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Welcome to Year 10 Outline of the Evening Welcome to Year 10 Outline of the Evening • Y10 • 1-9 scale • Target Setting • English • Maths • Science • Major changes to other GCSE subjects • GCSE Exams • Controlled Assessment & Coursework • Summer Trial Exams • Post-16 choices • Y10 Work Experience Summer 2018 How does the 1-9 Grading System Work? Y10 Target Setting • Based on data from Fischer Family Trust • Compares performance by students with similar abilities based on KS2 SATs. • Targets are set on the top performing 20% and 5% of students with this ability when they did their GCSEs. • If students have made good progress at Ks3 we increased the target. • Please take the target sheets and discuss them and return to us. Target Setting • These are HIGHLY CHALLENGING targets. • The target setting process has changed but we have departments that are in the top 5% in the country such as Sociology and our English department are very close. • It shows our students have the potential to be the best in the country. • We need to strike a balance between challenging targets but not so high they are demoralising! Example KS2 SATs scores This shows the This is the grade percentage This is the grade the chosen by Mr chance of top 5% of similar Fortune as a getting each ability students have target grade as grade. achieved in the past. the student has made excellent progress in KS3. They are not a cap! • Targets are not a cap on achievement. • We encourage students to BEAT targets • Equally staff will always strive for the best for our students. • Eg AF Student AT GCSE Summer Trial Exams • These begin in mid-May and end at the end of June. • Students will need to be in school at 8:35 for morning exams. • There will be clashes and multiple exams on one day. • Exam timetables will be sent home. • We will also sell revision materials and go through revision techniques with students. • It is important students take these seriously. • In the real thing students will take huge numbers of exams: • 4 English • 3 Maths • 6 Science • + 4 option subjects (on average 2 papers per subject) • It makes for around 20 exams per student depending on their subject choices. Controlled Assessment & Coursework • What’s the difference? • Coursework and controlled assessment can be partly completed at home such as project work. • Controlled Assessment is completed in class under exam conditions. • With the new GCSE very few subjects now have Controlled Assessment any more. • We try to calendar deadlines so they are spread through the year to reduce ‘pinchpoints’ for students Not enough work? • SAMlearning • Centre ID: YO32JR • User ID: Date of birth followed by two initials: first name then last name. • Example: 01082001DJ is the User ID for Daniel Jones born 1st Aug 2001. • Password: Initially same as the User ID, Learners are encouraged to change this to something difficult to guess. Stress? • Mindfulness Programme • Revision Programme Maths Key changes from the old specifications • New content • Additional content in the foundation tier and higher tier - 33% • New assessment objectives • More formulae need to be known, reduction in formulae page AQA Specification at a glance Paper 1: non-calculator Paper 2: calculator Paper 3: calculator Content Content Content • Content from any part • Content from any part • Content from any part of the specification may of the specification may of the specification may be assessed be assessed be assessed Assessment Assessment Assessment • 1 hour 30 minutes • 1 hour 30 minutes • 1 hour 30 minutes • written exam • written exam • written exam • 80 marks • 80 marks • 80 marks 1 1 1 • 33 % of GCSE • 33 % of GCSE • 33 % of GCSE 3 3 3 • Students will be required to answer all questions on all papers • The assessment structure will be the same for both foundation and higher tiers Overview of specification content 2 The mathematical content is defined by the DfE’s GCSE subject content and assessment objectives document. Subject area Foundation Tier Higher Tier weighting weighting Number 25% (35%) 15% (17%) Algebra 20% (17%) 30% (35%) Ratio, proportion and 25% (subsumed in 20% (subsumed in rates of change other areas) other areas) Geometry and measures 15% (28%) 20% (28%) Probability and statistics 15% (20%) 15% (20%) Figures in brackets show weightings for the current qualification Assessment Objective 1 Use and apply standard techniques Students should be able to: • accurately recall facts, terminology and definitions • use and interpret notation correctly • accurately carry out routine procedures or set tasks requiring multi-step solutions Weighting: F 50% H 40% Assessment Objective 2 Reason, interpret and communicate mathematically Students should be able to: • make deductions and inferences and draw conclusions from mathematical information • construct chains of reasoning to achieve a given result • interpret and communicate information accurately • present arguments and proofs • assess the validity of an argument and critically evaluate a given way of processing