Alps Briefing Papers
Maximising Achievement with Y11 in the final 15 weeks before the 2025 examinations in Wales
A companion piece to our Alps Champions Webinar on Thursday 23rd January 2025. At Alps, we are with you all the way as you face the challenge of maximising Y11’s outcomes and achievement in 2025. Context reminder: GCSE grades fell in 2024 as ...
Maximising Achievement with Y13 in the final 15 weeks before the 2025 examinations in Wales
A companion piece to our Alps Champions Webinar on Tuesday 21st January 2025. At Alps, we are with you all the way as you face the challenge of maximising Y13’s achievement in 2025. The Context A Level and vocational grades fell in 2024 as ...
Maximising Achievement with Y11 in the final 15 weeks before the 2025 examinations in England
Maximising Achievement with Y11 in the final 15 weeks before the 2025 examinations in England A companion piece to our Alps Champions Webinar on Wednesday 22nd January 2025. Note: At date of writing, the provisional KS4 Performance Tables have not ...
Maximising Achievement with Y13 in the final 15 weeks before the 2025 examinations in England
Maximising Achievement with Y13 in the final 15 weeks before the 2025 examinations in England A companion piece to our Alps Champions Webinar on Monday 20th January 2025. At Alps, we are with you all the way as you face the challenge of maximising ...
Hitting the ground running in September 2024 Setting priorities for Y11 as a KS4 Leader in Cymru / Wales
Now that the autumn term is underway for schools in Wales, here are some reflections from Alps on setting priorities for Y11. 1. Understand your context: GCSE attainment In Wales the 2024 national GCSE results returned to pre-pandemic standards. ...
Hitting the ground running in September 2024 Setting priorities for Y11 as a KS4 Leader in England
Now that the Autumn Term is underway for schools and colleges in England, here are some reflections from Alps on setting priorities for Y11 in 2024-25. 1. Understand your context: the 2024 national results Table 1 below shows how results for all ...
Hitting the ground running in September 2024 Setting priorities for Y13 as a Post-16 Leader in Cymru / Wales
Now that the Autumn Term is underway for schools and colleges in Wales, here are some reflections from Alps on setting Post-16 priorities for Y13. 1. Understand your context: A Level raw attainment In Wales A Level results were brought back close to ...
Hitting the ground running in September 2024 - Setting priorities for Y13 as a Post-16 Leader in England
Now that the Autumn Term is underway for schools and colleges in England, here are some reflections from Alps on setting Post-16 priorities for Y13. 1. Understand your context: raw attainment Table 1 shows how results in 2024 compare with results ...
Maximising Achievement with Y13 in the final 15 weeks before the 2024 examinations in England
A companion piece to our Alps Champions Webinar on Monday 15th January 2024. At Alps, we are aware you are facing significant challenges again in 2023-24: Y13 students took GCSE examinations in 2022 when GCSE results were awarded far more generously ...
Maximising Achievement with Y13 in the final 15 weeks before the 2024 examinations in Wales
A companion piece to our Alps Champions Webinar on Tuesday 16th January 2024. At Alps, we are aware you are facing significant challenges in 2023-24: Y13 students took GCSE examinations in 2022 when GCSE results were awarded more generously than in ...
Maximising Achievement with Y11 in the final 15 weeks before the 2024 examinations in England
A companion piece to our Alps Champions Webinar on Wednesday 17th January 2024. At Alps, we are aware that you are facing significant challenges again in 2023-24: Y11 students’ last undisrupted pre-pandemic academic year in education was Y6 in ...
Maximising Achievement with Y11 in the final 15 weeks before the 2024 examinations in Wales
A companion piece to our Alps Champions Webinar on 18th January 2024. At Alps, we are aware you are facing significant challenges in 2023-24: Y11 students’ last undisrupted pre-pandemic academic year in education was Y6 in 2018-19. Their secondary ...
Hitting the ground running in September 2023 - Setting priorities for Y13 as a Post-16 Leader in England
Now that the Autumn Term is underway for schools and colleges in England, here are some reflections from Alps on setting Post-16 priorities for Y13. 1. Understand your context: raw attainment. In 2023 results in England were brought back in line with ...
Hitting the ground running in September 2023 - Setting priorities for Y13 as a Post-16 Leader in Cymru / Wales
Now that the Autumn Term is underway for schools and colleges in Wales, here are some reflections from Alps on setting Post-16 priorities for Y13. 1. Understand your context: A Level raw attainment. In Wales the A Level results were brought back to ...
Hitting the ground running in September 2023 - Setting priorities for Y11 as a KS4 Leader in England
Now that the Autumn Term is underway for schools and colleges in England, here are some reflections from Alps on setting priorities for Y11 in 2023-24. 1. Understand your context: the 2023 results. In 2023 results in England were brought back in line ...
Hitting the ground running in September 2023 - Setting priorities for Y11 as a KS4 Leader in Cymru / Wales
Now that the Autumn Term is underway for schools in Wales, here are some reflections from Alps on setting priorities for Y11. 1. Understand your context: GCSE attainment. In Wales the national GCSE results were brought back to close to halfway ...
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