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Year 11Information Evening
Sept 2019
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Purpose of Tonight
• Key information to support Year11 parents
• Post 16 Pathways
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Key Dates
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Surviving the year!
Parents + Students + School
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Masterclasses
• Purpose:-• Develop and improve elements of controlled
assessments.• Practise exam questions in timed conditions.• Revisit specific parts of the syllabus that
students need to improve.• Ensure that revision for mock and actual
exams is taking place.
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Masterclasses
• Masterclasses will run from 2:40pm until 3:20pm normally.
• There can be specific reasons students may be kept longer than this.
1. Homework not completed2. Behaviour / focus in masterclass not good enough3. They need further work on a particular topic
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Study Cafe
• Revision skills developed• A quiet space to revise and work• A chance to get extra support from a subject
specialist• Refreshments!
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Holiday Intervention• We also run sessions in the holidays to help
students.• These sessions may be to help students catch
up with work, to focus on helping students revise or as stretch and challenge sessions.
• Some subjects will run full day sessions, others do half days.
• Each subject will contact parents in advance of the holidays to let them know if their child is requested to attend one of the holiday sessions.
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Holiday Intervention Sessions
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Mock exams
• The first round of Y11 mocks start in 13 school days.
• Students will receive their mock exam timetable soon so they know when their exams are.
• Students won’t be able to remember all of the work from Y10 if they don’t revisit the topics they covered – so revision is key.
• Revision should be done little and often.• Do 20-30 minutes on one topic, have a short
break and then move onto another topic
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Mock exam Timetable
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Making it Stick -Using our memory to revise
effectively
Mrs NarayananDeputy Head for Teaching & Learning
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When revising, have you ever heard your child say….
• Why can’t I remember what we learnt last month?
• Did we even study this?• I just can’t remember.• I’ve forgotten everything.
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Embrace Forgetting!Forgetting allows learning and focuses
remembering.
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How does our memory work?
Working Memory
• Where thinking happens
• Fixed • Easily overloaded• Lost after 30-60
seconds
Long Term Memory
• Automatic recall• Subconscious, no effort
required• Fast• Unlimited • Cannot be overloaded• Information stored
forever!
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Highly effective at helping pupils
remember• Quiz
• Flashcards
• Make a mindmap from memory
• Teach someone else
• Read a text, create your own quiz based upon the text, then take the quiz
Not as effective at helping pupils
remember• Make a mindmap using
your notes
• Re-reading text
• Card sort
• Highlighting text
• Making revision notes from a revision guide
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What does it look like?reviseread notes, createquizzes, mind map from memory, flashcards,teach someone elsedeep reviewread notes, createquizzes, mind map from memory, flashcards,teach someone elsequick reviewmind map from memorytestessay, past papers, practicequestions, quiz
Leave at least a week between these stages
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So what can you do to support them?
• Rather than ask “are you revising?”, ask them, “how are you revising?• Help them plan a timetable of revision, leaving spaces/gaps between
subjects and topics. This should look different during holidays and as the exams get closer.
• Quiz them using questions and answers they‘ve created themselves. Leave time in-between them writing the quiz and you testing them.
• Discuss with them the importance of the three stages of revising i.e. content, skills and feedback.
• Ensure they also have breaks and time with friends/family.• Support them in getting enough sleep, keeping hydrated with water,
eating healthily and exercising.• Take their phone away when they’re revising – it’s just a distraction.
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Plan your time
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PromWe celebrate hard work and good behaviour after the final exam with the Yr11 Prom.
Students are invited for achieving the criteria below:• Excellent attendance• Excellent behaviour• Excellent progress• Attendance at Masterclasses
Students may receive their invites in the autumn or spring term. Final formal invites will be issued by May early 2019.