Entrepreneur Quiz

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Year 8 Partnership Evening 2009
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Welcome

• Format for the evening
• Enterprise education
• Modern Foreign Languages
• Year 8 Challenge
• VLE

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Enterprise Education

• Mr. S. Walsh

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The Course

• 1 hour on the two week timetable in Year 8
• However enterprise is taught discreetly in all
  subjects
• Similar to Learning to Learn in Year 7
• Where skills learnt aid learning in all other
  subjects.

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Content

• Time management
• Team Work
• Communication
• Problem solving
• Planning
• Creativity
• Decision Making
• Risk and Reward

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WhyShift Happens
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Mrs F. Wearing

• Chamber of Commerce

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Miss C. Bagley

• Curriculum Leader Modern Foreign Languages

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• Language Learning
• is like Marmite!

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Whodve thought
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Whodve thought
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Show girl
Teacher
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Achieved A
Target A
Achieved B
Target B
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100 A-G
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Why learn 2 languages?

• Skills transferrable between languages
• Knowledge of 2 cultures
• More informed choice for the future

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The Year 8 Challenge

• Mrs. J Davies
• Progress Leader
• Year 8

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Progress Leader

• To stay with the current Year 8 through to Year
  11.
• Celebrate achievement.
• To raise attainment.
• To devise strategies to address underachievement.
  

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The Year 8 Dip!

• Research has shown that pupils in Year 8 tend to
  lack motivation.
• Year 6 pupils have SATs.
• Year 7 is exciting, everything is new.
• Year 9 (until now) has had SATs
• At the end of Year 9 pupils begin to make option
  choices
• Year 8 lacks these focal points.

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The Solution?
A Year 8 competition. Girls vs
Boys

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Girls
Boys
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99
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Score
BOYS
GIRLS
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168
172
Score
BOYS
GIRLS
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REWARDS SYSTEM

• Students are taking part in a new rewards scheme
  known as Vivos.
• Students collect Vivos in a variety of ways
• Clubs and societies
• Homework and projects
• Work in lessons
• Helping staff and the school

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Accelerated Reader

• This project is designed to boost reading skills
  and encourage students to read more at home and
  in school
• The aim is to improve students literacy skills
  in all subjects across the curriculum

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SPELLING BEE!

• Miss. Thomas is leading Year 8 into a National
  Competition which aims to make spelling fun and
  helps develop the talents of students.
• All year 8 students will take part in an
  inter-form competition testing their ability to
  spell out loud
• January 2010, students will be selected to
  represent Kingsmead in the National competition
  run by The Times newspaper, where they will
  compete against other local schools
• If successful, they move on to semi-finals, and
  the Grand Final which is to be held in London
  June 2010

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Mrs. Ryder has challenged Year 8 to a spelling
contest!

• Who will win?
• The year 7s or year 8s?

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School Learning Platform

• Mr. M. Ryder

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Has this ever been you?
But Miss didnt give me a letter!
But mom... my letter from school got soaked in
the rain!
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School Notices
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About your child
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Work due
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Attendance data
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Your childs progress
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Can you help?

• We need you to...
• Help us make sure that the learning platform will
  meet your needs.
• Help us to make sure that the information you
  need is available for you.
• Help us make our school better!
• If you think you can help, please see me
  afterwards.