Year 10 Evening

Why you and why now??

What are we going to do? Tracking students Mentoring where appropriate Provide revision material Outstanding learning in the classroom Focused homework Sharing revision strategies – pastoral and academic

Mentoring programme Second year of it… Six week cycle Communication with yourselves is the crucial element Small, specific targets to focus students on their key areas – be it organisation, homework, revision etc With Senior Staff in school 1:1.

What do students need to do to be successful? Positive attitude Clear vision – where are they going? Display behaviour for learning Self confidence Organisation

Revision Build it up over time – do some over the summer holidays Do it, forget it, do it again Be active in your revision – doing, not reading, not being passive Apply to exam questions

Top tips Know what your child is studying. Look at their planners Be aware of what is going on in school. Keep the target relevant. “What homework have you got tonight?” Suitable place to work – free from distraction Support, encouragement and interest Let them teach you

Year 10 to 11 English Advice for the summer English Advice for the summer

Changes to GCSE Literature and Language 1 – 9 Grading. No higher or foundation tier; No controlled assessment or coursework. 100% exam based; 2 exams for each subject; 4 texts studied for Literature, including one 19 th Century novel, a Shakespeare play, a modern text and a poetry cluster; Students must compare a modern non-fiction text with a 19 th Century non-fiction text; Students are not allowed to take books into the exam; Increased emphasis on spelling, punctuation and grammar.

English Literature Students need to have memorised a range of quotations for each text. Make sure that they have their books at home so that they can read texts again and work during the summer break.

Easy revision tasks Pick a character from one of the texts. Make a mind map of everything that you remember about them. Add quotations from the book. Parents can test to see 5 key quotations about the character can be remembered.

Easy revision tasks Make an A3 poster for the wall by putting the key themes in each corner. Choose the quotations that relate to those themes and explain the impact on the audience / reader. Try and include some quotations that help you to explore the structure of the play / novel as well as the language.

Easy Revision Tasks Make a power ladder. Place each character on the ladder in order of who has most to least power in the novel and explain why. Find one quotation which sums up their status in the text.

Revision Tasks Language CGP Booklets to take away this evening. Practice activities for Language:

The importance of reading. Teenagers who choose to pick up a book for pleasure are more likely to succeed in life.

Reading …. Helps children to do better at school. Improves concentration. Improves imagination. Increases vocabulary. Helps teenagers develop empathy.

Get them to pick up a book! Fiction is better than non fiction for developing skills but reading any text is better than not reading at all. Regular reading is the key to success in many GCSE subjects. Encourage children to read as often as possible.

Mathematics GCSE Miss Claire Tanner

New GCSE Where we are now: more difficult content larger content grades lessons in Years 10 and 11 first specimen paper done for mock

What next? Year 11: 8 lessons (6:2) Further mocks next year Three papers to sit for the GCSE, one without a calculator Regular testing/revision using new style questions

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Expectations

Preparation We stock Revision Guides and Workbooks Next year: Exam Practice Workbooks Students: using the workbook use for revision, not to learn pick a topic you recognise do one page in a revision session mark your work

General Advice Do a small amount regularly. Make sure that any revision can be checked – from answer books, exam mark schemes, on a calculator, by a teacher or friend. Have calculator and geometry set – don’t miss out the drawing questions. Know which formulae need to be learnt Maths clubs are for students to go over classwork and homework as well as get help with revision.

The Exam Methods definitely have to be written down – quite a lot is needed for one mark, sometimes more stages of work are needed than marks available Students will be tested on their understanding of methods by doing standard questions and also explaining mistakes in others.

a)5 marks b)1 mark

Further Help

GCSE Science

Double Award Science Students have already completed Core Science in May this year. They are now studying Additional Science. This has an ISA which represents 25% of the course and three exams (biology, chemistry, physics)

Triple Award Science Students will take 9 one hour exams at the end of Year 11. They have completed a physics ISA and will take a further ISA in each of biology and chemistry in Year 11.

ISAs Double Award Additional ISA: 11NT - Tue 24th Jan (Friction PU2.6) 11HS - Fri 27th Jan (Friction PU2.6) Triple Award Biology ISA: 11NT - Fri 25th Nov (Potato osmosis BU3.6b) 11HS - Thu 24th Nov (Potato osmosis BU3.6b) Triple Award Chemistry ISA: 11NT - Tue 17th Jan (Rates CU2.6) 11HS - Mon 16th Jan (Rates CU2.6)

How can you help? AQA ISA FRICTION

Tests Students have 3 science tests each half term which use past paper questions to assess recently taught content. Triple Award students also have 9 past papers to complete in exam conditions in the Spring Term Double Award students complete 3 past papers in this period.