Welcome to Year 10 Parents’
Information Evening
YCC – Mrs Ilse du Toit
DYCC – Mr William Furnell
Senior Team Link – Mr Nick Bull
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Year 10 Parents’ Information Evening
• School aims – Mr Nick Bull
• Key Dates and working together – Mrs Ilse Du Toit
• Work Experience – Ms Laura Warner
• Online Safety – Ms Katelyn Farrenson
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Curriculum
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To provide a relevant and challenging education which enables all members of our community
to reach their full potential.
Creativity
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To nurture creativity in students both in the classroom and beyond top help build cultural
capital and instil and enjoyment of life long-learning.
Character
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To encourage students to be ambitious, bold and independent, with strong sense of purpose
and commitment to their own academic and personal development.
Community
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To build a community in which everyone is respected and valued and where students have
pride in their school and play a positive role in society.
Convention
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To empower all students to exercise their inalienable right as set out in
the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Head of Year
Mrs. Ilse Du Toit
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Key Dates for Year 10
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Year 10 December Gradesheet - 18th December 2019
Year 10 Spring Gradesheet - 1st April 2020
Year 10 Parents’ Evening - 30th April 2020
Year 10 Mid-Course Assessments - 24th June – 2nd July 2020
Year 10 Work Experience - 6th July 2020
Year 10 Summer Report - 21st July 2020
Working Together
• Talk to your daughter about the importance of punctuality and attendance.
• Write a note if your daughter has a medical/hospital appointment during
school hours. Please do not schedule general GP or Dentist
appointments/check ups during school hours.
• Please send in an absence note following illness.
In March 2016 the Department for Education (DfE) published a report on the link between
absence and attainment in KS4. Pupils with no absence are 2.2 times more likely to
achieve 5+ GCSEs 9-5 or equivalent and 2.8 times more likely to achieve 5+ GCSEs 9-5
or equivalent including English and mathematics than pupils missing 15-20% of KS4
lessons.
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Working Together
• Encourage your daughter (and
yourselves) to use Show My
Homework
• If you are unsure of how to login
contact the Year Team
• Check your daughter is using her
planner you are still required to sign
her planner every week.
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Working Together
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Join in the fun
• Swimming, Senior netball, cricket, football, tennis,
athletics, basketball and fitness suite.
• Ball girls
• UNICEF
• Japanese, Korean, Latin
• Eco-warriors - Sustainability
• 4000 Words
•no Controlled Assessment
•Vocabulary learning every week
•Vocab Express website
(vocabexpress.com)
Year 10 GCSE French, Spanish and UrduHow parents can help?
9th October at 8:00 am
to: 15th October at 3:00 pm
Other ways to help
Encourage her to
• watch Spanish / French / Urdu films (with subtitles)
• Come to KS4 French / Spanish clubs
• Use other websites – there is a list on Burntwood Connect such as:
• Linguascope.com
• Duolingo
• bbc.co.uk/languages/mi vida loca
• quizlet
GCSE Languages at Burntwood
• You may be able to take a GCSE exam in a language you speak
at home or learn outside school (as an extra) if you can already
read and write this language as well as speak it. There are GCSEs
available for about 20 languages – you can check online of there is
an exam in a language you know. Recently students have been
successful in Arabic, Persian/Farsi, Italian, Russian, Gujarati,
Panjabi, Tamil, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Turkish, Bengali
and Portuguese
• Speak to Ms Peel before Christmas if you think you’d like to be
entered for a GCSE in another language
Careers, Enterprise and
Work Related Learning
Ms Laura Warner
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Careers & WRL at Burntwood
• Year 7 - Welcome a Visitor
• Year 8 - Reception Duty
• Year 9 - Careers Event with employers
• Year 10 – Work Experience and Lionheart Enterprise Challenge
• Year 11 – One on one Careers Interview
• Year 12 & 13 – Extensive Careers and Employer Engagement Programme
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o 2 weeks of unpaid employment in a placement of your child’s choice
o An opportunity to improve understanding about the world of work
o Development of skills and relationships
o A chance to begin thinking about future career options
What is work experience?
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Students are encouraged to find their own
placement
o Contacting local businesseso Opportunities through family
and friendso Support from school
If students are unable to find their own placement…
Apply for a placement through BEST which
organizes work experience for Wandsworth
secondary schools
How do students find work experience?
