all stakeholders are involved in

changes within the College structure and processes

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Key Dates

• Monday, 14th December- Year 7 & 8 Disco
• Wednesday, 16 December- Pantomime Trip
• Thursday, 14th April 2016- Parents Evening

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Please feel free to stay behind to ask questions Please don’t forget to fill in an evaluation and post it in one of the boxes provided.

Have a safe journey home.