information Weighting: F 25% H 30% Assessment Objective 3 Solve problems within mathematics in other contexts Students should be able to: • translate problems in mathematical or non-mathematical contexts into a process or a series of mathematical processes • make and use connections between different parts of mathematics • interpret results in the context of the given problem • evaluate methods used and results obtained • evaluate solutions to identify how they may have been affected by assumptions made Weighting: F 25% H 30% Foundation Tier Structure of Foundation Tier Papers • Each paper will start with 4 multiple choice questions • 4 further multiple choice questions are spread throughout each paper • Early questions test the basic foundation content in a straightforward way • As the paper progresses the basic foundation content is tested in more complex ways • Towards the end of the paper additional foundation content is included, but is tested in a straightforward way Higher Tier Structure of Higher Tier Papers • Each paper will start with 4 multiple choice questions • 4 further multiple choice questions are spread throughout each paper • Early questions test the additional foundation content in a straightforward way and the basic foundation content in a more complex way • As the paper progresses the higher content is tested in a straightforward way and the additional foundation content is tested in a more complex way • At the end of the paper higher content is tested in both straightforward and more complex ways English The Key Changes • Students complete all of their exams at the end of the course in May/June 2017. • There is no coursework; grades for both English Language and Literature are determined by examination performance only. • The English Literature exams are now closed book. • Students will be graded on a 1-9 system. English Language : Key Information • Paper 1 is 1 hour 45 minutes in length. • Paper 2 is also 1 hour 45 minutes in length. • Both papers are evenly weighted, each worth 50% of the overall marks for GCSE English Language. • Students also have to complete a “spoken language task”. They will be asked to present a formal presentation which may be recorded. This is a separate endorsement and is worth 0% of the overall GCSE. English Language : Paper 1 • Students will sit two papers in May/June 2019. • Paper 1, Section A tests students’ ability to study a prose literature text and answer four comprehension-style questions, each increasing in difficulty. • Paper 1, Section B tests students’ ability to write a descriptive or narrative piece. They are awarded 24 marks for the content & style of their writing and 16 marks for accuracy and use of vocabulary. English Language : Paper 2 • Paper 2, Section A tests students’ ability to study two texts, one a non-fiction text and one a literary non-fiction text. Students will answer four comprehension-style questions and will be asked to compare the two texts. • Paper 2, Section B tests students’ ability to write from a particular viewpoint. They will be given a quotation which they will be expected to respond to in an argumentative/persuasive style. English Literature : Key Information • Paper 1 is 1 hour 45 minutes in length. • Paper 2 is 2 hours 15 minutes in length. • Paper 1 is worth 40% of the overall GCSE for English Literature. • Paper 2 is worth 60% of the overall GCSE for English Literature. English Literature: Paper 1 • Students will sit two papers in May/June 2018. • Paper 1, Section A will ask students to respond to the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare. Students will be given a passage to analyse and then will be expected to respond to the play as a whole. • Paper 1, Section B will ask students to respond to a 19th- century text studied in class (either Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde or A Christmas Carol). As with Section A, students will be given a passage to analyse and then will be expected to respond to the novel as a whole. English Literature: Paper 2 • Paper 2, Section A will ask students to respond to a modern text they have studied in class (either Lord of the Flies or An Inspector Calls). Students will have a choice of two questions. • Paper 2, Section B will ask students to respond to a poem from the Power & Conflict cluster of their poetry anthology. One poem will be printed and students will be expected to compare this with another from the anthology. • Paper 2, Section C will ask students to respond to two unseen poems. They will have to write about one individually and then compare the first unseen poem with another poem printed in the exam booklet. Why does Year 10 matter? Why does it all matter? Science GCSE Course options • All students in year 10 will now either be sitting: • Triple Science (3 GCSEs, Biology, Chemistry and Physics) • Combined Science (2 GCSEs, covering all three disciplines above) • Both the courses above are 100% examination assessed, there is no controlled assessment or coursework component.
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