Year 10 Partnership with Parents Welcome!

Agenda • • • • • •

What to expect in Year 10 Core Subjects – key points to consider Exam Access Arrangements CEIAG – what will this entail? Looking forward to post-16 Online Safety – issues from a parental point of view

What’s new in Year 10? • • • •

GCSEs Workload Options The future

How to support her… • Time Planning • Space • Quiet/Undisturbed

Do… • • • • •

Be aware of deadlines & check planner Have high expectations Encourage ambition Foster self-belief and resilience Understand that she’s putting herself under pressure

Be a Supportive Parent/Carer Please discuss with your daughter • What she enjoys • What is she good at • What she hopes to do when she completes her school education

Don’t… • Assume OK means OK • Assume two hours “working” is two hours of work done • Spend lots of money • Nag or compare

The Importance of Attendance • Sometimes students are ill • GCSE Option subjects get 2.5 hours per week of lesson time • Minimum attendance target is 95% • Attendance of 95% is the equivalent to an average of 2.5 hours per fortnight missed (half a GCSE-worth of lessons) • Attendance of 90% is the equivalent to an average of 2.5 hours per week missed (a whole GCSE worth of lessons)

The Importance of Attendance • Send your daughter in to school every day • Dental/Medical appointments • Holidays

What’s new in Year 10? • • • •

GCSEs Workload Options The future

What’s not so new? • Support from us • Internet and e-Safety – Risk-taking

• Friendships

Inclusion Team Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads (DDSL) SENCo Sixth Form Heads of Year

Inclusion Mentor Chaplain

Mr Burns Mr Markall Mr Espinosa Mrs De St Croix Mr Hamidon Miss Paisley Mrs Jones –Year 7 Mr Gould –Year 8 Mr Rodrigues –Year 9 Mr Topp –Year 10 Miss Pathak –Year 11 Mrs Flann Rev. Natalie Garrett

Coming up this year Spring Term

Summer Term

25-27 Jan School Play 27 Jan Second Report home 2 Feb Parents’ Evening 1 21 Feb Art Contextual Study 27 Feb Art Pre-Mock paper issued • 27 Feb Art begin Year 11 Personal theme prep

• 24 April Mock Exam Week • 26 May Report 3 home • 26 May Art Coursework Deadline • 8 June Parents Evening 2 • 2 Days of Geography Field Trips

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Core Subjects

Maths GCSE Mathematics has changed in the following ways The volume of subject content has increased. More exams There are fewer marks at the lower grades and more marks at the higher grades at both Foundation Tier and Higher Tier. • A new grading structure, from grade 9 to 1, to replace the familiar A* to G grading scale. • In the assessments there’s a greater emphasis on problem solving and mathematical reasoning, with more marks now being allocated to these higherorder skills. • • • •

Exam Structure

Tips • Complete Home Learning tasks (before it’s due) and seek help if support is needed • Encourage your daughter to explore topics beyond the core syllabus • Practise • Practise • Practise

English How is it Assessed? • English Language Paper 1 – 1 hour 45 min written exam • English Language Paper 2 – 1 hour 45 min written exam • English Literature Paper 1 – 1 hour 45 min written exam • English Literature Paper 2 – 2 hour 15 min written exam

At home… • Reading and re-reading and re-reading (the exams are ‘closed book’ and the texts are long) • Mind-maps, post-its, chapter summaries, character files are all helpful • Films and TV adaptations are a great revision-aid but students MUST know the text as well. • Reading non-fiction such as broadsheet newspapers and developing an opinion on what they’ve read • Reading widely in their spare time…

Exam Access Arrangements Mrs De St Croix

• Examples of exam access arrangementsa reader a scribe a laptop

extra time

separate room invigilation

rest breaks

• The Joint Council for Qualifications, (JCQ), tightly regulates exam access arrangements.

Approval of exam access arrangements a 2 part process • The school collects a long-standing, detailed history of need, well documented in school • Access arrangements, that are applied for, must have been the student’s usual way of working in school over a period of time

2 part process • School commissions a specialist report confirming the difficulties a student may have and the arrangements which will compensate for these difficulties. • The school is not allowed to accept independent reports on learning needs for exam access arrangements.(JCQ rules) • Testing should be completed before Christmas this year

• You will be informed if your daughter has Exam Access Arrangements approved. • Any queries please contact me • [email protected]

CEIAG Mrs Humphrys

Choices

Quick Quiz 1. Name the top three fastest growing jobs in the UK over the past two years 2. You can study Biomedical Science at degree level with a BTEC qualification – true or false? 3. Name three top companies offering an Apprenticeship Programme to school leavers 4. UCAS Progress is the system used to search for courses and apply for university - true or false?

