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Year 11 Information Evening

Welcome

NET Vision

We constantly focus on standards as we understand

• utcomes are paramount. Our decision making is

driven entirely by what is best for children. By doing this we enhance the life chances of the children and young people in our care. Rob Tarn, CEO

Support for your child at Freebrough

• Director Masterclass
• 1-2-1 Sessions
• Subject Specific Flash Cards
• Revision Guides
• Exam Paper Packs
• Hegarty Maths
• Educake
• PM Progress Clubs
• Holiday Homeworks.
• Mock Exams and QLA (Question Level analysis).

Year 11 English Revision

J Craven – NET Senior Director of English J Goodwill Director of English/Associate Assistant Principal

GCSE English Language GCSE English Literature

May-June 2019

How to Revise

Overvie iew

GCSE English Language

Paper 1: Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing

• Analysing Modern Fiction
• Descriptive / Narrative Writing

Paper 2: Writers’ Viewpoints and Perspectives

• Analysing Nineteenth Century and Modern Non-

Fiction

• Persuasive Writing

GCSE English Literature

Paper 1: Shakespeare and the 19th-Century Novel

• Macbeth
• A Christmas Carol

Paper 2: Modern Texts and Poetry

• An Inspector Calls
• Power and Conflict (poetry cluster)
• Unseen poetry

Paper 1: May 2020 Paper 2: May 2020 Paper 1: June 2020 Paper 2: June 2020

'You can’t revise for English’

'You can revise for English’

For Literature…

• Re-read the texts
• Organise your ideas
• Memorise quotations
• Practise the questions / skills
• Discuss ideas with people

For Language…

• Read texts
• Memorise terminology, features and effects
• Practise the question formats and skills
• Expand your vocabulary
• Check your knowledge of spelling and punctuation

KNOW the exam KNOW the content KNOW the approaches

General Revision Advice

• 1 hour of English revision each week (minimum).
• There is no substitute for working through sample questions – these are easy to get hold of and just

as easy to create.

• Use things (terminology, creative writing features, paragraphing structures, planning models) – the

more you use them, the easier it becomes (build the schema!)

• Practise the timings – get used to how the questions feel… in real time…and at the right time.
• Keep revisiting things – the best way to learn is to keep returning to them, keep trying them again.
• Little and often works – cramming doesn’t.
• Regular snacks and drinks help you to concentrate! Give yourself rewards, build positive associations.
• Organise your space and avoid distractions. Make sure you’re not going to be interrupted (no

phones, technology, people, TV).

• Set yourself times and targets (and stick to them). Stick to the same times each night – get home,

have tea, revise from 18.00-21.00, relax for a bit, go to bed.

• Revise with others… get someone to test you, choose someone to bounce ideas about a text around

with, have a conversation about a character… pester your parents, bribe your brother.

• Get enough sleep… 8-10 hours a night to help concentration. Be sensible.

Re-Read the Texts!

• Practise summarising the story
• List the key events
• Practise making links between different points
• Read poems and practise commenting on them

Post-Its and Index Cards

• Stick them everywhere with quotations on (and re-order

them). Write, cover, repeat, write

• Annotate quotations – key features and ideas (tie to

pictures!)… practise with the key words (highlight)

• Quiz yourself (and each other)

So How Do We Revise?

Head Online!

• Quiz questions and quotations
• Online study guides
• Video clips and podcasts

So How Do We Revise?

Post-Its and Index Cards

• Stick them everywhere with terminology and effects on

(and re-order them). Write, cover, repeat, write

• Quiz yourself (and each other)
• Practise matching the words to definitions - dominoes

Read Fiction and Non-Fiction Texts

• Find examples of fiction and non-fiction and read them
• Practise the skills (words and phrases, structure etc.)
• Try to write your own in the same style

Materia ials Provid ided: CGP Revis isio ion Guid ides

In Interventio ions and Lookin ing Ahead

Year 11 Maths Revision

G Knox – Senior Director of Maths B Bonner Director of Maths

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Paper Duration Date/Time

Paper 1: Non- Calculator 1 hour 30 minutes 21st May AM Paper 2: Calculator 1 hour 30 minutes 6th June AM Paper 3: Calculator 1 hour 30 minutes 11th June AM

Key dates:

What students get from us

Mock Exams and QLA (Question Level analysis). Director Masterclass 1-2-1 Sessions. PM Progress Clubs Holiday Homeworks. Revision Guides. Exam paper packs. Hegarty Maths

What You Can Do:

1) Little and often.

• Revise in small chunks of 20-30 mins.

What You Can Do:

2) Use useful websites

• hegartymaths.com
• corbettmaths.com

What You Can Do:

3) Practice makes permanent

• Complete past test papers
• Use the Review Sections in the

revision guide

Hegarty maths with QLA

• How could we forget!?
• Hegarty
• Use your QLA to choose topics you got wrong on your STEP exam
• Working through your weaknesses if the only way you will get better next time!

Year 11 Science Revision

L Moore – NET Associate Director of Science

Year 11 Science Revision

• when are the exams and what’s in them?
• how will the school help with revision?
• how can you help your child to revise?

When are the science exams?

biology paper 1 Tues 12 May chemistry paper 1 Thurs 14 May physics paper 1 Weds 20 May biology paper 2 Mon 1 June chemistry paper 2 Weds 10 June physics paper 2 Fri 12 June

What is in the science exams?

biology paper 1 Tues 14 May chemistry paper 1 Thurs 16 May physics paper 1 Weds 22 May biology paper 2 Fri 7 June chemistry paper 2 Weds 12 June physics paper 2 Fri 14 June

cells, organisation, infection, bioenergetics atoms, bonding, chemical changes, calculations energy, electricity, radioactivity homeostasis, inheritance, evolution, ecology rate of reaction, organic chemistry, atmosphere, environment forces, waves, magnetism (Triple only; space)

10% maths 20% maths 30% maths

What is in the science exams?

biology chemistry physics equations required practicals

1 2 21

(Triple 23)

7

(Triple 10)

6

(Triple 8)

8

(Triple 10)

What is in the science exams?

How can we help?

• science revision day
• director masterclasses
• revision guides
• equations cards
• seneca learning
• teachers available any time

How can you help with science?

• make a plan
• space out revision (start now!)
• mix up topics
• don’t just read and highlight
• quizzes / flashcards / seneca /

past papers

Attendance is important!

• You have 1 calendar year left… that’s 52 weeks
• An academic year is just 38 weeks though
• Exams started 5 weeks ago for year 11
• We have 5 assessment weeks (STEPs)
• This means: You leave in 38 weeks, exams start in 33 weeks

and you have just 28 weeks of actual teaching… 140 days of teacher input… and that’s if you’re a 100% attender!

Yr 10 Step 6 exam period

• Students will have an exam warm up before each exam
• For morning exams these will run from 7.45 -8.25
• Breakfast will be from 8.25- 8.40 in the large atrium
• An early bus service will run to allow all students to access the early warm up.
• If you just want to come in early and revise you can access this early bus and breakfast
• If you do not have an exam that morning you do not have to come in early