Less is more

Huntington School

2007: 59% 5 A*-C GCSE grades E&M

2008: 60% 5 A*-C GCSE grades E&M
2009: 57% 5 A*-C GCSE grades E&M
2010: National Strategies Raising
Achievement Plans (RAPs) in English,
Mathematics and MFL

Huntington School

2007: 59% 5 A*-C GCSE grades E&M

2008: 60% 5 A*-C GCSE grades E&M
2009: 57% 5 A*-C GCSE grades E&M
2010: National Strategies Raising
Attainment Plans (RAPs) in English,
Mathematics and MFL

55%

Last year we wore ourselves thin preparing Year 11 for their

GCSEs. We must not do the same this year because if we continue
to do what we have always done, we will get the same results: our
approach this year must be different. Last year we started our
interventions too early, such as extra English and Mathematics
lessons after school in January and by the time of the
examinations in June both staff and students were exhausted by
the attritional nature of engagement over the previous six months.
We must also ask ourselves the question, Why do some students
think, when they have seven hours of English lessons in Years 10
and 11 a fortnight, that ten one hour lessons, one a week leading
up to the examinations, held after school when they and their
teachers are tired, will suddenly transform them from D grade
students to C grade students and make up for their lack of effort in
their seven hours of lessons a fortnight over the past 18 months?
We have to stop encouraging students to be helpless; it does us no
good and, as importantly, it does the students no good in the longterm either. We have to make this change systematically; over the
next three years we need to get away from the Year 11
examination run-in frenzy. September 2010

Huntington School

2007:
2008:
2009:
2010:
2011:
2012:
2013:
2014:
2015:
2016:

59% 5 A*-C GCSE

60% 5 A*-C GCSE
57% 5 A*-C GCSE
55% 5 A*-C GCSE
63% 5 A*-C GCSE
65% 5 A*-C GCSE
75% 5 A*-C GCSE
71% 5 A*-C GCSE
66% 5 A*-C GCSE
+5% on 2015???

grades
grades
grades
grades
grades
grades
grades
grades
grades

E&M
E&M
E&M
E&M
E&M
E&M
E&M
E&M
E&M

Jane

She has the final GCSE Drama assessment

on the 10th of March;
She has MFL CA at Tues lunch and after
school on Tues;
She is after school English on Weds from
next week;
She will have History fortnightly after
school on a Thurs.

Jane

26 hrs

John

Monday: After school, Media

Tuesday : After school, Media
Wednesday: Lunch, DT; after school, ICT
Thursday: Lunch, DT; after school, ICT
Friday: Lunch, DT; after school, ICT

John

5.30 pm