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Year 8: Key Dates
INSET Days (school closed for students): -Friday 23rd November 2018 -Monday 21st January 2019
Year 8 Parents’ Evening:
Thursday 23rd May 2019 4pm – 7pm
Welcome to our
Year 8 Information
Evening 2018
Mr J Cregg Headteacher
E-Safety – Mrs Drury
Curriculum, Assessment & Reporting– Mr. Clarey
English – Mr. Poole
Mathematics – Miss Davidson
Science – Ms Gibani
Tonight’s Event
Year 8 Information Evening 2018
Please ensure you have an Information Booklet
Tonight’s slides will be published on the school’s website
School Website www.priestnall.stockport.sch.uk
School Website www.priestnall.stockport.sch.uk
Please ensure that we have your correct email address
School twitter account @PriestnallSch
Show My Homework www.showmyhomework.co.uk
Student & Parent/Carer logins as previously
Homework Club Every day in the Library 8:00am – 8:45am 3:15pm – 4:30pm
‘Frog’ Learning Platform
Logins are as previously
‘Frog’ Learning Platform
Online portal for: • Attendance Information • Half-Termly Reports • Priestnall Post (weekly newsletter) • Exams Information • etc.
During Year 11: Each extra hour per day on the Internet, playing video games or watching TV one grade lower in two GCSE subjects
Each extra hour per day doing homework or reading one grade higher in four GCSE subjects
Research by Cambridge University
(2015):
E-Safety
Mrs Drury Curriculum Leader: Computing & Business
Studies
E-safety
Support materials
Parental guides on our website
Suggested Guidelines • Work in partnership with school • Keep an open dialogue with your child • Understand what your child is doing on-line
and learn how to do the same thing • Don’t agree to apps or social networking sites
until you have checked them out first. For example, do they provide others with unrestricted access to your child?
• Respect social networking sites’ age restrictions – no under 13s. The rule is there for a reason.
Suggested Guidelines • Monitor your child’s on-line activity – and
make sure your child knows this. This includes mobile phones.
• Limit access to the internet • Keep devices out of bedrooms • In the case of on-line abuse, bullying or
threats, keep the evidence, report to 101 and report to CEOP.
• Model good practice • E-safety evening
Curriculum &
Assessment Mr T Clarey
Deputy Headteacher
Looking ahead
The Class of 2022!
Year 8: What lies ahead?
Year 8
Year 7
Momentum and progress needs to be maintained during Y8. It is a key year for ultimate success in Year 11
Year 8: the bridge • Year 8 is a ‘bridge’ to Year 9 and the
start of GCSE courses… • The qualifications that will shape future
opportunities
Year 9
Year 8
Year 8: the bridge • Year 8 work is planned to take students
towards their future • All subjects • To develop the Skills, Knowledge &
Understandings for future success
Year 8
Year 9
Year 7
A crucial year for progress • From the enthusiasm & ‘novelty’ of Y7 • Building on prior knowledge, skills and
understanding • Establishing greater appreciation of
transferable skills and subject linking • Building Growth Mindsets- the power of
‘yet’
A crucial year for progress • From the enthusiasm & ‘novelty’ of Y7 • Building on prior knowledge, skills and
understanding • Establishing greater appreciation of
transferable skills and subject linking • Building Growth Mindsets- the power of
‘yet’ • (Opportunities for ‘broader’ Educating for Life:
DLDs, trips & visits, sports & clubs!) • Homework projects
Homework projects
A crucial year for progress • New National Curriculum content
following on from Year 7 • New skills, knowledge & understanding
• Preparing students for new significantly
more demanding GCSEs in all subjects • GCSE approaches are explored and
developed in Year 8
Curriculum Organisation: Y7
Heavily ‘blocked’ – subject groupings: Literacy-themed & Numeracy (Number/Pattern/Space)
Curriculum Organisation: Y8
Less ‘blocking’: Setting decisions by English, French, Maths Science, Tech & PE*
Reported as WAGs (Working at ‘Grades’) • Classwork • Homework • Tests* • End of Year Exams (May/June 2019)*
* end of Y11 exams have gained importance and therefore familiarity with exam preparation and procedures is crucial
Attainment & Progress
Communications • Website/ e-mail • Interim reports (Targets, WAGs, AtLs):
– Start of November 2018 & half-termly thereafter • Interim reports will be published on the
Learning Platform (VLE) • Interim reports will contain Action Points for
each subject – relating to the topics covered during the half-term
Communications • Website/ e-mail • Interim reports (Targets, WAGs, AtLs):
– Start of November 2018 & half-termly thereafter • Interim reports will be published on the
Learning Platform (VLE)
• Parents Evening: 23rd May 2019
Targets & Aspirations • Individual end of Y8 targets are set for all
subject areas– based on prior attainment. • These indicate minimum expected
outcomes at the end of Y8 • These are currently being reviewed by
subject teachers in light of initial WAGs -and as the year progresses- to ensure appropriate levels of challenge
Looking ahead
2022! It will soon be here…
Year 8:
A crucial year for progress!
