firebreak

Dear Parent/Carer,

You will no doubt have heard the announcement made by the First Minister at lunchtime today. Wales is entering a 2-week “firebreak” and only pupils in Years 7 and 8 are permitted to attend school w/b 2nd November.

We are meeting with Heads of Department after school today. Parents of pupils in Years 9-13 will receive a detailed plan outlining the virtual learning package that will be put in place for your child by the end of the week. Please rest assured that pupils in these year groups will continue to be educated using electronic means during the “firebreak.”

Parents of Year 7 and 8 pupils should continue to send their child to school as normal w/b 2nd November.

Kind Regards
Mr A D Williams
Headteacher
Radyr Comprehensive School

Appealing Exam Grade For Summer 2020 Exams

As you will be aware, your final exam grade is based on the result your teacher predicted you would have achieved.

If you have concerns about your grade, you should complete the Appeal Form. School will compare the grade your teacher gave you and the grade WJEC has awarded you.

It is important to remember that:

  1. You can ask your school or college to check whether it made an error when submitting information to WJEC. Errors might include, for example, mixing up two students with similar names, or accidentally copying across the wrong data. If your school or college finds it made a mistake in the information it provided it can ask WJEC to correct it.
  2. Your school or college can appeal to WJEC on your behalf if it believes WJEC made a mistake when it communicated your grades.
  3. You cannot challenge the centre assessment grades or your rank order positions submitted by your school or college under WJEC’s appeals process. Any appeal would have to be undertaken by someone better placed than your teachers to judge your likely grade if exams had taken place. In the unique circumstances of this summer, we do not believe WJEC can fulfil this role

If you would like to initiate a possible appeal, please print, complete and sign the form and then email a scanned copy to Mrs Davies, Exams Officer, c.davies@radyr.net.

The deadline date is 15 September 2020
Appeals can only be accepted from the candidate.

Y10 WBQ week – 1st week after half term

Hello Year 10

I do hope that you and your families are safe and well. We all miss working with you every day!

We have received feedback from some of you and your parents that you are feeling a little overwhelmed with the volume of work at the moment. We have therefore decided that the week after half term, (w/b 1 June) will be WBQ week for all year 10 pupils. During this week you will only be set WBQ work, nothing else.

The overall aim of the week is to submit a first, but completed, draft of your Individual Project to your class teacher by the end of the school day on Friday 5th June.

The PowerPoint and video guidance will be uploaded to SMHW and emailed to you all on Monday 1st June 8.30am by Mrs D Thomas. There is a clear plan to follow on the PowerPoint section by section, accompanied by guidance videos to support you if you are struggling on a particular section. If you have completed the section previously, then please read the guidance, watch the video, make the necessary improvements. then move on to the next one.

Help is available from your class teacher throughout the week via email. The class teachers are:

Each teacher will email their class letting them know when feedback will be available during the week.

We are confident that this week will provide you with a really good opportunity to focus on just one thing and get a really decent first draft of your project completed. Please don’t work on this over half term, as your teachers will not be available to respond to you and provide you with daily feedback. Next week you need to relax and re-charge, then have a really good go at finishing your first draft of your project during WBQ week.

Take care everyone

Miss C Robins
Deputy Headteacher
Radyr Comprehensive School