1. Year 10 Maths Information Evening
Chris Gibson
Head of Department
Kate Wayman
Key Stage 4 Coordinator

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

3. Maths GCSE Changes
All students sitting their GCSE Maths exams from 2017 will be following a new curriculum. It will be a linear specification with students having one sitting at the end of year 11.
2 calculator papers and 1 non-calculator.
Broader and deeper mathematical content.
Designed to be more rigorous to allow stretch and challenge for both Higher and Foundation students.

4. Structure of the assessments
This course is a 3 year linear course.
It will be assessed externally with exams in June of year 11.
Students are either working towards the Foundation (1-5) or Higher (4-9) exam depending on their ability. The tier they sit will not be determined until the end of year 10, but may possibly still change in year 11.

5. Grading
A similar proportion of students will achieve a grade 4 and above as currently achieve a grade C and above – however the accepted baseline is a grade 5.
A similar proportion of students will achieve a grade 7 and above as currently achieve an A and above.
For each examination, the top 20 per cent of those who get grade 7 or above will get a grade 9 – the very highest performers.
The bottom of grade 1 will be aligned with the bottom of grade G.

6. Grading
Grade 5 will be positioned in the top third of the marks for a current Grade C and bottom third of the marks for a current Grade B. This will mean it will be of greater demand than the present grade C, and broadly in line with what the best available evidence tells us is the average performance in countries such as Finland, Canada, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
The new maths GCSE will be tiered, with grades 4 and 5 available through both tiers.

7. Grading

8. 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 5 December
w/c 16 January
w/c 06 March
w/c 19 June
These are provisional dates and may change.
These assessments sometimes lead to set changes for some students so they are working with other students with similar ability to themselves.

9. Internal Assessments
Year 10 students will sit a full GCSE exam paper at the end of year 10 so they can see for themselves the progress that they have made since year 9 and also experience sitting a Maths GCSE paper. This does not count towards their GCSE grade.

10. What else are we doing? Enrichments every night apart from Tuesday.
One-to-one mentoring.
Peer Mentoring.
Intervention from the class teacher.
Revision booklets from Edexcel.
Option Maths lessons.
Holiday exam papers.
Regular homework setting and monitoring.
Parental contact where needed.

11. Why Option Maths?
Some students are currently studying option Maths in year 10.
Some students are selected to do Option Maths in Year 11.
Achieving their potential 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 their potential or for some attaining a grade 5 or above would fall significantly.
Practising Maths improves our students’ retention of knowledge.

12. Option Maths Selection Process
After the January 2017 Assessment, students will be provisionally selected.
Data from the last three assessments will be used to decide whether Option is required.
Previous students in similar positions have not gone on to achieve a C grade or their expected potential.
One Option choice is provisionally removed in the place of Option Maths.
After the June examinations setting, tier and Option Maths will be decided on.
Approximately 70% of current year 11 students are studying option Maths – regardless of tier.

13. Is It Confirmed?
In March all students will be given material to revise from in preparation for the June exams.
Some provisionally selected students worked hard as they did not want to study Option in year 11.
Some students did not achieve what was expected of them so were allocated Option Maths despite not being provisionally selected.

14. Homework
Homework will be set as in previous years using
Login: outwood
Password: simultaneous
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.

15. 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

16. Thanks for listening @OGAMATHS Any questions?