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GCSE Success Evening 2018
Year 11 French & Spanish
AQA GCSE French & Spanish Final ExamsSpeaking Exams - April (Just after Easter)
French L&R: 14th MayFrench Writing: 17th May
Spanish L&R: 22nd MaySpanish Writing: 5th June
Each component is weighted equally: 25%
Role of the Academy
In addition to lessons:o Home Learning: Quizlet, ActiveLearno Subscriptions to numerous websites: Linguascope,
DuoLingo, Memriseo Google Classroom & Google Driveo Interventions after Christmas where required
Role of students
In addition to lessons:o Put together your revision timetable - short but
regular sessions should be timetabled to practiseall four skills and all topics covered in the exam
o Memorise the answers you’ve been preparing to the questions in the Google Drive. These are for both the Speaking and Writing – so half the exam.
What, when and how to revise
Revision for the listening and reading exams shouldhave already started. The golden rules are:
1. Little but often: e.g. 3 or 4 slots of 20 minutes each week
2. Variety: Use books, notes, flashcards, apps and websites
3. Start early and build gradually. You can’t cram a language just before the exam!
GCSE Results 2018
Overall English:
4+: 85.2% 5+: 76%7+: 37.2%
English Language:
4+: 77.47%5+: 62.3%7+: 25.2%
English Literature:
4+: 83.6%5+: 70%7+: 31.1%
Key Information
Two GCSEs that will be graded separately:
English Literature (two exams)
English Language (two exams)
These GCSEs will be graded on the 1-9 grading system
Spoken Language Component
• Pass, merit or distinction
• This does not contribute to the overall GCSE grade
Key Information
• No coursework component for both Literature and Language (100% exam)
• Closed book for Literature - students do not get a copy of the text in the exam and therefore need to learn quotations
• 20% SPaG (technical accuracy) weighting in Language
• Increased weighting on SPaG better prepares students for the future
English Language
Paper One
Explorations in Creative Writing & Reading
Section A Reading: Analysing an unseen Literature fiction text (40 marks)
Section B Writing: Descriptive or arrative writing (40 marks)
1hr45 mins80 marks50% of GCSE
Paper Two
Writers’ Viewpoints and Perspectives
Section A: ReadingOne non-fiction textOne literary non-fiction text (40 marks)
Section B: WritingWriting to present a viewpoint (40 marks)
1hr45 mins80 marks50%
English Literature
Paper One
• Section A: Shakespeare (Macbeth)
• Section B: 19th Century Novel (Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde or A Christmas Carol)
1hr 45 mins64 marks40% of GCSE
Paper Two
• Section A: Modern Text (An Inspector Calls)
• Section B: Poetry (Power and Conflict)
• Section C: Unseen Poetry
2hr 15 mins96 marks60%
Exam Dates
• English Literature Paper One: Wednesday 15th May pm (1 hr 45)
• English Literature Paper Two: Thursday 23rd May am (2 hrs 15)
• English Language Paper One: Tuesday 4th June am (1 hr 45)
• English Language Paper Two: Friday 7th June am (1 hr 45)
English Language: Focus on writing (50%)
• Students will complete 2 mini writing assessments per term
Writing Assessment Objectives:
AO5- Imaginative context (ideas/vocab/structure)
AO6- Technical Accuracy (SPaG) 20%
In order to attain top grades students MUST:
● Spell ambitious words correctly● Use punctuation correctly and effectively ● Use accurate grammar ● Correctly and effectively structure their sentences
English Literature Revision
• Read, re-read and re-read the texts
• Learn quotations (cue cards, quote battles etc.)
• Plan essays on key characters and themes in each text
• Complete practice papers – time yourself!
English Language Revision
• Read non-fiction texts and consider writer’s purpose
• Read fiction texts and consider how writers use language and structure to shape meaning
• Find a picture and describe it
• Practise narrative writing
• Practise argumentative writing
More Revision Tips
• Learn linguistic and literary terminology
• Complete and self-assess exam papers
• Recognise questions / recognise AOs- know what you’re being assessed on for each question
• Become familiar with mark schemes
• Learn acronyms suggested by teachers
• Complete questions in revision guides and past papers
• Use vocabulary banks to improve writing
• Learn a range of connectives
• Actively engage with teacher feedback
• Be reflective - target your own development points and be clear on how to improve
• Ensure you always have your copy of text books in lessons to make notes (useful revision tool)
• Attend after school intervention
How can you help?
