1. Welcome to Kings Norton Girls’ School
Supporting Your Daughter in Years 10 and 11
Welcome to Kings Norton Girls’ School

2. Aims and structure of the evening.
Aim: To give strategies on how you can support your daughter:
The research on learning and achievement, Maths
Workshops in Science, English, MFL
Top Tips leaflets for other option subjects
Extra English / NVQ Language

3. In Year 10 and 11 successful students…
Develop as independent learners
Know what they need to do to improve and how to achieve this.
Organised
Excellent attendance
In year Successful students:
Develop as independent learners. – Taking responsibility for their own learning, Proactive, ensuring they understand, ask questions,
know what they need to do and how to improve. And ask if they don’t .
Achieve this - by using resources , eg past exam papers mark schemes, revision classes, asking , and asking again until they understand – teacher peers, you.
Begin to identify ways to help themselves and become self motivated.
Don’t wait to be told to do something
Organised - Make sure work is handed in on time, H/W revision all organised and planned. And feedback is acted upon.
Attendance 8 days = 1 grade

4. How can you support your daughter to be successful?
Show an interest, talk about what she has learnt, ask questions, listen
Help to organise her time for homework and study, with a suitable place to work
Ensure time aside for relaxation and fun
Where possible support with resources that will help
Encourage full attendance
Contact us straight away if you have any worries

5. Your Parent’s Guide to Years 10 and 11 includes…
Contact details
Importance of attendance
Assessment calendar,
New GCSE grades: All subjects
Homework timetable
How to help in English, Maths, Science
The right study environment
How to help
Growth Mindset
Strategies to support understanding, learning and reviewing work

7. Preparing for assessment
Understanding work
How to learn
Review, recap
Retrieval of the appropriate knowledge
Effective exam technique

8. Understanding Mindmapping Use of diagrams Use of images
Chunking information to break it down
Adding information
Creating flashcards
Explaining to other people
Planning answers to exam questions

9. Learning Look, think of facts, images, diagram
Cover and rewrite / say / draw
Check against the original
Correct mistakes in a different colour pen to make it stand out
Go back and repeat

10. Changes created by the communist revolution In Russia
Graphic organisers
Condensing information challenges students to structure information. Comparison Table
Changes created by the communist revolution In Russia
From the view point of:
Before the revolution:
After the revolution:
The life of a peasant
Industrial development
Etc
Active revision , not passive

11. Dual Coding - Humanities

12. Mind maps - Science

13. Growth Mindset
"If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning."  Carol Dweck

14. Listen for the messages in the following examples
“You learned that so quickly! You’re so smart!” “Look at that drawing, is she the next Picasso or what?” “You’re so brilliant, you got an A without even studying!”
“If I don’t learn something quickly, I’m not smart.”
“I shouldn’t try drawing anything hard or they’ll see I’m no Picasso.”
“I’d better quit studying or they won’t think I’m brilliant.”
If you’re like most parents, you hear these as supportive, esteem-boosting messages. But listen more closely. See if you can hear another message. It’s the ones that children hear:

15. It is important to praise your daughters Praise what they have accomplished through practice, study, persistence and good strategies. Have high expectations for achievement Learning from mistakes allows growth and progress.

16. Raising the Participation Age

17. Raising the Participation Age To the age of 18:
Full time education
Apprenticeship
Employment with at Least 20% training.
Continue to study English and Maths if a grade 4 is not achieved in year 11.

22. Student School Parents Success
Please feel free to contact school if you would like help.
We really do believe that the successful partnership is…
School
Parents

23. Year 10 PAP - Maths

24. Why are we where we are now. Where are we now that we are here
Why are we where we are now? Where are we now that we are here? What are we doing about where we are now we are here? How you can help us to help you and your daughter to get where she wants to be when she wants to get there?

25. Why?

26. Where? New GCSE Harder content Harder problem solving
Both papers start harder and finish harder
The foundation paper looks nothing like it did

27. New Grade boundaries
Higher 17-21% Grade 4 (Standard pass/Grade C) 28-33% Grade 5 (Good pass) 52-58% Grade 7 (Grade A) 79-84% Grade 9 (approx top 2% of country)
Foundation 51-57% Grade 4 (Standard pass/Grade C) 66-70% Grade 5 (Good pass)

28. What?
More problem solving Better understanding More exam practice More doing foundation The stage system

29. The stage system

30. Fractions
Stage 8 7 6 5 4
Solving Equations

31. Assessment data

33. How?
Talk to your daughters about their Maths Be positive Have high expectations of numeracy in real life Encourage additional e-work

37. School ID: KG3112

39. Monday lunchtime