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Welcome to Key Stage 4 Information Evening

Welcome to Key Stage 4 Information Evening. Supporting your child’s progress in English Jemma Fisher Head of English. Structure of the new KS4 curriculum Ways to get involved at home. Many changes…. Y9 students will be the first year to experience the new GCSE exams in English

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Welcome to Key Stage 4 Information Evening

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  1. Welcome to Key Stage 4Information Evening

  2. Supporting your child’s progress in EnglishJemma FisherHead of English • Structure of the new KS4 curriculum • Ways to get involved at home

  3. Many changes… • Y9 students will be the first year to experience the new GCSE exams in English • Y9 are also the first year to experience the new 1-9 marking system introduced by the government (this will already be being employed now on your child’s work)

  4. Structure of the KS4 English Curriculum at High Storrs Year 9: Foundation for GCSE • Taught GCSE skills (reading and writing) • Study variety of texts similar to those at GCSE (modern prose/drama, Shakespeare, pre C20th texts, non fiction texts) • Analysing seen and unseen poetry • Study aspects of spelling, punctuation and grammar (as this will be worth 40% of GCSE Language)

  5. Y10 and Y11: GCSE English Language and Literature (2 GCSEs) Or GCSE English (1 GCSE) • This will cover the same skills as in Y9 • There will be no coursework or controlled assessment • GCSE Exams are currently being developed and we will know more of exact exam questions and content later this year

  6. Marking and FeedbackWhat should you expect to see? Work will be marked regularly in a variety of ways: • Deep marking at least once every half term • Specific marking of one assessment objective • Self and peer marking • Symbols and highlighting • Use of mark bands • Targets / Action points / EBI (Even better if…) Students are expected to act on the action points • Praise • Oral feedback

  7. How can you get involved? • Discussing targets and action points • Encouraging your child to work on what they don’t understand (and to seek help) • Encouraging reading and discussion at home -both fiction and non-fiction: novels, short stories, autobiographies, travel journals, guide books, poems/song lyrics, magazines, newspapers, written adverts, online texts/articles/webpages

  8. Revision they could try… • Mind maps • Post-its • Notebooks • Revision guides • Charts • Revision cards • Condensing and expanding information REMEMBER – they shouldn’t revise what they already know but focus on the difficult bits!

  9. Book Groups Y7 Ms Woolley Y8 Mrs Cose Y9 Ms Kpakra / Mr Simm Y10 Mrs Fisher / Ms Baldwin Y11 Mrs McGrail Thursdays (on rotation) in the LRC To join a book group ask the teachers above or Mrs Rowan /Miss Ainslie in the LRC

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