Quick Quiz - Answers 1. Name the top three fastest growing jobs in the UK over the past two years Paramedics / Psychologists / Graphic Designers 2. You can study Biomedical Science at degree level with a BTEC qualification – true or false? True 3. Name three top companies offering an Apprenticeship Programme to school leavers BBC / BA / E&Y / BMW / RBS / NPL / Sky / PWC / BT / Harrods / TfL etc!! 4. UCAS Progress is the system used to search for courses and apply for university. False

Top Websites for Parents • http://www.allaboutschoolleavers.co.uk/pare nts • https://www.ucas.com/ucas/16-18choices/help-and-support/ucas-progressparents-and-carers • https://www.ucas.com/ucas/after-gcses • http://www.parentadviser.co.uk/

Our Support for Year 10 • • • • • • •

Futures Workshop Insight Events Employer Visits Sixth Form Futures Programme One-to-one interviews Apprenticeship Talk STEM Events

Our CEIAG Programme How do we know we do it well? • Numbers progressing to Russell Group Universities • Leadership and independence • Alumni visits and feedback • Links with top universities and local businesses • Investors in Careers Award

What should Year 10 do now? Search on UCAS Progress – compare courses

https://www.ucasprogress.com/search

What should Year 10 do now? Check the Career News on our website regularly

http://www.thegreenschool.net/page/?title=Career+News&pid=249

What should Year 10 do now? Sign up to Success at School https://successatschool.org/

Mr Hamidon Director of Sixth Form

What should Year 10 do now? Attend our Sixth Form Open Evening • A range of A level courses • A BTEC in Health and Social Care • Opportunity to study in a Consortium School • Broadening Horizons Programme • UCAS collector courses • Pathways Programme • Post 18 Programme

“Online Safety ” • Mr D Lawley • Subject Leader for Computer Science

Is your child… • spending all of their time online? • interested in coding? – Do they have independent learning material on computing?

• have irregular sleeping patterns? • getting an income from their online activities, do you know why and how? • resistant when asked what they do online? • using the full data allowance on the home broadband and their portable devices? • more socially isolated?

“NCA warns parents that kid coders could be cyber criminals” If you answered yes: • Those are the apparent 'warning signs of cyber crime' that 'may indicate a young person is at risk of getting involved in cyber crime.‘ • Hang on… interested in coding? • Do they have independent learning material on computing?

• Some of these are behaviours the government itself are trying to instil in pupils • but we have to exercise caution

What are our kids doing online? Highlights from the Ofcom Children and parents: media use and attitudes report (nov 2015)

• Tablets = default entertainment screen (75%) • Consuming more content curated by digital intermediaries (YouTube, Google) • Smaller screens makes supervision more difficult for parents • Proliferation of devices increases the need for parents to keep up to date with technology • Less than one in five parents use any of the tools for restricting app installation or use

Online access & use • Weekly time online doubled since 2005, from 8 hours to 18.9 for 12-15s …and 12-15s now spend nearly 3.5hrs more a week online than they do watching a TV set.

• nearly all 12-15s (96%) have internet access at home ...and compared to 2005 (%), more are going online in their bedroom (34%)

Social media • 74% of 12-15s have a profile of some kind

• How old do you have to be to use these sites?

On the subject of social media • How old you have to be to use? – Facebook – Twitter – Instagram – Snapchat – WhatsApp – YouTube*

*with parental permission (18 without!)

Why 13? • Children’s naive approach to social media makes them vulnerable to other online dangers • Know how to use the sites, but does not mean that they know how to use them responsibly “Pre-teens are technologically savvy, but their skills are likely to outpace their judgment.” (Common Sense Media, 2014)

• The internet is not suddenly safe at the age of thirteen

What they’re up to • 24% who use the internet at home feel more confident on the internet than in real life • 47% know someone who has had gossip spread about them • 29% knows someone who has had embarrassing pictures being made public • Yet 58% of children admit to saying mean and hurtful things to others online (dosomething.org) (Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report, 2015)

But it’s not all bad • 12-15s are receiving more advice about online risks (97%) mostly FROM YOU, friends & teachers. • Children’s reported online contact with people they don’t know is relatively low in 2015 • 4% have sent a photo or video of themselves to someone they’ve only had contact with online • Bullying is more likely to happen in person rather than via text message, social media or online games • 8 in 10 parents of 5-15s have rules in place about their child’s online activities (Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report, 2015)

Risks •

Online strangers

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Overuse / addiction

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Cyberbullying

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Inappropriate content –

what has been seen can’t be unseen

What do we do? • E-safety lessons taught through PSHE & partly in Computer Science E-safety policy

• School website • Planners • Website filtering

Computer Science curriculum (KS3) • Using-computers-safely-effectively-and-responsibly • Covers the necessary basic knowledge to use computers safely, effectively and responsibly. • E-safety (cyber-bullying, phishing, cat fishing), and online profiles to give pupils a better understanding and awareness of using social media. • The functionality and operation of email and search engines and how to use them effectively

• Computer crime and cyber security: • Which covers some of the legal safeguards regarding computer use, including overviews of the Computer Misuse Act, Data Protection Act and Copyright Law and their implications for computer use. • Phishing scams and other email frauds, hacking, “data harvesting” and identity theft are discussed together with ways of protecting online identity and privacy. • Health and Safety Law and environmental issues such as the safe disposal of old computers are also discussed.

In PSHE…. • • • •

Sexting E-safety Relationships Delivered through – Class discussions – Recent media / news articles – Sharing their own experiences

So what can you do

• Talk to your child • Get the family involved • Take an interest in what they are up to

Tools to help you • Content filters provided by you broadband ISP • Parental control software – (e.g. Net Nanny, McAfee Family Protection, Open DNS etc)

• Time-limiting software • PIN/password required to enter websites unless already approved, • Safe search enabled on search engine websites, • YouTube safety mode • Tools for restricting app installation

… just an idea

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