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Specialising in working with under performing pupils
Intervention refers to putting in place strategies to help students to rectify any under performance as soon as it is identified through regular, short focused guidance and support.
The most effective intervention is led by the subject teacher who has an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the student’s barriers to achievement and strategies they can focus on to improve their attainment.
In a nutshell yes! If you apply to a science subject at university – and by ‘science subject’ we mean medicine, nursing etc., as well as biology, chemistry and physics – the entry requirements for a course are likely to include some specifics around GCSEs.
For example, take a look at these Nursing BA degrees at different universities and what they ask for where it concerns GCSEs (as of January 2018):
Glasgow University: ‘Applicants who do not possess chemistry as one of their two required science subjects at A-level must have GCSE chemistry at A or B.’
Edinburgh University: ‘Biology at Grade B or 6, or Science Double Award at Grade BB or 66.’
It’s a bit like asking whether English and Maths are important.
What is Ebacc?
The English Baccalaureate, or EBacc, is a measure of how many pupils achieve a good GCSE pass in six core academic subjects: English, maths, history or geography, combined science (which counts as two passes) and a language. In addition, students must take both English language and literature, although they only need a grade A*-C (old GCSEs) or 5+ (new GCSEs) in one of them.
We are Northampton’s Premier Science Centre working closely with Parents and Schools. Offering expert after school Tuition and working closely with school in providing Training to Science teachers and Full Faculty Training. Young people are at the heart of what we do.
Progress 8 is the new accountability measure that will determine students’ progress across 8 subjects. This is a value added measure whereby students’ results will be compared to students who had the same prior attainment score at KS2.
The Attainment 8 score is the average measure of an individual student’s progress across their 8 best performing subjects which fall into three 'Attainment 8 buckets'; if these 8 best subjects do not fall into the three designated buckets for ‘English & Maths’, ‘Ebacc’ or ‘Other’ subjects, the score will not be counted.
These slots will be filled by English and Maths. The score for Maths will be double weighted, whereas the English score will only be double weighted if both English Literature and English Language are taken.
The highest scoring English mark will then take the double weighted space in Bucket 1, whilst the remaining English score can be used in the third bucket, but only if it is of a higher score than other subjects in this bucket. This is the only bucket in which scores are double weighted.
Bucket 2 will be filled by a student’s three highest performing grades from the Ebacc subjects, which are as follows:
The final bucket will be filled by the three ‘Other’ subjects in which students have received their highest grades. These can include the remaining English subject (dependent on whether both English Literature and Language were taken, although the score will not be double weighted), and lower graded Ebacc subjects.
Dr. Ketan Patel BSc PhD has worked in many schools throughout the country with 13 years’ experience in Science and Education. Through the use of Data and targeted Intervention with a friendly and helpful can-do attitude Dr Patel manages to enthuse young people with his love for Science. Creating a warm and engaging environment where students enjoy learning science thus helping to improve results. Dr Ketan Patel has particular success working with underperforming children and using his state-of-the-art teaching methods and tailor made resources can highlight excellent results from his students.
Students join us after school to increase their understanding on Science and to improve their grades
We work directly in school offering Targeted Intervention or simply Science Supply
If your Science Team needs reinvigorating or simply a refresher, we offer tailor made in school courses
We bring the WOW into Science education with our Whizz Bang Science Show specifically for schools
