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Welcome to George Abbot Year 8 Parents Information Evening Monday 17th September 2018

Our mission

Academic excellence within a strong community of equality and respect, where potential and opportunity are realised

Results 2018 KEY STAGE 4 • Percentage achieving a strong pass in English and maths (grade 5 or above): 67% • Percentage achieving a standard pass in English and maths (grade 4 or above): 84% • Pupil destinations – (percentage of pupils staying in education or going into employment) 97% KEY STAGE 5 • The average grade that students achieve at KS5 – C+ • The average grade for a student’s best 3 A-levels is B- • Academic and A-level retention 97.4%

Tonight’s speakers Mr Goulborn – Assistant Headteacher Mr Huelin – Inclusion Manager My Clayman – Assistant Headteacher Mr O’Sullivan – Deputy Head

Culture and Character

Our culture…

Safe

Hardworking

Happy

Forward thinking Caring

Aspirational Community Spirit

Respectful

Proud Diverse

Leaders

Organised United

Resilient

Calm Integrity

Active

Kind

The right character to succeed…

Developing character in our students

• To succeed • To be employable • To be a good person!!!

Working Together

Pastoral Team

Mrs Haste Fg Miss Northcote Fa

Mrs Broadbent Gg Mrs Hoogma-Hoogeboom Ga

Mr White / Ms King Pg Miss Johnson Pa

Ms Culham/Mr Downs Mg Ms Brown Ma

Mrs O’Connor Wg Mrs Gill Wa

Mr Goulborn – Assistant Headteacher Pastoral

Mr Huelin – Inclusion Manager Y8

Mrs Finnis – Head of Year 8

Mr Clayman SLT link Y8

Kate Carriett Headteacher

Overall Safeguarding Responsibility

Joe Omar Assistant Headteacher Deputy Safeguarding

Lead

Rob Giles Assistant Headteacher

Designated Safeguarding Lead

Looked After Children

Karen Bennet Inclusion Manager

James Huelin Inclusion Manager

Jane Richings Inclusion Manager

Alison Firth Head of Y7

Helen Finnis Head of Y8

Annie Tilley Head of Y9

Alison Morgan Head of Y10

Rachel Edmeads

Head of Y11

Wendy Nightingale

Inclusion Manager

Lou Hayne Online

Safeguarding Co-ordinator

Safeguarding Team at George Abbot Senior Safeguarding Team

Pastoral Safeguarding Team

The Role of the Tutor • First point of contact for parents and students • To assist in the monitoring of progress • To offer individual advice • To plan for the future • To help develop the whole learner • To distribute school based information and

assistance

The Successful Partnership

• Student • Form Tutor • Parent/Guardian • Head of Year • Pastoral Lead • Asst. Pastoral Lead • Subject staff • Other staff – SENCO

Student

Subject staff

Inclusion Manager

Head of Year

Form Tutor

Parent / Guardian

Other staff –

e.g. SENCO

Vision for the years ahead

Getting the best out of an outstanding group of young people

7 • Finding our feet

8 • Choosing our future

9 • KS4 begins

10 • Embedding our knowledge

11 • GCSE / KS4 ends

12 • The Journey continues…

The Journey so far. The Journey ahead…

Options process • Our option process will complete run from November to March • Key Stage 4 begins in Y9 – to preserve 4 option

choices

• This has created capacity for slightly more time in the core and made Y9 available to deliver GCSE options

English Lang & Lit

Maths Science RE Option 1

Option 2

Option 3

Option 4

Total GCSEs

2 GCSEs

1 GCSE

2/ 3 GCSEs

1 GCSE

1 GCSE

1 GCSE

1 GCSE

1 GCSE

10 or 11

The Options Process - FAQs

Won’t students be too young to make these important decisions?

• We have increased the advice and guidance we offer students to help

make choices • We will offer taster sessions in the

school day

Won’t 3 years be too long a period for students to study

GCSE over?

• We have done this in Science and Maths and it has produced very

strong results • Departments may not start GCSE

work until later in Year 9 once students are ready

Won’t they miss important Key Stage 3 content if you

finish in Year 8?

• Students are only choosing the subjects they wish to continue with

to Key Stage 4 • Departments will use Year 9 to finish

outstanding KS3 content first if it is essential to the subject

Why do they need to do so many choices, wouldn’t it

be better to enjoy the variety of subjects at Key

Stage 3?

