YEAR 9 TARGETS AND STRATEGIES CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO:
- ATTAINMENT
- CONDUCT
- DEADLINES
- EFFORT
SOMETIMES THE ABOVE OVERLAP
ATTAINMENTTARGETS / STRATEGIES
- To work independently.
- To continue to achieve excellent progress.
- To improve the grades on my student review
- To ask when I do not understand.
- To develop a consistent handwriting style.
- To try to move up a group in x.
- To check my spellings.
- To develop a variety of strategies for planning your ideas, e.g., spider grams, listings, mind maps.
- To read for x minutes a day.
- To improve personal organisation.
- To develop teamwork/ social skills
- To spend more time on learning homework.
- To use a dictionary/thesaurus as appropriate.
- To ask my parents to check my homework. In x.
- To write in more detail in x.
- To improve my spelling by learning x new words a week.
- To draft all work initially.
- To do x minutes of reading per week to support classwork.
- To respond at least once in class to questions in x and x.
- To proof read every piece of work I do.
- To work on my exam technique.
- To join in reading aloud in English.
- To go to the library on a regular basis.
- To use capital letters appropriately.
- To use capital letters and full stops appropriately.
- To write in sentence units when appropriate.
- To write in sentences of appropriate length.
- To aim to undertake 15 minutes of reading each day, subject matter to be chosen by the student, e.g., comic, newspaper, magazine, homework, or even the TV guide!
- To develop the habit of checking spellings by any appropriate method, e.g., an adult, spell master, dictionary, etc.
- To join out of school clubs
CONDUCT
TARGETS / STRATEGIES
- To make better use of break and lunch time.
- To improve my social skills.
- To sit where there is minimal distraction.
- To be more assertive (nicely) in my tutor group.
- To arrive to lessons quietly.
DEADLINES
TARGETS / STRATEGIES
- Not to commit to all the demands made of me.
- To complete my homework on time.
- To record all homework set
- To spend 5 minutes each evening organising my bag.
- To do my homework between 4.00pm – 5.30pm, Monday to Friday.
- To go to the library to do homework when the homework club is on
- To make sure basic school equipment is packed the night before (pen, pencil, ruler, calculator)
- To join Languages Club
EFFORT
TARGETS / STRATEGIES
- To be more punctual.
- To ask when I do not understand.
- To read for x minutes a day.
- To pack my bag the night before school.
- To spend x minutes per night on homework.
- To speak out more on x.
- Not to rush my work.
- To be more assertive (nicely) in my tutor group.
- To arrive at college with the correct books and equipment.
- To arrive at college with the correct books and equipment.
- To respond at least once in class to questions in x and x.
CDP/07