Study Leave Booster Programme

Students were given a copy of the Study Leave Booster Programme in the Year 11 Assembly on May 4th. You will be able to download a copy of the programme shortly.

Places for Year 11s to revise

If the Year 11s want to revise after school they usually have a choice, depending on what sort of revision they want to do. For independent, quiet work, the students can go to the library at 3:20 for homework club on Mondays through to Thursdays. Those that want to make a little more noise - testing each other and more lively approaches to study can come to "Noisy Revision" with Mr Taylor. This runs on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Friday in TC6 or TC3 from 3:20. No need to sign up, just turn up and get revising!

Using Moodle to Support Revision

The students are making really good use of our Virtual Learning Environment to help them to revise. Mr Varney who manages the site has sent me the user statistics for the Easter holidays and they show the following subjects as being most popular:

Course area	No. of hits
Additional Science	1140
History KS4 Revision	1078
Core Science	925
Geography GCSE	409
English GCSE	370
Maths KS4 Revision	358
RE KS4 Revision	298

So please continue to encourage students to use the VLE. Remember that the materials have been carefully selected and often produced by teachers here at SMRT and so students can be sure they are suitable for whatever it is they are revising.

What students should be doing this week (w/c April 18th)

After a (hopefully) busy Easter break packed full of revision, students may feel it is sensible to increase the amount of revision they do each week, either by moving to two full sessions each evening or by adding in extra sessions at the weekend. There should be fewer demands on students' time in terms of coursework etc. so now is the time to really push on.

Using Mind Maps To Revise History

Mr Shorter led a session at last night's Revision Evening for Parents and Carers in which he shared a strategy for using mind maps and mp3s to revise for History GCSE. His powerpoint is here, this will guide students through the process; they can find mp3s to practise this technique on Moodle.

Using Extra Time In Exams

For the parents and carers of those students who qualify for extra time in exams, here are some tips from Mr Rowland on how to make the most of it. This presentation was originally shared at the Parents and Carers Revision Evening.

Revision Planner 2016

Students have now been given a copy of this year's Revision Planner as well as a set of revision strategy cards. You can down load a copy of the planner here.