Calendar - Bournemouth School

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Inset Day

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Inset Day

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Year 7 Parents' Welcome Evening

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Y7 & Y12 return to school

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Years 7 & 12 Photos

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Years 10 & 12 Photos

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UCAS Early Entry Meeting deadline

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Trustees' meeting: Training

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Trustees' meeting: Full

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Year 12 Information Evening

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Years 11 & 13 Information Evening

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Year 7 House XC. Periods 1–2

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Flu Vaccinations

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Year 8 House 7-a-side. A and B. Periods 5–6

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UCAS Early Entry full deadline for students

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Year 12 50 Essay Competition

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Ski Trip Information Evening

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Year 10 Information Evening

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INSET day

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Entrance tests

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Year 11 House 7-a-side Football. Periods 5–6

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Year 9 House 7-a-side Football. Periods 1–2

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Trustees' meeting: Futures

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ESAA Cross Country Cup, Bryanston

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Year 10 House 7-a-side Football. Periods 3–4

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Year 9 Information Evening

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Week 1

Meeting	Exceeding
You use all KO content You can aurally identify families of instruments and most orchestral instruments within each family	You use all KO content and additional information You can aurally identify all families and almost all orchestral instruments within each family with only minor errors
Assessment Methods
Listening assessment on Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra Do Now tasks Teacher questioning

Meeting	Exceeding
You use all KO content You can aurally identify families of instruments and most orchestral instruments within each family	You use all KO content and additional information You can aurally identify all families and almost all orchestral instruments within each family with only minor errors
Assessment Methods
Listening assessment on Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra Do Now tasks Teacher questioning

Meeting	Exceeding
Football (January to Easter) You demonstrate good ball control under pressure and consistently make accurate passes in dynamic game situations. You understand and apply team tactics, contributing to both attacking and defensive play. Health and Fitness (January – Easter) You demonstrate proper form in a variety of exercises, showing understanding of different fitness components (strength, endurance, flexibility). You set realistic fitness goals and work towards them consistently. Basketball (January – Easter) You demonstrate improved dribbling, passing, and shooting skills with greater consistency, applying them in dynamic game situations. You demonstrate an understanding of team tactics and contribute effectively on both ends of the court.	Exceeds: You have all of the criteria for ‘meets’* and at least some of the following:* Football (January – Easter) You showcase exceptional technical skills, including advanced dribbling, passing, and shooting, under high pressure. You demonstrate a deep understanding of game tactics, leading the team in both defensive and attacking situations. Health and Fitness (January – Easter) You designed and followed a comprehensive fitness plan that targets multiple fitness components, showing excellent progress. You demonstrate a high level of fitness and self-motivation, regularly exceeding personal goals. Basketball (January – Easter) You execute advanced basketball techniques, such as complex dribbling manoeuvres and fast-break plays, with confidence. You lead the team with excellent decision-making, defensive play, and communication.
Assessment Methods
Do now tasks Exit Tickets Knowledge Check Assessment

Meeting	Exceeding
Football (January to Easter) You demonstrate good control of the ball and pass accurately to teammates. You apply basic defensive and offensive tactics with consistency. Health and Fitness (January to Easter) You follow the basic principles of a warm-up, workout, and cool-down while demonstrating proper technique throughout. You participate with effort and enthusiasm. Basketball (January to Easter) You demonstrate basic dribbling, shooting, and passing skills, applying them in game situations. You understand the key rules of basketball and can execute basic strategies and tactics.	Rugby (January to Easter) You show advanced ball control and decision-making under pressure, contributing strategically to both attack and defence. You display a high level of skill and leadership on the field. Health and Fitness (January to Easter) You created a specialized warm up, workout, and cool down. Your technique during all exercises was excellent. You display exceptional consistency and effort, showing improved fitness levels over time. Basketball (January to Easter) You show excellent court awareness, quick decision-making, and the ability to execute advanced skills under pressure. You contribute to both offence and defence with a high level of skill and leadership.
Assessment Methods
Formative assessment in lessons – warm-ups, drills, cool-downs Summative assessment in lessons – competitive context

