1. Year Ten Information Evening

2. Welcome!

3. Fresh starts and reinvention

4. The Trinity Mantra

5. “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart”
Standards
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart”
Colossians 3:23

6. Responsibility

7. Opportunity

8. The VESPA model of GCSE success
Vision – they know what they want to achieve
Effort – they work hard and put in many hours of proactive independent study
Systems – they organise their learning resources and their time
Practice – they use deliberate practice and develop their skills
Attitude – they have a growth mindset and respond constructively to setbacks

9. Vision
“Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.”

10. Vision To sleep in To go out with friends To use social media Gaming
NOW
MOST
To sleep in
To go out with friends
To use social media
Gaming
Watch TV
Leave it until tomorrow
Part time job
To get into sixth form
To get my apprenticeship
To get into college
To be a footballer, astronaut, train driver, writer, actor, doctor, teacher, electrician, plumber, nurse, midwife,…

11. Monday 29 June – Friday 3 July
Work Experience 2020
Monday  29 June – Friday 3 July 
(5 Days)

12. Effort

13. How to learn to put in more effort
Phase 1: Habitualise six hours a week (3 weeks)
Reminder – 3:30pm
Routine – One hour and fifteen minutes of activity in a quiet place, finishing at 4:45pm broken into three sections:
25 mins high intensity work, no distractions, no phone
25 mins off, relaxing, checking social media, music, stretch legs
25 mins super intense work, no distractions
Reward – cuppa, biscuit, TV, exercise, whatever!

14. Problems with Phase 1 If you’re not used to it… Keeping it going
What to fill the time with

15. High effort activities for Phase 1
Check organisation and legibility of notes – highlight key points
Make lists of key definitions with examples
Organise work into themes using mind-maps, charts, tables. diagrams, lists
Use textbooks or electronic resources to reinforce and extend learning
Read feedback and make a list of common mistakes and areas for improvement
Compare model answers from mark schemes to your own work and make a list of what to do differently next time

16. How to learn to put in more effort
Phase 2 – Habitualise nine hours a week (3 weeks)
Reminder- 3:30pm
Routine – One hour and thirty minutes of activity in a quiet place, finishing at 5pm, broken into the following five sections:
25 mins high intensity work, no distractions, no phone
5 mins off, relaxing, checking social media, music, stretch legs
25 mins super intense work, no distractions
Reward

17. Success leaves traces

18. AHP

19. Recognising negative thinking
‘Not fair’ thinking: ‘I don’t deserve this… things shouldn’t be like this.’
‘Catastrophe’ thinking: ‘If this goes wrong, it’ll be the end of the world.’
‘Stopper’ thinking: ‘I’m no good at Maths. I’m bound to do badly.’
‘Illogical’ thinking: ‘If one bad thing happens then more will follow.’
‘Blaming’ thinking: ‘It’s his fault. It’s everyone’s fault except me.’
Overgeneralising: ‘I never get any luck. Everything’s always going wrong.’

21. What has your child been up to in the last year?
Making waves on national radio programmes?
Correcting NASA?
Making Mozart requests?
The Times Crossword?

22. Year 11 Destinations 2019

23. RS WAGOLL

24. Maths Paper 1 WAGOLL

25. Maths Paper 2 WAGOLL

26. PE WAGOLL

27. Media WAGOLL

28. Problem 1: blanks

29. Problem 2: only answering short questions

30. Problem 3: half answers

31. “Practice should not be a punishment
“Practice should not be a punishment. When you invest the time and creativity to make practice fun… this is something positive that is worth our time.”
Lemov (2012)

32. Key Stage 4 Mathematics at Trinity The Classroom The Exam The Support
Trinity School
Michael Cookson
Curriculum Leader for Mathematics
Key Stage 4 Mathematics at Trinity
The Classroom
The Exam
The Support

33. The Classroom Year 10 – Finishing the curriculum – Smaller classes
Year 11 – Analysis, feedback and revision
Lessons to prepare for exam success – 4hrs a week
Extended exam paper coverage

34. The Classroom Exam practice throughout the year with end of term tests
Mock exams
Summer Y10
Winter Y11
Spring Y11
Groups reset to reflect progress

35. The Exam AQA GCSE Mathematics –
Linear – 3 Papers of Equal Weighting – 1hr 30 – 80 marks
Paper 1 – Non Calculator
Paper 2 – Calculator
Paper 3 – Calculator
No Coursework
Exam tier based upon
targets and progress made

36. The Exam Casio Claswiz Series Casio fx-85gtx GCSE Casio fx-991ex
A-Level
Casio fx-85gtx
Casio fx-991ex

37. The Exam
Fluency (10M10M)
Reasoning (Nrich)
Problem Solving

38. The Support
Formal Intervention and revision sessions will begin in Y11
Personalised feedback – linked to Mathswatch
Next step sheets
Regular feedback
Mock analysis
No such thing as no homework…

39. The Support
Mathswatch – an online bank of videos, worksheets and interactive questions
Graded topics
A variety of fluency, reasoning and problem solving

40. The Support CGP Revision guides and exam practice workbooks
Reading a textbook/revision guide is not revision – doing maths is!

41. Any year (even pre reform) Develop exam technique
The Support
PAST PAPERS!!!
Any exam board
Any year (even pre reform)
Develop exam technique

42. GCSE English Language & English Literature
GBA
GCSE English Language & English Literature

43. I haven’t got any homework...
You can’t revise for English...

44. You may remember…
Do they spend a comparable amount of time at home?

45. I’m Sure You’ve Heard...

47. The Times They Are A-Changin’ Again (Again)
All exam-based.
Your child will get a GCSE grade 1 to 9.
Results are norm-referenced.

48. Skills... Developing interpretations of symbolic meanings of texts
Finding an Individual Voice
Analysing Language,
Form & Structure
Whole-Text Organisation
Extended, Developed
Written Pieces
Inferring and Deducing
Finding Quotes
Grammar (Advanced)
Understanding what you’ve read
Spelling & Vocabulary

49. How does your child compare?
Can they write complex, interesting texts at 16 words a minute?
What are they reading?

50. Are they reading at all?

51. Brave New World: Y11
Two exams. Reading section includes VICTORIAN non fiction.

52. There are another eight grades above this.
How well your child writes two pieces in June 2021 will decide 50% of their overall GCSE Language grade.

53. Quality non-fiction… high-level vocabulary… developed, cohesive paragraphing…

54. Literature

56. So...
Start now...
Be involved in your child’s reading. Look at their writing...
Use all the resources available...

57. I haven’t got any homework...
You can’t revise for English...

58. Have they? Condensed some lesson notes
Produced flashcards based on a character/scene/chapter
Made a mind map
Planned an essay
Written all or part of an exam response
Annotated a model answer
Highlighted five new words in a newspaper article
Read a book

59. AHP: Interims and reports

60. Attendance, support
Only about one in four students with attendance less than 95% achieve 5 A*-C GCSEs. 
Missing just 17 days in one year (90%) can cause a drop of a full grade at GCSE. 
Only about one in ten students with less than 80% attendance achieve 5 A*-C GCSEs

61. Year Ten Information Evening