Test students on the following:
-Terminology
-Textual details (key references/quotations)
-Assessment objectives/question layout
-Key acronyms
(We will be providing quiz/question sheets for you to help at home next term)
Encourage reading as much as possible
Quiz students on information after they’ve read an article, book or extract
Encourage students to complete questions in revision guides/ past papers
Support after school intervention sessions Provide students with thesauri/dictionaries
Key contact details:
If you have any questions or concerns please contact:
Georgie Wills (Head of English)
Danielle Walker (Director of English)
Key information
• Students have already studied 3 of the 4 areas of content
Exam 1 – Thematic study – Medicine through time and depth study on The British Sector of the Western Front (30%)
Exam 2 – Period and British Depth Study – The American West 1835-1895 and Anglo-Saxons (40%)
Exam 3 – Modern Depth Study - Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-1939 (30%)
Paper 1: Medicine – 1hr, 15 mins
Section A: The Western Front 1914-1918
• Q1: “Describe two features…” (4)
• Q2a) “How useful are Sources A and B to a historian” (8)
• Q2b) “How could you follow up this source? (4)
Section B: Medicine in Britain 1215-Present
• Q3) “Describe one way that X and Y are similar” (4)
• Q4) “Explain why…” (12)
• Q5) Choice of 2 essays – “How far do you agree?” (20, 4 of which are SPAG)
Paper 2: American West and Anglo-Saxons -1hr, 45 mins
Section A: The American West
• Q1: “Explain two consequences of…”(8)
• Q2) “Write a narrative account” (8)
• Q3) “Explain two of the following…” (8 for each, 16 total)
Section B: Anglo-Saxons
• Q4a) “Describe two features of…” (4)
• Q4b) “Explain why…” (12)
• Q4c) Choice of 2 essays – “How far do you agree?” (16)
Paper 3: Germany – 1 hour, 20 mins
• Q1: “Give two things you can infer from Source A” (4)
• Q2) “Explain why…” (12)
• Q3a) “How useful are Sources A and B?” (8)
• Q3b) “What is the main difference between these views?”
• Q3c) “Suggest one reason for these different views”
• Q3d) “How far do you agree?” (20, 4 of which for SPAG)
Key dates - exams
• Medicine – 3rd June 2019
• American West/Anglo-Saxons – 6th June 2019
• Germany – 9th June 2019
What can students do?
Start going over material now
Complete exam papers
Become familiar with mark schemes
Learn key dates and facts – vital for success
Complete questions in revision guides
Use online revision sites such as ‘Get Revising’ and ‘The Student Room’
Practice timed responses to as many
questions as possible
How can you help?
Ensure that students are spreading their history revision evenly over the different topics
Dates quiz every week – get student to produce a sheet of dates for each topic that they will have to learn by the end of the week.
Writing practice – check their SPAG
Keep in contact via email with teachers/HoF to check progress
Key contact details:
If you have any questions or concerns please contact:
Ed Fuller - [email protected]
( Head of Faculty)
Please feel free to liaise with teachers directly – let me know via email if you would like to be contacted.
Success in Geography
Faculty: Dr. M Syed – Head of GeographyMr. D Collins – Subject Lead Teacher of GeographyMs L. James – Head of Learning and Geography Teacher
https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/geography/gcse/geography-8035/specification-at-a-glance
AQA specification (below is the link)
Do well in Geography – You will change the World!
Components of this presentation:
• 1- High lights of GCSE Geography results 2017-18
• 2-Rationale
• 3- Summary of GCSE Geography course
• 4-Programme of study
• 5-Key Challenges and some solutions Including interventions/after school support
Highlights of GCSE Geography results 2017-18
• Total student = 65
• Level 9 = 3 students – amongst the top 3% students in the country.
• Level 7+ = 21
• Level 4+ = 41
• Rationale:
• Curriculum demand: New specifications – More topics
• There are 18 topics to be delivered plus Issue Evaluation (paper 3)
• Target : To complete all topics by Christmas break
• Provide students an enjoyable learning experience to boost their confidence in order to ‘believe and achieve’.
