1. Finchley Catholic High School A Business & Enterprise College Year 11 Focus Group Information Evening 22 nd October 2015

2. Finchley Catholic High School A Business & Enterprise College Programme Welcome and Prayer (Julie Durham) What your son’s current predictions mean for his options at post-16 level (Rebecca O’Donnell) How we will support your son to improve his progress (Julie Durham) How you can support your son to improve his progress (Julie Durham)

3. Finchley Catholic High School A Business & Enterprise College Lord, Give our boys strength and courage as they prepare for their GCSE examinations. Help them to focus on their studies and the advice they are given so that they will make the best use of this time that is available to them. Give them insight so that they understand what they are studying, and help them to remember it when the time comes. Above all, we thank you for giving them the ability to study and for their many other gifts and talents. Help them always to use them in such a way that they honour you and do justice to themselves. Amen

4. Finchley Catholic High School A Business & Enterprise College Post-16 Pathways Assessing your son’s options

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6. Finchley Catholic High School A Business & Enterprise College SAMPLE STUDENT - Kevin Finchley Catholic High School

7. A Business & Enterprise College What Pathway would Kevin qualify for? Is he secure or borderline for this pathway? What is the trajectory of Kevin’s predictions? What is Kevin’s attitude in his lessons? What subjects should Kevin target for improvement? Sample Student - Kevin

8. Finchley Catholic High School A Business & Enterprise College What is each grade worth? A* = 8D = 4 A = 7E = 3 B = 6F = 2 C = 5G = 1 Finchley Catholic High School A Business & Enterprise College

9. Finchley Catholic High School A Business & Enterprise College Sample Student - Kevin

10. Finchley Catholic High School A Business & Enterprise College Kevin is predicted to get: 5 X B (each B grade is worth 6 points) 5 X C (each C grade is worth 5 points) (5 X 6) + (5 X 5) = 30 +25= 55 55=5.5 10 Sample Student - Kevin

11. Finchley Catholic High School A Business & Enterprise College In the summer of Year 10, Kevin was predicted to get: 5 X B (each B grade is worth 6 points) (5 X 6) = 30 4 X C (each C grade is worth 5 points) (4 X 5) = 20 1 X D (each D grade is worth 4 points) (1 X 4) = 4 54=5.4 10 Sample Student - Kevin

12. Finchley Catholic High School A Business & Enterprise College Attitude to Learning

13. Finchley Catholic High School A Business & Enterprise College Summary What pathway would your son like to pursue? How far away is he from reaching the entrance criteria for this pathway? How securely is he meeting the requirements for his chosen pathway? How many grades would he need to improve by to meet the Level 3 entrance criteria? Are his predictions improving or deteriorating? What are his teachers saying about his attitude to study? Which subjects should he target for improvement? What changes to his study habits does he need to make to make this a realistic possibility? What subject specific guidance have his teachers offered?

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15. Finchley Catholic High School A Business & Enterprise College What will we offer? A supported study facility Wednesday 3.00 - 4.30 Tuesday 3.00 – 4.30 Mentoring by a member of the SLT A full programme of revision classes Teaching staff available every week in subject ‘surgeries’ to provide support, advice and resources Access through application to Saturday morning English and Maths workshops which focus upon exam preparation

16. Finchley Catholic High School A Business & Enterprise College ENGLISH Controlled Assessment Saturday resit classes (Mr Ashton and Ms Ennis) Saturday Intervention classes (Ms Foxley- external tutor) Monday period 1 intervention classes (Mr Ashton) After school poetry support (Ms Antoniou) Revision classes after Easter

17. Finchley Catholic High School A Business & Enterprise College SCIENCE Biology, Chemistry and Physics packs of questions were distributed today. Please encourage your son to work through these regularly and discuss what he feels he knows well and where he weill nedd to undertake extra questions Please buy the CGP Revision Guides

18. Finchley Catholic High School A Business & Enterprise College MATHS Past Papers: Great to practise your exam technique. When given to complete at home, do it ‘open-book’. Use this as an opportunity to address your weaker areas. Resources: CGP Maths Edexcel revision guides condense the course very nicely. You can also purchase a MathsWatch CD from the Maths department, which shows demonstrations, sets questions and explains solutions on your computer. Know the grade: make sure your revision is on topics of a suitable grade and challenge. Not sure? Ask any maths teacher – we are happy to help!

19. Finchley Catholic High School A Business & Enterprise College Finchley Catholic High School A Business & Enterprise College What you can do to help... a quiet work space

20. Finchley Catholic High School A Business & Enterprise College What you can do to help... supply resources and prompt your son to use them to support his learning

21. Finchley Catholic High School A Business & Enterprise College What you can do to help... Buy revision guides and test regularly

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24. Finchley Catholic High School A Business & Enterprise College Finchley Catholic High School A Business & Enterprise College Encourage your son to get enough sleep Encourage healthy eating Encourage exercise What you can do to help...

25. Finchley Catholic High School A Business & Enterprise College STRIKE A BALANCE

26. Finchley Catholic High School A Business & Enterprise College And most of all... talk and listen

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