“everybody can achieve” - everyone can achieve
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SIR FREDERIC OSBORN SCHOOL A Specialist Sports College “Achieving
Success Together”Welcome
3
• Mrs Maddocks Assistant Head (Achievement) and SLT link for Key Stage 4
4
• Last year’s Year 11 achieved the best set of
GCSE results the school has ever had
through:
and Mental Health Team)
5
born with a fixed intelligence but that intelligence,
ability and performance can be improved
• Extensive research proves that students with a
Growth Mindset will:
• Have reduced stress and aggression
• Have increased wellbeing and emotional functioning
skills
• FOCUS
• OPTIMISM
• RESILIENCE
• CREATIVITY
• ENERGY
Growth Mindset that
encourage and reward
receive FORCE points.
• 25 points (five in each trait) will earn them a FORCE
badge entitling them to ‘jump the lunch queue for a
week’
• Each subsequent FORCE card completed earns them
a further certificate and a ‘jump the lunch queue for a
week’ pass
• 250 points earns them a Growth Mindset ambassador badge
8
excel.
presentations run for Year 10 students and families
last year and we will shortly publish the date of a
further session this term in advance of Pre Public
Exams
through our expectations and how you can support
your child this academic year and Mr Wyatt, our
SENDCO is available to answer questions
9
• N Picariello Assistant Director of Learning, KS4
Pastoral Team 2019-2020
Mr G Merrigan – Director of KS4
Mrs N Picariello – Assistant Director of KS4
Tutor Team:
What students can expect from us:
13
• Inform you of the requirements and
expectations of Year 10
so you can help your children, in
partnership with the school, achieve
their full potential
“Everybody can achieve”
“Parental involvement in a
difference between a strong
Maths” The Times Educational
18th November Pre-Public Exams
3rd March Pre-Public Exams
Year 10 work experience
• You can complete placements with family an friends.
• Forms will be provided next week to students.
• Deadline for placement forms- February 7th 2020
Mrs S.Merrigan- Careers Lead [email protected]
Ridgeway Academy
Attendance Matters
90% over the school year = 4 whole weeks of
lessons missed
In order to achieve, students MUST ATTEND
Home School Partnership
discuss any worries or concerns
• Contact the student’s form tutor regularly
• Keep a check on homework, progress
grades, rewards and any sanctions
• Support the school with uniform and
behaviour policies
classwork, presentation and the meeting of
deadlines
you can
accelerate your child’s progress and prepare for the next
lesson
homework recorded in their planner and helps parents
keep fully informed
‘Show My Homework’
standard, on time and presented in line with school policy
Show My Homework
for teachers, students
information, deadlines and attachments for students.
What is Show My Homework?
Benefits for Parents
• You can see exactly how much homework has been set.
• It’s much easier to take part in home learning.
• Translation into 50+ languages.
• Better communication through school announcements.
• If you have more than one child at the school, they will
appear on the same page.
• From here you can find their Homework; Announcements
and Events that apply to them; and their Gradebook.
• Homework appears in the calendar as a block, stretching
from the issue date to the due date.
• Select a piece of homework for more details.
• In this view we can see a task’s title and description, how long the
homework is expected to take, and how it should be submitted.
• Helpful resources – files & websites – are displayed below the
homework.
• Show My Homework can be translated into over 50 different languages.
• Just select a language from the drop-down menu at the bottom of the page.
Gradebook helps you keep track of the submission status of homework, and grades, if
applicable.
share specific details of how you can support
your child achieve the best grades in their
subjects:
• Mr Oakes Director of Maths
• Mr Milne Assistant Head and Director of Science
AQA English GCSE
analysis
AQA English GCSE
» A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
» Macbeth - Shakespeare
» Power and Conflict Poetry – 15 poems
» Unseen Poetry – analysis and comparison
Graded 9-1
How will the English Department support the students?