• Our first priority is preserving student choice as we believe this motivates

students to learn most of all • Student voice has informed us that students like the prospect of being able

to concentrate on their favoured choices sooner

The Options Process - FAQs

The Options Process – Conversations to have at home

• Keeping a spread of subjects • Realistic expectations of coursework heavy

choices • Engage with Taster Sessions • Changing choices is not possible after they

have started them in Year 9

The Options Process – Key Dates

Options Information Evening 6th December Parents Evening (2:15-6:15) 10th January Subject Presentation Evening 29th January Pupil interviews start 30th January Pupil Taster Lessons start (TBC) 11th February Options Deadline (TBC) 12th Feb+

The Successful Student Attends Communicates Is independent Has a routine Works hard Has balance Driven Resilient Engaged in the community

Early Signs of Stress • Staying up late/difficulty waking up. • Unwillingness to discuss school work. • Not wanting to come to school. • Regular illness/unexplained aches and pains. • Withdrawn and isolating themselves. • Change in habits eg eating habits, sleeping patterns. • Loss of interest in things they enjoy. • Irritability and frequent angry episodes.

Extra Curricular

• Form-time bucket list – Everyone is expected to sign up to at least one club

• Extra Curricular Trips – Residential – Alternative Trips

Teaching and Learning

• GA10 • Student Hub

• Parent Hub/Support • Homework

GA Student 10

A series of learning behaviours which will allow you to develop your skills

to maximise your achievements within school.

Develop Your Subject Knowledge

How can you learn more about the

subjects that you study?

Understand what helps you to learn best

Do you have a particular learning style?

In which conditions do you

do your best work?

Use time wisely

How can you make the most of your learning time both within lessons

and at home?

Work independently and with others

Why is it important to be able to work both alone and with others?

How can you achieve this in your

school life?

Think of different ways to absorb and retain information

Learning is not only about interaction between a teacher and a student.

What creative approaches can you

take to your learning?

Complete homework to develop your knowledge

Do you access Show My Homework, regularly?

Who helps you with your

homework?

Do you use homework to embed, extend, apply or improve your

knowledge?

Know which skills are needed to complete different tasks

Tutor Time 2018: Tutor booklet

• Directed tasks • Resources and instructions

provided • Evidence of student reflection • Weekly resources will provide

further activities to use in addition to the booklet

• Rewards for students and tutor groups

Tutor Programme W/C Week Focus 10/9 1 GA Student 10 – Develop your subject Knowledge

17/9 2 Importance of extra-curricular participation at George Abbot

24/9 3 GA Student 10 – Understand what helps you to learn best

1/10 4 Community Charter - Bucket List Discussion

8/10 5 GA Student 10 – Use Time Wisely

15/10 6 Community Charter – I am proud of my school community

Autumn Term 1

Student Hub School website

Teaching and Learning Tools

• All accessible via Student Hub: – GCSE Pods – SAM Learning – Kerboodle – Doddle – ActiveLearn – PIXL – MyMaths – Huddle – EverLearner – History Study Centre

Where do I fit in?

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Parent Hub School website

‘Top Tips’ for the supportive parent/guardian…

• Develop a positive environment at home – Calm/Quiet area – No phone – Create a schedule TOGETHER!!

• Schedule breaks – Suggest chunking work with regular breaks – Give them some time to be a child

• Ask them to discuss their revision/coursework/lessons – Take some time to boost their confidence – Ask them to explain it, after all its possible you know less then they do! – Do they know how to get support in school?

• Learn something yourself – This doesn't have to be big or long term. Simple quick online learning to support students – Share the interest and improve the engagement – “We can learn it together”

• Plan for after the exams/assessments (something to look forward to) – Something small that they haven't been able to due to exams or upcoming assessment revision

