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• 2015 - 2016 Exam Timetable for Sixth form and Y11

  Tue 29 Mar 2016 L. Evans

  The exam timetable has been finalised and published for this years qualifications. Please see below. It can also be accessed at any time from the PUPIL menu on the website home page.

   

   

  Examinations Timetable 2015 /16

  • BTEC Principles of Applied Science (Pearson): Assignments taking place in all Science lessons throughout Yrs 10 & 11

     

  • Geography Controlled Assessment to be submitted by 7th May

     

  • Media Studies Controlled Assessment to be submitted by 7th May

     

  • English Functional Skills Sp&L to be submitted by 15th May

     

  • CAMNAT ICT: Assignments taking place in all Yr10 & 11 ICT lessons

     

  • GCSE Art (AQA): Thursdays 4 & 5: Prep time- 25th ,3rd March, Test- 10th (2hrs inc. Form) 17th ,24th , 31st , 21st & 28th April.

    To be submitted by 31st May

     

  • GCSE 3D Art (via DT): Test conditions – Wed. Lessons1 – 3 on 23rd , 30th March, 20th , 27th April, 4th ,11th May. To be submitted by 31st May

     

  • GCSE Drama (Pearson): Controlled assessments in Yr11 will take place from March until Whit on Wednesday mornings.

     

  • BTEC Sport: Assignments taking place in all Yr10 & 11 PE lessons.

     

  • BTEC Home Cooking: Assignments taking place in all Yr10 & 11 Food Studies lessons.

     

  • WJEC Hospitality Practical Assessment: 24th March – all morning

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Examinations Timetable 2015 /16

     

  Year Group	Awarding Body	Qual.	Title	Exam Code	Duration	Date	Start Time
  11	OCR	GCSE	ICT in Today’s World		1hr	18  May 16	am
  11	Pearson	GCSE	Drama: Rehearsal(am)/ Performance(pm)	2DR01	All day	20 May 16
  11	WJEC	GCSE	English Literature		2hr	23 May 16	am
  11	AQA	GCSE	Media Studies	48101	1hr 30mins	24 May 16	am
  11	AQA	GCSE	Geography A	90301F	1hr 30mins	24 May 16	pm
  11 & Sixth Form	Pearson	GCSE	Maths Unit 1: Paper 1F: Foundation	5MB1F	1hr 15mins	26  May 16	am
  11	OCR	GCSE	ICT in context		1hr	26  May 16	pm
  11	WJEC	GCSE	English Literature		2hr	27  May 16	am
  11 & Sixth Form	WJEC	GCSE	English Language Reading & Writing		1hr + 1hr	7 June 16	am
  11	AQA	GCSE	Geography A	90302F	1hr 30mins	8  June 16	pm
  11 & Sixth Form	Pearson	GCSE	Maths Unit 2: Paper 2F: Foundation	5MB2F	1hr 15mins	9 Jun 16	am
  11 & Sixth Form	Pearson	GCSE	Maths Unit 3: Paper 3F: Foundation	5MB3F	1hr 30mins	14 Jun 16	am
  11	WJEC	GCSE	Hospitality Unit 4		1hr 15mins	16 June 16	am
  Sixth Form	WJEC	GCSE	Film Studies		1 hr 30mins	20 June 16	pm
  Sixth Form	WJEC	GCSE	Film Studies		1 hr	23 June 16	pm

   

• Clare Mount named School of the Year for Inclusion

  Fri 25 Mar 2016 D. Keefe

  Clare Mount has been named School of the Year for Inclusion by the Youth Sport Trust at a recent Awards Dinner in Coventry. The Awards are part of the National Conference in Coventry and Clare Mount was recognised for it's outstanding work in training teachers and other stakeholders in inclusive PE practice, as well as leading on Unified Play, a Wheelchair sport and Watersport Hub, and promoting inclusive School Games formats amongst other things. Mr Stanley (Head of Curriculum PE), Mr White (Lead for Inclusion School), Miss Green (School Games Organiser), Mr Keefe (Deputy Head and Director of Sport) and Mrs Webster (Headteacher and YST Headteacher Ambassador) attended the Awards Evening and are pictured below with Olympic Silver Medallist Gail Emms. Reeve in Year 8 was also runner up at the Awards as Student of the Year for Resilience, as well as Bebington High who also won School of the Year for Health and Well-being, completing a wonderful night for Wirral.  

