1. Year 10 Curriculum Evening
Welcome from Jane Aplin, Headteacher
Year 10 Key Information
How to help your child succeed in Maths, English and Science
Attendance and Post-16
Additional Support

4. A/S Support
Quiet study areas available till 4.00 every day in the library and F9. Library is also open before school, at break and lunch.
Access to computers, printers and additional study resources.
Great opportunity to liaise with peers and additional support from staff.

5. All students and parents/carers should have a login for SMHW.
Any issues please contact Sam Miller:

7. Revision Guides:
Correct Exam Board
Correct Tier (Higher or Foundation)
All available from the Finance Office: Order Forms available

9. Essential Formulae…

12. English & Maths (Post-16)
If students fail to achieve at least a 4 grade at GCSE, they will have to retake in Year 12 and possibly Year 13.
This can impact on options available Post-16.

13. English, Maths and Science Top Tips

14. 1.PiXL app revision 2. Online revision : BBC Bitesize , BBC revisewise, Spark notes 3. Word of the day app 4. Showmyhomework 5. Study aids (Amazon, Waterstones etc..) 6. Multi-media: YouTube, podcasts, theatre, Netflix

15. Revision guides

16. PiXLit App Things to know and what does it do:
12/06/2018
Things to know and what does it do:
The app helps to develop a deeper understanding of a range of texts covered under different exam boards.
The app assesses your son/daughter’s knowledge of:
Quotations
Characters
Events and happenings
Terminology

17. PiXLit App What texts are covered? A Christmas Carol
12/06/2018
What texts are covered?
A Christmas Carol
An Inspector Calls
Blood Brothers
Frankenstein
Great Expectations
Henry V
Heroes
Hobson’s Choice
Jane Eyre
Jekyll and Hyde
Journey’s End
Julius Caesar
Lord of the Flies
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
Never Let Me Go
Othello
Pride and Prejudice
Romeo and Juliet
The History Boys
The Merchant of Venice
The Sign of Four
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
War of the Worlds

18. PiXLit App How do they access it?
12/06/2018
How do they access it?
Your son/daughter have been given PiXLit App login details
How should I encourage them to use it?
Following the reading of a specific text in school, your son/daughter should use the app to check their understanding across the range of activities. If your son/daughter returns to the app each week possibly for 10-20mins, this will help to reduce stress and anxiety leading up to an exam.

19. PiXLit App
12/06/2018

20. Maths GCSE What can you do to help? Start revision early
Encourage best effort with homework
Take all opportunities offered for example by making the students addend extra clinics
Use the revision Pixl apps and guides
Get your child to use the recommended calculator
What can you do to help?

21. Your son/daughter is one of our 1.2 million account holders.
PiXL Maths App
12/06/2018
Things to know:
Your son/daughter is one of our 1.2 million account holders.
Just under 1/5 of all students who sat their Maths GCSE (2018) in England, Wales or Northern Ireland had used the Maths App to prepare for their exam.
With regular use it has been shown to raise attainment within a year by at least 1 grade.

22. DIAGNOSIS THERAPY TESTING PiXL Maths App What does the app do?
12/06/2018
What does the app do?
Uses online questions to assess your son’s/daughter’s knowledge across more than 200 skills to raise awareness of their strengths and areas to develop.
Provides video and PowerPoint support to enable learners to target areas of weakness.
Reproduces the same question but with different numbers so that learners can apply their knowledge.
DIAGNOSIS
THERAPY
TESTING

23. Where should my son/daughter start?
PiXL Maths App
12/06/2018
More than 200 skills.
That is quite a lot!
Where should my son/daughter start?
Sometimes it is hard to know what to do with a blank canvas. Therefore we have structured graded challenges under “set tasks” to help students start along a particular path.

24. PiXL Maths App How does my son/daughter know how they are doing?
12/06/2018
How does my son/daughter know how they are doing?
Their success line
Question selection menu is RAG
Class engagement scoreboard
Their teacher also sees an overview and will shape written reports, conversations and their teaching to continuously target their needs.

25. PiXL Maths App So how can I help?
12/06/2018
So how can I help?
Encourage your son/daughter to use the app on top of any other homework. They can use the search facility under “Take a test” to help target a specific skills or the “Daily challenge”.
If you are teaching your son/daughter a particular skill, try and use the techniques shown in the videos/PowerPoints.

26. GCSE Science
Revision guides
My GCSE Science
Educake

27. Higher and foundation tiers available through the finance office
Revision Guides
Higher and foundation tiers available through the finance office

29. Logins will be given out to students in the next few days
My GCSE Science
Logins will be given out to students in the next few days

31. Educake

34. College Applications and Open Evenings

35. Other Key Information:
English (Dumi Ndlovu)
Maths (Pavin Jaswal)
Science (Chris Beattie)
Access Arrangements (Jenna Mansbridge)
Dealing with Exam Stress (Charlotte Adlam)
PiXL Apps and SMHW Logins (Sam Miller)
Booklets and resources to support your child with revision, new GCSE grades, nutrition etc