YEAR 12 EXPECTATIONS EVENING AND SUBJECT FAIR

1. YEAR 12 EXPECTATIONS EVENING AND SUBJECT FAIR

2. The Programme for Tonight • Headteacher’s introduction • The Sixth Form Contract / Behaviour for Learning • Studying in the Sixth Form • Y12 and university (UCAS) admissions – Mr Sexton • The EPQ and AQA BACC – Miss Bedford • Presentation will be placed on school website Subject Fair- 15 minutes per subject on rotation-see handout.

3. The Sixth Form Contract • Makes clear entitlement and expectations • Staged intervention for defaults. • Targeting attendance, punctuality, attainment, attitude to learning and behaviour, participation, dress code • Can result in students being asked to leave • Makes clear minimum entry requirements for Y13. D grades in subjects that will be studied at A2. Plus D grade in EPQ

4. C7 • Permanent Exclusion or Managed Move • Gross misconduct towards student or staff • Continued repetitive behaviour • C6 ADW • External exclusion for a fixed period • For a serious incident or continual repeated offences WGSB Behaviour for Learning Consequence Ladder • C5 • Community Exclusion: student is removed from all lessons, and social interaction throughout the full day. • C4 Approved by SLT • 2 hour 15 minute after school detention • 4C3s • Repeated failure to follow instructions at C3 • Gross rudeness, or serious misconduct • Consistent failure to miss homework deadlines • C3 • 1hour 15 minute after school detention • Awarded for 10 C1 or 5 C2 conduct points • Student on a C2 ignores a further warning • Homework is not handed in by 24hrs of deadline • Homework deadlines repeatedly missed • Inadequate homework is submitted All teachers but approved by Head of Year or Head of Department • C2 • Final Verbal Warning and Conduct point • “I’ve asked you to stop talking, if you talk again you will be on a C2”. Student ignores warning and continues poor behaviour. • A student fails to meet a deadline with Homework All subject teachers and cover teachers • C1 • Verbal Warning:For any disturbance that disrupts learning. Eg I’ve asked you to stop talking, if you carry on talking you will be on a C1. If student continues to talk, issue with a C1 on SIMS (and make a personal note). Every Consequence must be processed using SIMS (and in students planners where appropriate and suitable)

5. Monitoring Progress • Daily Attendance/Behaviour monitoring • Behaviourwatch emails to home • Termly reports with analysis by Student manager/Director of Sixth Form • Progress statistics shown to students • Mock Exams in November • Parents Evening December 12th • Intervention Evening in Spring • Classroom monitor

6. Wilmington Wi-Fi: WGSB’s new free school-wide Internet access.

7. WGSB has now installed an Internet enabled Wi-Fi network that will allow all members of its community including students to access the Internet and Moodle. This means that students will now be able to complete work on their own devices and then save their work to their own ‘cloud’ storage or transfer to their school network area.

8. The philosophy at WGSB is to trust students to behave appropriately and teach students to not take advantage of the trust and responsibilities they are given. Students are therefore allowed to bring devices to school and use them openly.

9. Mobile SMART phones • iPads • Tablets • Netbooks • Laptops There are advantages and disadvantages to each type of device. Devices include:

10. Producing, saving and storing of work • Access to web based resources • Group work through media forums • Recording experiments or photographing work • Using apps and applets to aid learning • Access to the school VLE (Moodle) • Entertainment at lunch and break time The opportunities created:

11. The school can not take responsibility for the loss or damage to any student’s personal device. • Devices must not be charged using a school power supply. This is because they will have not been PAT (Personal Appliance tested). • Devices must be stored in bags / or wallets and handled with discretion at all time. • The school Internet provision has a high level content security system. Devices must not be used on any external Wi-Fi or 3G network. Rules regarding the devices

12. Students may only use their device in class if instructed / allowed to do so. • Students will not be allowed to type work instead of writing in their exercise book as is currently customary. • Students caught mis-using their device to disturb their learning or those of others will receive conduct points as deemed appropriate. • Students may not video / record / photograph in any lesson without prior permission from the teacher. • Students may not video / record / photograph in any member of the community without their prior permission. Rules for using devices

13. Students and parents must be aware that all Internet use through the school’s Wi-Fi network is monitored. • Should a possible concern arise, the school will audit the individual’s use of the Wi-Fi network and take action if deemed necessary. • Students are responsible for all Internet traffic that passes through their account. • Students have full responsibility for managing and securing the passwords for their device and their access to the WGSB Wi-Fi network. Rules for using devices

