1. Year 10 2012 – 2013 “When the going gets tough”

2. 2014 “the times they are a-changing” • Linear exams • 60% at least will be sat in 2014 • Controlled Assessment • Modular exams finished • Re-sits only available after Year 11

3. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein

4. “Be the best you can be”

5. Partnership • Communication • Planners • Website: www.farringdonschool.co.uk • Twitter: @farraschool • Dates • Holidays - 100% Attendance please!!

6. Responsibility • Planners • Homework/Independent Study • Uniform • Revision – Revision booklets

7. Individuality • Assessment for Learning • Behaviour for Learning • Challenge for learning • Data for Learning • Mentoring

8. Mentoring

9. Something to get involved in… • Vision & Values exercise • Love your yard

10. School Trips 2012-13 • Year 10 • Proposed trip to Liverpool this year to fit in with their GCSE unit looking at life of a teenager in throughout the 1950's - 1970's. Further information will be given later in the year.

11. School Trips: • Ski Trip – December 2013 • New York – October half term 2013 • The Gambia – December 2013 • Football Tour (Holland) – May 2013 • History Trip to Liverpool - TBA

12. Dream“The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work” • Hard work • Revision • Opportunities to extend/consolidate learning • Work Experience

13. Work Experience • 22 – 26 April • Mr Lewis

14. Excellence • 100% - best in Sunderland • Most Improved Specialist School in the North East 2011 • Revision • Parental support

15. “Discipline is not such a bad thing. It’s simply doing what you’re supposed to do as well as you can when you’re supposed to do it.”

16. PRIDE in Farringdon • Partnership • Responsibility • Individuality • Dream • Excellence

18. Q&A • Please feel free to stay at the end to have any questions that you may have answered.