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How can you help your child and prepare them to perform?
Being a role modelHelp them set goalsKeep them activeHealthy eatingTime outSleep patternsUnpluggingStaying cool & calmBelieveBe supportive
Each day you can support your child to
make choices which can impact how they perform during the exam period
How can we help your child and prepare them to perform?
Being a role modelHelp them set goalsKeep them activeHigh quality teachingPastoral supportTargeted interventionHigh quality feedbackRange of resourcesStaying cool & calmBelieve
Each day we can support your child to
make choices which can impact how they perform during the exam period
Independence
Independence
https://students.pixl.org.uk
School number: 305293
Password: Indep49
Purpose?• Demystify
• 5 top tips
• Easy, simple tasks that can help
support and encourage
• Give you confidence
ENGLISH LANGUAGE and LITERATURE
AQA has identified these factors as being key to allow students to outperform their peers in English:
• Motivation• Wider reading – amount and degree• Performance on the day• Impact of teaching• Application of independent learning
English Language
Tip 1: Know the expectations of both language papers
● Reading with speed (Skimming/Scanning)● Check timings for questions● Check wording of questions● AQA past papers on website
English Language
Tip 2 Reading preparation (50% of language exam) ● Read broadsheets, magazines, online articles,
extracts pre 1900, comparisons between articles● Annotate articles - form/structure/language used● Exercise book/class materials (Year 10 materials)● Standardised answers with examiner comments
English Language
Tip 3: Writing preparation (50% of language exam)● Use class materials/writing frames/exercise
book/movie clips/trailers● Standardised answers with examiner comments● Practise writing based upon image (Paper 1)● Practise writing to explain/to instruct/advise/to
argue/to persuade. (Paper 2)
•Know text well. Learn text rather than learning possible questions
•Demonstrate knowledge of text. ‘Pointing’ to particular moments
•Know what happens just before/after extract
•Understand connection between writer’s methods and writer’s ideas - “how” and “why”
•Link your comments to context where possible.
English Literature - Advice from AQA
TIP 4: English Literature reading preparation
● Use of PiXLit app● Closed book - Learn key “words”
quotations/short phrases● Create character/theme revision
pages for each text.● CGP revision guides
TIP 5: English Literature writing preparation
● Practise writing about the extract ONLY● Practise linking ideas to earlier/later in text● Build answers using Point/Evidence/Analysis
process● Use standardised materials that contain examiner
comments
MATHS
“You must never feel badly about making
mistakes, as long as you take the trouble to learn
from them.”
Norton Juster
Exam Question Practice
Maths is a ‘doing’ subject and so the best way to revise is to do questions.
Preferably exam style questions, to get used to the content assessed
as well as the style and layout, plus the space available.
Year 11 - Past Paper packs email soon
Year 10 - CGP Exam Practice workbook
Work on tasks not time.
In the exam
Equipment
RTFQ!
In the exam
If you are going to highlight or underline key words:
Cycle of Improvement
Try to support your son/daughter to work on
a cycle of improvement.
• Exam question
• Answer
• Mark
• Pinpoint weakness
• Address weakness
• Complete question again
Hegarty Maths website
Hegartymaths.com is a fabulous resource that many of you would
(hopefully) have seen your child complete homework on.
There are 853 tasks on the site.
Every single task has a full explanation video from Colin Hegarty and
then questions to assess students understanding.
They can communicate with us through
the site if they need help.
Hegarty Maths website (2)
How to use effectively for revision, not homework?
Yr 10: Already completed 5 of 14 half terms of the GCSE course.
AIM:
Train students from all year groups to revise as a habit not as an afterthought or
something only Yr11s do. Use site in this way to start improving students’ long
term memory and teach them good habits of being a good learner.
Yr 11: Completed 11 of 14 half-terms, plenty to look back and revise
now, sooner they start the easier it is.
Revision ResourcesBeyond Hegarty Maths
Revision Resources (2)
CGP Revision Guide - Contains concise, student-friendly explanations of every topic, backed up with plenty of step-by-step examples.
CGP Exam Practice WorkbookPacked with exam-style questions for every topic, coupled with complete step-by-step solutions (with a full mark scheme) at the back of the book, so it’s simple for students to check and correct their work!
Each book is £2.50 through the school (RRP £5.95)
Revision Resources (3)
Corbett Maths Flashcards - £6.25 (RRP £8.95)
Flash cards to be looked at for notes but on the reverse are QR links to videos, exam questions and their answers.
QR reader apps, I-nigma or Snapchat!
Or students can make their own so it’s personalised to how they want it