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Welcome to Year 10 Parents’

Information Evening

YCC – Mrs Ilse du Toit

DYCC – Mr William Furnell

Senior Team Link – Mr Nick Bull

‘The Best Education today for the women of tomorrow’

Year 10 Parents’ Information Evening

• School aims – Mr Nick Bull

• Key Dates and working together – Mrs Ilse Du Toit

• Work Experience – Ms Laura Warner

• Online Safety – Ms Katelyn Farrenson


Curriculum


To provide a relevant and challenging education which enables all members of our community

to reach their full potential.

Creativity


To nurture creativity in students both in the classroom and beyond top help build cultural

capital and instil and enjoyment of life long-learning.

Character


To encourage students to be ambitious, bold and independent, with strong sense of purpose

and commitment to their own academic and personal development.

Community


To build a community in which everyone is respected and valued and where students have

pride in their school and play a positive role in society.

Convention


To empower all students to exercise their inalienable right as set out in

the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Head of Year

Mrs. Ilse Du Toit


Key Dates for Year 10


Year 10 December Gradesheet - 18th December 2019

Year 10 Spring Gradesheet - 1st April 2020

Year 10 Parents’ Evening - 30th April 2020

Year 10 Mid-Course Assessments - 24th June – 2nd July 2020

Year 10 Work Experience - 6th July 2020

Year 10 Summer Report - 21st July 2020

Working Together

• Talk to your daughter about the importance of punctuality and attendance.

• Write a note if your daughter has a medical/hospital appointment during

school hours. Please do not schedule general GP or Dentist

appointments/check ups during school hours.

• Please send in an absence note following illness.

In March 2016 the Department for Education (DfE) published a report on the link between

absence and attainment in KS4. Pupils with no absence are 2.2 times more likely to

achieve 5+ GCSEs 9-5 or equivalent and 2.8 times more likely to achieve 5+ GCSEs 9-5

or equivalent including English and mathematics than pupils missing 15-20% of KS4

lessons.


Working Together

• Encourage your daughter (and

yourselves) to use Show My

Homework

• If you are unsure of how to login

contact the Year Team

• Check your daughter is using her

planner you are still required to sign

her planner every week.


Working Together


Join in the fun

• Swimming, Senior netball, cricket, football, tennis,

athletics, basketball and fitness suite.

• Ball girls

• UNICEF

• Japanese, Korean, Latin

• Eco-warriors - Sustainability

• 4000 Words

•no Controlled Assessment

•Vocabulary learning every week

•Vocab Express website

(vocabexpress.com)

Year 10 GCSE French, Spanish and UrduHow parents can help?

9th October at 8:00 am

to: 15th October at 3:00 pm

Other ways to help

Encourage her to

• watch Spanish / French / Urdu films (with subtitles)

• Come to KS4 French / Spanish clubs

• Use other websites – there is a list on Burntwood Connect such as:

• Linguascope.com

• Duolingo

• bbc.co.uk/languages/mi vida loca

• quizlet

GCSE Languages at Burntwood

• You may be able to take a GCSE exam in a language you speak

at home or learn outside school (as an extra) if you can already

read and write this language as well as speak it. There are GCSEs

available for about 20 languages – you can check online of there is

an exam in a language you know. Recently students have been

successful in Arabic, Persian/Farsi, Italian, Russian, Gujarati,

Panjabi, Tamil, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Turkish, Bengali

and Portuguese

• Speak to Ms Peel before Christmas if you think you’d like to be

entered for a GCSE in another language

Careers, Enterprise and

Work Related Learning

Ms Laura Warner


Careers & WRL at Burntwood

• Year 7 - Welcome a Visitor

• Year 8 - Reception Duty

• Year 9 - Careers Event with employers

• Year 10 – Work Experience and Lionheart Enterprise Challenge

• Year 11 – One on one Careers Interview

• Year 12 & 13 – Extensive Careers and Employer Engagement Programme


o 2 weeks of unpaid employment in a placement of your child’s choice

o An opportunity to improve understanding about the world of work

o Development of skills and relationships

o A chance to begin thinking about future career options

What is work experience?


Students are encouraged to find their own

placement

o Contacting local businesseso Opportunities through family

and friendso Support from school

If students are unable to find their own placement…

Apply for a placement through BEST which

organizes work experience for Wandsworth

secondary schools

How do students find work experience?


