HIstory "Know It!" MP3s

Here are the first few MP3s from the first history booster session: Prehistoric Medicine content and questions can be accessed by clicking the links. Followed by the Egyptians content and questions and the Greeks content and questions  Clicking on the link will take you to the mediafire page where the files are hosted - follow the instructions to download the MP3s.

History Booster Sessions - Thursday Afternoons

For the next few weeks we are running booster sessions in History, aimed at giving students a head start on their revision by running through the entire course: both Medicine and Germany. The sessions are based on the "Know It!" sheets (all of which are available on the VLE). Students who attend also get sent an e-mail for each topic with two MP3s attached - the first covers the content of a particular "Know It!" sheet and should be listened to with the sheet visible to the student. The second, asks questions based on the topic. Students should have the "Know It!" available but out of view. They can pause the MP3 and try and think of the answer (turning over the sheet to check if they really are not sure) before I give them the correct. Students should use each MP3 as many times as they need to until they can answer all the questions from memory.

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).