November Mocks 2012 - Exam Timetable

Click here to access the Mock Exam timetable via the school website.

November Mocks 2012 - Prepare It! Learn It! Test It!

We encourage the students to create a three phase revision session each time they revise, based around the sequence of preparation, learning and testing. The short film above was created by our Sixth Formers to show how they use the three phases to structure their revision.

Mock Exams November 2012

After half term, Year 11 students will take their mock examinations. This an important opportunity for students and staff to take stock of the progress that students are making towards their GCSE examinations, to identify any areas for development and to put into place strategies to ensure students achieve their full potential in the summer.

For these reasons it is a vital that students take these exams seriously and are thoroughly prepared for them by revising over the half term break. During Values in Practice lessons this term, students have been introduced to a variety of strategies for revision and have been shown how to break revision sessions into three parts – preparation, learning and testing.

In addition to this students can access a range of revision resources via the school’s Virtual Learning Environment which can be accessed via the Fronter link at the side of this page. Students will need a username and password to access the materials on the Virtual Learning Environment. If they have lost their password they should speak to their tutor.

Students can log on as “guests” to the Take Five website using the link on this page which contains videos and quizzes which will aid revision in a range of subjects – they simply need to click on the name of our school and then enter their surname and first name.

MyMaths (link on this page) contains valuable resources for students studying GCSE Maths. Students can get their log-in and password from their Maths teacher.

Students should check with their individual subject teacher to make sure that they are clear which topics they need to revise for their mock exam and which of the revision resources listed above would be most appropriate to support their revision.

Students who are finding revision a particular struggle should talk to their tutor or speak to Mr Taylor (Assistant Head Teacher) whose office is in the TC building.

Study Leave Programme

Here is the provisional programme of boosters and revision sesssions during the first couple of weeks of the exam period. During this time students can come in for either a whiole morning or the whole day by signing up for subject sessions or supervised revision classes, in the library from 8 o'clock and before a quarter to 9.

What students should be doing this week (w/b April 23rd)

Students should be continuing to work through the revision in line with the timetable they should have created in the back of their revision planner. I will be checking some student's progress towards this early next week. There are a number of booster sessions running this week after school, which students should be attending (details in the revision planner).

During the Easter Holidays

During the holidays I suggest that students try and get three revision sessions done each day. Each session should be based around the idea of "Prepare It!", "Learn It!" and "Test It!" and is likely to last around one and a half hours. There is guidance on how to plan these sessions in the revision planner which all students have been given and which can be downloaded in the post below.

Revision Planner 2012

You can download a copy of this year's planner by clicking here  to access the Mediafire site which hosts the files for this blog and then clicking on the "Download" green oblong.

What students should be doing this week (w/b March 26th)

This week students should be getting any outstanding work out of the way ready to have a really run at revision over the Easter Holidays. They should use their planners to create a timetable of around three sessions per day during the hliday, using the "Prepare It", "Learn It", "Test It" approach. Any student who wants additional help or guidance in using this method can see Mr Taylor in his office next to TC1.

Take Five Log In Problems

We are currently having some problems with the individual log-ins for students - I am sorting it with the compny that hosts the site but in the meantime best to log in as a guest for now

GCSE Revision Evening For Parents and Carers

All of the electronic materials from tonight's sessions will appear here in the next few days. Here is the opening presentation, you can access it by clicking here. This will take you to the Mediafire site where the file is hosted. Follow the instructions on screen to download the file (this may involve waiting a minute or so for the download to become available.). Make sure you select "Download (1.21mb)" in the green oblong (the other links will take you to adverts etc) beneath the black screen with the name of the file on it. To access Mr Thurston's History presentation, click here.  Mr Fuller's guide to coping with exam stress can be downloaded here, while Mr Dowland's "How do we revise for Maths?" presentation is available here.