YEAR 10 FOUNDATION → HIGHER
Year 10 Foundation → Higher Transition Programme
Being placed on Foundation tier in Year 10 caps your child's ceiling at Grade 5. If they're capable of more — and most students on the Foundation-Higher borderline are — Year 10 is the window to build the Higher-tier foundations early, and give the school reason to move them up before Year 11.
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What we work on
- The specific Higher-tier topics missing from Foundation curriculum
- Algebra, quadratics and rearrangement (biggest early Higher gaps)
- Higher-tier problem-solving techniques
- Confidence building on past-paper Higher-tier questions
- Structured evidence for the school of Higher-tier readiness
- Weekly parent progress reports
Common questions
Will the school actually move them up?
Not automatically — but a Year 10 student demonstrating consistent competence on Higher-tier questions gives the maths department real evidence to reconsider tier. We've had students moved up mid-Year 11.
Maths only or Science too?
Both are available. Maths is where the Foundation-Higher decision is most consequential.
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