1. How To Help Your Child Succeed Evening
Tuesday 29th November 2016
Session 1 – 6.30pm
How To Help Your Child Succeed Evening

3. Mrs Craddock – Director of English
Contact:
Mrs Craddock – Director of English

4. AQA English Language 8700

5. AQA English Literature 8702

6. How can we help your child to succeed?
Support at school
Intervention, including small group tutition, will take place throughout the year for students who are performing below their target grade.
After school examination sessions will be run on different aspects of the exams to help students fine tune specific skills.
Comprehensive revision programme
Every half term students will complete full GCSE papers in the hall. All mock marking will include clear personalised targets to focus revision.
Frequent mock examinations
Revision guides have been created to support students with English Language revision. In addition, we will provide opportunities for revision guides to be purchased for both English Language and Literature in school .
Revision guides
Opportunities in class will be provided for students to tackle exam questions, reflect on models and receive targeted feedback that they can act on.
Exam practice and responding to marking

7. How can you help your child to succeed?
Top tips to help with revision
Encourage the regular use of the revision guides, folders and homework sheets provided by class teachers.
Ensure your child completes exam questions in timed conditions.
Encourage your child to read the set texts again (Macbeth, The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, DNA, poetry cluster) and create key cards, including quotations, for characters, themes and links.
Encourage them to read non fiction texts such as newspapers and discuss how the writers use language to present their ideas.
Check your child’s technical accuracy for any homework completed (including other subject areas).
Encourage accurate spelling and punctuation and use of a variety of sentence structures..

8. Revision Guides

9. Set Texts

10. Contact: Miss Elvin – Director of Maths selvin@kirkbalkacademy.org

11. What the New Maths exams consists of:

12. Changes to the Foundation Tier (Grades 5 – 1)

13. Changes to the Higher Tier (Grades 9-4)

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

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

16. Content changes for GCSE Maths
All Grade B topics that are now Grade 5
All topics taken from AS level and moved to GCSE

17.  Assessments Mock Examination Mock Examinations Prior to Christmas
October 
Mock Examinations Prior to Christmas
Mock Examinations Prior to Easter
Final Examinations
25th May (AM) NC
8Th June (AM) Calc
13th June (AM) Calc

18. How can we help your child to succeed?
Support at School
Period 6 – Students have a timetabled after school session where Maths Teachers work through key skills and exam style questions
Homework– All students receive a New Specification style exam paper for homework each week. This will help to familiarise all students with the exam style questions
Weekly skills checks– All students complete 10 key skills questions in one lesson per week, these skills are the same each half term 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.

19. How can you help your child to succeed?
Support at Home
Practice, practice, practice! The only way to revise Maths is to do 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 baord 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–
youtube

20. Science Contact: Ms South – Acting Head of Science
Mrs Jahangir - Head of Year 11 Science
Mr Gilder – Assistant Principal (Senior Link to Science)

21. Which group are you in? Triple Science
9 exams in the summer (3 each for Physics, Chemistry and Biology) C1, C2 and C3 for Chemistry, P1,P2 and P3 for Physics and B1, B2 and B3 for Biology
Core and Additional Science – but have already taken Core exams
Some students sat their Core exams at the end of Y10 as in all their mocks they were performing at/above target grade
These students are now completing Additional science and have 3 exams in the summer. B2, C2 and P2.
Core and Additional Science – completing all exams in Y11
Studied Core Science in Y10, but were not yet ready to sit the exams.
Have an extra year to prepare for Core Science, whilst also studying for their second GCSE – Additional Science
Have 6 exams in the summer (3 for Core and 3 for Additional) C1, B1 and P1 for Core, and B2, C2 and P2 for Additional.

22. Assessments Triple Science
Each GCSE has 3 exams each worth 25% and ISA coursework worth 25%.
Exam Dates:
Tues 17th May B1
Thurs 19th May C1
Weds 25th May P1
Fri 10th June B2, B3
Weds 15th June C2, C3
Fri 17th June P2, P3
Core and Additional Science – but have already taken Core exams
Additional Science has 3 exams each worth 25% and ISA coursework worth 25%.
Exam dates:
Fri 10th June B2
Weds 15th June C2
Fri 17th June P2
Core and Additional Science – completing all exams in Y11

23. How can we help your child to succeed?
Support at School
ISAs – worth 25%. We have been working with your child since Y10 to try and ensure that every child has an ISA at least in line with their target grade.
Comprehensive Revision programme – Ongoing from now there are workshops and revision sessions available for all students. Where we will show them how to revise and what to revise.
Revision Guides – We have also sold revision guides for core, additional and triple science.
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.

24. 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.

25. Top tips to help with revision
3. Help them with their revision:
Top tips to help with revision
Use the revision guides – lots of students have brought them, and the workbooks to go with them.
Get them 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.