14. The school will ensure that students have as fair an access to the benefits of ICT as is possible. Teachers will never plan a lesson or assess any work where a student using a particular electronic device in school will be given an academic advantage over their peers. As well as maintaining the ICT rooms currently available, the school will create a library of ICT devices e.g. digital cameras that students will be able to borrow if they wish to in order to support their studies. Equality

15. Classroom Monitor. Track progress on every aspect of a subject- a great help to revision

16. Surviving your workload • A booklet outlining study survival strategies • In PSHE students are undertaking activities to encourage reflection on the study skills they need. • Onus on students to talk to teachers and Sixth Form Student manager about problems relating to study and workload. Parents can also contact school to raise concerns. • Students should be spending 5 hours per subject per week outside lesson time on homeworkand revision

17. Go to the Student Learning Zone

18. Select Moodle

19. Select Sixth Form

20. Daily Bulletin PSHE……

21. ADVICE FROM THOSE WHO KNOW!!! • James Mann • Luke Chance • Jasmin Cook

22. A Parent’s story • ‘I was shocked when Tom’s report indicated that he’d only had an 84% attendance record. He goes to school every day. So I phoned the school to say they’d got it wrong but when we went through the figures they hadn’t. It all adds up.’

24. University Applications(UCAS- universities and colleges admission service) The Application Form • Qualifications- includes unit grades of completed AS exams, increasing use of personal statement • Courses/Institutions up to 5 institutions. • Personal Statement • School Reference

25. What will happen this year • Termly monitoring –target grades • Students investigate choices and prepare database of possible choices • Will be shown where to look • UCAS Parents evening in Spring • Higher Education Convention-April 2013 • Will start to fill in application form online-July 12 • Drafting Personal Statements before end of year but this process starts now!

26. Role of Parents • Read sixth form contract & sheet on HE and Y12 • Monitoring, support and encouragement- is performance in termly reports at or above target grades? Contact subject teachers/student manager • Help in choosing courses, visiting universities • Is course highly rated?(unistats), do graduates get jobs easily?, is the course challenging enough? (Target grades) Use of Times/Guardian Good University Guides • NAGGING about deadlines • AVOID BEING ON HOLIDAY ON AUGUST 15 2013 • Centre ExamTimetable on website by end of September • Show My Homework

27. www.showmyhomework.co.uk/wilmingtongrammar/ Filter for year 8,subject etc. Filter by Year Group And by subject and teacher

28. Competitive courses • English, Law, Physiotherapy, Medicine, Oxbridge, Journalism, Architecture • Selecting Universities ( Russell Group 1994 group etc) • Increasingly not keen on retakes. • Keen to see success in AS grades-particularly if GCSEs could have been better • Increasing use of personal statement • Increasing use of extra tests

29. THE EPQ/AQA BACC • Miss Bedford

30. Stand out in the crowd with the Extended Project Qualification

31. What is the extended project? • The EPQ is an opportunity for you to complete a project on a topic of your choice • Develop your independent planning, research, evaluation and presentation skills

32. What does the extended project involve? The EPQ is led by the student, who chooses their own project topic. This can be either: • a topic that extends from a subject you are studying (or plan to study) or, • a topic in which you have a personal interest. The finished Project can be: • an academic essay (5000 words) • a production* (such as a performance or charity event) • An artifact* (media animation, short film) • *A written report is required to support this option (1000 words)

33. Why the extended project? • Students who complete the EPQ achieve and develop skills that can help further their education and career possibilities • it is enjoyed by students who gain a sense of achievement • universities have indicated they support the extended project alongside A-levels • it carries 70 UCAS points to A*.

34. Extending the EPQ to the AQA Baccalaureate. Building on your A-levels, broadening your study, completing the extended project (EPQ) and recording your enrichment activities

35. What do Universities think? • A levels continue to be the gold standard for progression to university. • The AQA Bacc gives students access to 550 UCAS points • Up to 140 per A level • Up to 70 for the EPQ • Up to 60 for the breadth subject

36. Final Comments • The EPQ is now a requirement for entry into year 13. • A grade D must be achieved. • www.aqa.org.uk and follow links for the AQA Baccalaureate for further information.

37. Contact details • Please ensure you take away our contact details. You can phone/email any of us but for quicker response: • E-mail, phone Mr Sexton re: HE/careers, curriculum • E-mail, phone Mrs Regan re: attendance , punctuality, attainment, dress code • E-mail, phone Mrs Riley/Mrs Edwards re: dates, forms, Bursary, change of details, general enquiries • E-mail, phone subject teachers re subject issues.

38. Hand outs • Parental GUIDE TO Year 12 reports • How Year 12 can help you get to university • Contact details • Subject Block rota for Subject Fair • Evaluation Form

39. Subject Fair • 15 minutes per subject. Pips will indicate when to move- Go to block D subject first then Block A