English
Mr Poole
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Year 8
As with Year 7, each lesson is directed towards a particular Assessment Focus for Reading or Writing. Schemes of work alternate each half term between a reading focus and a writing focus. Within all schemes there are opportunities for speaking and listening activities such as role play, discussion and formal talks.
The revised curriculum has always been broad and vigorous in English, and therefore the national changes have not had a huge impact on what we deliver. However, there are two areas we began to focus on in detail over the last two years, and will continue to address this year: The ability to think independently and sort through problems. The grammatical and technical accuracy within a piece.
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Grammar teaching through writing pieces. Developed by Educational research team at Exeter University. In trials the groups on the trials improved their writing scores by 20%, compared with 11% for the students who didn’t.
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Dystopian Fiction Extracts used within lesson highlight the development of this genre from writers such as Orwell up to modern day examples (The Hunger Games, Divergent etc.) Writing the World This is a non-fiction based scheme that focuses on reportage and documentary-style writing.
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Studying the effects grammatical features have on a reader. Discussion: critical conversations about language. Authentic texts rather than texts created to exemplify a grammatical point. Creative imitation, language play and experimenting Grammatical terms are in the forefront but built into lessons.
Study of extracts from nineteenth century texts. Opportunities for extended writing tasks within reading schemes of work. All assessments revised or developed to mirror the styles of questions they will face in their GCSE.
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Macbeth
To Kill a Mockingbird/Freak the Mighty
War Poetry/War Literature
Romeo and Juliet
Of Mice and Men
Power and Conflict Poetry
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Once a fortnight students have a timetabled library lesson. This is to enable them to take books out of the library but also to extend their reading within a focused context. However independent reading is an essential element of making maximum progress in English, and this should be encouraged at home.
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Students are assessed on a short piece and a longer piece of reading or writing each half term. This will depend upon whether the programme of study has a reading or writing focus. For each assessment they will be awarded a national curriculum level with a sub-level – e.g. 6c. At the end of the year they will sit a formal examination in the hall which will be an extended reading task. The final overall level awarded at the end of the year will take into account both in-class assessments and the exam.
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• English Ambassadors • Reading groups • Grammar skills club • Theatre visits • Visiting authors • Poetry competitions
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Encouraging your child to read and even reading with them. Having access to a range of newspapers and magazines – and other non-fiction resources. Study guides and work books are available in the library to help with both reading and writing skills.
Maths
Miss Davidson Curriculum Leader: Maths
Initial Setting • Students in year 8 are put into groups
according to their Mathematical ability following assessment in Year 7.
• If any students appear to be misplaced, we make changes throughout the year accordingly.
New National Curriculum
• Fluency • Problem Solving • Reasoning
Fluency • become fluent in the fundamentals
of mathematics, including through varied and frequent practice with increasingly complex problems over time, so that pupils develop conceptual understanding and the ability to recall and apply knowledge rapidly and accurately.
