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YEAR 11 STUDY SKILLS & POST-16 INFORMATION EVENING 2014. FRAM. Programme. Mr Edwards: Intervention and planning revision. Study skills for the core subjects: Mr Edwards (Science), Ms McDonagh (Director of English) Mr Chapman (Teacher of Maths ). Mr Li-Rocchi: How to revise

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  1. YEAR 11 STUDY SKILLS & POST-16 INFORMATION EVENING2014 FRAM

  2. Programme • Mr Edwards: Intervention and planning revision. • Study skills for the core subjects: • Mr Edwards (Science), • Ms McDonagh (Director of English) • Mr Chapman (Teacher of Maths). • Mr Li-Rocchi: How to revise • Mr Edwards: Help You Choose Guidance & ‘Getting Your Place’ • Mr. Li Rocchi: Quality Applications • Mr VandenBergh: Role of parent Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  3. Planning your revision Mr Edwards Director of Learning Year 10 & 11 “The bad news is that from now onwards time flies, the good news is you’re the pilot!” Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  4. Planning your revision Preparation for success • Plan: A clear revision timetable will focus your studies. • Understanding: Know what you have to cover. • Resources: Teachers, books, revision sites, Youtube. • Environment: Create an environment that is effective for you. • Stay Focused: Revise the key topic areas. • Individual Strategies: What works best for you. • Mock Exams: Use these as a starting point for your revision. • Preparation: Be organised. • Learning Styles: Understand and use them. • End Goal: Big Picture. Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  5. Planning your revision Timetable overview Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  6. Planning your revision Planning Revision – All Subjects Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  7. Study Skills for Core Subjects Science Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  8. Study Skills for Core Subjects Science – Controlled Assessments • Unit 4 • 25% of the GCSE which you have before the exam. • In December all students will complete the controlled assessments. Three lessons of planning and then an exam in the hall. • Glossary of key words. Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  9. Study Skills for Core Subjects Science preparation • Revision • Cue cards • Mind maps • Revision guides • Collinsonlinelearning • Youtube Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  10. Study Skills for Core Subjects Exam preparation • Command words in questions: Describe, explain. • Read questions, underline keywords. • Data in exams. • Data in answers. • Scientific language in written answers. • 1 mark = 1 fact. Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  11. Study Skills for Core Subjects Physics equation sheet. • The answers on a sheet. • Not expected to memorise but will need to be able to rearrange. • Relationships e.g. What is the relationship between speed, distance and time? Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  12. Study Skills for Core Subjects Chemistry sheet. • Periodic table. • Reactivity series of metals. • Formulae of ions. Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  13. Study Skills for Core Subjects Science A - Resit • Concentrate on Year 11 courses • Self motivation • Revision sessions with Year 10 • ISA • Cost approx. £35 • Email L.Hirst@framinghamearl.net Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  14. Study Skills for Core Subjects Ms McDonagh Director of English Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  15. Study Skills for Core Subjects English Language Study SkillsActive Non Fiction Reading • Consider the purpose and audience • Read between the lines • Consider the effects of language choices • Consider the effects of colour and images • Summarise the key points Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  16. Study Skills for Core Subjects English Language Study Skills Writing • Practise writing to describe, inform, argue and persuade • Plan responses using spider grams / lists • Revisit class work and mock exam targets • Practise timed responses to past exam tasks • Show off a range of punctuation and vocab. • Ask for and act on constructive criticism Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  17. Study Skills for Core Subjects English Literature Study Skills • Re visit exam texts • Reduce texts to key events, themes and messages • Mind map themes, including short key quotations • Create spider grams for each main character, including short key quotations • Re visit class work and mock exam targets • Practise timed responses to past exam tasks Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  18. Study Skills for Core Subjects Useful Resources • The internet – download ‘Of Mice and Men’ http://www.readanybook.com • Youtube - watch ‘An Inspector Calls’ BBC Edition • Youtube – listen to AQA examiner analysis of the poetry anthology • CGP AQA Anthology Poetry Cluster: Character and Voice • Revise AQA: GCSE English and English Language Revision Workbook (Pearson Education) Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  19. Study Skills for Core Subjects Mr Chapman Maths Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  20. Study Skills for Core Subjects Resources to help you revise Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  21. Study Skills for Core Subjects Own Books Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  22. Study Skills for Core Subjects Revision Guides Available from cgpbooks.co.uk Available from Fram for £3.99 Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  23. Study Skills for Core Subjects In school revision sessions • Based on performance in Mock exams • Sessions are aimed at particular topics • Ideal opportunity to ask questions and look at tricky questions in detail. Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  24. Study Skills for Core Subjects Fram maths website • https://sites.google.com/site/framinghamearlmathematics/home • Tonnes of past paper questions • Maths apps for your phone • Revision schedules Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  25. Study Skills for Core Subjects Youtube - mrchapmanedu • Lots of video tutorials relevant to your exam. Try the past questions yourself, then watch to see if you are right! Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  26. Study Skills for Core Subjects Other Useful Resources • My Maths • BBC Bitesize • Edexcel Past Papers Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  27. Study Skills for Core Subjects It’s all about the method! • Cover up the answer and method • Try the question • Check the answer • Do it again if not sure. Maybe work backwards from the answer • Bring in the question and ask any maths teacher. Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  28. Learning How to Revise Mr Li-Rocchi Assistant Head Teacher VAK VISUAL / AUDITORY / KINAESTHETIC Key Stage 4 Information Evening 2014

  29. Learning How to Revise What are visual learners like? Visual Learners… Like to use pictures and diagrams to learn. Understand & remember best when they see the information. Enjoy using colour coding to help them remember. Key Stage 4 Information Evening 2014

