YEAR 10 Foundations for Key Stage 4 success •
This resource is intended to help focus expectations, conversations, content and direction around purposeful home learning habits for our Year 10 students as they begin their Key Stage 4 journey.
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Students will be issued with TARGET GRADES in the weeks ahead. These targets are based on tests sat in Y7 and provide an indication of what students could to achieve if not go beyond.
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As a starting point we have signposted our Effort grid which outlines key study behaviours that we want students to adopt to help make them into successful scholars over the next two years. We have fine-tuned what ‘Good’ learning behaviours look like as well as Outstanding learning behaviours both in the classroom and at home.
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We have also put together a sheet for each one of our subjects - each sheet outlines the content students should aim to secure within each grade boundary. The subject sheets identify: – What individual students need to know at each key grade – What skills they need to focus upon developing and securing
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Over the year students will complete key assessed pieces which will be marked and fed back upon by the teacher. This resource can be used to help support students respond to the teacher feedback, revisit knowledge they are not secure in as well as consolidate their understanding. Each sheet provides clear links to useful resources to support progress.
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Equally students can also take the opportunity to introduce themselves to learning materials that will be taught before topics are covered in class. This approach is beneficial to some as it helps deepen understanding when they are then tackled in class.
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There are two formal testing points in Year 10. Firstly, the Progress Tests that run from 15 th January to 26th January 2024 and secondly the end of Year 10 exams that run from 17th June to 27th June 2024.
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An electronic copy of this document can also be found on our Year 10 MSTeams site so that students can access the links directly.
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We hope this will prove to be a useful resources over the course of Year 10.