Problem Solving
• can solve problems by applying their mathematics to a variety of routine and non-routine problems with increasing sophistication, including breaking down problems into a series of simpler steps and persevering in seeking solutions.
Reasoning
• reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, and developing an argument, justification or proof using mathematical language.
Year 8 Scheme of Work
• Basics review • Higher algebra • Triangles/circles an formulae • Statistical methods • Multiplicative Reasoning
• What is the area of this rectangle? Problem solving/more open ended questions: • Which square has the same area as this rectangle? • Find all the rectangles with whole-number side
lengths that have the same area as this one. • How many rectangles have an area of 100cm2?
Explain. • If I halve the length and double the width, what
happens to the area? What if I double the length and halve the width? Explore…
20cm
5cm
Homework
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Username: ddmmyyinitialsinCAPS@priestnall Password: ddmmyyinitialsinCAPS
Website: www.vle.mathswatch.co.uk
Homework tasks Homework deadline
This is what you will see when you login to MathsWatch:
When you score full marks on a question, it turns green.
Type your answer in the box given, then submit
If you need help to answer the questions, use the video clips at the bottom of the page.
Equipment Your child will need the following for their
Maths lessons: • Pen • Pencil • Ruler • Rubber • Protractor (angle measurer) • Compass • Calculator ( Available from the Bridgewater office for £5)
Assessment • Students are assessed twice during Year 8.
• Week 27 (week before Easter break)
• Week 36 (end of June 2019) • We use full GCSE papers at the
appropriate level.
Assessment
• Results analysed and areas for improvement identified.
• Sets will be discussed after each assessment.
• KS3 Progress meetings to identify any students in need of intervention if below target.
Any Issues
Science
Ms Gibani Head of Science
Year 8 Course Overview
• The KS3 Scheme of Learning (SoL) has been written “in-house” and focuses on the core skills needed in Science. In Year 9 pupils begin their GCSE ‘foundation’ course.
• Some GCSE concepts are now included at KS3. This should better prepare pupils for the new Science GCSEs which are more rigorous.
Year 8 Scheme of Work • Food & Nutrition • Combustion • The Periodic Table • Fluids • Plants & Reproduction • Light • Energy Transfers • Breathing & Respiration • Metals & their uses • Sound • Unicellular Organisms
Assessment • Once every half term, students will complete an
assessment based on scientific core skills/content.
• Students will get a record of their results which will allow them to track and analyse their progress.
• The assessment after the Christmas holiday will be a written exam.
• In addition, a formal, written exam will be taken by all Year 8 students at the end of the year.
Parental Support is a website for homework, revision &
independent learning.
www.pearsonactivelearn.com
Username = school log in (DOB and initials) eg 100601AB
Password = Password01
• Your child will be assigned a set of Active Learn tasks that must be completed each half-term
www.pearsonactivelearn.com
An electronic, interactive version of the textbook accessible from the website
It includes a range of guided, interactive learning activities that include short and extended
answer questions. It provides instant automated marking and feedback.
There is a tracking screen to show your child’s progress and attainment
Homework • Some of the homework tasks this year will be
project based.
• Some projects may involve making a model. Please encourage your child to take photographs of their models to stick in their exercise book.
Homework projects
Homework projects
Homework • Some of the homework tasks this year will be
project based
• Some projects may involve making a model. Please encourage your child to take photographs of their models to stick in their exercise book
• All homework tasks will be uploaded to “Show My Homework”
Revision Resources • The Priestnall VLE will have resources for all the units taught.
There are also exam tips and many other helpful support areas
• Revision Guides are available from the school library at a cost of £5.50 if they haven’t been previously purchased in Year 7
• Encourage the use of revision websites/revision material
creation software/apps such as: • www.bbc.co.uk/revision • www.s-cool.co.uk • www.gcsescience.com • www.schoolscience.co.uk • www.flashcardmachine.com
Extra Support from School
• Each Science teacher has set aside time each week advertised as “Office Hours”, when they will be available to provide some help and advice for students (these have been posted on the school website) – These sessions are to help with classwork,
homework, advice and guidance on revision etc