YEAR 7’s MORTIMER REVISION BOOT CAMP

We shall be starting soon.

Whilst you are waiting, have a go at the general knowledge quiz on your table.

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1. Can you introduce yourself to the person next to you?

2. Who was your favourite teacher at school?3. Can you name three elements from the

periodic table that someone else might not know?

4. What is your favourite variety of baked beans?

5. What is your dream holiday?

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What to expect…

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Our advice on how to help your

child revise at any age.

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• Revision superstars is a collection of key words or phrases linked to topics your child has studied in their lessons.

• It is an excellent starting point for revision and can help revision seem less intimidating.

• Lots of research has shown that key words are easier to remember than large amounts of text.

• If students’ work out answers themselves, they are more likely to remember it.

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Revision superstar words will be:

• displayed on screens.

• used in form time quizzes.

• be used as part of lessons.

In school

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At home

You could use revision superstars:

• to test your child.

• to create flashcards.

• to create links between topics.

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Let’s have a go!

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Let’s have a go!

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Let’s have a go!

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Let’s have a go!

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1. Make your own flashcards• Card or electronic

2. Add pictures and mix them in with words• We can memorise pictures better then words.

• Dual coding studies show using pictures and words is more effective in

learning.

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3. Use Mnemonic devices• Anything that helps you create a mental association between 2 pieces of

information.

• e.g. ROYGBIV

4. One card, one question• Stops recognition instead of recall.

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5. Break down complex concepts into

multiple simple questions

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6. Say your answers aloud• To make sure it’s not recognition.

8. Learn before review

7. Study from both sides• So you can answer either side of the question.

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Memory recall round…..

1. Can you introduce yourself to the person next to you?

2. Who was your favourite teacher at school?3. Can you name three elements from the

periodic table that someone else might not know?

4. What is your favourite variety of baked beans?

5. What is your dream holiday?

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Try to use ‘Rote Learning’ with your child –

ask them to memorise information and recall

it back to you. The more you get them to

repeat it the quicker and easier they will

recall and apply it.

Have family quizzes, the way one person asks

something could be different to someone else

but will get students used to different types of

questions and learn to pick out key words of a

particular question.

Give them a key word then ask them to

elaborate on this – can they define it? Can

they link it to anything else? Can they give

some examples?Try to use questioning regularly and get them

to answer about their learning that day, what

can they remember? What can they explain? –

In the car, over dinner, even on their way to

and from school.

Use flashcards to help reinforce retrieval and

don’t dwell on what they get wrong, just

remember to keep revisiting it little and often

and they will soon get the hang of it.

Use their revision resources or class work to

help check their learning over short spaces of

time, then keep going back to older work and

ask them to describe or explain key words

again – can they still remember?