1. Year 10 Curriculum Evening
Mrs Edwards – English Faculty Leader Mr Green – Science Faculty Leader Mr Hemingway – Maths Faculty Leader Mr Hurley – Assistant Head Teacher Mrs Mellor – Assistant Head Teacher Mr Pullinger – House Leader linked to year 10 Mr Searle – Year Leader
Can we politely ask that seats are filled from the centre of each row so that we can accommodate everyone and any late arrivals.

2. Mr Searle Year Leader for Year 10

3. Aims of the evening Overview of the year Key Dates Attendance
Examinations and controlled assessment
Controlled assessment
GCSEPod - Access and use
New GCSE examinations
Subject leaders
English
Maths
Science
After Westgate
Post 16
Careers

4. “Resilient” “Ambitious”
How would you like your teachers to describe you when you leave Westgate?
“Funny”
“Polite”
“Could have
done better”
“Cool”
“Hardworking”
“Lazy”
“Resilient”
“Ambitious”

7. Key Dates Thursday 6th Oct 2016: Curriculum Eve
Friday 25th November 2016: Short report published
16th – 19 January 2017: Practice interviews
Thursday 26th January: Year 10 parents evening
Monday 6th– Friday 17th March: Internal examinations
Friday 7th April: Second short report published
Friday 7th July: Full reports published

8. House Leader linked to Year 10
Mr Pullinger
House Leader linked to Year 10

9. The impact of attendance on GCSE grades at the Westgate school
Students with 5 x A*-C GCSE ONLY
100%
99.9% -95%
94.99%-90%
89.9%-85%
84.9% & Below
100%
90%
74%
60%
50%
(Data taken from last years year 11 cohort)

10. How can you support your child with their attendance?
Requests for absence during term time – Mrs Dean , Upper School Leader, or Mr Nicholson, Head Teacher
Please let your child’s tutor know if your child is going to be absent from school for any significant period of time for medical reasons. Please provide medical documents. We can then co-ordinate support.
Complete the absence slip in the back of the Learning Handbooks. The tutor will then feed this back to the Year Leader/Attached House Leader.
Please do not keep your child off school if they have a sore throat, cough or cold; unless they have a high temperature
Promote/incentivise good attendance

11. How we support you and your child with their attendance
We meet with our Attendance Manager on a regular basis to review pupil attendance.
Tutors will be calling home if there are any issues with punctuality (non-transport related).
Promote/incentivise good attendance

12. Preparation, perspiration and positive attitude Mr Hurley
The GCSE experience
Preparation, perspiration and positive attitude Mr Hurley

13. GCSEs from 2017 All subjects will be affected Expectations are rising
Nature of assessment is changing
Grades G-A* becoming Grades 1-9
No 1:1 mapping of grades
Controlled assessment

14. Grade mapping Old GCSE New GCSE A* 9 8 A 7 B 6 C 5 4 D 3 E 2-3 F 1-2 GU

15. Prepare for exams – they do count
Over learning
Revise in good time

16. Mr Hemingway Faculty Leader - Maths

17. Maths & Digital Studies Update
16 staff making it our strongest team ever!
Mrs Tavener
Mr Swales
Mrs Salwey
Mrs Martin
Mr Kinnaird (Joint maths & PE)
Merging of Maths and Digital Studies depts.
Mr Greenslade (CS & ICT Barton Peverill College)
Computing and Maths links
V. Shapland (Business Studies)
Access to more IT resources

18. Maths set structure Set structure for Maths
Four parallel high ability classes
Targeting Higher Maths & Statistics GCSE courses
Looking into Further Maths GCSE for most able.
Four parallel intermediate ability classes
Targeting Higher Maths GCSE course only
Two parallel mixed ability classes
Smaller classes to accelerate and support pupils
Targeting Foundation Maths GCSE course
With pathways to Higher Tier

19. Pathways from tier to tier
Maths & Statistics
Opportunities are restricted due to the intensive and demanding nature of the course.
Predominantly statistics topics in year 10 with Higher maths content in year 11.
“Set 2” pupils flourish.
The combination of the new maths GCSE and Statistics GCSE provides the best route into A level Maths for our more able “set 1” pupils.
We are looking at Further Maths GCSE for our most able pupils.
Can place undue pressure on some pupils.

20. Foundation vs Higher pathways
During the year through regular topic tests
End of year exams and in year 11.
More pupils will be entered for Foundation as the level 5 is ABOVE that of a grade C with trigonometry and more complex problem solving. (Its an intermediate paper).
A grade 5 in exam conditions opens the door to the Higher Tier.

21. Mrs Edwards Faculty Leader – English

22. Two GCSEs: English Language and English Literature:
Two external exams for each GCSE;
All external exams to be taken at the end of Year 11;
No coursework or controlled assessment.

