Welcome to Year 10 Curriculum Evening

Thursday 26th September 2019

Spalding High School Community

• Mr B Love – Assistant Head – Pastoral • Mrs A Schwarz – Head of Main School • Mrs L Neal – Head of Year 10 • Mrs T Jarvis – Pastoral support

The Team

10C Mrs C Jones

10J Mrs M Martin

10N Mrs L

Hagon/Mrs K Carthy

10P Miss H Lee

10S Miss L Ashley

• Student voice • Parental discussions • Teacher discussions • Exam and Core Task results • Curriculum evening feedback forms • Parents’ evening feedback forms • Senior Leaders interviews with students

Feedback

Spalding High School Friendship

Dunlosky et al., 2013

Practice testing Distributed (‘spaced’) practice

Highlighting Underlining Reading Rereading

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Low utility strategies

• High practice spaces • Establishing in game-basic moves • Drills for fine-tuning component parts • Competition and feedback • Deliberate increase in challenge

Expert in a year

Spalding High School Respect

High Utility Strategies

Completing past papers under timed conditions

Studying mark schemes or examiners’ reports

Marking own work to a mark scheme

Comparing model answers with own

Working with other students in groups/ pairs

Creating own exam questions

Handing in extra work for marking

Support in School

• School website • Planner – pages 20-28 • Individual subject support • Subject support sessions • Assemblies and form time • Targeted Year group

activities

• Purposeful working environment • Planning and organisation • Effective revision notes • Specifications and exam board resources • Understanding the question • Emotional wellbeing

Key to Successful Revision

Spalding High School Reflection

https://www.learningscientists.org/ https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/dunlosky.pdf

Helpful Resources

Spalding High School Achievement

GCSE Mindset Mrs F Haunch

Spalding High School Reciprocity

Vespa

Vision

Effort

Systems

Practice

Attitude

Spalding High School Resourceful

Vespa

Vision

Effort

Systems

Practice

Attitude

Vision – How well do you know what you want to achieve?

Spalding High School Education

Vespa

Vision

Effort

Systems

Practice

Attitude

Effort – How much effort do you put in outside of school?

Spalding High School Equality

Vespa

Vision

Effort

Systems

Practice

Attitude

Systems – How do you organise your learning and your time?

Spalding High School Teamwork

Vespa

Vision

Effort

Systems

Practice

Attitude

Practice - What kind of work do you do to practise your skills?

Spalding High School Caring

Vespa

Vision

Effort

Systems

Practice

Attitude

Attitude – How do you respond to setbacks?

Spalding High School Honesty

Work Experience 2019

Feedback 2018-19

Do you think Y10 students should take part in Work Experience? Yes No Unsure

99% 1% 0%

Did you enjoy your Work Experience? Yes No Unsure

93% 5% 2%

How do you think you have benefitted/changed as a person as a result of your Work Experience?

Increased Confidence

Improved knowledge about

future career

Improved Communicatio

n skills

Other new skills

88% 88% 80% 78%

Spalding High School Determination

Year 11 Destinations September 2019

150 pupils • 124 pupils – A Level study or equivalent at a secondary

school with a sixth form (102 pupils at SHS) • 23 pupils – A Level study or equivalent or vocational

course at a college • 2 pupils – Apprenticeships • 1 pupil - Emigrated

Spalding High School Disciplined

Choices at 16: What's right for you?

Effort Grades

GCSE Grades

Year 10 Assessment & Reporting

Spalding High School Happy

• Tuesday 1st October 2019 Evening of Sport, Music and Drama

• Tuesday 8th October 2019 Upper school Prizegiving • Thursday 28th November 2019 Progress cards issued • Monday 9th December 2019 Senior staff Interviews • Thursday 27th February 2020 Progress cards issued • Thursday 5th March 2020 Year 10 Parents’ Evening • Monday 23rd March 2020 Work experience begins • Wednesday 1st April 2020 Work experience ends • Monday 1st June 2020 Internal Exams week • Tuesday 9th June 2020 Multi-Agency Day • Friday 10th July 2020 Reports issued • Monday 13th July 2020 Careers Fair

Key Dates Year 10