26. How To Help Your Child Succeed Evening
Tuesday 29th November 2016
Session 2 – 7.30pm
How To Help Your Child Succeed Evening

28. Mrs Craddock – Director of English
Contact:
Mrs Craddock – Director of English

29. AQA English Language 8700

30. AQA English Literature 8702

31. How can we help your child to succeed?
Support at school
Intervention, including small group tutition, will take place throughout the year for students who are performing below their target grade.
After school examination sessions will be run on different aspects of the exams to help students fine tune specific skills.
Comprehensive revision programme
Every half term students will complete full GCSE papers in the hall. All mock marking will include clear personalised targets to focus revision.
Frequent mock examinations
Revision guides have been created to support students with English Language revision. In addition, we will provide opportunities for revision guides to be purchased for both English Language and Literature in school .
Revision guides
Opportunities in class will be provided for students to tackle exam questions, reflect on models and receive targeted feedback that they can act on.
Exam practice and responding to marking

32. How can you help your child to succeed?
Top tips to help with revision
Encourage the regular use of the revision guides, folders and homework sheets provided by class teachers.
Ensure your child completes exam questions in timed conditions.
Encourage your child to read the set texts again (Macbeth, The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, DNA, poetry cluster) and create key cards, including quotations, for characters, themes and links.
Encourage them to read non fiction texts such as newspapers and discuss how the writers use language to present their ideas.
Check your child’s technical accuracy for any homework completed (including other subject areas).
Encourage accurate spelling and punctuation and use of a variety of sentence structures..

33. Revision Guides

34. Set Texts

35. Contact: Miss Elvin – Director of Maths selvin@kirkbalkacademy.org

36. What the New Maths exams consists of:

37. Changes to the Foundation Tier (Grades 5 – 1)

38. Changes to the Higher Tier (Grades 9-4)

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

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

41. Content changes for GCSE Maths
All Grade B topics that are now Grade 5
All topics taken from AS level and moved to GCSE

42.  Assessments Mock Examination Mock Examinations Prior to Christmas
October 
Mock Examinations Prior to Christmas
Mock Examinations Prior to Easter
Final Examinations
25th May (AM) NC
8Th June (AM) Calc
13th June (AM) Calc

43. How can we help your child to succeed?
Support at School
Period 6 – Students have a timetabled after school session where Maths Teachers work through key skills and exam style questions
Homework– All students receive a New Specification style exam paper for homework each week. This will help to familiarise all students with the exam style questions
Weekly skills checks– All students complete 10 key skills questions in one lesson per week, these skills are the same each half term 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.

44. How can you help your child to succeed?
Support at Home
Practice, practice, practice! The only way to revise Maths is to do 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 baord 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–
youtube

45. Science Contact: Ms South – Acting Head of Science
Mrs Jahangir - Head of Year 11 Science
Mr Gilder – Assistant Principal (Senior Link to Science)

46. Which group are you in? Triple Science
9 exams in the summer (3 each for Physics, Chemistry and Biology) C1, C2 and C3 for Chemistry, P1,P2 and P3 for Physics and B1, B2 and B3 for Biology
Core and Additional Science – but have already taken Core exams
Some students sat their Core exams at the end of Y10 as in all their mocks they were performing at/above target grade
These students are now completing Additional science and have 3 exams in the summer. B2, C2 and P2.
Core and Additional Science – completing all exams in Y11
Studied Core Science in Y10, but were not yet ready to sit the exams.
Have an extra year to prepare for Core Science, whilst also studying for their second GCSE – Additional Science
Have 6 exams in the summer (3 for Core and 3 for Additional) C1, B1 and P1 for Core, and B2, C2 and P2 for Additional.

47. Assessments Triple Science
Each GCSE has 3 exams each worth 25% and ISA coursework worth 25%.
Exam Dates:
Tues 17th May B1
Thurs 19th May C1
Weds 25th May P1
Fri 10th June B2, B3
Weds 15th June C2, C3
Fri 17th June P2, P3
Core and Additional Science – but have already taken Core exams
Additional Science has 3 exams each worth 25% and ISA coursework worth 25%.
Exam dates:
Fri 10th June B2
Weds 15th June C2
Fri 17th June P2
Core and Additional Science – completing all exams in Y11

48. How can we help your child to succeed?
Support at School
ISAs – worth 25%. We have been working with your child since Y10 to try and ensure that every child has an ISA at least in line with their target grade.
Comprehensive Revision programme – Ongoing from now there are workshops and revision sessions available for all students. Where we will show them how to revise and what to revise.
Revision Guides – We have also sold revision guides for core, additional and triple science.
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.

49. 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.

50. Top tips to help with revision
3. Help them with their revision:
Top tips to help with revision
Use the revision guides – lots of students have brought them, and the workbooks to go with them.
Get them 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.