1. How To Help Your Child Succeed Evening
Tuesday 14th November 2017
Session 1 – 5.45pm
How To Help Your Child Succeed Evening

3. English Contact: Mrs Craddock – NET Subject Director
Miss Skelding – Assistant Director

4. AQA English Language 8700

5. AQA English Literature 8702

6. How can we help your child to succeed?
Comprehensive revision programme
After school examination sessions will be run on different aspects of the exams to help students fine tune specific skills.
Intervention, including small group tutition, will take place throughout the year for students who are performing below their target grade. After school provision is in place, along with lunch and morning clubs to ensure student progress.
Frequent mock examinations
Every half term students will complete full GCSE papers in the hall. All mock exam marking will include clear personalised targets to focus revision.
Revision guides
Revision booklets have been created by the department to support students with English language and English literature revision. These are also available on the Academy website. In addition, we will provide opportunities for revision guides to be purchased through school for both English language and literature.
Exam practice and responding to marking
Opportunities will be provided in class for students to tackle exam questions, reflect on models and receive targeted feedback that they can act on to improve their answers.
Support at school

7. How can you help your child to succeed?
Encourage the regular use of the revision booklets, folders and homework sheets provided by class teachers.
Ensure your child completes practice exam questions in timed conditions.
Encourage them to read non fiction texts such as newspapers and discuss how the writers use language to present their ideas.
Encourage your child to read the set texts again (Macbeth, The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, DNA, A Christmas Carol, poetry cluster) and create key cards, including quotations, for characters, themes and links.
Check your child’s technical accuracy for any homework completed (including for other subject areas).
Encourage accurate spelling and punctuation, and use of a variety of sentence structures..
Top tips to help with revision

8. Revision Guides

9. Set Texts

10. Contact: Miss Elvin – Director of Maths selvin@kirkbalkacademy.org

11. What the GCSE Maths exams consists of:

12. Foundation Tier (Grades 5 – 1)

13. Higher Tier (Grades 9-4)

14. How is the Foundation Tier paper made up?
Awarded Grades 5 -1

15. How is the Higher Tier paper made up?
Awarded Grades 9 - 4

16.  Assessments Mock Examination October Mock Examinations November
January
March
April
Final Examinations
24th May (AM) NC
7th June (AM) Calc
12th June (AM) Calc

17. How can we help your child to succeed?
ASP – Students may be requested to attend certain after school sessions to support their understanding of key topics
Homework– All students receive homework each week. This is either in the form of an exam paper to familiarise all students with the exam style questions or a 20 question skills check.
Skills check starters– All students complete 5 key skills questions at the beginning of each lesson, these skills are the same each week to allow repetitive practice.
Use of Mock exam analysis– All students will complete an analysis of each paper which will enable each student to know their strengths and their areas for development. They can then use this information as a base for revision.
Support at School

18. How can you help your child to succeed?
Practice, practice, practice! The only way to revise Maths is to answer questions! Make sure they have the resources to answer lots of questions and then check their answers
Past Exam Papers – Encourage your child to work through past papers in timed conditions. Use the mark schemes with them to ensure they are showing full methods and know where the marks are from. Exam papers can be downloaded from exam board websites
Revision Guides/work books/practice paper books – Students should read through the information and answer the questions at the bottom of the pages, checking the answers as they go along. The best way to revise Maths is to do lots of practice questions! These can be purchased from school for £2.50 each
Key Websites–
youtube
Support at Home

19. Science Contact: Ms Stocks – Director of Science
Mr Gilder – Assistant Principal (Senior Link to Science)

20. Triple Science or Trilogy?
Students achieve 3 GCSE grades in
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Physics
Each subject consists of two 1hr 45min exams.
NO COURSEWORK!
Trilogy (Double Science)
Students achieve 2 GCSE grades overall.
They sit 6 exams in total, two in biology, two in chemistry and two in physics. Each exam will last 1hr 15 mins.
NO COURSEWORK!

