1. St Ursula’s Convent School
Welcome to the Year 11 Curriculum Evening – How to support your daughter.

2. Welcome & Introduction
Mrs Hamilton

3. Results this year are outstanding - some highlights are:
Number of Pupils
116
English Language (Grades 9-4)
89%
English Literature (Grades 9-4)
97%
Mathematics (Grades 9-4)
85%
English Baccalaureate (EBacc)
61%
2 or more 4+ Science
83%
1 or more 4+ MFL
74%
Provisional Progress 8
+0.83
Provisional Attainment 8
59.30
5 or more GCSEs (Grades 9-7)
28%
5 or more GCSEs (Grades 9-4)
86%
5 or more GCSEs (Grades 9-1)
100%
Grades 9-7 (Total Achieved)
35% (407 grades)
Grades 9-8 (Total Achieved)
19% (225 grades)
Grade 9s (Total Achieved)
8% (94 grades)

4. Subject Results 2019 Entries % 9-7s % 9-4s RE English Language
116 64 95
English Language 34 89
English Literature 50 97
Maths 29 85
Computer Science 24 92
Science (Combined) 42 2 67
Biology 72 93
Chemistry 74 31 88
Physics
Food Prep & Nutrition 20 75
French 48 40 96
Design and Technology 43 35 86
Art 36 94
Drama 13 77
Geography 82 17
History 65 83
Music 38 PE 45 4 69
Spanish 54 78

5. In 2019, the headline measures of secondary performance are:
There are now significant reforms to the way in which schools are held accountable.
In 2019, the headline measures of secondary performance are:
Progress across 8 subjects ( Progress 8)
Attainment across 8 subjects (Attainment 8) (Grade B)
The percentage of pupils achieving a 4 grade or better in both GCSE English and Maths %
The English Baccalaureate %

6. Intervention Plan Weekly RAP meetings – letters home Masterclasses
Additional Revision sessions
Hill Tops available for Silent Revision at lunch
Peer Mentoring in Maths
Walking Talking Mocks
Literacy support
Saturday learning
One-to-ones
Meetings with individual parents

7. Head of Religious Education
Miss Cushnahan

8. GCSE Religious Education
Exam Board: AQA Specification B
Paper 1: Roman Catholic Christianity 50%
Paper 2: Judaism (25%) and themes (25%)

9. GCSE Religious Education
Paper 1 – 1hr 45mins
Roman Catholic Christianity involves six areas of study:
Creation
Incarnation
The Triune God
Redemption
Church & The Kingdom of God
Eschatology
In the exam students will be questioned on four of the six.

10. GCSE Religious Education
Paper 2 – 1hr 45mins
Judaism and Ethical themes involves four areas of study:
Judaism - Beliefs
Judaism - Practices
Religion, Relationships & Families
Religion, Human Rights & Social Justice
In the exam students will be questioned on all four areas

11. RE pupil support Intervention group Monday 3:10 – 4pm.
Regular timed question practice and feedback given.
Morning sessions to begin after Christmas.

12. OUP Revision Guide
-school ordering-
@MrMcMillanREvis
Textbook/Kerboodle
BimBam on Youtube
Mass attendance

13. Head of English Dept
Miss Dias

14. The Course So far your daughter has covered and continues to work on…
Yet to be covered…
English Language GCSE
Examinations:
English Literature GCSE
1. Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing
1. Modern texts and poetry
2 hours 15 minutes
60% of the examination
50% of the examination
Unseen poetry question
2. Writers’ Viewpoints and Perspectives
2. Shakespeare and the 19th Century novel
1 hours 45 minutes
1 hour 45 minutes
40% of the examination
3. Non examination – Spoken Language (separate endorsement)
Please note all examinations are closed book exams.

15. English support programme
Held every Monday after school between pm.
Small groups of students to work intensively on a key skill that has been identified as a weakness.

16. Revision Guides

17. Revision Guides YORK NOTES FOR A LEVEL

18. Head of Maths Dept
Mr O’Brien

19. GCSE Mathematics How to support your daughter

20. Maths revision = practice
Completing revision on a little and often basis will be much more effective than cramming in the final couple of weeks!
The best way to revise for a Maths exam is to complete as many practice questions as possible.
You will then build up confidence in answering Maths questions, will recognise similar questions and will be used to achieving your target grade.

21. Practice resources available include:
Past Edexcel Maths exam papers and mark schemes available from
Exam questions and solutions on topics filtered by grade can be found on
Completing practice papers will also involve completing some under timed/exam style conditions so you can get used to working with the pressure of exam time. On completion of the practice paper, students should identify areas of weakness and complete further revision of this area; for instance, of constructing and interpreting histograms was an issue, students could use mymaths to work through a lesson and online worksheet, or use mathswatch to refresh

22. Practice resources available include:
Revision guides and workbook
Many students who have purchased the revision pack from the Maths department will have a copy of a revision workbook, which will be useful to provide targetted revision of particular areas of weakness

23. Practice resources available include:
All students have access to our online learning platform vle.mathswatch.co.uk where they can view videos covering the maths topics which they will be assessed on for their GCSE. Linked to each video is a set of interactive questions which are marked online. There is also a PDF printable worksheet for further practice.
The CD has great revision clips, worksheets and examples of the new style questions. It is extremely useful if you get stuck at home revising a particular skill; play the clip, which is like a mini-lesson and you should be reminded of the key points. Available from the Maths Department for £5 if you do not yet have one

24. Practice resources available include:
Pinpoint Learning – students upload their GCSE past paper marks onto the website. Pinpoint learning will then create a personalised and differentiated booklet of practice questions focusing on their weaknesses from that particular paper. Students can login to their personal account to see their video links for each paper and also access fully worked solutions for their booklets to self assess.
Pinpoint Learning
pinpointlearning.co.uk

25. Further resources available:
Your Maths teacher !
After School revision sessions (look out for these and make sure you attend these)
Easter and May-half term revision sessions (during the School holidays)