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23/05/23

📢 We're Hiring! (Harlow) have a vacancy for a Librarian📄 For a job description and application details, please visit our websitehttps://t.co/uWLun4Fzxn

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19/05/23

📢 We're Hiring! (Harlow) have a vacancy for a Spanish Teacher📄 For a job description and application details, please visit our websitehttps://t.co/jp1PMiJXrW

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19/05/23

📢 We're Hiring! (Harlow) have a vacancy for an English Teacher📄 For a job description and application details, please visit our websitehttps://t.co/HxKjMbGR7d

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02/05/23

Great to visit during their Politics Week to talk with students about their passion for politics! We discussed the role of a MP, how Parliament works, and the importance of education to help everyone climb the ladder of opportunity 📚🏫🗣️🪜 pic.twitter.com/fGQdHCnqpk

21/04/23

📢 We're Hiring! have a vacancy for a Medical and Admin Assistant📄 For a job description and application details, please visit our websitehttps://t.co/OLMmSpu3WE

17/04/23

📢 We're Hiring! have a vacancy for a Teacher of Science📄 For a job description and application details, please visit our websitehttps://t.co/5Idc0D5427

17/04/23

📢 We're Hiring! have a vacancy for a Teacher of Mathematics📄 For a job description and application details, please visit our websitehttps://t.co/DOSKss7lOk

17/04/23

📢 We're Hiring! have a vacancy for a Geography Teacher📄 For a job description and application details, please visit our websitehttps://t.co/QuSq4kXeL6

17/04/23

📢 We're Hiring! have a vacancy for a Teacher of French and Spanish📄 For a job description and application details, please visit our websitehttps://t.co/O8UYdAwzVE

17/04/23

📢 We're Hiring! have a vacancy for a Head of RE📄 For a job description and application details, please visit our websitehttps://t.co/syC0pOqH78

17/04/23

📢 We're Hiring! have a vacancy for a Deputy SENDCo📄 For a job description and application details, please visit our websitehttps://t.co/rBXdSd1WXb

17/04/23

📢 We're Hiring! have a vacancy for an Acting Head of MFL📄 For a job description and application details, please visit our websitehttps://t.co/Q5kZQ5eIOX

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29/03/23

Fifty mathematicians in Year 9 and 10 took part in the UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge. https://t.co/qEgV94zCTS

22/03/23

Students reflect on their experience of hearing from a Holocaust survivor. We were privileged to welcome Susie Barnett BEM, to speak to Year 9 students about her remarkable life and her family’s desperate escape from persecution. pic.twitter.com/mfCGKpONcQ

17/03/23

📢 We're Hiring! (Harlow) have a vacancy for a Medical and Admin Assistant📄 For a job description and application details, please visit our websitehttps://t.co/rTUyL7SXbA

16/03/23

📢 We're Hiring! (Harlow) have a vacancy for an Assistant Headteacher📄 For a job description and application details, please visit our websitehttps://t.co/KoZ2qjzpoY

16/03/23

📢 We're Hiring! (Harlow) have a vacancy for a Teacher of Spanish📄 For a job description and application details, please visit our websitehttps://t.co/cITQHFevPx

16/03/23

📢 We're Hiring! (Harlow) have a vacancy for a Lead Practitioner for Science📄 For a job description and application details, please visit our websitehttps://t.co/u8don1mzAX

15/03/23

📢 We're Hiring! (Harlow) and (Harlow) have a vacancy for a Co-Educator📄 For a job description and application details, please visit our websitehttps://t.co/nQdcglQC0N

15/03/23

📢 We're Hiring! (Harlow) have a vacancy for a Lead Practitioner for Maths📄 For a job description and application details, please visit our websitehttps://t.co/VcFgvxQSoQ

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Curriculum in Years 10 & 11

For years 10 and 11 our Curriculum booklets outline the courses and level of qualification offered for each year group, and are downloadable from the menu on the left. The information is also available to view via the subject links in the menu on the left.

Aims of Our Curriculum 

Burnt Mill Academy is committed to providing a broad, balanced, accessible and inclusive curriculum for all our students. It is our aim to provide equally for the needs of all our students and offer support, where necessary, to allow access to the full curriculum. We aim for excellence for all and are committed to ensuring that students can enjoy their studies and achieve success.

We want to make sure that each student has a positive learning experience and we believe that our curriculum will motivate and engage students, challenging them to achieve to the very best of their ability. We ensure that our lessons are contextualised and take pride in the development of our students’ cultural capital knowledge.

We will ensure that, where possible, all students have the opportunity to study their preferred courses and they are provided with the necessary information, guidance and support that will enable them to make these important choices. 

At Burnt Mill Academy, we build upon the prerequisite knowledge learned at KS3 with regular prior knowledge checking and then progressing onto more challenging subject knowledge points. We teach core subjects of Computer Science, PE, RE and PSHE within the Key Stage 4 curriculum.

Curriculum change and how it will affect you

At GCSE, the national curriculum had several changes from September 2015. The courses are assessed by an examination at the end of year 11 (with some subjects testing parts of the course in Year 10). The courses are assessed and graded from a Level 9 (Top grade) to a Level 1 (bottom grade).

The grading system below can help with the 9-1 and Grade A* -G comparisons:

GRADE

E-BACC

The English Baccalaureate (E-Bacc) was introduced as a performance measure for schools in England in the 2010 performance tables. It is not a qualification. 

E-Bacc is a set of subjects at GCSE that keeps young people’s options open for further study and future careers.

The E-Bacc is:

  • English language and literature
  • Maths
  • The sciences
  • Geography or History
  • Language (Either French or Spanish)

PROGRESS 8 

Progress 8 will calculate a students’ progress throughout the GCSE courses regardless of ability. Progress 8 encourages you to have a broad and balanced GCSE portfolio. There is strong governmental advice about the expected spread of subjects needed for all students regardless of what you wish to do, to keep you competitive in the future.

The final GCSE scores from the students’ best 8 are added together and then looked at against the score that you should have achieved.

As seen in the image below, Maths and English are double weighted and count for more than the others. The next three subjects are the best three results of the EBacc. Finally, the open group consists of the next top three subjects from the remaining EBacc and other approved qualifications.

EBAC

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