wednesday 26 th february 2014 [email protected] swchs year 10
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Objectives
• Key Dates for Year 10 Students• Agreed Target Grades and the Report Process• What SWCHS is doing• What we can do together• Top Tips
SWCHS Year 10
Key Dates
• This half Term – Prefect application process• 27th February – TT collapse on student motivation• 10th March – TT collapse on reports• 28th April – Enrichment Tutorials Begin• 12th May – Start of “Exam Season”• June 30th/July 1st – WOW• July 2nd – PSHE Day• July 3rd/July 4th – RAW• July 18th – Last Day• August 21st - GCSE Results Day
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Agreed Target Review process
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• Students have been discussing the target grade that was agreed with their teacher last year
• They are deciding if this target grade is still challenging
• If it isn’t, they are agreeing a new target grade with their teacher
Accessing the next report
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• Through our site• Straightforward instructions will be issued
when it’s ready for viewing at the end of March
• Successfully trialled with Year 7 in December and Year 8 in January
• more up to date information • Provides attendance information
Easily accessible
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Easily accessible
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Easily accessible
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• Just use the email address you’ve already given the school:
Provides easy, visual comparison of target grade and forecast grade
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Gives you ‘headlines’ and allows you to view the whole report
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Resilience
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• Stay Positive• Practise• Persist• Persevere• Stay involved• Don’t give up
• Fail well
Think of the brain as a muscle
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• Your IQ isn’t fixed: the more you challenge your mind to learn, the more your brain cells grow
• You can do things today that you couldn’t do yesterday
Learner Conference
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Student’s role in creating a positive
learning environment
Inspiration and Role Models
Managing distractions and
getting the balance right
Dealing with negative feedback
Time Management
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Using peers/others
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Use closed and open questions;
How?Why?What?Give ExamplesSo what?
Flash Cards
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Buttress RootsWide at baseShallowLianasVineGrows up treesDrip Tips Flexible StemWax Coating
Tropical Rainforest
Adaptations
Flash Cards
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Drip Tips Green LeavesPointed Tip
Flexible StemWax Coating
Note Making – Cornell Method
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Note Making – Mind Maps / Posters
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Reactive
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Post Report Analysis;Find the underlying cause and address
Parent CommunicationForm Tutor ReportSubject ReportYAC Report6th Form MentoringStaff MentoringStudy Support
Target/Goal Orientated
Student
School Home
Top Tip 1 – Time Management
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Top Tip 2 – There is always homework
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In every subject there are things students can be doing to improve and raise their
achievement
Top Tip 2 – There is always homework
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English - Reading various publications and analysing writing style
Maths – maths.co.uk – numerous topics to work through related to CW
Science – workbooks to work through
All subjects – past exam questions and general revision/review of notes
Art/Technology – Project work/sketchbooks
P.E. / Dance / Music / Drama – rehearsal and perfecting performance
R.P.E (and other subjects) – keep up to date with current affairs
Languages – working through vocab and reviewing grammar notes
Top Tip 3 – Have an outcome
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Top Tip 4 – Have the correct environment
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Top Tip 5– Attendance
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Top Tip 6 – The Purpose
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Top Tip 6 – The Purpose
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SWCHS Sixth form:Green (4 AS): 5 A*–B; C in Ma and EngPurple (Double Applied AS Level and 1 AS level): 5 A*–C; C in Ma and/or EngGold - National Certificate in Business: 5 DMinimum entry requirements – good universities will look for excellent GCSE gradesOr:AS at Long Road: Cs in your chosen subjectsVocational courses at CRC: the more Cs you get, the higher the level you enter at
Useful Links
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For Revision Strategies/General Advicehttp://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/studyadvice/StudyResources/Exams/sta-revision.aspx
For General Revisionhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/ (be careful – is it relevant)http://www.revisionworld.com/gcse-revision (be careful - is it relevant)http://stormboard.com/ (creating mind maps online)
Core Revision SitesMaths – http://www.mymaths.co.uk/ (students have username and password) English – www.sparknotes.com (good for controlled assessment)Science - http://swchsvle.swchs.net/course/view.php?id=8022 (answers for the mark book)
Past Papers and Mark Schemes
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AQA;http://www.aqa.org.uk/exams-administration/exams-guidance/find-past-papers-and-mark-schemes
Edexcel;http://www.edexcel.com/i-am-a/student/Pages/pastpapers.aspx
WJEC;http://www.wjec.co.uk/index.php?nav=106
OCR;http://www.ocr.org.uk/i-want-to/download-past-papers/
Command Word Chart
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