1. How to develop Complete Learning at GCSE or A Level
@Wilmslow High School

2. What is the point of the Learning Days?
To improve your Complete Learning through:
Subject sessions
Work review
Understanding how to remember knowledge
Doing activities to prepare for remembering knowledge
For KS4 students understanding how S Scores work

3. Why are we always changing things?
New examinations from Ofqual
Improvements in understanding about how we learn
Pressure from universities
and employers for
more challenging grades

4. What is Complete Learning?
Fluent
Complete
Substantial
Establishing
Initial

5. What is Complete Learning?
It’s about the Learning not the Learner How well do you know a topic of knowledge

6. It it new?
It’s about how anybody has always learned anything And we can now use this as our assessment system because the government has given this freedom to schools

7. What is Complete Learning?
Anyone can learn anything to completeness

8. How long does Complete Learning take?
It depends on what you are trying to learn

9. Why is it relevant at GCSE/ A Level?
Because you are learning knowledge

10. Stages of Learning Initial
How well you understand something when you are first shown it
This is where we would use a pre-test to find out what you already know

11. What is Complete Learning?
Establishing
When you are starting to understand and learn the knowledge
This is where you would
use a knowledge
organiser to learn the
knowledge

12. What is Complete Learning?
Substantial
This is where you have understood the knowledge and can remember it
You should now be able to apply it to solve problems
It is not enough to
know the information.
You must be able to
USE IT

13. What is Complete Learning?
This is when you know and remember the learning
This is where testing and quizzing are useful to tell you whether your knowledge is really complete

14. What is Complete Learning?
Fluent
This is where your knowledge is quick and automatic
It’s not that you get it right. It’s that you can’t get it wrong
This is where spreading activation models can be useful to connect the learning to other learning

16. How do we learn to fluency?

17. You must think hard
... and you must think about meaning We remember what we think about...

18. You need to practice worked examples

19. You need to practice repeatedly
Coming after half term to the Pavillion...

20. Use Dual Coding

21. Avoid extra cognitive load
Cognitive load is the amount of effort that goes in to learning

22. All learning places cognitive load on the limited capacity of the memory
The more you already know, the more you reduce your cognitive load
The more that you break information up in to chunks the more you reduce your cognitive load
The more you reduce brain activity NOT contributing to learning the more you reduce cognitive load
This is why it is
important not to
worry too much

23. How will we support your learning?

24. Exam results information out
Year 10
Date
Information
Week of 14th November
Any concerns
Thursday 24th November
Year 10 Parents Evening
From 5th December
Y10 mid year exams
Friday 4th February
Year 10 Report out
(exam results)
Week of 13th March
Week of 26th June
Y10 end of year exams
Week of 17th July
Exam results information out

25. Year 11 Expectations Evening
Date
Information
Week of 14th November
Any concerns
Wednesday 16th November
Year 11 Expectations Evening
From 5th December
Y11 mock exams
Thursday 19th January
Mock Results Evening
Thursday 26th January
Year 11 Parents Evening
Week of 13th March

26. Year 12 Date Information Week of 14th November Any concerns
Thursday 8th December
Year 12 Parents Evening
From 9th January
Y12 mid year exams
Friday 10th February
Year 12 Report out
(exam results)
February
Decisions about AS or linear entry
March
Week of 10th July
Y12 end of year exams for linear courses
Summer holidays
Exam results information out

27. Year 13 Date Information Week of 14th November Any concerns
From 9th January
Y13 mock exams
Friday 10th February
Year 13 Report out
(exam results)
March

28. What information will you get on your reports
Projected grades in each subject
The one key learning target in each subject that will improve you performance
The one key learner focus in each subject that will improve you as a learn
We will track how well students have met these two targets from one report to the next

29. Why are we very cautious with your projected grades?
Careful to avoid potential problems or dangers

30. How will we use expectation grades?
The purpose of an Expectation Grade is to encourage you to aim high for yourself and your teachers to aim high for you
We set ambitious expectation grades for students
If your Personal Best in an exam is higher than this you get a new Personal Best expectation grade
Your teacher has all your assessment marks in their mark sheet. Personal Bests appear in green

31. How will we use S Scores at GCSE
We may use standardised scores to show you how you are performing compared to average in ‘big’ subjects like English and mathematics

32. Why do we never say ‘only a mock’?

33. Why do we use after school and before school time?
There will be a direct link between the hours of practice you put in and the grades you get