Hazelveare House Handbook

GCSE HouseReforms Life 6th Formers can use their mobiles in the 6th Form Centre.

• All GCSE subjects are now graded and assessed using the new 9-1 structure; House telephones • 9 is the highest grade, awarded to the very best candidates in the subject. The official definition of a grade-9 If your parents need to contact you, they should try your mobile or Matron’s phone (01256 860341). candidate is that they will be ‘in the top 20% of those achieving grades 7-9 in the subject’; The main house telephone should not be used without specific permission from a member of the •house In every subject, the content is more demanding and the assessment more rigorous than previously; staff.

• The assessment will be 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 POST to the relevant Head of Department.

Post is delivered to the House daily and can be collected from Matron’s room. You can leave letters for Tiering ofwith exams posting Matron, or you can buy stamps and hand in letters to post at the main College reception.

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 POSTERS German, Maths, Physics and Spanish.

We like you to bring posters and pictures to liven up your dorm but please make sure you only pin them to the notice boards provided - do not blu-tack or sellotape any to the walls or furniture.

Prospective parents, staff and other visitors New will often be shown Currentaround the house and therefore grading structureto anybody. gradingIfstructure any posters you put up must not cause offence a member of staff thinks a poster is unsuitable you will be asked to remove it. Posters containing the following should definitely be 9 is awarded to those avoided; racism, nudity, sex, bad/crude language, blood and gore, anything which sets out to shock. pupils achieving what 9 Rule number one on posters: If grandparents wouldn’t approve…!

A* would currently be 8 a top A*: perhaps at A around 96%+ SATURDAYS 7 Under the updated

structure, the ‘good GOOD (DfE) you to B Attendance on Saturday morning is6encouraged toPASS enable take advantage pass’ of the array forvaried Maths and 5 and above = top of C and above of additional activities and clubs which take place over the two 50 minute sessions.

Attendance is is 5 English is a 5, which Schools are optional butno it longer is expected that all those who board on Friday night will wish to benefit from the AWARDING on the border between C 4 and abovewill = bottom of C and above 4 day assessed onSaturday A*-C advertised programme and boys appreciate the later registration (full a Ctime and aofB 9.10am under the statistics, must but onattend).

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E 2 You may go home after your last activity if you have no afternoon commitments. All boys must stay on Saturday afternoon if they are required for a school commitment. F 1 G

SHOES IN HOUSE U U

So that we don’t get mud trailed through the house… we ask all 3rd-5th Formers to take off their shoes on entering the house. Some slippers in house are not a bad idea!

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