High quality, stimulating lessons which demand the highest standards at all
times
Classwork and homework will be marked rapidly to allow improvements to
be made
Students will have significant exam preparation time – Big Writes regularly
Registration, Lunchtime and After school sessions will be made available for
targeted individuals
Students will be pushed to achieve challenging and aspirational target
grades
Revision materials will be made available
Students will sit mock exams and have opportunities to learn from these
experiences
Parents can contact the Department with any issues at any time
How can parents and carers support the students?
Monitor their homebased learning and revision and demand highest
standards in these areas. English Literature must be revised continually
and students studied some of this content in year 9.
Keep regular contact with their English Teacher – Email is best.
Encourage them to work at home to the best of their ability.
Don’t accept excuses or second best – hold them to account.
Help plan their revision timetables – NOW! Remember they have covered
over half the course requirements already.
Read fiction and non fiction material at home and discuss with your son
or daughter
pleasure as a teenager has a
demonstrable impact on GCSE
New for this year
Students will be set revision grids for completion at home for Literature
Students will be set weekly essays or extended language questions
which must be completed at home in a timely manner – feedback will be
provided but not grades
Drop in sessions for parents to experience study support with their
son/daughter
Early intervention meetings for those students who are below target,
have poor work ethic or repeated fail to complete home based learning
or class work to a high standard
Appointments with Director of English to review progress or concerns at
parents request
English Language and
through the school. Please
contact Laurie Simmonds for
pay.
• Changes at GCSE:
foundation level
problems
• Additional formulae to learn
CHANGES TO
CONTENT AND
Grading at higher level
Top 3% nationally will get a grade 9.
EdExcel: “Broadly the same
a grade 4 and above as currently
achieve a grade C and above”
• Mock exams – including exam practice.
• Weekly Maths practice papers – these MUST be completed to
the best of the students ability.
• Grade 7/8/9 morning revision sessions.
• Personalised schemes of learning responding to assessments
and weekly homeworks.
• Monday Master classes focussing on the new topics at GCSE.
• Maths Clinic – Friday lunch times to offer advice and guidance
on independent learning.
• Small group intervention for key, targeted students.
• Whole/half day revision sessions just before the actual exam
days.
and support materials. Homework and revision work will be based
around some of these sites to encourage independent study at home
• Students will want to start small and frequent pockets of revision.
This will allow them to address any gaps in knowledge and keep key
content 'fresh' in their memory
• On ShowMyHomework, are a wide range of revision materials and
list a number of sites that students may find beneficial in their
revision
• My strongly recommend revision cycle: Try one of the general
revision tasks - quizzes, revision mats etc. on areas where they drop
marks, watch the topic video on corbett maths and MAKE NOTES!
Use the notes to answer practice questions on that topic. Complete
another general revision task.........and so on!
https://corbettmaths.com - this website has everything under one
roof. You can access videos that explain every aspect of maths,
practice questions, mark schemes and sample assessments.
https://www.missbsresources.com/revision - Miss B has a wide
range of activities that you can use to revise.
https://mathsbot.com/ - this website has a wide range of revision
materials and mark schemes for the tasks. They include Exam style
questions, GCSE recall, revision grids, retrieval facts and practice
papers
website has some nice count down calendars, revision tasks and
skill recall tasks.
Our vision: for all students to be scientifically literate and
curious about the natural world, achieving their full
potential.
• All courses are linear – all exams are in Summer 2021, with
no controlled assessment – practical skills are assessed
through the exams.
• Content is more challenging – some A level content now at
GCSE.
• All students are taking GCSE Science of some sort.
• All of them will be reported using the 9 – 1 scoring system.
Science : Course structure
Physics.
– 3 GCSEs. Higher and foundation.
Combined Science: Trilogy
– 2 GCSEs. Both tiers.
How do our Scientists improve? [And how can I help?]
Science: ensuring the best outcomes.
• Additional support; tutorial sessions, Science Clinic -
Tuesday and revision classes,
• Complete independent study; MyGCSE, revision, exam
practice, get involved, be curious about the world around us.
