SUMMERHILL SCHOOL
A SPECIALIST LANGUAGE COLLEGE
MATHS DEPARTMENT
STAFFING
The department is currently staffed with seven teachers.
Angela Jones (0.6)
Angela Mehan (0.4)
Kevin Quirke
James Rea
Kevin Brook
Jen Robinson
Tom Holden
Jane Penn
Head of Department (P/T)
Head of Department (P/T)
Maths Teacher and Head of Year
Maths Teacher
Maths Teacher (P/T)
Maths Teacher (P/T)
Maths Teacher
Maths Teacher (P/T)
ETHOS AND COURSES
The Mathematics department at Summerhill School is an exciting and vibrant
environment in which you can nurture your career. The Maths team teach a range of
subjects: AQA GCSE Maths and GCSE Statistics, FSMQ in Additional Maths and
entry level Maths.
The department staff are extremely hardworking, dedicated and enthusiastic. Maths
results over the past few years have been outstanding and on a rising trend. Continual
assessment and tracking of students’ progress enables the department to help each
student reach their full potential.
Expectations of students, parents and staff alike are high, and GCSE results are well
above the national average.
KS4
C+
2008 2009
78% 81%
2010
79%
2011 2012
81% 86%
When students arrive at Summerhill they are assessed and setted during the first few
weeks based on their KS2 results, teacher assessments and our own assessment.
At KS3, we set the 7 mixed ability forms into two deltas of three ability bands each.
The top set in each delta are fasttracked through the KS3 curriculum. In Year 9 they
are taught the first year of GCSE Mathematics.
At KS4, all 7 form groups are mixed together into 8 streamed teaching sets.
Traditionally the top two sets are fast-tracked and take GCSE at the end of Year 10.
This allows up to open up their curriculum in Year 11 to either taking GCSE Statistics
or FSMQ Mathematics qualification.
Sets 3, 4 and 5 are Higher Tier and sets 6, 7 and 8 are Foundation Tier. We are
currently finishing classes with the AQA Modular course and are deciding whether to
take AQA linear or Edexcel linear in future.
Meetings/In-service Training takes place on Monday evenings from 3.45 – 4.45 pm
and regular department meetings form part of this programme. Staff meetings and
year team meetings complete the programme. In addition there are regular middle
level leaders meetings every half-term.
FACILITIES
The Mathematics suite at Summerhill School comprises of six purpose built
classrooms off a central corridor, a preparation room and a Mathematics office.
Access to one of the school’s four bookable computer resource areas is easy whilst
each classroom hosts a computer, interactive whiteboard, projector and telephone,
enabling us to be leaders in the teaching of Mathematics.
The school is part of the Dudley Grid for Learning so that now every room in the
school has a direct link to the network and associated software. Students have open
access to the learning centre for study and research.
Corridors are also used as teaching and display areas; a small computer network of 5
computers exists outside one of the classrooms whilst the display areas are used to
reinforce the reward system promoted by the Mathematics department as well as
display students’ work.
The ethos of the department is one of working hard to achieve the best results possible
for each student. New initiatives are adapted and consolidate the work of the
department.
Angela Jones
Head of Mathematics