1. Year 10 Parents Information Evening 17 th September 2015

2. Accessing the System

3. What You Can See…

8. Some Differences for 2015/16 This will be the highest of either three levels of progress, based on KS2 scores, or the grade required across all subjects to achieve a positive Progress 8 score. Minimum Target: Markbooks: Half termly ‘Current Grades’ to be updated. Allows you to quickly ascertain your child’s progress with no confusion over marks.

9. What is Progress 8? Progress 8 is a new secondary accountability measure aimed at measuring the progress of pupils across a selected set of 8 subjects. It is a type of value added measure, meaning that pupils’ results are compared to the actual achievements of other pupils with the same prior attainment. It has been introduced alongside another new accountability measure; Attainment 8 – the two are linked and will be explained in later slides.

10. What About Attainment 8? The Progress 8 score is based on pupils performance across 8 subjects – this performance score is known as the “Attainment 8” score. Therefore, to understand Progress 8 it is necessary to first understand Attainment 8. Attainment 8 will also be published in performance tables alongside the Progress 8 measure.

11. Attainment 8 Attainment 8 is a measure of a pupil’s average grade across a set suite of eight subjects. Grades will be measured on a 1-8 point score scale, rather than the current 16-58 scale. On this new scale, 1 is equivalent to a Grade G GCSE. An increase in one point will represent an increase of one GCSE grade up to 8, which is equivalent to an A* GCSE.

12. Buckets! The Attainment 8 measure will take the average of a pupils points across a set of their best 8 subjects. The 8 qualifications that count towards the Attainment 8 measure must fall into one of three “buckets.” If a qualification does not fall into one of these buckets, it is not counted in the attainment 8 (or progress 8) measure.

14. Example Student - Alan SubjectGradeCounted in Progress 8? English LanguageAYES – BUCKET 1 English LiteratureCYES – BUCKET 3 MathsBYES – BUCKET 1 GermanBYES – BUCKET 2 HistoryAYES – BUCKET 2 ScienceBYES – BUECKET 2 ScienceBNO – BUCKET 2 FULL CateringBYES – BUCKET 3 Religious StudiesAYES – BUCKET 3

15. Example Student - Alan These grades are added up and the total is divided by 10: 62 / 10 = 6.2 Checking expected Attainment 8 scores shows this student should achieve 5.7. Currently achieving 6.2. Dividing this by 10 gives his Progress 8 score of 0.62. Therefore, Alan is overachieving by 0.62 grades on average GradeScore A14 C10 B6 B6 A7 B6 B6 A7 Total62

16. Make Homework Outstanding in 2015!

17. “It’s a simple, online homework calendar showing homework details, deadlines and attachments for students ” What is Show My Homework?

18. Help students help themselves Personalised to do list Stay organised Consistently meet deadlines

19. Parents love it too! See the quantity and quality of work set Track your child’s progression Monitor from a distance How Can it Help You?

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