   

  

• An eggs-elent collection.

  Thu 24 Mar 2016 D. Taylor
  Clare Mount students have been collecting Easter eggs today in exchange for coming to school in non uniform. The massive haul of eggs can be seen below. The eggs will be donated to local charity 'Forum Housing' who are said to be both egg-static and egg-sited. Happy Easter everyone.

  

• Clare Mount gets 'Bags of Help' from Tesco for our sensory garden

  Thu 17 Mar 2016 D. Taylor

  We are pleased to announce that we came first of three different local projects in the Tesco bags of help vote to win funding for our sensory garden. We would like to thank everyone who voted for us and Tesco for helping to make our new garden possible. A special mention must go to Adam, who flew the flag for Clare Mount admirably in the Tesco Heswall store. We are very proud of all the work he put in to promoting Clare Mount.

  We will keep an update of how our garden is progressing here on our news feed, so please watch this space. We are all very excited to see the garden come to fruition.  

  

• Sports relief 2016

  Tue 15 Mar 2016 D. Keefe

  Clare Mount are once again supporting sport relief. This years fund raising is being lead by Mr Stanley, Mrs McLeod, Year 10 and 6th Form. Activities will start on Thursday 17th March with a staff bake off. The entries will then be sold to staff along with tea and coffee in our new community café. Friday the 18th will see students 'walk a mile for sport relief' during afternoon form time. There will also be a cake sale for students taking place on Friday.

  The following week will see our 6th Form students putting on various small events in the 6th form common room where students from across the school will be able to take part and win some small prizes. Thursday 24th March will be a NON UNIFORM DAY. This year we are asking for a small donation of an Easter egg to put towards our collection for local charity Forum Housing.

   

  Did You Know?

  In the last two years sports relief has:

  • Helped over 189,000 children to attend school and get an education
  • Helped 16,500 people get the support they need to improve their mental health
  • Helped over 734,000 children to be given life-saving vaccines

   

  YOUR MONEY MAKES A DIFFERENCE!

  
   

  

• National Science and Engineering week

  Mon 14 Mar 2016 N. Nokes
  This week is national science and engineering week. To celebrate, students at Clare Mount will be taking part in all kinds of exciting experiments during their science lessons. We are also offering a drop in session, on Wednesday and Thursday after school (4pm - 5pm), for parents and carers to take part in some of the experiments that our students have been working on.

  

• Wheels Extreme inspire Year 9 and 10 pupils

  Fri 11 Mar 2016 D. Keefe
  20 pupils from Year 9 and 10 took part in a 'wheels-based' session at Rampworx as part of a mentoring programme that has been running at Clare Mount over the last 6 months funded by Pupil Premium. The project has been aimed at developing the self-esteem, confidence and leadership skills of the pupils involved who will now lead on a number of community based projects. "I've really enjoyed myself. I had a great day. It was amazing. I will miss Jenna and Neil. I don't want them to finish cos what they are doing is amazing" Kaitlyn. "At first I felt scared and couldn't do it. When I got their I got a bit more confident. I was scared to use any of the ramps but then people had a go and I felt I didn't want to get left out. So I did it. I loved it and want to go again!". Matthew.

  

• Clare Mount Students trip to Sky

  Thu 03 Mar 2016 Paul Kearney

  10 students, accompanied by Ms Hanley and Mr Kearney, went down to Sky Studios in London on a visit to work within the Sky Media Academy lab as part of their studies for GCSE Media.

   

  Students worked on their own game show as well as creating their own outside broadcasts for News and Sport. The students were also treated to a tour of the Sky Sports HQ and visited the sets for Monday Night Football, Golf and also the newsroom itself. Finally, they also had an audience with Sky's Head of Cricket Bryan Henderson.

   

  It was a long and tiring, yet immensely interesting and useful 24 hours or so travelling back and to the capital city. The students all seemed to agree that they'd had a brilliant time and Mr Kearney was simply happy to have walked past Thierry Henry at the studios. A million thanks to Ms Hanley who made sure the trip could go ahead with her driving skills.

  

• Clare Mount shortlisted for National Inclusion Award

  Wed 02 Mar 2016 D. Keefe

  Clare Mount has been shortlisted for the Youth Sport Trust Inclusion Award. This is a National Award with the winner being announced at an Awards Dinner in Coventry at the Ricoh Arena on 2nd March 2016 as part of the YST Conference. The profile below highlighted all the work Clare Mount is involved in. Fingers crossed.

