Resources from the Revision Evening

Thank you to all the parents and carers who came to our Revision Evening on Monday. As promised, here are some of the resources that were used on the night. You can find Mr Thurston's presentation on "Aiming for an A*" here, Mr Rowland's presentation on "Using Extra Time in Exams" is here. Mr Morrice's session on Geography is here and the Powerpoint from my session on "Effective Revision" is here.

What students should be doing this week - w/c 24th March

At present we are suggesting that students do one good revision session per night of around one and half hours, based around our model of "prepare it, learn it, test it". Obviously, students are welcome to do two sessions per night if they want or add in a couple of extras at the weekend but the important thing is to get the balance right between school work, revision and relaxation.

What students should be doing this week - w/c March 17th

This week should see the start of the students' revision programmes. All of the students have been given a copy of the planner and the revision strategy cards and should be using these to plan in detail not only what they will revise but when they will revise it and how they will revise it. We suggest the students use a three phase revision model for each revision session - prepare, learn and test. Each student should build their plan around this model and should doing one revision session of around an hour and a half (half an hour for each phase) on a normal school night.

Parents and Carers Revision Evening Monday March 24th

We will be running a revision evening for parents and carers from 7 to 9pm on Monday 24th of March. This is your opportunity to find out a range of strategies to support your children in the run up to the exam. There will be guidance on general stuff like planning revision and coping with stress and subject specific workshops too. You can download a copy of the letter with all the details here. Just fill it in and return it Mrs Bullock in the Humanities Admin. Office by Thursday of next week.

Revision Planners

This week, all Year 11 students have been given a copy of the 2014 Revision Planner and the coloured Revision Strategy Cards. We advise students that their main task for the coming week is to plan their revision really carefully using the guidance from the assembly. You can download a copy of the PowerPoint I used here and you can download a copy of the planner itself here..

The Next Few Weeks

Over the next couple of weeks we will begin to enter the period where students should be planning their revision programme and beginning to do some revision each night. The students will be meeting with me over the course of next week and will be receiving a copy of this year's revision planner and some coloured cards which they can use in conjunction with the planner to create a detailed revision programme for the period between now and the exams. Further details will appear here over the coming weeks so do visit regularly.