21. Assessments – Biology

22. Assessments – Chemistry

23. Assessments – Physics

24. Assessments – Trilogy Biology Chemistry Physics Paper 1 – topics 1-4
How it is assessed;
Written papers – 1hr 15 mins each.
Foundation and higher tiers.
70 marks per paper
16.5% of GCSE/paper
Questions;
MCQs, structured, closed short answer questions, and open response.

25. How can we help your child to succeed?
ASP – bespoke afterschool intervention programme designed to support students individual needs.
MSP – revision program that runs before school, focussed around key revision topics and exam technique
Comprehensive Revision programme – Ongoing from now students will be given revision materials that are designed to support their revision and provide opportunities to develop their exam technique.
ISA style questions – students are going to have to answer questions based on the required practical's they have completed, we will provide support and guidance in answering these questions and developing these skills.
6 mark, longer answer questions – we have identified that some of our students struggle to answer the longer answer questions in the exams – worth 6 marks. This can be worth and entire grade. So we have produced a booklet containing example questions so that they can practice, practice, practice.
Support at School

26. How can you help your child succeed?
Know when their exams are and which ones they are taking for Science.
Provide them with the necessary things they need for revision:
A quiet space.
Revision materials – a revision guide and workbook as required. A computer if possible.
Time.
Support, guidance and encouragement.

27. Top tips to help with revision
3. Help them with their revision:
Use the revision guides – lots of students have brought them, they are an invaluable resource!
Chunk it – Ask students to revise a page/section/chapter and then test them on it.
Go to aqa.org.uk – download past papers, and mark-schemes and get them to sit an exam in 60 minutes and then sit an go through it with the mark-scheme.
Make use of YouTube – Search using “GCSE Science AQA e.g. C2 covalent bonding”
Watch the video and then complete an exam question, or a revision activity.
Keyword card games – Science is a subject of terminology and keywords and many marks on the exams will be through correct use of keywords and understanding their meaning.
Top tips to help with revision

28. Group talks – Staying in the hall
Everyone else

29. How To Help Your Child Succeed Evening
Tuesday 14th November 2016
Session 2 – 7.15pm
How To Help Your Child Succeed Evening

31. English Contact: Mrs Craddock – NET Subject Director
Miss Skelding – Assistant Director

32. AQA English Language 8700

33. AQA English Literature 8702

34. How can we help your child to succeed?
Comprehensive revision programme
After school examination sessions will be run on different aspects of the exams to help students fine tune specific skills.
Intervention, including small group tutition, will take place throughout the year for students who are performing below their target grade. After school provision is in place, along with lunch and morning clubs to ensure student progress.
Frequent mock examinations
Every half term students will complete full GCSE papers in the hall. All mock exam marking will include clear personalised targets to focus revision.
Revision guides
Revision booklets have been created by the department to support students with English language and English literature revision. These are also available on the Academy website. In addition, we will provide opportunities for revision guides to be purchased through school for both English language and literature.
Exam practice and responding to marking
Opportunities will be provided in class for students to tackle exam questions, reflect on models and receive targeted feedback that they can act on to improve their answers.
Support at school

35. How can you help your child to succeed?
Encourage the regular use of the revision booklets, folders and homework sheets provided by class teachers.
Ensure your child completes practice exam questions in timed conditions.
Encourage them to read non fiction texts such as newspapers and discuss how the writers use language to present their ideas.
Encourage your child to read the set texts again (Macbeth, The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, DNA, A Christmas Carol, poetry cluster) and create key cards, including quotations, for characters, themes and links.
Check your child’s technical accuracy for any homework completed (including for other subject areas).
Encourage accurate spelling and punctuation, and use of a variety of sentence structures..
Top tips to help with revision

