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6 th December 2019 Dear Parents/Carers, Year 11 Pathway to Success This is the next edition of a regular email to Year 11 parents. Every two weeks we will send out this bulletin with details of support offered over the coming weeks. As you would expect it is very important to make sure that students continue to complete coursework and attend any necessary extra sessions. Hopefully this email will help you as parents and carers to encourage your son or daughter to make the most of what is on offer. As part of meeting the challenges of Year 11, I would ask that you encourage your child to act upon any advice or information received in the fortnightly emails. The impetus is now on them to put their best effort into achieving the results to which they aspire. Thank you for your continued support and please do not hesitate to contact me with any concerns in this vital year. Kind Regards, Mrs Katy Tavaga Head of Year 11 General Thank you to all parents and carers who have been supporting students through the PPEs over the last few weeks. We have now reached the half way stage and have two weeks left before Christmas. Advice on how to revise and what to revise is available in the Pre Public Exams Revision Planner. Results for the PPEs will be shared by subject teachers as and when they are marked, with the spring grade reports following shortly in the new year. Merry Christmas and a successful new year to all. Pathway to Success
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6th December 2019 Dear Parents/Carers,
Year 11 Pathway to Success
This is the next edition of a regular email to Year 11 parents. Every two weeks we will send out this bulletin with details of support offered over the coming weeks. As you would expect it is very important to make sure that students continue to complete coursework and attend any necessary extra sessions. Hopefully this email will help you as parents and carers to encourage your son or daughter to make the most of what is on offer.
As part of meeting the challenges of Year 11, I would ask that you encourage your child to act upon any advice or information received in the fortnightly emails. The impetus is now on them to put their best effort into achieving the results to which they aspire. Thank you for your continued support and please do not hesitate to contact me with any concerns in this vital year. Kind Regards, Mrs Katy Tavaga Head of Year 11
General
Thank you to all parents and carers who have been supporting students through the PPEs over the last few weeks. We have now reached the half way stage and have two weeks left before Christmas. Advice on how to revise and what to revise is available in the Pre Public Exams Revision Planner. Results for the PPEs will be shared by subject teachers as and when they are marked, with the spring grade reports following shortly in the new year. Merry Christmas and a successful new year to all.
Pathway to Success
The Sixth Form Team
Sixth Form
St Crispin’s Sixth Form: Application Deadline
Approaching! We hope your PPEs have been going well and you have Sixth Form courses you are applying for. The application deadline for St Crispin’s Sixth Form is fast approaching: Monday 13th January! Make use of the time left this term to speak been learning
lessons that will help you improve even further before the real exams. Do remember to keep in mind the entry requirements required for the with your parents, teachers and the Sixth Form Team to address any questions or concerns you may have.
You will find a link to the online application form and our prospectus here:
http://www.crispins.co.uk/sixth-form/
Key Dates Monday 13th January 2020 Deadline for Sixth Form applications.
Wednesday 22nd January to
Friday 7th February 2020
Students meet with members of the Sixth
Form team to discuss their options.
Friday 6th March 2020
Deadline for students to confirm acceptance
of their formal offer.
[Please note: the school may not be able to
hold offers open beyond this date.] Monday 29th and Tuesday 30th
June 2020 Sixth Form Induction Days
For regularly updated information regarding key dates, events and news,
please refer to the following:
www.crispins.co.uk/sixth-form/ twitter.com/crispins6thform
Mrs Collett Head of Sixth Form
Mr Yeatman Deputy Head of Sixth Form
Mrs Lightfoot Sixth Form Administrator
Ms Pearson Raising Standards Leader
Mrs West Assistant Head of Year 12
Mrs Kirby Assistant Head of Year 13
Drama
- Online revision materials AQA GCSE Drama BBC Bitesize Digital Theatre Plus
- Hard copy of revision materials Please refer to your folders
- Coursework deadlines C2 Devising Logs – Friday 20th December
- Revision tips Refer to PowerPoints and printed resources
- GCSE Drop In Clinic Wednesday lunchtimes – DSR
- Recommended viewing online/tv Digital Theatre Plus
English
Students have now completed both of the English Language Papers; these are being marked externally. This should ensure consistency of marking across the cohort and the same standard of marking that students will experience in the summer examinations, giving an accurate picture of students’ strengths and weaknesses. Class teachers will also review the papers in order to give specific feedback. We are hoping to be able to give students their results in the week beginning 13th January. Students will begin revising their Literature set texts in class. However, they are advised to revise the texts, specified by their class teacher, over Christmas. Students will complete Literature examination style questions in class towards the end of January. GCSEpod is available to all students and has a range of revision resources covering all of the texts studied. Suggested revision resources also appear in their PPE Revision Planner.
Geography
Year 11 have now completed their PPEs and can expect their results in January. They will receive results per paper and as an overall mark, when we go through the papers together. From now on, Year 11 will be completing the GCSE course, finishing People of the Planet and then Environmental Threats to the Planet.
History
Students should be continuing to work through their Cold War & Elizabeth Revision Guide. Each week students should complete a worksheet that comprises 10 questions to test knowledge. Students are encouraged to attempt the practice exam questions in their booklets and hand to their
teacher to get marked. We ask parents to please check that students have completed this, as some students are neglecting this.
