Year 10 Parents Curriculum Information Evening Welcome

Year 10 Parents Curriculum Information Evening Curriculum for Year 10 Students: English Maths Science Citizenship Philosophy and Ethics Personal, Social and Health Education Games and Health & Self

Year 10 Parents Curriculum Information Evening Plus up to four Option subjects. These are chosen from: French, German, Spanish Engineering, Resistant Materials, Textiles, Graphics, Food Technology Geography, History Art, Drama, Music PE, ICT

Year 10 Parents Curriculum Information Evening There are some other choices: Triple Science College or Farm course Functional Skills

Year 10 Parents Curriculum Information Evening The English Baccalaureate: English Language (C or above) English Literature Maths (C or above) Double Science (2 Cs or above) Geography or History (C or above) A Modern Foreign Language (C or above)

Year 10 Parents Curriculum Information Evening Almost all courses are now linear Exams happen at the end of Year 11 but not in Year 10

Year 10 Parents Curriculum Information Evening The only exception to this is Science in which there will be an exam in January for the double scientists and another exam in June for all students

Year 10 Parents Curriculum Information Evening Most courses have a coursework element Some of these coursework elements are done in school under ‘Controlled Assessment’

Year 10 Parents Curriculum Information Evening Courses with Controlled Assessment are: English All DT subjects Geography History Science All Languages

Year 10 Parents Curriculum Information Evening What is Controlled Assessment – See booklet

Year 10 Parents Curriculum Information Evening Some courses are ‘continually assessed’ The work done throughout the course counts towards the GCSE

Year 10 Parents Curriculum Information Evening Courses that are continually assessed are: Art ICT PE (BTEC)

Year 10 Parents Curriculum Information Evening Some courses have a ‘Practical Assessment’ These generally take place in Year 11

Year 10 Parents Curriculum Information Evening Courses with a Practical Assessment are: PE (GCSE) Music Art Drama

Year 10 Parents Curriculum Information Evening ‘Core’ subjects are English, Maths and Science

Year 10 Parents Curriculum Information Evening The booklet that was issued to those who attended this presentation is available from the General Office

Year 10 Parents Curriculum Information Evening Questions I was asked to provide a list of subjects with exam boards so this is on the next slide

Year 10 Parents Curriculum Information Evening ArtAQA CitizenshipAQA DramaEdexcel EngineeringEdexcel Food TechnologyEdexcel GraphicsAQA Resistant MaterialsEdexcel TextilesAQA EnglishAQA FrenchEdexcel GeographyAQA GermanEdexcel HistoryOCR ICTEdexcel MathsEdexcel MusicEdexcel Philosophy and EthicsOCR PEEdexcel ScienceAQA