Manor AcademyYr11 Parents Exam Preparation Event

Supporting your child during their examination year

Supporting your child during their examination year

Group Session 1 (6.05pm)

Session 2 (6.35pm)

Session 3 (7.05 pm)

Red Maths/Science English/Hums Examination Time

Blue English/Hums Examination Time Maths/Science

Green Examination Time Maths/Science English/Hums

Maths/Science - Mr Lyndon and Mrs Brennan in HOY

English Humanities – Miss Desforges and Mrs Varley in Ennis

Examination Time – Mr Cooper in Manor Hall

How are GCSEs assessed?

Command WordsExam Questions

Exam Techniques

After School Intervention Timetable (September – December)

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Science Engineering Geography English German

French Art History

German Health and Social Care

Sociology

Spanish Sport Business

New timetable will be issued in January

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Science Maths Sport English

Sociology Geography

Business History

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100% Attendance 95% - 99.9% 90% - 95% Below 90%

YEAR 11 AVERAGE PROGRESS 8 SCOREPREDICTED EXAM RESULTS

PROGRESS 8 MANOR TOTAL

Tips for parents – Setting them up for revision

• Ask your child how you can help them

• Help them get organised (files, dividers, wallcharts)

• Find out what support school is offering

• Choose one good revision aid per subject

• Help them plan a revision timetable

Tips for parents – Supporting your child doing revision

• Use praise and rewards to support them sticking to start and finish times

• Quietly topping up their ‘workbox’ Don’t get wound up about lost items and avoid arguments about pens and pencils aren’t worth it

• Provide favourite snacks and water

• Be flexible – if they want to go to social event on a revision night agree a time when they will make the time up

• Be sensitive to the pressure your child is feeling. Missing the odd session isn’t the end of the world when they are feeling stressed

• Check in when they are revising and don’t nag in between revision times

Revision techniques

The key for strong revision is to start early, to regularly revisit information… and to develop understanding of a topic, rather than just adding knowledge.

1. Elaborative interrogation - being able to explain a point or fact

2. Self-explanation - how a problem was solved

4. Condensing -writing summaries of texts

5. Highlighting/underlining

7. Keyword mnemonics -choosing a word to associate with information

6. Imagery - forming mental pictures while reading or listening

8. Re-reading

3. Practice testing - Self-testing to check knowledge - especially using flash cards

9. Distributed practice - spreading out study over time

10. Interleaved practice - switching between different kinds of problems

Types of revision techniques

Mind Maps

Imagine a Mind map is like a giant Spider’s Web with all the ideas around it.

The spider (or main idea) is in the middle and everything is around it.

The most important ideas are in the middle and the sub-topics go out further and further.

Imagine that Spider’s Web falling down and turning it into some kind of weird chain with the words concept map on it.

The spider can go backwards and forwards and around so he knows how ideas connect, but there are no sub-topics.

Concept Maps

Exam Practice

Exam Questions

Exam Papers

Parent Test

Improve the answer

Two ways to practice with cards:

1. Put the answers on the back, but you will need to remember more at once before you check

OR

2. Use a piece of paper and move down to reveal answers as you guess the contents.

Card Cover

Name three non renewable sources of fuel

OilCoalGas

Q & A

Devise questions and answers about a topic for other people and quiz each other.

You do a “Who wants to be a millionaire” game where the questions are graded according to the difficulty you choose.

100 Words

Students condense each topic into 100 words

5 W’s QuestionsAsk questions before you reviseanything.

Think about the topic to bestudied and take some time out tothink about the questions youwould like to have some-oneanswer for you.

Write them down and as you readthrough your notes jot down anyanswers you find.

The brain likes looking foranswers.

Post Its

Write information on post-it notes and place them on the wall, door, large sheets of paper etc. You can then rearrange them according to a variety of ideas:

• Group various things together• Organise them into what youknow and don’t know – rearrangeas you learn more• Follow trends or themes

Splat

Create a power point slide with all the key terms for a topic

Freeze the board

Two students stand at the front with a ruler

Another student defines the key term , first person to hit the correct words wins a point for their team

PicturesKey Terms Named Examples

Chunking

Chunking is breaking up a big piece of

information into smaller chunks

rather like steps in a ladder.

It can be used for numbers and

words.

Use bullet points to break up

information.

Key Themes

Revision Boxes

Use revision boxes to helpthem to summaries theinformation. Choose 4 areas ofa topic.

Put a title on each box.

Summarise the key pointsinside of the boxes, not in fullsentences.

Reasons for rapid globalisationTransport Consolidation

Conglomeration State-led investment

Footloose

Teleworking

Knowledge Economy

Human Development

Index

Purchasing Power Parity

(PPP)

Malthus prediction

Non-renewable

Demographic Transition

Model

Anti-natalistPolicy

Unit 2: People and the Planet

Consuming resources

Population Dynamics

The Challenges of an urban world

Development Dilemmas

Population Overpopulated

Natural increase

Birth rateDeath rate

Population balance

Fertility Rate Replacement

levelPopulation

policiesPro-natalist

Policy

Open-door approach

Migration

Renewable Sustainable

Food insecurity

Food security

Boserupprediction

Trade Black gold

Finite resource

Peak oil

Energy Security

Ecological Footprint

Hydrogen economy

Globalisation

Import

Export Gross Domestic Product (GDP)Outsource

Subsistence farmers

Industrialisation

Primary Sector

Secondary Sector

Tertiary Sector

Quaternary Sector

Globalisation

Transnational Companies

Interdependence Foreign direct

investment (FDI)

World Trade Organisation

(WTO)

The International Monetary Fund

(IMF)

Newly Industrialising

Country (NIC)

The New Economy

Sweatshops

DevelopmentDevelopment

indicators

Life expectancy

Poverty Line

Dependency RatioInfant

mortalityMaternal Mortality Literacy

rate

Development Gap

Rostow’stheory

Franks dependancy

theory Multiplier effect

Top-down development

Bottom-up developmentCore

Periphery

Biotechnology

Canary Wharf

Household income

The Domino Effect

Diversification

Deindustrialisation

Brownfield Site

Greenfield Site

The Changing Economy of the UK

Digital Economy Green employment

Flexible working

Urbanisation

MegacityRural to urban

Migration

Conurbation

Hyper-urbanisation

Formal Economy

Informal economyQuality of

life

Shanty Town

Key word sheets to write definitions and key

terms

Tips for parents – The exam period

• Encourage your child to keep positive, they will soon be on the other side of the ‘exam mountain’

• Try not to add to stress levels, pick your battles, now isn’t the time to discuss the untidy bedroom, leaving the washing up again.

• Help them to be prepared. What exams tomorrow? Where are they? What time? Equipment needed?

• Keep to routines – breakfast

• Remind then that you value and love them whatever happens and wish them good luck

• Adopt an attitude of tomorrow is another day if things haven’t gone to plan