Haygate House Handbook

GCSE HouseReforms Life NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES • All GCSE subjects are now graded and assessed using the new 9-1 structure; Newspapers and magazines are delivered regularly—they are for everyone to enjoy. Please do not • 9 is the highest grade, awarded to the very best candidates in the subject. The official definition of a grade-9 remove them from the main foyer or Common Room or cut bits out of them! candidate is that they will be ‘in the top 20% of those achieving grades 7-9 in the subject’; •OCCASIONAL In every subject,BOARDING the content is more demanding and the assessment more rigorous than previously; • The assessment will be mainly by exam. In some subjects such as Drama and Art, other types of assessment will • be Ifused youonly arewhere a daythey pupil you to need stay overnight, your information parents/guardian should ask us ifspeak it is areand needed test to essential skills. For further about assessment, please ok to do so at least 24hrs in advance. to the relevant Head of Department. • You need to bring your own duvet or sleeping bag, pillows and sheets. Tiering of exams • If you are a day pupil and there are some spare beds in the house then you may find that you are lucky enough to keep thefoundation same bedtier each you pupils not entitled to The new GCSEs are only split into andtime higher tierstay. if one However, single examday paper does are not give all students their own bed and you may have to use any bed which is available. the opportunity to show their knowledge and abilities. Consequently, exams are tiered in Biology, Chemistry, French, • You Maths, should not leave your bedding on the bed on nights when you are not staying as the bed may German, Physics and Spanish. be needed by someone else. PHONES New Current grading structure grading structure Mobiles 9 is awarded to those You are generally allowed to have your mobile phone with you in school, (3rd Form only after the pupils achieving whatbut it must be on 9 ‘silent’ during the school day. If it does ring, your mobile will be Autumn half term), A* would currently confiscated for be a period of time. Sometimes you will be allowed to use your phone to record prep or 8 a top A*: perhaps at but only if the teacher says you can. use during lessons, A around 96%+ 7 Under the updated Phones can be kept on a student’s person during the day but should be invisible unless in the the‘good boarding structure, 6 PASS (DfE)this also houses or the Sixth Form Centre where they GOOD can be used; to music Bincludes not listening pass’ for Maths and 5 and above = top of C and above anywhere other than those locations. Monday to is 5 This would apply for the duration of each week English is a 5, which Schoolsregardless are no longer Friday, of the time of day. AWARDING on the border between C 4 and above = bottom of C and above 4 assessed on A*-C a C and a B under the statistics, but onwould ‘9-4’ be exempt from this; students could use phones The weekends in all areas old of the campus at any D system. 3 statistics. time, although phones must not be used at a meal table. Phones can be accessed during offsite trips E (e.g. on a bus during an away sports2 fixture during the week). F Students can still use phones in a lesson when researching something that the teacher has asked 1 G them to. U U Should a student wish to contact their parents using their own phone during the school day they can do this at main school reception (with permission from the receptionist), their boarding house or the Sixth Form Centre. 03 19