Year 11

The Year 11 day will run as follows:

8.25: Lesson 1

9.15: Lesson 2

10.05: Break

10.25: Form time

10.45: Lesson 3

11.35: Lesson 4

12.25: Lunch

1.05: Lesson 5

1.55: Lesson 6

2.45: Lesson 7 - Core subject intervention (Monday, Wednesday and Thursday) or Dismissal

3.35: Dismissal (after intervention)

ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE

Year 11 must enter school through the green gates to the right of the current student entrance, and follow the path round the sports hall to enter through the doors to the left of the Restaurant. They will go straight upstairs. They are the only year group using this entrance. Please arrange to drop off and collect your child on our surrounding roads to avoid a large gathering immediately outside the school gate.

Classrooms

Year 11 lessons will take place in the new Science corridor and adjacent spaces. The map on this page shows you where the classrooms are situated. Students will stay in these spaces for almost all of their lessons, unless they are specialist rooms, for example Design Technology or Drama, where they need specialist space to access the curriculum. These rooms will be wiped down between groups as different year groups will be using them.

Mr. Metcalfe's Year 11 Office is in the end of the Science corridor readily accessible to students. Mr. Stump, our Assistant Headteacher and Founding Head of Sixth Form, and Ms. Mason, our Examinations Officer will be based in another office in the Year 11 zone. This will facilitate conversations about Sixth Form choices and GCSE exam entries

Break and Lunch

Year 11 will have break and lunch in the main hall, and the adjacent Plaza where there will be outside seating. A temporary servery will be available in the main hall for Year 11 to buy break snacks and lunch.

Lanyards

Each student will be issued with a lanyard and ID card. Each year group will have a different coloured lanyard to make it easy to identify that students are in the right zone of the school. The ID card will make the lunch queue quicker whilst we avoid fingerprint technology. Students who lose or break their cards will be charged a replacement fee.

toilets

Year 11 will use new toilet facilities in the Year 11 zone. A water fountain will also be available to them in their zone.

PE Kit

Students must come to school in their PE kit on days that they have PE lessons as there will be no changing facilities available.

Lesson 7

As we have staggered the school day, lesson 7 is now a 'normal' lesson for some year groups, and will be an additional intervention lesson for Year 11. This will run for different students on different days to accommodate our intervention programme.

Lockers

Year 11 lockers are optional. If a student would like a locker they need to talk to their Head of Year. Lockers will be assigned on a first come first served basis.

Assemblies

We will not be able to run assemblies with the whole year group in one room. We will have a combination of recorded and 'live' assemblies using technology.

Year 11 examinations

Year 11 will sit internal school examinations from 8th-18th December 2020. This is beyond the end of term to try to maintain as much face to face teaching time as possible during the autumn term. The timetable will be available in early November. Students will only come to school for exams after 11th December.

On 12th October the government made an announcement about GCSEs in 2021. The key points were:

• Exams will go ahead, but most will be delayed by about three weeks, taking place between 7 June and 2 July.

• One maths and one English GCSE exam will be held just before the May half-term, to give pupils affected by Covid a better chance of still sitting a paper in each of these subjects.

• Results day will be Friday 27 August for GCSEs.

• It is expected that awarding organisations will align the timing of vocational and technical qualifications with that for GCSEs, AS and A levels.

• Contingency measures will be developed, “in partnership with the sector”, to address “the range of scenarios which might impact students’ ability to sit exams”. Ofqual will spend the next six weeks consulting on what these contingency measures might look like, with more detail to be published “later in the Autumn”.

• No further subject-level changes to exams and assessments will be made, beyond those small adjustments already outlined by Ofqual.

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