GCSE HouseReforms Life MONEY AND HOUSE BANK • All GCSE subjects are now graded and assessed using the new 9-1 structure; We are a cashless House. Any money for tuck or events can be added to the school bill or money can • 9 is the highest grade, awarded to the very best candidates in the subject. The official definition of a grade-9 be transferred to the House account. Please ask your Houseparent for the House Bank details. Parents/ candidate is that they will be ‘in the top 20% of those achieving grades 7-9 in the subject’; Guardians may pay in money for boarders if you need some cash for an outing or trip. • In every subject, the content is more demanding and the assessment more rigorous than previously; •NEWSPAPERS The assessment AND will beMAGAZINES mainly by exam. In some subjects such as Drama and Art, other types of assessment will be used only where they are needed to test essential skills. For further information about assessment, please speak Newspapers magazines are delivered regularly—they are for everyone to enjoy. Please do not to the relevantand Head of Department. remove them from the Green Room or cut bits out of them! Tiering of exams Thenew House Council will decide which magazines theytier would toexam subscribe to. not give all students The GCSEs are only split into foundation tier and higher if one like single paper does the opportunity to show their knowledge and abilities. Consequently, exams are tiered in Biology, Chemistry, French, German, Maths, Physics and Spanish. OCCASIONAL BOARDING • If you are a day pupil and you need to stay overnight, your parents/guardian should ask us if it is New Current grading structure grading structure ok to do so at least 24hrs in advance. • 9 isIfawarded you aretoa those day pupil and there are some spare beds in the house, then you may find that you are pupils achieving what lucky enough to keep the same 9bed each time you stay. However, day pupils are not entitled to A* would currently be and you may have to use any bed which is available. their own bed 8 a top A*: perhaps at A • around You 96%+ need to bring your own duvet 7 or sleeping bag, pillows and sheets. Under the updated structure, the ‘good 6 on theGOOD (DfE) • You should not leave your bedding bedPASS on nights whenByou are not staying as Maths the bed pass’ for andmay 5 and above = top of C and above be needed by someone else. 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 a C and a B under the statistics, but on ‘9-4’ D old system. 3 statistics. E 2 F 1 G U U
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