• Revision guide.
information evening
encourage your child, we can enable them
to achieve the best possible outcomes
Please collect a handbook on your way out
Please keep in touch, we are help to help
3
• Mrs Maddocks Assistant Head (Achievement) and SLT link for Key Stage 4
4
• Last year’s Year 11 achieved the best set of
GCSE results the school has ever had
through:
and Mental Health Team)
5
born with a fixed intelligence but that intelligence,
ability and performance can be improved
• Extensive research proves that students with a
Growth Mindset will:
• Have reduced stress and aggression
• Have increased wellbeing and emotional functioning
skills
• FOCUS
• OPTIMISM
• RESILIENCE
• CREATIVITY
• ENERGY
Growth Mindset that
encourage and reward
receive FORCE points.
• 25 points (five in each trait) will earn them a FORCE
badge entitling them to ‘jump the lunch queue for a
week’
• Each subsequent FORCE card completed earns them
a further certificate and a ‘jump the lunch queue for a
week’ pass
• 250 points earns them a Growth Mindset ambassador badge
8
excel.
presentations run for Year 10 students and families
last year and we will shortly publish the date of a
further session this term in advance of Pre Public
Exams
through our expectations and how you can support
your child this academic year and Mr Wyatt, our
SENDCO is available to answer questions
9
• N Picariello Assistant Director of Learning, KS4
Pastoral Team 2019-2020
Mr G Merrigan – Director of KS4
Mrs N Picariello – Assistant Director of KS4
Tutor Team:
What students can expect from us:
13
• Inform you of the requirements and
expectations of Year 10
so you can help your children, in
partnership with the school, achieve
their full potential
“Everybody can achieve”
“Parental involvement in a
difference between a strong
Maths” The Times Educational
18th November Pre-Public Exams
3rd March Pre-Public Exams
Year 10 work experience
• You can complete placements with family an friends.
• Forms will be provided next week to students.
• Deadline for placement forms- February 7th 2020
Mrs S.Merrigan- Careers Lead [email protected]
Ridgeway Academy
Attendance Matters
90% over the school year = 4 whole weeks of
lessons missed
In order to achieve, students MUST ATTEND
Home School Partnership
discuss any worries or concerns
• Contact the student’s form tutor regularly
• Keep a check on homework, progress
grades, rewards and any sanctions
• Support the school with uniform and
behaviour policies
classwork, presentation and the meeting of
deadlines
you can
accelerate your child’s progress and prepare for the next
lesson
homework recorded in their planner and helps parents
keep fully informed
‘Show My Homework’
standard, on time and presented in line with school policy
Show My Homework
for teachers, students
information, deadlines and attachments for students.
What is Show My Homework?
Benefits for Parents
• You can see exactly how much homework has been set.
• It’s much easier to take part in home learning.
• Translation into 50+ languages.
• Better communication through school announcements.
• If you have more than one child at the school, they will
appear on the same page.
• From here you can find their Homework; Announcements
and Events that apply to them; and their Gradebook.
• Homework appears in the calendar as a block, stretching
from the issue date to the due date.
• Select a piece of homework for more details.
• In this view we can see a task’s title and description, how long the
homework is expected to take, and how it should be submitted.
• Helpful resources – files & websites – are displayed below the
homework.
• Show My Homework can be translated into over 50 different languages.
• Just select a language from the drop-down menu at the bottom of the page.
Gradebook helps you keep track of the submission status of homework, and grades, if
applicable.
share specific details of how you can support
your child achieve the best grades in their
subjects:
• Mr Oakes Director of Maths
• Mr Milne Assistant Head and Director of Science
AQA English GCSE
analysis
AQA English GCSE
» A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
» Macbeth - Shakespeare
» Power and Conflict Poetry – 15 poems
» Unseen Poetry – analysis and comparison
Graded 9-1
How will the English Department support the students?