• Paper 1 (90 min and 88 marks - incl 3 for spag)
• Living with the Physical Environment
• Section A- The challenges of natural hazards: (33 marks)
• 1- Natural Hazards
• 2- Tectonic Hazards
• 3- Weather Hazards
• 4- Climate Change
• Section B: The living world (25 marks)
• 5- Ecosystems
• 6- Tropical rainforests
• 7- Hot deserts
• Section C- Physical landscapes in the UK (30 marks)
• 8- The UK’s relief and landscapes
• 9- Coastal landscapes in the UK
• 10- River landscapes in the UK
• Paper 2 (90 min and 88 marks -incl 3 for spag)
• Challenges in the Human Environment
• Section A – Urban issues and challenges (33 marks)
• 1- The urban world
• 2- Urban change in the UK
• 3- Urban sustainability
• Section B- The changing economic world (30 marks)
• 4- The development gap
• 5- Nigeria: a Newly-Emerging economy
• 6- The changing UK economy
• Section C- Resource Management (25 marks)
• 7- Resources and 8-Energy management
• Paper 3 (75 min and 76 marks (incl 6 for spag)
• Geographical applications and skills
• 1- Issue evaluation (Section A- 37 marks)
• 2- Fieldwork (physical and human) (Section B 39 marks)
• Geographical skills (included in section A & B)
• AQA GCSE Geography – Summary of course
Released 12 weeks before the exam
Two compulsory field trips – 15th
Nov (phy)
Year 11- Geography Program of Study - Rivers (2018-19)
Date Topics RAG
Red – I don’t understand
Amber – I get some of it.
Green – I get all of it 3rd Sept Know your teacher. Introduction to syllabus/Program
of study. Self-tracking, tests /exams, homework policy, rewards and prizes. Ambition in life, Expectations, seating plan.
Introduction to rivers and the water cycle
A river on it’s journey
10th Fluvial Process (river at work) River processes –Weather and types of weathering)
River at work (River processes - erosional, transportational, depositional)
Landforms created by rivers (erosional)
17th Landforms due to erosion and deposition
Textbook activities
Mid chapter test
24th Feedback of Mid chapter test
Landforms created by rivers due to deposition Landforms on the River Tees 1st Oct Factors increasing risk of floods
Hydrograph – Construction and interpretation
Homework- Write an essay (more than A4 page) on Case study of floods in Bangladesh – Description, effects and responses. Managing floods – Hard and soft engineering methods
8th Managing floods at Banbury/ Tewkesbury floods video
Managing floods at Banbury/ Tewkesbury floods video
14-Revision for end of chapter test
15th End of topic test
15- Field trip discussion / paper 3
16- Field trip discussion/ paper 3
Year 11 Geography topics (2018-19) 1) Rivers (Field trip TBA) 2) Weather Hazards + (Mock Exams 3) Urban Change in the UK – Case study of Bristol 4) Revision – Paper 3 (Issue Evaluation) 5) GCSE Revision / Exams 6) Exams GCSE
Marks
Marks
Marks
3- Key Challenges and some solutions
• Challenges• 1-There are 18 topics + Issue evaluation
exercise which will be released on 12 weeks before the exam.
• 2-What Study material
• 3-Lack of past papers (new specification)
• 4- Mock Exams
• 5-Don’t understand any topic
• Solutions• 1-Organise your time (formula of 8hrs play
+8hrs sleep+ 8 hrs study). If you are unable to cope up with sleep or study, cut on your play time.
• 2- AQA specification (topics on the earlier slide of this presentation). Textbook and CGP guide.
• 3- CGP guide along with practice booklet. Academy’s mock exam papers.
• 4- Prepare well (at least be aware by reading all the topics before the exam) so as to know what are the areas you need to revisit and revise.
• 5- After school Geography club on Tuesdays
Biology 8464
Paper 1: 14 May 2019 pm
Paper 2: 7 June 2019 pm
Chemistry 8464
Paper 1: 16 May 2019 am
Paper 2: 12 June 2019 am
Physics 8464
Paper 1: 22 May 2019 pm
Paper 2: 14 June 2019 am
Biology 8461Paper 1: 14 May 2019 pm Paper 2: 7 June 2019 pm
Chemistry 8462Paper 1: 16 May 2019 am Paper 2: 12 June 2019 am
Physics 8463Paper 1: 22 May 2019 pm Paper 2: 14 June 2019 am
Science GCSE Exam Dates 2019
Separate sciencesAll exams are 1h 45min
Combined sciences: TrilogyAll exams are 1h 15min
Exam structure
• Exam only subject
• 2 papers per subject (Paper 1 and Paper 2)
• 6 papers in total
• Combined science each paper is 1h 15min
• Separate sciences each paper is 1h 45min
• What’s your current working at grade
in science
• What’s your target for science
• How do you bridge the gap between
the target and current working at?
Can you answer the questions below:
• It is based on your Y10 EOY grade
for each subject
• End of Unit Assessment
• Mock papers
What grade am I currently at?
Science grades 7-9
•Your memory will loose information if it is not processed
•Processing information moves it from your short term to
your long term memory
•Rehersal or repeating information keeps it in your short
term memory
What is the most important stage for learning for an exam?
• “What chapter have you revised
today?”
• Pick question to ask them from the
back of the chapter
• How confidently can they answer?