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Pharmacy Assistant – St
George’s Hospital
Hairdressing Assistant –Sean Hanna
Hairdressers, Wimbledon
Alan Camp Architects
Animal Assistant,
Vauxhall City Farm
Department for Resources,
House of Commons
Fujitsu, IT Services and
Solutions Provider Teaching
Assistant –Belleville Primary School
TI Media, Magazine and
Digital Publisher
Examples of last year’s work experience
placements?
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o Students, parents and employers must complete a form
on arrangement of own placement
o This form is then managed by BEST (Business and
Education Succeeding Together) at Wandsworth
Council
o BEST check the legitimacy and insurance cover of the
placement before approving it
Work experience paperwork
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Must be completed by student
Must be completed
in conjunction
with the employer
Completing the paperwork
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Must be approved
and signed by the
employer
Must be approved
and signed by parent / guardian
Completing the paperwork
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Practice of finding jobs and making
decisionsDevelop
confidence, maturity
and responsibilit
y
Identify personal
strengths & areas for
development
Increases motivation
to do well in school
Helps student to
network and gain
contacts for the future
Application of skills in a
practical environment
Develop CV for the future
May help to get a part
time job in the future
How do students benefit from work experience?
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• September 2019: Students receive own placement application forms
• Friday 17th January 2020: Deadline for completed own placement forms
• February 2020: BEST online application for students without placements
• Friday 27th March 2020: Deadline for ALL placements
• May 2020: Placements confirmed and details given to students
• May half term (22nd -29th May 2020): Students to revisit placements and sign contract
• Friday 12th June 2020: Deadline for contracts
• Monday 6th July - Friday 17th July 2020: WORK EXPERIENCE
• Monday 20th July 2020: Work experience de-briefing day at school
Work experience timeline
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o Support in finding own placements
o PSHE lessons focused on careers and work related learning
o Year assemblies and work experience updates / reminders
o Help with making applications, writing cover letters and making
phone calls to employers
How does school support your daughter?
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o Help students find their own placement, e.g. using family, friends, contacts
o Support students in filling in application form
o Check if employer has Employer’s Liability Insurance
o Suggest potential questions for their visit or interview with the employer
o Ensure form is completed and returned by the deadline
How can you help?
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We are always looking for parents to support our Careers and Work
Related learning education at Burntwood.
If you think that you may be able to offer some support in the way of:
• Careers or employability talks
• A visit to your place of work / workshop
• Offering a student a work experience placement
• Anything else you can think of!
Please let me know at the end of the evening
How can you help?
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How many placements can eachstudent have?
We strongly advise that each studenthas one 2 week placement. This givesthem time to settle in, and often makesfor a more fulfilling experience.
How many hours are they supposedto work?
We expect most students to be onplacement during normal workinghours, approx. 8 hours per day.
Can students claim any expenses?
BEST will provide expenses forstudents’ travel on trains. Studentsshould keep their tickets or a record oftheir contactless / Oyster journeys.
Is work experience optional?
No, all students should attend a workexperience placement. If not, they mustbe attending school for those 2 weeks.
FAQs
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Online safety
Content – Keeping young people safe from harmful materialson the Internet
Contact – Preventing our children from meeting inappropriatepeople and/or being groomed on the Internet
Conduct – Avoiding children behaving inappropriately on theInternet
ContentWithout parental controls,
young people can see adult or extremist sites and those
promoting harmful behaviours.
Contact
If young people haven’t met their online “friends”, how do they who
they are and if they have bad intentions?
ConductAppreciating that once
something is posted it is out of the control of the originator.
How to be safer online – Advice from CEOP
- Discuss using the internet safely as a family
- Encourage respect for others when posting or messaging
- Treat passwords with care – never lend your phone
- Block/delete contacts & save malicious conversations
- Don’t reply/retaliate to unpleasant posts/messages
- Report any potential cyberbullying – repeated and targeted harrassment
- Parents/carers - notice changes in behaviour patterns like deleting internet history or using the laptop/computer in private?
- Use parental control filters on home broadband and mobile devices
- Understand the smartphone you’ve given your child
- Keep phone/tablets/laptops out of your child’s room at night
- Set all privacy settings to the highest and switch off location services
●www.childnet.com
●www.net-aware.org.uk
●www.thinkuknow.co.uk
●www.ceop.police.uk
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