Homework 2018-2019

Subject Y7 Y8 Y9 Y10 Y11 Per week, each HW

Up to 25 min Up to 30 min Up to 40 min Up to 50 min Up to 60 min

English 1 1 1 1 1

Maths 1 1 1 1 1

Science 1 1 1 2 2

History 1 1

Geography 1 1

MFL 1 1 for each

Lang

DT/ Food/ ICT/RE/Arts

Fortnightly Fortnightly

Per GCSE/BTEC

option – except Arts

1 1 1

GCSE Arts subjects

Up to 2 hours Up to 2 hours Up to 2 hours

All homework should…

• Complete a specified task

• Mastery of a skill or specific content

• Informed by feedback

• With clear guidance

• Move beyond classroom learning

• With clear guidance

• Consolidate work completed in class

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Aims of whole school assessment and reporting. • Every child knows how they are doing, and understands what

they need to do to improve. • Every teacher is equipped to make well-founded judgements

about learners’ attainment and how to plan to improve it. • Every subject has systems for making regular, useful,

manageable and accurate assessments. • Every parent knows how their child is doing, what they need to

do to improve, and how they can support the child and their teachers.

• Every student who requires intervention is identified.

You may remember this from your youth…

GEP Bands: A Recap • GEP Bands is the system of assessment we use from Y7 to Y11 • The GGEP Bands is the system of assessment we use from Y7

to Y11 • The GEP Bands are based on the 9-1 GCSE grading system. We

divide each Band into 3 pts to allow students to show progression within each Band.

• GEP Bands are based on the 9-1 GCSE grading system. We divide each Band into 3 pts to allow students to show progression within each Band.

Converting the 9-1 GCSE grades to GEP Bands

4.0

GCSE Grade 3

equivalent

GEP

Band 3

3.6 Mastering the skills, concepts and knowledge required in this grade.

3.3 Becoming increasingly confident and consistent in demonstrating the skills, concepts and knowledge required at this grade.

3.0 The skills, concepts and knowledge required in this grade are not secure or are demonstrated inconsistently.

Student Progress

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Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11

Student Progress

Student Progress

KS2 score is

converted to GEP BAND

Presented as a fine

grade e.g. 3.2

At the end of the GCSE course the student achieves

a whole GCSE grade e.g. Grade

8

Showing Progress • Colour coding will be calculated against expected

grades • Three Colour Codes : Purple= Currently Working Above Expectation Green: Currently Working within Expectation Yellow: Currently Working Below Expectation

• Colour coding will be specific to each student • Students and parents will still see individual

subject assessments in Go4Schools.

Go4Schools

Progress Monitoring Friday 30th November 2018 Autumn Report issued Thursday 10th January 2019 Parents’ Subject Meeting Monday 1st March 2019 Autumn Report issued Friday 28th June 2019 Summer report issued

Consistency in Formative Assessment

• Many departments presented formative feedback in different ways.

• Parents often ask how they can help support students but are not sure how.

• Students are often unclear of, can’t find, lose sheets, or just forget formative targets.

Yellow Feedback Stickers

Yellow Feedback Stickers

• Very simple message to students and parents. • Visually clear • Common language in all subjects, in every

year-group: ‘Look at your yellow sticker!’

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Thank you for coming…

Please remember to sign the register before you leave

Absences: Further detail • Your first point of contact should be the Form Tutor, you can e mail them by using their initial and surname

@georgeabbot.surrey.sch.uk OR e mail the office FAO, bear in mind their teaching commitment but they will respond in 48 hours (usually less) , the last slide of this evenings presentation has their names and their form groups.

• Subject specific queries should be directed to the teacher concerned as they will be able to offer directed support. The names of the teachers are listed on the student’s copies of their timetables.

• If you feel that the issue is more urgent, or of a sensitive nature, Mrs Firth as Head of Year or myself Mrs Bennett (Transition / Inclusion manager) can be contacted. You can e mail or phone us (the school number is 01483 888000) alternatively you can make an appointment to see us. We can however often resolve issues quickly via the phone.

• If you wish to report your child’s absence from school you must inform the School by 9:00am. Failure to do this will result in a text message being sent by our texting system which alerts parents that their child has not registered. We need to be advised each day of your child’s absence. To report an absence please ring the school on 01483 888000 option 1 OR e mail the absence line: absence@georgeabbot.surrey.sch.uk

• If the absence is planned / medical there are different procedures. All the details are on the website under the PARENTS section under ‘ATTENDANCE’, there is a lot of other information here to, so do familiarise yourself with the site.

• If there is something significant that you feel will affect your child’s well being in school, it is important that you share that with us and we will ensure the relevant staff are made aware.