Year 11 Maths Information Evening Nicola Fareham Head of Department Chris Gibson Acting Key Stage 4 Coordinator

Why are we having an information evening? To run through the GCSE specification To keep you informed of important dates To let you know what is happening in your child’s Maths lesson.

GCSE Exam Board Students have started their GCSE course over Year 9 and 10 on the Edexcel linear course. They will work to achieve their grade at the end of year 11. All students will be sitting their Maths GCSE exam for the first time at the end of the year.

Thursday 4 June and Thursday 11 June 2015 There will be holiday intervention sessions run by the Maths department before these two exams. Provisional dates: Thursday 9 April 10am -1pm Friday 29 May 10am -1pm Saturday 6 June 10am -1pm Important Exam Dates

maths/Pages/gcse-2012.aspx maths/Pages/gcse-2012.aspx This is the website for the specification your child will be following

Internal Assessments Throughout the year there will be numerous internal assessments. These will be used to help predict final GCSE scores which will appear on your child’s Praising Stars report. These will take place during the following weeks w/c 10 Nov w/c 12 Jan w/c 23 Mar w/c 27 April These assessments sometimes lead to set changes for some students so they are working with other students with similar ability to themselves.

All students will receive a grade tracker showing them whether or not they are on the right path to making good progress. ‘Corridor of Delight’

All students will receive a sticker for their books where they can record their progress and refer to it. Tracking Progress

What else are we doing? Enrichments every night apart from Tuesday SLT support in lessons One-to-one mentoring VMG appointments with Head of Department/KS4 Coordinator Intervention from the class teacher Holiday sessions

What else are we doing? Maths Camp Revision booklets from Edexcel Mathswatch CD Exam papers complete with model answers for holiday revision Option Maths lessons Consolidation Period Maths

Why Option Maths? Some students are selected to do Option Maths in Year 11. Achieving a C grade or above in Maths will give our students the best life chances. Since Option Maths has started yearly results have increased dramatically. We know that without Option Maths the likelihood of students achieving a C grade would fall significantly. Practising Maths improves our students’ retention of knowledge.

Homework Homework will be set as in previous years using Login: outwood Password: equilateral Every student has one week to complete their homework. This is set on MyMaths. All teachers in the department provide enrichments after school to give students support with their homework. We will comment and put a sticker in planners when homework is not completed, set a detention and this will follow the academy homework policy. This year a text will be sent out to Parent/Carers of those students failing to complete their homework.

What can your child do? Come to lessons fully equipped and ready to learn -Pen, -Pencil, -Ruler, -Scientific calculator, -Exercise book, -Planner Attend all lessons Complete homework

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