The Annual Report of the Board of Governors’ 2014-2015


SIXTH FORM CURRICULUM PROVISION



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SIXTH FORM CURRICULUM PROVISION


In 2014-2015, five Year 13 and three Year 14 students attended Magherafelt High School to study Government and Politics.

curriculum enrichment PROGRAMME


Throughout 2014-15, the MLP offered Year 13 students access to a common Curriculum Enrichment Programme. Students had the opportunity to choose courses that met their personal development, academic or vocational interests. A two day enrichment programme was organised on the 27 and 28 October during mid-term and the courses offered by St. Mary’s included: Art – up Clothes Recycling, Law, Journalism, Photography and Irish conversation – accredited.


CLAN PROJECT (RAISING STANDARDS IN LITERACY AND NUMERACY)


As part of an area-based learning initiative, St Mary’s Numeracy and Literacy Co-ordinators collaborated with Numeracy and Literacy Co-Ordinators from other schools within the Magherafelt Learning Partnership. The aim was to allow for the sharing of expertise and to improve capacity in Literacy and Numeracy development and, consequently, improve the Numeracy and Literacy levels of groups of young people. Year 11 and 12 underachievers in Numeracy were identified based on their Mock results and were subsequently given 6 intensive revision periods, which impacted very positively on their final GCSE result. Subsequent to mock examinations, a number of groups of Year 12 students were identified for participation in intensive GCSE preparation sessions in English for both the Literature and Language exams at the end of the year.  Individual student progress was closely monitored and measured.  Feeder primary schools were visited with a view to establishing how Numeracy was delivered and how levels were set. Good practice continued to be shared with Co-Ordinators sharing resources and ideas in Numeracy and Literacy. In Literacy, other subjects, such as R.E were approached in order to design tasks for Communication and lessons were observed in order to see how Communication/Literacy is delivered/promoted in other areas of learning.

YEAR 10 CAREERS CONVENTION


In October 2014, all Year 10 students attended an MLP Careers Convention hosted by Rainey Endowed Grammar School.

SECTION 3: EXAMINATION OUTCOMES

The examination results for 2015 show that, once again, St. Mary’s ranks among the top performing schools in Northern Ireland. In the Sunday Times Parent Power Survey in November 2015, St. Mary’s was ranked 5th in the Top Ten State Secondary Schools in Northern Ireland. Further information about academic outcomes is outlined in Appendix 1.



3.1 KEY STAGE 3 SUMMARY OF RESULTS





KEY STAGE 3 SUMMARY OF RESULTS FOR 2015

No of Pupils in Year 10 - 157

% achieving Level 5 or above

% achieving Level 6 or above

% achieving Level 7 or above

English

Teacher

Assessment
100

96

51

Maths

Teacher Assessment

100

100

69.43
3.2 GCSE SUMMARY OF RESULTS








No of Pupils

%

5+ A*-C

%

7+ A*-C

%

7+ A*-C including

English & Maths

NI Grammar School Average

% A* Grades

% A*-A Grades

% A*-B Grades

% A*-C Grades



2015

156



100


98.08


98.08


93


25.25



66.28


92.08


98.78


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