   

  Profile of Clare Mount Specialist Sports College:

  Inclusion:

  • Clare Mount has been an Inclusion Lead School for YST since 2010.

  • The school is currently a lead school for the Wheelchair Sport Hub, Watersports Hub, and ASC project.

  PE Curriculum:

  • Clare Mount achieved the AfPE Quality Mark with distinction in 2014-2017.

  • Clare Mount has achieved YST Gold Partner Award.

  • Clare Mount is part of the PE Catalyst programme.

  • Every pupil is guaranteed 2 hours of PE in the curriculum.

  • The school provide PE Premium curriculum support for 8 local primary schools and has helped the local authority develop their Primary School PE Guide. The provision was deemed outstanding in an Ofsted review of PE premium provision in 2015.

  • The school has supported AfPE to review the new safe practice guidelines.

  • The school has helped develop the on-line TOP Sportsability resource and YoUR sport resources.

  • Our dance teacher is seconded for a day a week to work as an advanced skills teacher for Edsential.

  Whole school:

  • The school has put over 100 youngsters through our Bike Right cycling programme.

  • The school has put over 150 youngsters through Sky Living for Sport projects.

  • The school invests significant amounts of Pupil Premium funding into the personal development of pupils through projects with Rampworks, Team Extreme, Residential experiences.

  • The school is a Champion School for GET SET for Community Action and has helped review GET SET programmes and produce new resources. The school has piloted GET SET google hang-outs.

  Continuing Professional Development:

  • Clare Mount has trained up to 1000 people in Top Sportsability, Inclusive PE and the Active Kids Paralympic Challenge since becoming an Inclusion school. We have trained 400 teachers and trainee teachers since September 2015 alone.

  • The school has well established links with LJMU, Edge Hill, Chester University, UCLAN and Liverpool Hope.

  Competition:

  • Clare Mount has achieved the School Games Gold kitemark for the last 3 years.

  • Clare Mount is a lead school for the Unified Play project.

  • The school has managed to engage an increasing number of SGOs across Merseyside in Inclusive practice in the last 12 months with more events in the annual calendar.

  Health & well-being:

  • Clare Mount is part of the North West Consortium of 8 lead schools.

  • The school has Enhanced Healthy Schools status.

  • The school is leading on a health skills pilot around employability.

  • The school is part of the YA Peer Leaders mentoring programme.

  Club links:

  • Clare Mount helped to establish the first Special Olympics club on Wirral.

  • Clare Mount runs a weekly Community Sport Night which attracts 70 pupils a week with SEND from local schools.

  • Clare Mount hosts 1 of a network of Disability Choices club – a project run by Greenbank Academy which was Merseyside Sport Community Project of the Year in 2015.

  Employability and leadership:

  • The school runs an annual Leadership Academy and SIS Leadership camp. 40 leaders are currently doing Sport Leaders UK awards and 30 doing BTEC sport awards.

  • The school is trained in Personal Best challenges and is piloting skills2achieve.

  • Clare Mount was the only school from the North who supported a dozen pupils to be Games Makers at London 2012.

  • 20 pupils acted as Junior Golf Supervisors at The British Golf Open in 2014.

  • 4 pupils attended The Talent Inspiration Programme (TIP) at The School Games in Manchester in 2015.

  • 2 pupils become part of The Pack for The Rugby World Cup 2015, with other pupils acting as Rugby Ambassadors.

  • 2 pupils have been selected as part of the English Delegation at the ISF World School Sport Education Games in Greece in April 2016.

  • 10 Post-16 leaders have been involved in a pilot Sports Interns programme worth £25k funded by the LEA to look into supporting more youngsters with SEND to move into college or employment.

  Recognition:

  • The school was involved in the launch of the Sainsbury’s Active Kids Paralympic Challenge.

  • The school has been shortlisted for Merseyside Sport Secondary School of the Year for the last 3 years (winning the award in 2014).

  • The school has been shortlisted for the Educate Awards Innovative School of the Year and TES Inclusive School Provision Awards in 2015.

  • Staff have acted as Development Coaches for YST, and delivered at various YST festivals and Step Into Sport camps.

  • The AfPE journal Physical Education Matters published our Director of Sports dissertation on ‘Sitting on the other side of the inclusion fence’ across 5 editions.