36. Revision Guides

37. Set Texts

38. Contact: Miss Elvin – Director of Maths selvin@kirkbalkacademy.org

39. What the GCSE Maths exams consists of:

40. Foundation Tier (Grades 5 – 1)

41. Higher Tier (Grades 9-4)

42. How is the Foundation Tier paper made up?
Awarded Grades 5 -1

43. How is the Higher Tier paper made up?
Awarded Grades 9 - 4

44.  Assessments Mock Examination October Mock Examinations November
January
March
April
Final Examinations
24th May (AM) NC
7th June (AM) Calc
12th June (AM) Calc

45. How can we help your child to succeed?
ASP – Students may be requested to attend certain after school sessions to support their understanding of key topics
Homework– All students receive homework each week. This is either in the form of an exam paper to familiarise all students with the exam style questions or a 20 question skills check.
Skills check starters– All students complete 5 key skills questions at the beginning of each lesson, these skills are the same each week to allow repetitive practice.
Use of Mock exam analysis– All students will complete an analysis of each paper which will enable each student to know their strengths and their areas for development. They can then use this information as a base for revision.
Support at School

46. How can you help your child to succeed?
Practice, practice, practice! The only way to revise Maths is to answer questions! Make sure they have the resources to answer lots of questions and then check their answers
Past Exam Papers – Encourage your child to work through past papers in timed conditions. Use the mark schemes with them to ensure they are showing full methods and know where the marks are from. Exam papers can be downloaded from exam board websites
Revision Guides/work books/practice paper books – Students should read through the information and answer the questions at the bottom of the pages, checking the answers as they go along. The best way to revise Maths is to do lots of practice questions! These can be purchased from school for £2.50 each
Key Websites–
youtube
Support at Home

47. Science Contact: Ms Stocks – Director of Science
Mr Gilder – Assistant Principal (Senior Link to Science)

48. Triple Science or Trilogy?
Students achieve 3 GCSE grades in
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Physics
Each subject consists of two 1hr 45min exams.
NO COURSEWORK!
Trilogy (Double Science)
Students achieve 2 GCSE grades overall.
They sit 6 exams in total, two in biology, two in chemistry and two in physics. Each exam will last 1hr 15 mins.
NO COURSEWORK!

49. Assessments – Biology

50. Assessments – Chemistry

51. Assessments – Physics

52. Assessments – Trilogy Biology Chemistry Physics Paper 1 – topics 1-4
How it is assessed;
Written papers – 1hr 15 mins each.
Foundation and higher tiers.
70 marks per paper
16.5% of GCSE/paper
Questions;
MCQs, structured, closed short answer questions, and open response.

53. How can we help your child to succeed?
ASP – bespoke afterschool intervention programme designed to support students individual needs.
MSP – revision program that runs before school, focussed around key revision topics and exam technique
Comprehensive Revision programme – Ongoing from now students will be given revision materials that are designed to support their revision and provide opportunities to develop their exam technique.
ISA style questions – students are going to have to answer questions based on the required practical's they have completed, we will provide support and guidance in answering these questions and developing these skills.
6 mark, longer answer questions – we have identified that some of our students struggle to answer the longer answer questions in the exams – worth 6 marks. This can be worth and entire grade. So we have produced a booklet containing example questions so that they can practice, practice, practice.
Support at School

54. How can you help your child succeed?
Know when their exams are and which ones they are taking for Science.
Provide them with the necessary things they need for revision:
A quiet space.
Revision materials – a revision guide and workbook as required. A computer if possible.
Time.
Support, guidance and encouragement.

55. Top tips to help with revision
3. Help them with their revision:
Use the revision guides – lots of students have brought them, they are an invaluable resource!
Chunk it – Ask students to revise a page/section/chapter and then test them on it.
Go to aqa.org.uk – download past papers, and mark-schemes and get them to sit an exam in 60 minutes and then sit an go through it with the mark-scheme.
Make use of YouTube – Search using “GCSE Science AQA e.g. C2 covalent bonding”
Watch the video and then complete an exam question, or a revision activity.
Keyword card games – Science is a subject of terminology and keywords and many marks on the exams will be through correct use of keywords and understanding their meaning.
Top tips to help with revision