Year 12 Information Evening

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Year 12 Information Evening

• Thursday 17th September 2009

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SalesianMore than Just a Sixth Form
46 of Students gained either A or B at A Level.
79 got either A, B or C.
100 Pass Rate A-E at A Level got to university
of their choice BTEC students all passed with
flying colours got their chosen career path or
university choice.
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Curriculum

• Year 12 curriculum consists of the following
• Four AS courses/BTEC course
• One-to-One session every fortnight - take
  responsibility for identifying own learning gap
  and work out how to address it
• Weekly Assembly Mondays
• General PE every other week
• General RE/Extended Project encourages
  independent study passion for subject worth
  UCAS pts
• Private Study sessions - 5 hours private study
  per subject per week when in the week are you
  doing 20 hours study??

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How A-Levels work

• 1st Year of study is called AS Level
• A 60 UCAS points
• B 50 UCAS points
• C 40 UCAS points
• D 30 UCAS points
• E 20 UCAS points
• comprising 2 or 3 modules
• Students must gain three D grades or above in
  order to continue on to the 2nd year of study
• 2nd Year of study is called A2 Level and during
  this year, you take a further 2-3 modules
• A 140 UCAS points
• A 120 UCAS points
• B 100 UCAS points
• C 80 UCAS points
• D 60 UCAS points
• E 40 UCAS points

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University offers

• Offers to university are
• straight offers BBC
• UCAS points - 300 pts
• Mixture - at least 2 Bs rest to make up 260
  pts.
• Predicted grades going given to university will
  be based on what students achieve this year.
• For the English Bacc. need to take AS Critical
  Thinking complete the Extended Project at least
  three A2 subjects some community

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New starred A grades

• First being awarded in August 2010.
• To get an A, you must meet the following two
  requirements
• - 80 UMS overall (i.e. the current
  requirements for an A).
• - 90 UMS overall in the A2 units.
• You don't get an A for 90 overall. Only the A2
  units (i.e. the units normally taken in Year 13)
  count towards the award of an A.
• Even if you get 100 in your AS units, 89 in
  your A2 ones isn't enough for an A.

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The building blocks of success
Balance FUN!
Organisation
Persistence
Attendance
Attitude
Accountability
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Extra curricular to the academic
Sixth form chaplaincy House captains Student
Council Rugby Biology Field Trip

• UCAS days
• Rag Day
• Safe Drive talk
• Dinner Dance
• Indian Orphanage project
• Art Trips
• Lourdes Pilgrimage

• HE conferences
• Football
• Oxbridge Entrance Seminars
• Personal tutoring
• Young Enterprise
• CSLA

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The Year Cycle
Sept
Results Day
Enrolment Info Evening Targets
Oct
Aug
Monitoring
Provisional predicted grades references written
Research HE options fill in UCAS forms A2
courses commence
First Progress Report
Jul
Nov
Mock Exams
AS exams finish Monitoring UCAS Day
Jun
Dec
Mock exam results AS exams Second Progress
Report
AS Exams starts.
Jan
May
Monitoring Parents Evening
Full Reports
Jan AS results HE Info Evening
Feb
Apr
Mar
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Other queries

• Train Passes
• EMA
• Swipe Cards
• Lockers
• Timetable changes
• Memory sticks

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Contact details

• Miss S. OBrien - 01932 578665
• (sobrien_at_salesian.surrey.sch.uk)
• Mrs S. Moore - 01932 578681
• (smoore_at_salesian.surrey.sch.uk)