About the Project
The GCSE Family Language Project is an extended
school programme which empowers both children
and their parents. It consists of 15 after-school
sessions for one hour once a week, offering
parents and their KS2/3/4 children the opportunity
to study together for a GCSE qualification
in their home language.
GCSE
Family Language Project Powerpoint Presentation
Important information
What
schools need to do to organise Family Learning
GCSE
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Timetable for Coordination of Tasks
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September
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October
- October timetable printout
- Send letter to cluster secondary requesting
exam centre provision
- Lesson Plans
- Record Exam dates
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November
- Confirm secondary school as exam centre
- Download exam papers & specifications
- Lessons start
- Teacher provides enrolment forms, evaluation
language requirements & predicts grades
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December
- Observation of teaching
- Discuss entry for exam with class
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January
- Exam entries to secondary school
- Book room for speaking exam
- Check dates of SAT's/Sc journey
- Check 2 working cassette players
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February
- Book courier to bike speaking exam from
secondary exam to your primary and return
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March
- Check exam times at secondary school
- Arrange support staff to accompany candidates
- Arrange transport to exam
- Final checks for speaking exam
- Allocate time to review completed cassettes
- Return cassettes to secondary school within
24 hours
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April
- Observe teaching
- Discuss progress and paperwork with teachers
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May
- Check exam time, entry details and invigilation
requirements
- Confirm transport arrangements
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June
- Results broadsheet arrives
- Arrange September assembly to give out
certificates to parents and children
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July
- List phone numbers of families for exam
results contact
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August
- Results broadsheet arrives 3rd Thursday
in August
- Arrange September assembly to announce
results
- Arrange October/November assembly to present
certificates
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Feedback |
The Institute
of Education's 2005 report, Review of
Successful Parental Involvement Practice for
'Hard to Reach' Parents, assessed educational
projects targeting underachieving minority
groups in schools and highlighted
Empowering Learning's project as an example
of good practice - the other being
The Ocean Maths Project in Tower Hamlets.
View
the report (p. 20)
View
teachers' feedback.
View
parents' feedback.
View
feedback from the Addey & Stanhope Experience
2006
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