• Check the answer using the guide
Using the revision Guide
Advice from A* students
•Ask your child how they will use past
papers/exam style questions?
•Revise first
•Answer paper in black or blue pen
•Then use the revision guide to answer/
improve your answers in red pen
Have you got all resources at home to do this?
Exam style questions/ papers
Revision Process1. Understand what you are revising
2. Make notes – mind maps, flash cards, post its
3. Display & re-read notes e.g. stick post it notes in
useful places around the house
4. Test yourself – re-do notes from memory
5. Assessment – take a practice paper
Questions for parents:
Is there a set time for homework?
What are you expecting to see from them?Is there a motivator?
Resources & Tips
1. Use your revision guide! All revision guides are available on Parent Pay:
Combined sciences- £6 (one book combining all subjects)
Separate Sciences - £9 (three separate books)
2. The Science department have provided you with a free of charge Revision
workbook containing exam style questions and practice exercises.
3. You will be set weekly home learning from the revision workbook- this is part of your weekly homework requirement for science.
4. Exam Style Questions – will be given to you during lessons as well as to complete at home weekly. This is also part of the home learning process.
5. Use Bitesize: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/
6. Bitesize app for the iPhone
7. Kerboodle – please check your if your login is working and let your science teacher know if you have any problem with it.
8. Seneca learning – amazing videos and podcasts on all science topics
Science grades 7-9
•Your memory will loose information if it is not processed
•Processing information moves it from your short term to
your long term memory
•Rehersal or repeating information keeps it in your short
term memory
What is the most important stage for learning for an exam?
Maths
Bad Math’s exam going to
end up working in Aldi .
Role of the Academy
In addition to lessons:o Regular Assessments x 2 every half term.
o Question level analysis of each assessment.
o Based on above PLC derived for each student.
o Based on the PLCs we will run targeted morningmorning intervention, attendance will becompulsory.
Skills
This might look like students
learning formula:
This might look like students
practicing a key skill:
Application
Exam papers:
Complete Exam papers in Exam conditions.
Once you have completed your paper, pull up the Mark scheme,
mark it like an examiner.
Pick out the topics you are struggling with and use the resources
available to you to revise the topic.
(You can even use youtube as they walk you through how to work
out the answer to specific exam questions.)
Do another paper; you will see the same topics and questions
coming up again and again.
Hegarty Maths
Students can browse by strand
by clicking on ‘choose lesson’
- Number
- Algebra
- Ratio, proportion and rates of
change
- Geometry and measure
- Probability and sets
- Statistics
Hegarty Maths
Students can browse by
using the search box
10 minute video tutorials and
Quiz questions complete with
instant marking
Revision Websites
GCSE Success Evening 2018
Year 11 Mathematics
Edexcel GCSE (1 – 9) Maths Exams
Paper 1 Non CalcualtorTuesday 21st May 2019
Paper 2. CalculatorThursday 6th June 2019.
Paper 3. CalculatorTuesday 11th June 2019
The Importance of Y11
"I am here to speak up for the right of education of every child," Malala Yousafzai
Planning
• “I left my revision until the last minute- I figured I worked better under pressure”
• “I always found something else that seemed more important to do than my revision”
Absence and Holidays
• We aim for 100% attendance for every student
• Holidays….take them in holiday weeks
Y11 at a glance
• 2 Mock exam sessions, November 1st-9th and January 14th onwards
• Mock results day, mid November
• Sixth Form Open Evening 13th December followed by Sixth Form Taster Day 14th
December
• Data points to follow progress over the year
• Parents Evening 20th November 4.30 to 7pm
Exams
• 31 October – Drama Exam
• 1st November – Mocks
• 14th January – Mocks
• May 2019 Exam period starts
Energy levels and Health
• What would a world class athlete do in the 3 months building up to a major competition?
• Managing stress• Sleep• Organising Revision,
planning rest breaks• Eat well • Avoiding distractions• Managing time well
Support
• Mentoring meetings
• Career meetings
• Tutor support
• Year group support
• Counselling drop in
• Peer support
• Parental support
“Good Attendance and
Punctuality”
If your attendance was 90%
would you think that good, bad
or average?
90% attendance = ½ day
missed every week
In industry, this would be
practically part-time – would an
employer tolerate it?
Let us look a little closer…..
1 school year at 90% attendance = 4whole weeks of lessons MISSED!!!
38 school weeks
Sept July
?
Absent for 4 weeks
What impact might this have on a
student’s life……?
Research suggests that
17 missed school days
a year = GCSE/GCE grade
DROP in achievement. (DfES)
Simply put……
The greater the attendance the
greater the achievement.