Supporting with GCSE exams

An evening for parents

Academy Parent

Student

Exams are coming

What’s in a number?

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Busiest Scenario

• English – 2

• English Lit – 2

• Maths – 3

• Further Maths – 2

• Triple Science – 6

• History – 3

• Geography – 3

• MFL – 3 (+1)

• Psychology - 3

Attendance

100%

“73 per cent of pupils who have over 95 per cent attendance achieve five or more GCSEs at grades 9 to 4.”

(Taylor Report)

Imminent Assessments and Exams

Controlled Assessments & Practicals• Drama

– Devised performances next week,

– Written portfolio - December

– Component 2: scripted performances 26th and 27th March 2020

• Music

Portfolio and Practical Component- Easter holidays 2020.

• Dance

– Set phrase and trio performance sharing - 6th November 2019

– Practical exam - set phrases/trio performance - 14th November 2019

– Mock practical exam: choreography - 27th February 2020

– Practical exam – choreography - 20th March 2020

• Art

– Portfolio deadline January 10th 2020

– Final exam 28th-29th April 2020

• iMedia

– Exam – 8th January 2020

• External BTEC assessments: H&SC

– Exam - 7th February 2020

• Food

- practicals – 3rd-14th February 2020

• PE

– moderation in March 2020

• MFL

- Speaking exams – w/c 27th April 2020

View your child’s homework tasks

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parents to set up an account

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The journeyProgress Report 1: 10th Oct

Review week: w/c 14th Oct

Mocks 1: 18th Nov

Progress Report 2: 18th Dec

Parents’ Evening: 16th Jan

Mocks 2: 2nd March

Progress Report 3: 1st April

Real exams: May 11th

Mock Results Day – 13th December

Support

• Period 6 sessions

• Revision skills support

• Mentoring

• English/maths support

• Booster sessions

• LRC from 8.00am until 4.30pm

• After school subject clubs and catch up sessions

• Sports, performing arts and other clubs

Easter Revision 6-7th April 2020

Leave nothing to chance!

Thorough revision is crucial

Combined Science

Triple science

Business

Computer science

English Lit.

History

Food

French

German

Maths

…

Graphic Organisers

A5 Revision Cards

Problems Antiseptic

Anaesthetics

Blood loss

Surgery

A5 Revision Cards

Setting Themes

Key events

Main characters

Jekyll and Hyde Chapter 1

Spider Diagrams

Coastal features

ArchStack

Cave

Fishbone diagram

SohCahToa

Trigonometry and Pythagoras

Sin x = o/h

Cos x = a/h

Tan x = o/a

Leg Muscles

Topic 1

Topic 2

Anatomy

Hamstrings

Adductors

Quadriceps

Flow diagram

Topic Area:

CYCLE DIAGRAMS

Clocking on for Period 6

More text is no use…

…unless it is organised…

Sand Creek Massacre 1864

The new reservation and Federal payments proved unable to sustain the tribes. During the Civil War tensions again rose and sporadic violence broke out between Anglos and Native Americans. In June 1864, John Evans, governor of the territory of Colorado, attempted to isolate recalcitrant Native Americans by inviting “friendly Indians” to camp near military forts and receive provisions and protection. He also called for volunteers to fill the military void left when most of the regular army troops in Colorado were sent to other areas during the Civil War. In August 1864, Evans met with Black Kettle and several other chiefs to forge a new peace, and all parties left satisfied. Black Kettle moved his band to Fort Lyon, Colorado, where the commanding officer encouraged him to hunt near Sand Creek. In what can only be considered an act of treachery, Chivington moved his troops to the plains, and on November 29, they attacked the unsuspecting Native Americans, scattering men, women, and children and hunting them down. The casualties reflect the one-sided nature of the fight. Nine of Chivington’s men were killed; 148 of Black Kettle’s………

Where can you find templates?

Knowing what they will ask you…

Command words

How many of these could you answer?

1. Zarg why there is less pollution from traffic exhaust fumes if more people travel by bus, instead of by car.

2. Zonk the siting of the power station at site B.

3. Zurb the amount of tiles needed for the swimming pool in example 1.

4. Zeep Hitler’s rule of Germany in the 1930s with that of Stalin in the USSR.

Command words

1. Zarg why there is less pollution from traffic exhaust fumes if more people travel by bus, instead of by car.

2. Zonk the siting of the power station at site B.

3. Zurb the amount of tiles needed for the swimming pool in example

4. Zeep Hitler’s rule Germany in the 1930s with that of Stalin in the USSR.

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail

Timeline

Look at the actions in your booklet.