23. English Language GCSE Paper 1: Explorations in Creative Reading
and Writing 1 hour 45 mins
Paper 2:
Writers’ Viewpoints and Perspectives
1 hour 45 mins

24. English Literature GCSE
Paper 1:
Shakespeare and the 19th century novel
1 hour 45 mins
Paper 2:
Modern texts and poetry 2 hours 15 mins

25. The Literature Course Literature texts studied in Year 10 :
‘Power and Conflict’ poetry
Modern Texts – ‘Lord of the Flies’ or ‘An Inspector Calls’
Nineteenth Century text – ‘Frankenstein’ or
‘The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde
Shakespeare in Year 11 ‘Macbeth’

26. For example: Yr 10 Spring Term
Paper 2 GCSE English Language skills taught by reading non-fiction articles on scientific experiments from current news and comparing with an article from a nineteenth century medical journal and then writing their own argument;
Following this with a study of ‘Frankenstein’ or ‘Jekyll and Hyde’;

27. Russian man to undergo world's first full head transplant
Mr Spiridinov, from Russia, suffers from Werdnig Hoffman disease, a muscle wasting condition that seriously diminishes his physical capabilities and left him dependent on a wheelchair.
Now he has announced his intention to become the world’s first subject of a full head transplant, so that his brain can be attached to a healthy body.
Italian neuroscientist Dr Sergio Canavero claims he can complete the unprecedented procedure in less than a day.
The whole process, Dr Canavero says, is “90 per cent” guaranteed to succeed, though he admitted: “Of course there is a marginal risk. I cannot deny that."
Other doctors have expressed serious doubts, and, in particular, the likelihood that Mr Spiridinov’s brain will still be functional by the time the surgery is complete.

28. What are the challenges?
All exams at the end of the course – developing resilient learners;
Closed books – lots of learning of quotes;
Reading material is more challenging: news articles and nineteenth century fiction and also non-fiction texts – developing independent reading skills;
No foundation tier – supporting the less able with a structured approach to learning.

29. Internal Assessment
Formative Assessment –ongoing classwork, target setting, re-writing, improving;
Summative Assessment – at the end of each unit; A GCSE grade 1-9; work kept in folders building up a bank of revision materials and examples;
Yr 10 exam – formal setting English Language Paper 2.

30. Mr Green Faculty Leader - Science
Exam board- AQA
Courses:
Combined Science Trilogy
Biology
Chemistry
Physics
Double Award
Triple Science

31. Exam Board AQA
All pupils are following the same curriculum which will enable them to undertake the separate Sciences (Triple award) or the Combined Science Trilogy (Double Award).
There is no controlled assessment (coursework) element (100% weighting on exams), and all exams are terminal.
Decisions between triple and double award will be made at the end of the year 10, but pupils will have flexibility to change to double award after the mock exams of year 11.
Over the course of this year, pupils will be covering 6 units. These equally cover Biology, Chemistry and Physics.
Pupils who displayed an aptitude towards Science in year 9, and who may be strongly be considering the triple award route are in a class with similar ability pupils. All other classes are mixed ability but smaller.

32. Challenges
The majority of mathematical formulae need to be memorised for the exams, only a few are provided on an equation sheet.
Far greater emphasis on maths skills (20% across all three sciences) with a noticeably larger amount in Physics (30%).
Skills which were assessed during controlled assessment will be assessed within exams, this includes a scientific understanding of a set of ‘required practicals’.
Pupils need to take responsibility for trialling a developing a range of revision strategies. There is tracker sheet at the front of their exercise books to support with the recording of this.

33. Support
Drop in/ revision sessions before the start of the school day, every Wednesday, in Rm 46 (8:00-8:30)
Drop in/ revision sessions after school, every Wednesday in Rm 21 (15:15-16:00)
Online textbook ‘Kerboodle’ which all pupils have access to.
e-chalk, via the schools’ VLE in the library section, lots of Scientific simulations and interactive activities.
Twig, a video clip database, subscribed to by the school which all pupils have access to.
Revision guides, large variety on offer which can be ordered through the school, a letter with details of how to do this will follow.

34. Opportunities After The Westgate School Mrs Mellor

35. Learning Pathways Level 1 qualifications - 5 GCSE’s D-G
Level 2 qualifications - 5 GCSE’s A*-C
Level 3 qualifications - Apprenticeships, Higher diplomas, A levels, BTECs
Level Foundation degrees, Higher National Diplomas, Honours Degrees

36. Post 16 Opportunities Peter Symonds College Barton Peveril College
Traditional
A/S A2 qualifications e.g. English, Sciences, History,
Some BTEC’s and Applied vocational type courses e.g. Health and Social Care, Business Studies
Barton Peveril College
Similar courses to Peter Symonds
A/S A2
BTEC’s and Applied courses in vocational subjects – Health and Social Care, Business, Arts, Sport

37. Apprenticeships – Level 2 Qualification
A variety of apprenticeships available – plumbing, engineering, motor vehicle,
Usually advertised locally, nationally and by word of mouth
Careers Adviser –Mike Jolliffe will help individual pupils who want to choose this route

38. Other Colleges BCOT and Eastleigh Colleges
NVQ’s/BTEc’s/ National Diplomas in vocational subjects such as construction, motor vehicle, hair and beauty, travel and tourism (level 2 and 3 qualifications)
Sparsholt (including Andover)
Vocational style courses similar to BCOT and Eastleigh, also specialises in land based and agricultural e.g. horticulture, equine studies, fisheries etc. (level 2 and 3 qualifications)

39. Make decisions Making sense of the options available is not easy
Make decisions based on the course(s) they want to study – not friends
Keep options open - apply for more than one course…more than one college….NOT by avoiding making any applications
Have a back up plan

40. Information Advice and Guidance
Careers Discussions with Mike Joliffe (HCC )
LRC/ Careers library
Year Leader /House Leader
Subject teachers/Tutors
Parents/Other adults
NEW careers software programme- resource companion – available on the VLE

41. What to do next Attend college open evenings
Look through college prospectus
Find out about the different qualifications
Refer to entry requirements for colleges and possibly universities

42. GCSE Qualifications Are with you for life
Prepare you for the next phase of learning
Are the currency for employment, training, further and higher education
Good GCSE results means more opportunities post 16
All subjects equally important – English and maths are crucial
UCAS forms require GCSE/BTEC grades

43. Thank you for attending tonight's event