Year 11


Year 11

We have 234 pupils split into the following Form Groups:

Form Form Tutor
   
11AC Miss A Crossan
11BW Mr B Waugh
11CD Mrs C Davison
11EH Miss E Hopwood
11GA Mr G Aston
11HM Miss H Molnar
11KW Miss K Whitehead
11MB Mr M Barron
11PA Mr P Atkinson
   

Contact Details

Direct line telephone number: (01429) 239922

Year Leader: Mr A Lowes
email: alowes@manorcollege.org.uk

Deputy: Mrs P Houghton
email: phoughton@manorcollege.org.uk

Y11 Year Leader and Deputy Year Leader
 
Year Leader and Deputy Year Leader
 
Mr A Lowes and Mrs P Houghton

Year 11 Information

Mr Lowes and Mrs Houghton would like to take this opportunity to thank parents for ensuring that their child has the highest possible standards in appearance, punctuality, behaviour and attendance.

One of the many things we take great delight in is rewarding our pupils for remembering Manor College’s famous ‘three C’s’ – Care, Courtesy and Consideration. These three little words make such a big difference in teaching our children how to respect themselves and those around them.

We also like to celebrate high attendance and we expect all of our pupils to be punctual every day to College and to all lessons. These two basic qualities instil into your child the importance of presenting a professional image to future further education establishments and prospective employers. Did you know that 17 days absence (91.5% attendance) could reduce your child’s final GCSE results by one grade?

We have a fabulous Year Group and we’re really looking forward to the challenges and rewards of leading them through their final two years at Manor College of Technology.

Your child has now begun Y11, which signifies the beginning of the end of their career at Manor College. Many of our students have already sat GCSE papers and our focus must be concentrated on success and achievement for all Y11 pupils.

We wish to take this opportunity to remind you that students on Steps 3 and 4 of our Step Discipline System are not allowed to partake in extra-curricular activities. Therefore if your child is not below Step 3 when final booking numbers are handed over next year, they will not be invited to our Prom due to be held in July 2012 at Hardwick Hall in Sedgefield.

We should also point out that very important Controlled Assessments and Modular Tests will take place throughout Year 11 making attendance a top priority.

We would very much appreciate you talking to your child about the implications that the above, along with the following criteria, will have on future activities at Manor College and also upon references we will shortly be providing to further education establishments and prospective employers.

Criteria for invitation to the Prom.

Y11 students should:-

Behaviour

• Have no scores of 4 on their next two reports;
• Be on Step 2 or below;
• Receive no more than five College Detentions (excluding coursework catch up);
• Have no more than two referrals to Remove;
• Have no exclusions or referrals to our Behaviour Improvement Programme.

Academia

• Have no scores of 4 for effort on their next two reports and have at least 50% scored 2 or below;
• Be up to date with coursework.

Punctuality & Attendance

• Be above 90% for attendance (consideration will be given for absences due to lengthy illnesses) and 95% for punctuality. NB – holiday requests are not always sanctioned. If you book a holiday during Y11, your child runs the risk of having unauthorised absence on their record.

Many thanks for your cooperation.

Y11 News

There are a number of pupils who are sitting or re-sitting their Unit 1 exam in January, each pupil has been provided with a revision pack including all past exam papers and mark schemes, their past performance if it is a resit as well as topic revision materials.

Unit 1 re-sit Exam is on Friday 13th January 2012 - AM
This pack along with a letter was issued on Guidance Day – pupils need to make sure they are revising hard.

Revision sessions: There will be one revision session issued to pupils during school time, Friday 9th December 2011.

The focus of this revision session will be on the longer essay style questions.

Unit 1 – Activity 3 Controlled Assessment

GCSE ICT Year 11 Pupils are to start Activity 3 of their controlled assessment w/c 23rd January 2012 – all pupils will be given a pack on Monday 12th December 2011 explaining the activity and what they will have to be doing outside of the lesson for this, during lesson time pupils have been preparing for this.

Pupils need to make sure that they are completing their out of lesson research so that they do not waste the next 12 hours they have to complete the work in exam conditions.

This is an exam, and the work produced goes toward s 60% of their final grade. The topic of the controlled assessment is “Recycle, Now!” – pupils are required to design and create a number of digital products for an event, they must document their work, provide evidence of research and improvements.

There are drop in sessions at lunch times and after school where they can get help outside of the controlled assessment form an ICT member of staff, which pupils should be accessing if they are stuck on anything!

Dates for your Diary

Week Commencing 28th November 2011 Mock Exams Week

19th December 2011 – Results Event for Mock Exams

19th December 2011 – Metro Centre Trip –
Bus leaves College at 11:00 a.m. then leaves the Metro at 3:30 p.m.
The cost is £7.00

19th December 2011 – Ice Skating Trip to Billingham Forum –
details to be confirmed.

2nd February 2012 - Parents Evening

31st May 2012 - Guidance Day 2. Please note advice given for Guidance Day 1 and we break up the day after on the 1st June 2012.

Term Dates

Term 1- Tuesday 7th June - Wednesday 20th July 2011

Term 2 - Monday 5th Septemper - Friday 21st October 2011

Term 3 - Tuesday 1st November – Tuesday 20th December 2011

Term 4 - Monday 9th January – Friday 10th February 2012

Term 5 - Monday 20th February – Friday 30th March 2012

Term 6 - Monday 16th April - Friday 1st June 2012

Term 1 - Tuesday 12th June - Friday 20th July 2012

Revision Information

To download a revision guide for students and parents, please click here.

To download a revision books price guide, please click here.

To download top tips from your subject food tech, please click here.

Revision Dates

Mrs A Haworth - Monday Night's Room 42

7th November Calculating speed and distance, time graphs.
   
14th November Acceleration and speed, time graphs
   
21st November Past Paper
   
28th November Past Paper
   
5th December Forces and Motion
   
12th December Work and Power
   
19th December Calculating energy

Miss T Dodds - Thursday Night's Room 35

3rd November Complimentary base pairing & DNA replication
   
10th November Enzymes
   
17th November Diffusion
   
24th November

Blood & Blood vessels
   
1st December The heart
   
8th December Cell division – mitosis & meiosis

Miss E Lawson - Tuesday Room 35 - 12:45-13:15pm and 15:30-16:00pm

15th November Bonding - ionic and covalent
   
22nd November Periodic table
   
29th November Alkali Metals
   
6th December Transition Metals
   
13th December Halogens
   
10th January Metal Structure

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