Pharmacy Assistant – St

George’s Hospital

Hairdressing Assistant –Sean Hanna

Hairdressers, Wimbledon

Alan Camp Architects

Animal Assistant,

Vauxhall City Farm

Department for Resources,

House of Commons

Fujitsu, IT Services and

Solutions Provider Teaching

Assistant –Belleville Primary School

TI Media, Magazine and

Digital Publisher

Examples of last year’s work experience

placements?


o Students, parents and employers must complete a form

on arrangement of own placement

o This form is then managed by BEST (Business and

Education Succeeding Together) at Wandsworth

Council

o BEST check the legitimacy and insurance cover of the

placement before approving it

Work experience paperwork


Must be completed by student

Must be completed

in conjunction

with the employer

Completing the paperwork


Must be approved

and signed by the

employer

Must be approved

and signed by parent / guardian

Completing the paperwork


Practice of finding jobs and making

decisionsDevelop

confidence, maturity

and responsibilit

y

Identify personal

strengths & areas for

development

Increases motivation

to do well in school

Helps student to

network and gain

contacts for the future

Application of skills in a

practical environment

Develop CV for the future

May help to get a part

time job in the future

How do students benefit from work experience?


• September 2019: Students receive own placement application forms

• Friday 17th January 2020: Deadline for completed own placement forms

• February 2020: BEST online application for students without placements

• Friday 27th March 2020: Deadline for ALL placements

• May 2020: Placements confirmed and details given to students

• May half term (22nd -29th May 2020): Students to revisit placements and sign contract

• Friday 12th June 2020: Deadline for contracts

• Monday 6th July - Friday 17th July 2020: WORK EXPERIENCE

• Monday 20th July 2020: Work experience de-briefing day at school

Work experience timeline


o Support in finding own placements

o PSHE lessons focused on careers and work related learning

o Year assemblies and work experience updates / reminders

o Help with making applications, writing cover letters and making

phone calls to employers

How does school support your daughter?


o Help students find their own placement, e.g. using family, friends, contacts

o Support students in filling in application form

o Check if employer has Employer’s Liability Insurance

o Suggest potential questions for their visit or interview with the employer

o Ensure form is completed and returned by the deadline

How can you help?


We are always looking for parents to support our Careers and Work

Related learning education at Burntwood.

If you think that you may be able to offer some support in the way of:

• Careers or employability talks

• A visit to your place of work / workshop

• Offering a student a work experience placement

• Anything else you can think of!

Please let me know at the end of the evening

How can you help?


How many placements can eachstudent have?

We strongly advise that each studenthas one 2 week placement. This givesthem time to settle in, and often makesfor a more fulfilling experience.

How many hours are they supposedto work?

We expect most students to be onplacement during normal workinghours, approx. 8 hours per day.

Can students claim any expenses?

BEST will provide expenses forstudents’ travel on trains. Studentsshould keep their tickets or a record oftheir contactless / Oyster journeys.

Is work experience optional?

No, all students should attend a workexperience placement. If not, they mustbe attending school for those 2 weeks.

FAQs


Online safety

Content – Keeping young people safe from harmful materialson the Internet

Contact – Preventing our children from meeting inappropriatepeople and/or being groomed on the Internet

Conduct – Avoiding children behaving inappropriately on theInternet

ContentWithout parental controls,

young people can see adult or extremist sites and those

promoting harmful behaviours.

Contact

If young people haven’t met their online “friends”, how do they who

they are and if they have bad intentions?

ConductAppreciating that once

something is posted it is out of the control of the originator.

How to be safer online – Advice from CEOP

- Discuss using the internet safely as a family

- Encourage respect for others when posting or messaging

- Treat passwords with care – never lend your phone

- Block/delete contacts & save malicious conversations

- Don’t reply/retaliate to unpleasant posts/messages

- Report any potential cyberbullying – repeated and targeted harrassment

- Parents/carers - notice changes in behaviour patterns like deleting internet history or using the laptop/computer in private?

- Use parental control filters on home broadband and mobile devices

- Understand the smartphone you’ve given your child

- Keep phone/tablets/laptops out of your child’s room at night

- Set all privacy settings to the highest and switch off location services

●www.childnet.com

●www.net-aware.org.uk

●www.thinkuknow.co.uk

●www.ceop.police.uk

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