CARDINAL NEWMAN HIGH SCHOOL Moving into Senior Phase Parents’ Information Evening
Jan 05, 2016
CARDINAL NEWMAN HIGH SCHOOL
Moving into Senior Phase
Parents’ Information Evening
What we want for your children
• Opportunities to develop
• The confidence to move on
• The best exam results
Opportunities to develop
• Leadership roles: pupil council
• Responsibilities; Uniform; Common Room
• Sports & Extra-Curricular
• Mentoring younger pupils / Homeroom
• Representing the school
*ROLE MODEL!
Employability
‘Over 50% of our young people do not go to university and, of these, very few leave school with vocational qualifications with labour market currency’
Wood Report 2014
Senior Phase employability:Vocational coursesWork experience opportunitiesSkills development awards
Our expectations…– Attendance
– Time keeping
– Uniform
– Reliability
– Hard working
– Initiative
*ROLE MODEL!
Careers support…
– Careers Advisor –Ruth Robertson
– Lisa McAvoy (Partnership Officer)
– Pupil Support Team
– Home Room Programme
– Invited speakers / Lecturers
– Mrs Skea (librarian
– Individual careers interview
– My World of Work : careers website
Our Options Process
• Senior Phase Pathways issued
• Individual interviews
• Parent approves & returns form
• Student is allocated to a Department
• Department agrees an initial level of study with each student
Our Options Policy
• Every pupil must choose 5 courses
• Only English is compulsory
• Pupils must progress in the same Departments
The Upper School 0ptions ‘Contract’
S5 curriculum recommendations are based on students:
– SQA achievement in S4
– Performance in individual exams
– Career intentions
– Personal qualities
The Upper School 0ptions ‘Contract’
For students we identify• strongest subjects for Higher
• targets (based on national average)• 2 year higher if appropriate
We expect• No changes of subjects after August• No dropping• Level changes ONLY if progressive
The Optimal Curriculum: A Scientific Approach
• Based on sound research
• Unified Point Scale system
• Achievable targets
• Improved exam results
Student 1 Student 2 Student 3
Exam Band UPS Exam Band UPS Exam Band UPS
English (N5) 2 42 English (N5) 2 42 PE (N5) 4 35
Geography (N5) 1 45 Music (N5) 2 42 English (N5) 3 38
Physics (N5) 3 38 History (N4) P 45 Graph C (N5) 4 35
Maths (N5) 2 42 PE (N4) P 35 History (N5) 5 31
Spanish (N5) 2 42 Art (N4) P 21 Maths (N4) P 21
Info Syst (N5) 2 42 Maths (N4) P 21 Spanish (N4) P 21
Hosp (N5) 2 42 Spanish (N4) P 21 Hosp (N4) P 21
Ave: 41 Ave: 32 Ave: 28
Our recommended cut-offs:
5H 4H 3H 2H 1H
33.5 29 25 23 20
Agreeing the Optimal Curriculum
Supports during S5
• Higher Teams/ Study Groups/ HomeRoom
• ICT: GLOW / Edmodo/ Websites
• Parental Tracking interviews
• Supported Study & Easter School
• Individual tuition
• Departmental study plans
• Homework