Welcome to Year 10 Curriculum Evening Thursday 26 th September 2019 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Welcome to Year 10 Curriculum Evening

Thursday 26th September 2019

Spalding High School Community

• Mr B Love – Assistant Head – Pastoral
• Mrs A Schwarz – Head of Main School
• Mrs L Neal – Head of Year 10
• Mrs T Jarvis – Pastoral support

The Team

10C Mrs C Jones 10J Mrs M Martin 10N Mrs L Hagon/Mrs K Carthy 10P Miss H Lee 10S Miss L Ashley

• Student voice
• Parental discussions
• Teacher discussions
• Exam and Core Task results
• Curriculum evening feedback forms
• Parents’ evening feedback forms
• Senior Leaders interviews with students

Feedback

Spalding High School Friendship

Dunlosky et al., 2013

Practice testing Distributed (‘spaced’) practice Highlighting Underlining Reading Rereading

High utility strategies Low utility strategies

• High practice spaces
• Establishing in game-basic moves
• Drills for fine-tuning component parts
• Competition and feedback
• Deliberate increase in challenge

Expert in a year

Spalding High School Respect

High Utility Strategies

Completing past papers under timed conditions Studying mark schemes or examiners’ reports Marking own work to a mark scheme Comparing model answers with own Working with other students in groups/ pairs Creating own exam questions Handing in extra work for marking

Support in School

• School website
• Planner – pages 20-28
• Individual subject support
• Subject support sessions
• Assemblies and form time
• Targeted Year group

activities

• Purposeful working environment
• Planning and organisation
• Effective revision notes
• Specifications and

exam board resources

• Understanding the question
• Emotional wellbeing

Key to Successful Revision

Spalding High School Reflection

https://www.learningscientists.org/ https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/dunlosky.pdf

Helpful Resources

Spalding High School Achievement

GCSE Mindset

Mrs F Haunch

Spalding High School Reciprocity

Vespa

Vision Effort Systems Practice Attitude

Spalding High School Resourceful

Vespa

Vision Effort Systems Practice Attitude

Vision – How well do you know what you want to achieve?

Spalding High School Education

Vespa

Vision Effort Systems Practice Attitude

Effort – How much effort do you put in outside

• f school?

Spalding High School Equality

Vespa

Vision Effort Systems Practice Attitude

Systems – How do you organise your learning and your time?

Spalding High School Teamwork

Vespa

Vision Effort Systems Practice Attitude

Practice - What kind of work do you do to practise your skills?

Spalding High School Caring

Vespa

Vision Effort Systems Practice Attitude

Attitude – How do you respond to setbacks?

Spalding High School Honesty

Work Experience 2019

Feedback 2018-19

Do you think Y10 students should take part in Work Experience? Yes No Unsure 99% 1% 0% Did you enjoy your Work Experience? Yes No Unsure 93% 5% 2% How do you think you have benefitted/changed as a person as a result of your Work Experience? Increased Confidence Improved knowledge about future career Improved Communicatio n skills Other new skills 88% 88% 80% 78%

Spalding High School Determination

Year 11 Destinations September 2019

150 pupils

• 124 pupils – A Level study or equivalent at a secondary

school with a sixth form (102 pupils at SHS)

• 23 pupils – A Level study or equivalent or vocational

course at a college

• 2 pupils – Apprenticeships
• 1 pupil - Emigrated

Spalding High School Disciplined

Choices at 16: What's right for you?

Effort Grades

GCSE Grades

Year 10 Assessment & Reporting

Spalding High School Happy

• Tuesday 1st October 2019

Evening of Sport, Music and Drama

• Tuesday 8th October 2019

Upper school Prizegiving

• Thursday 28th November 2019 Progress cards issued
• Monday 9th December 2019

Senior staff Interviews

• Thursday 27th February 2020

Progress cards issued

• Thursday 5th March 2020

Year 10 Parents’ Evening

• Monday 23rd March 2020

Work experience begins

• Wednesday 1st April 2020

Work experience ends

• Monday 1st June 2020

Internal Exams week

• Tuesday 9th June 2020

Multi-Agency Day

• Friday 10th July 2020

Reports issued

• Monday 13th July 2020

Careers Fair

Key Dates Year 10