  30. Learning How to Revise What are auditory learners like? Auditory Learners… Like to hear information. Enjoy doing presentations and being involved in discussions. Find long periods of silence difficult to learn in. Key Stage 4 Information Evening 2014

  31. Learning How to Revise What are kinaesthetic learners like? Kinaesthetic Learners… Prefer to be doing things to help their learning. Can prefer to take notes or ‘doodle’ as they listen. Like making things and doing work using ICT. Key Stage 4 Information Evening 2014

  32. Learning How to Revise What type of learner are you? Learning Styles Try a learning styles test • http://how-to-study.com/learning-style-assessment/ • http://brainboxx.co.uk/A3_ASPECTS/pages/VAK_quest.htm Key Stage 4 Information Evening 2014

  33. Learning How to Revise Using Your Test Profile Dominance – use visual revision techniques Use variety of revision techniques Key Stage 4 Information Evening 2014

  34. Learning How to Revise The Visual Learner If you are a visual learner, try these techniques: • Write key facts on different colour cards (e.g. grouped in to topics) – you can then lay them out in front of yourself. • Aim to visualise what you are learning – sit back and try to see a picture of the ideas or information. • Write down important facts on Post-it notes and stick them in key places! E.g. Mirror, TV etc. • Use mind maps, pictures, cartoon story boards, photos & diagrams to summarise information. • Use illustrated books from the library. • Search the internet for interactive learning sites that feature diagrams and pictures. Key Stage 4 Information Evening 2014

  35. Learning How to Revise Auditory Learner. If you are an auditory learner, try these techniques: • Summarise the topic in your own words, talking through the key themes as you do so. • Read notes out loud as you go through them – rehearse delivering your notes as a speech. • Make mp3 files or cds of the information and play them back to yourself. • Explain the subject to other people. • Put the information to a famous tune and sing it back yourself. Or search for these on youtube! Key Stage 4 Information Evening 2014

  36. Learning How to Revise Kinaesthetic Learners If you are a kinaesthetic learner, try these techniques: • Move around as you learn. This could be something simple like pacing up and down in your room. • Retype the information on a computer into a colour, font and print size that you like. • Write down the facts on to key facts cards. You can shuffle them like a pack of cards and keep reading them, lay them down in order etc. • When you are working at home give yourself ‘kinaesthetic breaks’, e.g. jogging, cooking. • Create big bold mind maps that allow you to express the information freely. Key Stage 4 Information Evening 2014

  37. Learning How to Revise The Rounded Learner It may help to choose techniques for revision according to your learning style. The long term goal should be to develop the style(s) you are not so strong at. You will then become a rounded learner. Key Stage 4 Information Evening 2014

  38. Help you Choose Guidance & Getting Your Place Mr Edwards Director of Learning Years 10 & 11 Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  39. Help You Choose Guidance & Getting Your Place Intervention at Framingham Earl Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  40. Help You Choose Guidance & Getting Your Place Intervention – The 3 “I”s Key Stage 4 Information Evening 2014

  41. Help You Choose Guidance & Getting Your Place Information • Throughout Key Stage 4 subject teachers enter data about students’ progress. • This information is entered into our new tracking system “Go 4 Schools” which can then be used to analyse pupils’ progress. • The Raising Attainment Group meets fortnightly to discuss the data and individuals progress in core subjects. Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  42. Help You Choose Guidance & Getting Your Place Intervention • There are a number of different intervention strategies that we use at Framingham Earl: • Whole year group strategies. • Raising Your Game. • Small Group Tutoring. • Tutor Time Sessions. • Individual Mentoring. Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  43. Help You Choose Guidance & Getting Your Place Impact • Our tracking system will ensure that students progress is measured accurately and regularly. • Those students identified as needing extra help made significant progress from mock results to actual results. • Intervention has been taking place in Key Stage 3 and this will support students starting Key Stage 4. Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  44. Help You Choose Guidance & Getting Your Place Preparing For The Future –Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) • What are the post 16 choices? • GCSEs are known as level 2 courses. Many students will go on to study level 3 courses. • A Levels • Vocational Courses (e.g. NVQs level 2 or 3) • Higher or Advanced Diplomas • Apprenticeships Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  45. Help You Choose Guidance & Getting Your Place Information “..accurate, up-to-date and objective information about personal and lifestyle issues, learning and career opportunities, progression routes, choices, where to find help and advice and how to access it.” • At Framingham Earl • Futures Day (Year 11) • Assemblies • Sessions on help you choose website • At Providers • Open Evenings / Days Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  46. Help You Choose Guidance & Getting Your Place Advice “.. activities that help young people to gather, understand and interpret information and apply it to their own situation.” At Framingham Earl • Class Teachers • Parents / Carers • Providers, Colleges & 6th Forms (Futures Day Sessions) • Work experience Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  47. Help You Choose Guidance & Getting Your Place Guidance “.. impartial guidance and specialist support to help young people understand themselves and their needs, confront barriers, resolve conflicts, develop new perspectives and make progress.” At Framingham Earl • Tutor meetings / consultations • Career Guidance Advisors Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  48. Help You Choose Guidance & Getting Your Place Our Overall Aim‘Leading or showing the way’ Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  49. Help You Choose Guidance & Getting Your Place Which Way Next?Making Plans Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

  50. Help You Choose Guidance & Getting Your Place • Certain places are very competitive • One 6th form requires 5B grades or above • (including English, Maths and a Language) • All qualifications count (even short courses taken) • Any other relevant experience, leadership etc. • Getting your personal statement right Year 11 Study Skills & Post-16 Pathways Evening

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