1. Year 11 Parents’ Welcome Evening

2. What is tonight all about?
Understanding how Year 11 is different
Revision Matters
Mindset Matters
Setting achievable goals
Taking the next step

3. GCSE Results Day
Thursday 24th August 2017

5. 2017.
Our
Best
Results
Ever.

6. Why should YOU want this?

7. Future Earnings
Future Happiness
Future Health
Future Success

8. What do we expect from you?

9. Right Attitude

10. I can’t…yet

12. What can you expect from Us?
We promise to give everyone a fresh start.
We promise to track your progress.
We promise to let you know when there is an issue.
We promise to support you.
We promise to visit you during your lessons.
We promise to meet with you regularly.
We promise to push you to be the best you can be.

13. Take Away Messages: We know you want this. The words“can’t + yet”.
Effort is key.
Every day matters.
Every lesson matters.

14. Curriculum
English
Maths
Science
Core PE
4 options
ICT/RE

15. Additional opportunities
Actions to ensure all make the very best of their year 11 and get ready for 2017 and going on in Education

16. Role of Senior Leaders: Ms L Watson & Mr R Stead
Track every student’s progress in all subject areas
Identify key students in need of intervention
Provide intervention to support students
Intervention
Attitude to learning trackers
Catch up intervention
Dialogue with parents to support students

17. Role of Inclusion Manager: Mrs Edwards
Support the tracking of every students behaviour for learning and attendance to support progress in all subject areas
Identify key students in need of intervention
Provide intervention to support students

18. Expectations
No wasted time…

19. Attendance & Punctuality
Weekly Attendance
100% attendance is a crucial contributing factor to your child’s academic success
90% or below attendance is now categorised as `persistent absence’ PA
Make appointments during the holidays or at the end of the school day e.g. visiting the dentist
Even if your child is feeling under the weather with a sniffle or a cough, send them to school!!

20. Research suggests that…
17 missed school days a year = 1 GCSE grade DROP in achievement per subject
So, the greater your child’s attendance the greater their GCSE achievements!

21. 30 28 43 Guess the number….. 30 days until your first mock exam
28 weeks until your first actual GCSE exam (English)
43 weeks until you collect your GCSE Exam Results

22. Reaching the summit What will it take to reach the summit?
What got you here (base camp) might not get you to the summit

23. Revision Matters
With regular, well planned revision starting now, your son or daughter will achieve and exceed their target grades this summer.
Without regularly revisiting their work, they will not perform to the best of their abilities.
Key to successful revision:
Right conditions – Quiet? Music? Water? No TV & No FB!
Well planned revision timetable – no last minute panics.
Regular breaks – still plan time for hobbies.
Incentives – rewards are allowed.

24. Revision Techniques
Different revision techniques work for different people. The student must find the strategies that work best for them. Simply reading over their notes is not revising. They need to do something with the information.
Prompt cards
Mind maps
Post it notes
Summary tables & grids
Practise using command words – describe, explain, analyse, discuss
Teach someone else
Memory games

25. Reaching the summit What will it take to reach the summit?
What got you here (base camp) might not get you to the summit

26. Mindset matters Be open minded……
Students with open mindsets are likely to……
Embrace Challenge (rather than avoid)
Persist in the face of setbacks (not give up easily)
See effort as the path to success
Learn from criticism (rather than ignore useful feedback)
Find lessons and inspiration in the success of others.

28. POST 16 – WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS?
Full-time academic or vocational courses at a school/academy sixth form, FE or sixth form college, or training provider
An apprenticeship or other work based learning route
The Kingsway Academy Sixth Form (Inc. Northern Schools Trust Sixth Form)

29. What happens next… October 2016 Year 11 Curriculum booklet
October Celebration of
Oct/Nov 2016 KS5 Assemblies
November 2016 Year 11 Trial examinations
Nov/Dec Revision Assemblies
December Year 11 progress evening & Key Stage 5 Event
February Academy Production
March 2017 Year 11 Trial examinations
May GCSE Examinations Start
August Results

31. All students have their own personal login and password.
MathsWatch is a set of mathematics resources (videos, exam papers and worksheets).
Can be accessed from anywhere with internet access.
App available for smartphones and tablets.
All students have their own personal login and password.
Written homework is set each week and a MathsWatch clip number given alongside this to support its completion.
Students can use MathsWatch anytime for independent revision. Just simply select tier (Foundation or Higher) and choose an area to focus on.

32. AQA GCSE Media Studies
Year 11

33. Media Studies Exam Topic (40% of total GCSE Grade)
TV Game Shows
(1hr 30 minutes – 3 essay questions and 1 practical task)
23rd May 2017

34. Controlled Tests (60% of the total grade)
Students complete three assignments:
Children’s Comics ( 17%)
Horror Film Promotion (33%)
Teenage Magazines (50%)