GCSE HouseReforms Life Should a student wish to contact their parents using their own phone during the school day they can atsubjects main school reception (with permission thestructure; receptionist), their boarding house or the •do Allthis GCSE are now graded and assessed using thefrom new 9-1 Sixth Form Centre. • 9 is the highest grade, awarded to the very best candidates in the subject. The official definition of a grade-9 candidate is that they will be ‘in the top 20% of those achieving grades 7-9 in the subject’; Watches that connect to the internet can be worn but notifications must be turned off unless in the •boarding In every subject, is more demanding and the assessment more rigorous than previously; housethe or content Sixth Form Centre. • The assessment will be mainly by exam. In some subjects such as Drama and Art, other types of assessment will Mobiles notthey be used after to ‘lights out’. 3rdskills. Formers are initially not about allowed ‘mobilesplease in school, be used should only where are needed test essential For further information assessment, speak but thereafter they have to hand their mobile phones and other devices to the staff member on duty to the relevant Head of Department. before lights out. 4th and 5th Form girls should hand their mobiles in to Matrons’ room before prep Tiering of exams and before bed time. The new GCSEs are only split into foundation tier and higher tier if one single exam paper does not give all students Please have your owntheir battery powered alarm clock. the opportunity to show knowledge and abilities. Consequently, exams are tiered in Biology, Chemistry, French, German, Maths, Physics and Spanish.
POST Post is delivered to the House daily and placed in your pigeon-hole in the laundry room. The “out tray” for post is in the laundry room—the postman will collect post each day. You can buy stamps and New Current grading structure hand in letters to post at the main College reception. grading structure 9 is awarded to those POSTERS pupils what posters and pictures 9 We likeachieving you to bring to liven up your dorm but please make sure you only A* would currently pin them to thebe notice boards provided - do not blu-tack or sellotape any to the walls or furniture. 8 a top A*: perhaps at Prospective parents, staff and other visitors will often be shown around the house and therefore A around 96%+you put up must not cause any posters offence to anybody. If a member of staff thinks a poster 7 Under the updated is unsuitable you will be asked to remove it. Posters containing the following should definitely be structure, the ‘good 6 language, GOOD blood PASS (DfE) avoided; racism, nudity, sex, bad/crude and gore,Banything whichpass’ setsfor out to shock. Maths and 5 and above = top of C and above 5 English is a 5, which is Schools are no longer AWARDING on the border between C 4 and above = bottom of C and above 4 assessed on A*-C statistics, but on ‘9-4’ statistics.
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