How To Help Your Child Succeed Evening Wednesday 17 October

ENGLISH Head of English Miss H Daly h.daly@northerneducationtrust.org

AQA English Language 8700

AQA English Literature 8702

How can we help your child to succeed? Comprehensive revision programme After School English (ASE) runs weekly on a Tuesday for all of year eleven. There is also bespoke after school support on a Thursday, by invite. Intervention, including small group tuition, will take place throughout the year for students who are performing below their target grade. Students can also access support every lunch in the library, or before school at Morning School English (MSE). Frequent mock examinations Students sit AQA papers every half term, to prepare them for the challenges of the real exam season. Marking is personalised and thorough to set students individual targets. “Walking talking mocks” are also included to support students with strategies and timings to use in the exam. Revision guides Revision booklets have been created by the department to support students with English language and English literature revision. In addition, we will provide opportunities for revision guides to be purchased through school for both English language and literature. Exam practice and responding to marking Opportunities will be provided in class for students to tackle exam questions, reflect on models and receive targeted feedback that they can act on to improve their answers. Similar resources and activities can be completed at home. Support at school

How can you help your child to succeed? Encourage the regular use of the revision booklets, folders and homework sheets provided by class teachers. Students also benefit from creating revision cards, particularly for literature quotations. Ensure your child completes practice exam questions in timed conditions and in a quiet environment. Timing is key to balancing the requirements of the exam. Encourage students to read widely, both non-fiction and fictions texts. Encourage your child to read the set texts again (Macbeth, The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, DNA, A Christmas Carol, poetry cluster) and create revision materials, including quotations, for characters, themes and links. Help students with quotation re-call by testing them on key quotations, plot points or subject terminology. Revision cards are brilliant for this! Top tips to help with revision

Revision Guides

Set Texts

MATHS Head of Maths Miss S Elvin s.elvin@northerneducationtrust.org

What the GCSE Maths exams consists of:

Foundation Tier (Grades 5 – 1)

Higher Tier (Grades 9-4)

How is the Foundation Tier paper made up? Awarded Grades 5 -1

How is the Higher Tier paper made up? Awarded Grades 9 - 4

 Assessments Mock Examination Mock Examinations November October January March April Final Examinations 24th May (AM) NC 7th June (AM) Calc 12th June (AM) Calc

How can we help your child to succeed? ASP – Students may be requested to attend certain after school sessions to support their understanding of key topics Homework– All students receive homework each week. This is either in the form of an exam paper to familiarise all students with the exam style questions or a 20 question skills check. Skills check starters– All students complete 5 key skills questions at the beginning of each lesson, these skills are the same each week to allow repetitive practice. Use of Mock exam analysis– All students will complete an analysis of each paper which will enable each student to know their strengths and their areas for development. They can then use this information as a base for revision. Support at School

How can you help your child to succeed? Practice, practice, practice! The only way to revise Maths is to answer questions! Make sure they have the resources to answer lots of questions and then check their answers Past Exam Papers – Encourage your child to work through past papers in timed conditions. Use the mark schemes with them to ensure they are showing full methods and know where the marks are from. Exam papers can be downloaded from exam board websites Revision Guides/work books/practice paper books – Students should read through the information and answer the questions at the bottom of the pages, checking the answers as they go along. The best way to revise Maths is to do lots of practice questions! These can be purchased from school for £2.50 each Key Websites– www.corbettmaths.co.uk www.justmaths.co.uk www.keshmaths.com www.mymaths.co.uk youtube Support at Home

SCIENCE Head of Science Mrs N Jahangir n SCIENCE Head of Science Mrs N Jahangir n.jahangir@northerneducationtrust.org

AQA is the exam board we follow

Triple Science or Trilogy? AQA Triple Science Students achieve 3 GCSE grades in - Biology - Chemistry - Physics Each subject consists of two 1hr 45min exams. NO COURSEWORK! AQA Trilogy (Double Science) Students achieve 2 GCSE grades overall. They sit 6 exams in total, two in biology, two in chemistry and two in physics. Each exam will last 1hr 15 mins. NO COURSEWORK!

Assessments – Biology

Assessments – Chemistry

Assessments – Physics

Assessments – Trilogy Biology Chemistry Physics Paper 1 – topics 1-4 How it is assessed; Written papers – 1hr 15 mins each. Foundation and higher tiers. 70 marks per paper 16.5% of GCSE/paper Questions; MCQs, structured, closed short answer questions, and open response.

How can we help your child to succeed? ASP – bespoke after school intervention programme designed to support students individual needs. Comprehensive Revision programme – Ongoing from now students will be given revision materials that are designed to support their revision and provide opportunities to develop their exam technique. This includes the science staples challenge. Required Practicals – students are going to have to answer questions based on the required practical's they have completed, we will provide support and guidance in answering these questions and developing these skills. 6 mark, longer answer questions – we have identified that some of our students struggle to answer the longer answer questions in the exams – worth 6 marks. This can be worth and entire grade. So we have produced a booklet containing example questions so that they can practice, practice, practice. Support at School

How can you help your child succeed? Know when their exams are and which ones they are taking for Science. Provide them with the necessary things they need for revision: A quiet space. Revision materials – a revision guide and workbook as required. A computer if possible. Time. Support, guidance and encouragement.

Top tips to help with revision 3. Help them with their revision: Use the revision guides – lots of students have brought them, they are an invaluable resource! Chunk it – Ask students to revise a page/section/chapter and then test them on it. Go to aqa.org.uk – download past papers, and mark-schemes and get them to sit an exam in 60 minutes and then sit an go through it with the mark-scheme. Make use of YouTube – Search using “GCSE Science AQA e.g. C2 covalent bonding” Watch the video and then complete an exam question, or a revision activity. Keyword card games – Science is a subject of terminology and keywords and many marks on the exams will be through correct use of keywords and understanding their meaning. Top tips to help with revision

Science Revision Guides Available to order from us and cheaper than CGP Biology, Chemistry and Physics books Trilogy at £4 each Triple at £5.50 each