High quality, stimulating lessons which demand the highest standards at all
times
Classwork and homework will be marked rapidly to allow improvements to
be made
Students will have significant exam preparation time – Big Writes regularly
Registration, Lunchtime and After school sessions will be made available for
targeted individuals
Students will be pushed to achieve challenging and aspirational target
grades
Revision materials will be made available
Students will sit mock exams and have opportunities to learn from these
experiences
Parents can contact the Department with any issues at any time
How can parents and carers support the students?
Monitor their homebased learning and revision and demand highest
standards in these areas. English Literature must be revised continually
and students studied some of this content in year 9.
Keep regular contact with their English Teacher – Email is best.
Encourage them to work at home to the best of their ability.
Don’t accept excuses or second best – hold them to account.
Help plan their revision timetables – NOW! Remember they have covered
over half the course requirements already.
Read fiction and non fiction material at home and discuss with your son
or daughter
pleasure as a teenager has a
demonstrable impact on GCSE
New for this year
Students will be set revision grids for completion at home for Literature
Students will be set weekly essays or extended language questions
which must be completed at home in a timely manner – feedback will be
provided but not grades
Drop in sessions for parents to experience study support with their
son/daughter
Early intervention meetings for those students who are below target,
have poor work ethic or repeated fail to complete home based learning
or class work to a high standard
Appointments with Director of English to review progress or concerns at
parents request
English Language and
through the school. Please
contact Laurie Simmonds for
pay.
• Changes at GCSE:
foundation level
problems
• Additional formulae to learn
CHANGES TO
CONTENT AND
Grading at higher level
Top 3% nationally will get a grade 9.
EdExcel: “Broadly the same
a grade 4 and above as currently
achieve a grade C and above”
• Mock exams – including exam practice.
• Weekly Maths practice papers – these MUST be completed to
the best of the students ability.
• Grade 7/8/9 morning revision sessions.
• Personalised schemes of learning responding to assessments
and weekly homeworks.
• Monday Master classes focussing on the new topics at GCSE.
• Maths Clinic – Friday lunch times to offer advice and guidance
on independent learning.
• Small group intervention for key, targeted students.
• Whole/half day revision sessions just before the actual exam
days.
and support materials. Homework and revision work will be based
around some of these sites to encourage independent study at home
• Students will want to start small and frequent pockets of revision.
This will allow them to address any gaps in knowledge and keep key
content 'fresh' in their memory
• On ShowMyHomework, are a wide range of revision materials and
list a number of sites that students may find beneficial in their
revision
• My strongly recommend revision cycle: Try one of the general
revision tasks - quizzes, revision mats etc. on areas where they drop
marks, watch the topic video on corbett maths and MAKE NOTES!
Use the notes to answer practice questions on that topic. Complete
another general revision task.........and so on!
https://corbettmaths.com - this website has everything under one
roof. You can access videos that explain every aspect of maths,
practice questions, mark schemes and sample assessments.
https://www.missbsresources.com/revision - Miss B has a wide
range of activities that you can use to revise.
https://mathsbot.com/ - this website has a wide range of revision
materials and mark schemes for the tasks. They include Exam style
questions, GCSE recall, revision grids, retrieval facts and practice
papers
website has some nice count down calendars, revision tasks and
skill recall tasks.
Our vision: for all students to be scientifically literate and
curious about the natural world, achieving their full
potential.
• All courses are linear – all exams are in Summer 2021, with
no controlled assessment – practical skills are assessed
through the exams.
• Content is more challenging – some A level content now at
GCSE.
• All students are taking GCSE Science of some sort.
• All of them will be reported using the 9 – 1 scoring system.
Science : Course structure
Physics.
– 3 GCSEs. Higher and foundation.
Combined Science: Trilogy
– 2 GCSEs. Both tiers.
How do our Scientists improve? [And how can I help?]
Science: ensuring the best outcomes.
• Additional support; tutorial sessions, Science Clinic -
Tuesday and revision classes,
• Complete independent study; MyGCSE, revision, exam
practice, get involved, be curious about the world around us.
• Revision guide.
information evening
encourage your child, we can enable them
to achieve the best possible outcomes
Please collect a handbook on your way out
Please keep in touch, we are help to help