Welcome!Year 11 Briefing

Planning for the year ahead

The purpose of this session:

To work together

To ask any questions if you are

not clear

To know how to get support

To help your son/daughter achieve the best they can

To be clear about key dates

what?how?

Attendance is key!

Positive residual above

your child’s target grade!

As the pressure mounts…

• Access to The Boardwalk•Priority queuing at Break & Lunchtime• Year 11 Quiet Room – open at Break & Lunchtime•Revision sessions – more on this to follow•Mock interviews – 19th to the 23rd October• Sims Learning Gateway – contains info about attendance, achievement & homework

Examinations•7th – 11th December: Pre Public Exams 1 •21st Dec until the 3rd January: Christmas Holidays •Wednesday 4th February 2016: Subject Parents’ Evening•22nd until the 26th February: Pre Public Exams 2•May 16th until June 29th: Exam season

128!Not including weekends & holidays…

Year 11 Prom • Wednesday 6th July: Year 11 Prom – venue tbc

• Conditions: 1 No debt to College 2 Punctuality and Attendance >94%3 Effort and Behaviour - Interims

Post-16 Arrangements•30th November 2015 – post-16 applications due in• Jan/Feb 2016 – post-16 interviews•April 2016 – offer letters sent out•Friday 24th June – Year 11 Leavers’ Assembly•14th & 15th July – Year 12 Induction•25th August – GCSE results day

Any concerns?• Contact your son/daughter’s Tutor• Contact the Pastoral Leader

• We are here to help! – don’t worry in silence!