Which activities should be done when?

• Weeks before the exam

• The week of the exam

• The night before the exam

• The day of the exam

• In the exam hall

“You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no

result.” Mahatma Gandhi

A Revision Timetable

Revision Techniques

Making it active

You have 30 seconds to remember a list of words

Is this you? Or this?

I Remember!

Mercedes BlueDesert Yellow Eighteen JanuaryCactus Thirty SixFord TwelveRed Oasis November MarchToyota

You will forget You will forget You will forget

You will forget You will forget You will forget

You will forget You will forget You will forget

You will forget You will forget You will forget

You will forget You will forget You will forget

You will forget You will forget You will forget

You will forget You will forget You will forget

You will forget You will forget You will forget

You will forget You will forget You will forget

You will forget You will forget You will forget

You will forget You will forget You will forget

Mercedes BlueDesert Yellow Eighteen JanuaryCactus Thirty SixFord TwelveRed Oasis November MarchToyota

Colours

BlueRed Yellow

Cars

ToyotaFordMercedes(Toy Former)

Numbers

TwelveEighteenThirty Six

Months

November January March

Environment

Cactus Oasis Desert

Develop your Memory

• Your brain is like a muscle.

• Exercise it to make it stronger.

Revision – Key Word Cards

Place all the cards with

the * facing up.

Take it in turns to work out what is on the other side. Turn over to see if you are right. If Yes remove the card, if No the card stays in play

Capital Cities

Flash cards

How to make a flash card…..

Good for Wilkos’ shareholders!

Darwinism

Survival of the fittest

Type of Study

Item

Example of Front Side of

Card

Example of Back Side of Card

Vocabulary word Perigee the nearest point to earth of an object

orbiting the earth

Math formula Area of a triangle A = 1/2 (Base times Height)

Chemical formula Formula for sulphuric acid H2SO4

Icon Pause icon

Graph Asymptote

Question Name three vaccinations a 1-

year-old dog should have

DHPPC (Distemper, Hepatitus,

Parainflenze, Parvovirus, Corona Virus),

Rabies, Bordatella

Dates December 7, 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbour

Acronym PSC Permanent Split Capacitor, a capacitor that

remains in active in the circuit after motor

start

Question with some initial ideas.

Flashcard and key words with definitions.

Student’s answer.

Traffic light content check

• Mark in green everything that you completely understand

• Mark in orange where you some but not all of the content

• Mark in red anything that you feel concerned about

Revision Technique:Transformations

First World War - key words

Barbed wire

Rat

Machine gun

Trench foot

Duckboard

Sandbag

Shrapnel

Periscope

Fire step

Bully beef

Fleas

Bayonet

As I walked down the path to my house I could hear a clattering noise as there were duckboards on top of the path. I couldn’t get in through the front door as sandbags had been piled up next to it. When I moved them I finally got into the hall and was horrified to see a rotten trench foot sticking out of one of my wellies. I went through the living room and saw, in the ash from the fire, (a) step print. In the kitchen there was some rotten bully beef on the table with fleas buzzing around it. I went up to the bathroom and could hear machine gun noise coming from next door. I used my periscope to look out of the window and saw my crazy next door neighbour shooting at a rat. I saw red, grabbed my bayonet from next to the toothbrushes and went round to sort the neighbour out. After all, I am President of the Save the Rodent society. Sadly I couldn’t get to him as he had put barbed wire all round his garden fence. So, I just grabbed lumps of shrapnel from one of my plant pots and threw them in his general direction.

From this….

…to this

…or this

…or this

…or this

• Post-its

• Podcast https://player.fm/series/2488441

• Revise with friends/family

• Reduce information

• Songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDxhugRKZ8g

Plus a few ideas…

Is it impossible?“A few modern thinkers… say an individual’s intelligence is fixed and cannot be increased. We must protest against this… with practice, hard-work, and above all positive attitude, we can increase our attention, our memory and literally become more intelligent and successful than we were before.”

Alfred Binet, 1911

‘Putting in a shift…’

Period 6