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This page provides a summary of all the support available to Year 11 students. Students also have access to revision material from each subject via their Showbie folders.
All Year 11 students can access the Supporting Success Showbie folder via their iPads. Students will be advised the showbie code to access this folder before half term.
During Years 10 and 11, there is a greater emphasis on self-guided learning in preparation for GCSE exams at the end of Year 11.
Students are encouraged to be independent and reflective learners in order to secure the best possible outcomes. All our students are supported by our subject specialist teaching staff and all the teaching resources can be found in Showbie. Similarly, all home learning tasks will be assigned to students via Arbor. Students can access both Showbie and Arbor via their iPads. Parents can access Arbor via the Parent Arbor app.
Some GCSE subjects include an element of coursework to be completed during Year 10 and 11. Submission deadlines are detailed below. Please speak to your class teacher if you are unsure what you need to submit or need any support with your coursework, it is better to speak to them early so you allow plenty of time to complete the tasks. Class teachers may also provide sub deadlines to complete certain elements ahead of the final deadlines listed below.
Deadline Date |
Subject |
More Information |
| 23 October | Music | Free choice composition |
| 2 November | Food Prep and Nutrition | NEA1 Coursework deadline |
| 6 November | DT | C - Generate design ideas |
| 15 November | Level 2 BTEC Sport | Component 2 |
| w/c 7 December | Drama | Component 1 portfolio |
| w/c 14 December | GCSE PE | Coursework deadline |
| 22 January | DT | D - Developing design ideas |
| 5 February | Music | Composition to brief |
| 19 February | Hospitality and Catering | Unit 2 coursework |
| 26 February | Food Prep and Nutrition | NEA2 coursework deadline |
| 5 March | DT | E - Realising design ideas |
| 19 March | DT | F - Analysing and Evaluating. Final hand in |
To support Year 11 students in the build up to their mock examinations the Science faculty will be running revision sessions on Monday evening. These will take place in A16 and will run from 15:30 - 16:30. They will focus on the following areas:
| Date | Subject | Topic |
| Mon 5 Oct | Biology | Organisation with a focus on enzymes |
| Mon 12 Oct | Chemistry | Structure and bonding exam skills |
| Mon 19 Oct | Physics | Electricity with a focus on I-V characteristics |
| Mon 2 Nov | Science | Exam skills |
Saturday revision sessions will take place in school on the following dates:
6 March - 10am to 1pm
13 March - 10am to 1pm
10 April - 10am to 1pm
17 April - 10am to 1pm
24 April - 10am to 1pm
Further details about booking a place will be shared with students after the Christmas break.
Once exams begin students will be expected to attend school as normal and follow their timetabled lessons. Lessons will be subject focused, led by their subject teacher. If a student is in a scheduled exam, they will access this in a normal way within school, following our established procedures. If all exams in a subject are complete before the end of the half term students will still be expected to attend their timetabled lesson in that subject, but they will be allowed to revise subjects of their choice, in a structured way and with a member of staff there to offer them more general support.
Revision sessions post half term
Further information will be shared nearer the time.
Once the summer exam timetables have been confirmed by the exam boards these will be shared here.
The examinations page on our website contains further information including links to exam policies.
Click on the image to tips on how to revise
The booklet contains an overview of summer exam dates, some revision top tips from Miss Smith and blank revision timetable templates that you can use to manage your time over the coming weeks. Alongside this each faculty have created a bank of must do, should do and could do activities to help you plan your revision from now until the start of your exams. This is a week-by-week suggestion of how to structure your revision, as we know sometimes the hardest thing is knowing where to start! Most of the must do tasks are homework tasks, but as these are generally revision and recall tasks at this point, this very much counts.
Students can tick off tasks as they do them and also annotate a RAG status for each week so you know which topics might need a revisit. Printing off the revision timetable and completing it each week with sessions and subjects done, is also a great way to build confidence at seeing how much has been done, and also of mapping the spread of subjects being covered – we often start with the one we are best at or like the most and leave the trickiest one till last. There are Saturday study sessions beginning at school from Saturday 1 March, 10am to 1pm, this is ideal to bring with you to guide you towards the right tasks to focus on.
We hope you find this booklet helpful to guide your revision and that it will help others to support you at home as well as at school.
You can either download the full booklet by clicking on the image above or select the pages you would like to download from the grid below. You can also download the core subjects (English, Maths, Science, RS) as one download from this link.