Meeting	Exceeding
You will be able to describe and explain the increased tension over Berlin between Khrushchev and Kennedy. You will be able to have a good understanding of why there were summit meetings called, 1960 and 1961. You will be able to describe and explain why the Berlin Wall was built in 1961. You will be able to explain the impact the building of the wall had on East-West relations and the importance of Kennedy’s visit to Berlin in 1963. You will be able to show a good understanding of the Cuban Revolution of 1959, the importance of the Bay of Pigs failed invasion of 1961 and the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962.	You will be able to evaluate the impact on international relations of increased tension over Berlin between Khrushchev and Kennedy. You understanding of the summit meetings is precise and you can evaluate their importance. You will be able to precisely recall details of how why the Berlin Wall was built in 1961. You will be able to evaluate the importance of the building of the wall on East-West relations and the importance of Kennedy’s visit to Berlin in 1963. You will be able to show a precise knowledge and understanding of the Cuban Revolution of 1959, the importance of the Bay of Pigs failed invasion of 1961 the events and significance of the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 in the short term and long term.
Assessment Methods
Do-now tasks Retrieval Quiz in class End of Unit Assessment

Meeting	Exceeding
You show a good knowledge and understanding of key terms associated with the changes happening from 1750 – 1900. You are able to describe and explain some aspects of continuity of society and economy during this period. You demonstrate a good understanding of how agriculture changed, why the factory system developed, how transport improvements impacted the economy with particular reference to the steam train. You are able to explain why living conditions in the new towns and cities changed, the impact on public health and calls for reform. You show secure evaluation of sources for utility, taking into account some aspects of provenance and / or own knowledge.	You are able to show an excellent knowledge and understanding of key terms associated with the changes happening from 1750 – 1900. You are able to precisely describe and explain aspects of continuity of society and economy during this period. You are able to show an excellent and precise understanding of how agriculture changed, why the factory system developed, how transport improvements impacted the economy with particular reference to the steam train. You are able to evaluate how and why living conditions in the new towns and cities changed and the impact these changes had on public health and calls for reform. You show a convincing evaluation of sources for utility, taking into account provenance and precise own knowledge.
Assessment Methods
Do Now Questioning in class Peer assessments (Skills based written response)

Meeting	Exceeding
You will be able to write a response that explains why each source is useful to an historian (i.e. what we can learn from the source) You will be able to explain the utility of one of your sources source more convincingly than the other. You will be able to show you can analyse the provenance of each source by considering the impact nature/ origin/ purpose has on the source’s utility. You will be able to deploy your own knowledge to test the source reasonably well. You will be able to write with minimal narrative. You will be able to explain which source is the most useful.	You will be able to convincingly explain why each source is useful. You will be able to evaluate aspects of the provenance of each source, considering impact on usefulness, with your selected aspect of provenance being evaluated convincingly and in depth across both sources. You will use precisely selected own knowledge to test source content to show how this may affect utility, demonstrating an excellent understanding of the topic. You will avoid including unnecessary narrative in your writing. You will have written a conclusion that convincingly identifies the more useful source, justifying your reasoning clearly.
Assessment Methods
Do Now Questioning in class End of Unit Assessment: Utility skills: written task

Meeting	Exceeding
You will be able to write a response that includes three causes of the outbreak of The Great War (this is the keystone point: no answer can be graded as ‘meeting’ if it does not contain three causes from: military, alliances, imperialism and nationalism). You will demonstrate the skill of analytical writing by demonstrating the Point, Evidence, Explanation, Link technique (PEEL) on each paragraph. For each cause, you will be including sufficient factual detail/proof to justify judgements rather than unsupported statements. You will be able to show secure explanation on each cause and link to why it was a reason for World War I breaking out.	You will apply precisely selected evidence, giving more weight to the judgements drawn. The quality of your evaluation will be in greater depth (e.g. linking in more depth to the question, considering limitations of each factor as a cause, making a clear judgement for each cause, maybe comparing their importance). You will be able to write a response that can also contain evidence of more independent research gathered from outside of the content studied in class.
Assessment Methods
Do Now tasks Retrieval quiz (factual recall) in class End of Unit 2 assessment (Skill: causation writing)

Meeting	Exceeding
Your written response analyses each source. The written response explains why each source is useful to a historian (i.e. what we can learn from the source) Your written response analyses the provenance of a source, considering the impact on usefulness, Some aspects (nature, origin, purpose) are explored less convincingly. You have applied your own knowledge to test the source content, and how this may affect usefulness, but this may lack detail, or show inconsistency between sources. You include some evaluation of utility using some of your own knowledge to support.	You have convincingly analysed both sources with utility explained in equal depth. Your written response discusses the nature, origin and purpose (provenance) of each source, considering its utility with all elements considered convincingly in depth. You include detailed and precise own knowledge and deploy this to test the source content to explain how this may affect usefulness, showing an excellent understanding of the topic. There is no unnecessary narrative.
Assessment Methods
Do Now Questioning in class End of Unit Assessment: Skills based written response on source Utility