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CARDINAL NEWMAN HIGH SCHOOL
Moving into Senior Phase
Parents’ Information Evening
What we want for your children
• Opportunities to develop
• The confidence to move on
• The best exam results
Opportunities to develop
• Leadership roles: pupil council
• Responsibilities; Uniform; Common Room
• Sports & Extra-Curricular
• Mentoring younger pupils / Homeroom
• Representing the school
*ROLE MODEL!
Employability
‘Over 50% of our young people do not go to university and, of these, very few leave school with vocational qualifications with labour market currency’
Wood Report 2014
Senior Phase employability:Vocational coursesWork experience opportunitiesSkills development awards
Our expectations…– Attendance
– Time keeping
– Uniform
– Reliability
– Hard working
– Initiative
*ROLE MODEL!
Careers support…
– Careers Advisor –Ruth Robertson
– Lisa McAvoy (Partnership Officer)
– Pupil Support Team
– Home Room Programme
– Invited speakers / Lecturers
– Mrs Skea (librarian
– Individual careers interview
– My World of Work : careers website
Our Options Process
• Senior Phase Pathways issued
• Individual interviews
• Parent approves & returns form
• Student is allocated to a Department
• Department agrees an initial level of study with each student
Our Options Policy
• Every pupil must choose 5 courses
• Only English is compulsory
• Pupils must progress in the same Departments
The Upper School 0ptions ‘Contract’
S5 curriculum recommendations are based on students:
– SQA achievement in S4
– Performance in individual exams
– Career intentions
– Personal qualities
The Upper School 0ptions ‘Contract’
For students we identify• strongest subjects for Higher
• targets (based on national average)• 2 year higher if appropriate
We expect• No changes of subjects after August• No dropping• Level changes ONLY if progressive
The Optimal Curriculum: A Scientific Approach
• Based on sound research
• Unified Point Scale system
• Achievable targets
• Improved exam results
Student 1 Student 2 Student 3
Exam Band UPS Exam Band UPS Exam Band UPS
English (N5) 2 42 English (N5) 2 42 PE (N5) 4 35
Geography (N5) 1 45 Music (N5) 2 42 English (N5) 3 38
Physics (N5) 3 38 History (N4) P 45 Graph C (N5) 4 35
Maths (N5) 2 42 PE (N4) P 35 History (N5) 5 31
Spanish (N5) 2 42 Art (N4) P 21 Maths (N4) P 21
Info Syst (N5) 2 42 Maths (N4) P 21 Spanish (N4) P 21
Hosp (N5) 2 42 Spanish (N4) P 21 Hosp (N4) P 21
Ave: 41 Ave: 32 Ave: 28
Our recommended cut-offs:
5H 4H 3H 2H 1H
33.5 29 25 23 20
Agreeing the Optimal Curriculum
Supports during S5
• Higher Teams/ Study Groups/ HomeRoom
• ICT: GLOW / Edmodo/ Websites
• Parental Tracking interviews
• Supported Study & Easter School
• Individual tuition
• Departmental study plans
• Homework