GCSE HouseReforms Life OCCASIONAL BOARDING • All GCSE subjects are now graded and assessed using the new 9-1 structure; • If you are a day pupil and you need to stay overnight, your parents/guardian should ask us if it is • 9 is the highest grade, awarded to the very best candidates in the subject. The official definition of a grade-9 ok to do so at least 24hrs in advance. candidate is that they will be ‘in the top 20% of those achieving grades 7-9 in the subject’; • If you are a day pupil and there are some spare beds in the house, then you may find that you are • In every thetocontent is more demanding andtime the assessment more rigorous previously; luckysubject, enough keep the same bed each you stay. However, daythan pupils are not entitled to their own bed and you may have to use any bed which is available. • The assessment will be mainly by exam. In some subjects such as Drama and Art, other types of assessment will • be You to bring own duvet sleeping bag, and sheets. usedneed only where theyyour are needed to testor essential skills. Forpillows further information about assessment, please speak • to the Yourelevant shouldHead not of leave your bedding on the bed on nights when you are not staying as the bed may Department. be needed by someone else. Tiering of exams ‘PHONES The new GCSEs are only split into foundation tier and higher tier if one single exam paper does not give all students opportunity to show their knowledge and abilities. Consequently, exams are tiered in Biology, Chemistry, French, the MobilesMaths, Physics and Spanish. German, You are generally allowed to have your mobile phone with you in school, (3rd Form only after the Autumn half term), but it must be on ’silent’ during the school day. If it does, your mobile will be confiscated for a period of time. Sometimes New you will be allowed Currentto use your phone to record prep or grading structure use during lessons, but only if the teacher says you can.grading structure 9 is awarded to those Phones can be kept on a student’s person during the day but should be invisible unless in the boarding pupils achieving whatForm Centre where 9 houses or the Sixth they can be used; this also includes not listening to music A* would currently anywhere otherbe than those locations. This would apply for the duration of each week Monday to 8 a top A*: perhaps atof the time of day. Friday, regardless A around 96%+ 7 Under the updated The weekends would be exempt from this; students could use phones in all areas structure, of the campus at any the ‘good (DfE) time, although phones must not be 6used at aGOOD mealPASS table. Phones can during offsite trips B be accessedpass’ for Maths and 5 and above = top of C and above (e.g. on a bus during an away sports5 fixture during the week). English is a 5, which is Schools are nostill longer Students can use phones in a lesson when researching something that the teacher asked them AWARDING on the has border between C 4 and above = bottom of C and above 4 assessed on A*-C to. a C and a B under the statistics, but on ‘9-4’ D old system. 3 statistics. Should a student wish to contact their parents using their own phone during the school day they can E 2 permission from the receptionist), their boarding house or the do this at main school reception (with F Sixth Form Centre. 1 G U U
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