If students need extra support or have missed any lessons then they should be attending the GCSE Drop In Clinic. This runs every Friday at lunchtime. Students should bring their
book so that the teacher can help them with any missed work. Students have one more History PPE to study for. They still need to sit the Cold War & Elizabeth paper. This will focus on, ‘the development of the Cold war 1947-56, the Cuban missile Crisis, Soviet invasion of Afghanistan & the End of the Cold war 1989-1991. For Elizabeth they need to revise, ‘Elizabethan government, early Elizabethan problems, Catholic plots & Anglo-Spanish relations’. Students have their revision guides for these exams. If they refer to the PPE booklet they can discover which worksheets would be best to revise from. We also suggest students use their class books as well as websites like BBC Bitesize.
Health & Social Care
Students can continue to use their flash cards to help with revision at home for the final exam in February 2020.
Information Technology (Cambridge National)
Is your coursework going to be finished in 2 weeks? Our ICT students are currently working on their coursework assignments –the deadline for their assignment will be end of the autumn term. Many of our students are a few hours behind on their coursework and have been prompted to attend appropriate intervention sessions at lunchtime and afterschool. It would be very helpful if students could be prompted to assess whether their coursework will be finished in two weeks’ time at home. Students are able to come to the Science Lecture Room any lunchtime or afterschool for extra support on their coursework. Students have an exam on January 10th (R012 Understanding tools, techniques, methods and processes for technological solutions). They will also be given an opportunity to resit this examined module in the Summer term. Key resources:
We have prepared on online checklist for students, which can be found at Tiny. They have used this resource in lessons, but should be updating their understanding as they revise at home. Students should pay particular attention to content marked (Exam? – Y)
Hodder Education Textbooks – “Cambridge National Level 1/2 Information Technologies” (ISBN 978-1-5104-2327-5). Students can request to borrow these textbooks from our class set during the revision period, although care must be taken to make sure they are still
available in lessons. It is recommended that students have bought a copy of this course book to use at home for their revision.
Revision materials e.g. flashcards, ring binders, plastic wallets can be provided to students free of charge on request. We encourage students to revise using a variety of styles, and not just reading and writing notes.
BBC Bitesize – the revision pages for the GCSE ICT course on BBC Bitesize are a fantastic place to start BBC Bitesize
Key dates:
Last week of autumn term – Coursework deadline (R013 Developing technological solutions)
First week of January – Final countdown intervention sessions
January 10th – Externally marked exam (R012 Understanding tools, techniques, methods and processes for technological solutions) + Coursework submission deadline to exam board
June – Externally marked exam resits Struggling to get started with flashcards?
1. Go to tiny.cc/itplc 2. Identify five outcomes you want to RECALL at a time 3. Download the free flashcard software “AnkiApp” and get making a
deck of cards! 4. Need help using the software or coming up with flashcards? Send me
an email! Remember – memory techniques work best if they are VISUAL, SHORT and USED REGULARLY
Languages Repeat from 08/11/19
French: Personal Study: To complete some doddle tasks on specific topics They need to keep practising their vocab on quizlet. Ensure that they are practising their General Conversations questions for the themes chosen and to know their GCSE speaking mat. Tasks have been set on Seneca Learning website and a lot of them have not completed them or even joined the class yet. Intervention sessions (Speaking) for all students will be on every Thursday on Week B (lunch time) in L3 delivered into 3 groups with Mr Herscent, Mr Stacey-Moore and Mrs Wo Kai Song
Maths
Important Dates Year 11 PPE’s Paper 2- Thursday 5th Dec (am) Paper 3 - Monday 9th Dec (am) How to revise for Maths
1. Look at the topic lists for each paper you did at half term or are doing as homework
2. Review sheet provided with corbett maths videos linked to each question
3. Watch the corbettmaths video then complete the practice questions and mark them from the links on the website.
4. Corbettmaths
Past Papers
Students will be issued with one past paper every two weeks until the PPE.
Mark schemes will be emailed after the deadline for completion
GCSE Exams 2020 19th May 2020 Paper 1 (Non calculator) 4th June 2020 Paper 2 (Calculator) 8th June 2020 Paper 3 (Calculator) Students should ensure that they have a working scientific calculator and that they are regularly bringing it to lessons to practice using it.
Spanish: Conversation club every Thursday during lunch time with Mr Collis, Mrs Martin and Miss Underwood in L2. Link for students to access and practise. Materiales Intervention happening every Friday alternating between Mrs Martin and Mrs Angel helped by Mr Marticorena. Tasks have been set on Seneca Learning website once a week to be completed. Vocab tests weekly.
German: Link for students to access and revise GCSE German Speaking questions to be prepared and have been added to the padlet page. Tasks have been set on Seneca Learning website once a week to be completed.
To revise these topics they have 3 options: 1. Use their online textbooks to go back over the topic
on Kerboodle (institution code: lu1 ask your teacher for your login details)
2. Choose the online revision lessons and tasks on these topics on Mymaths (login: crispins and password: trapezium, ask your teacher for MyPortal login details)
3. Use Corbettmaths to search a topic, watch a video and complete exam style questions.
Booster Packs on Mymaths There are revision packs available on mymaths for all target grades. Please look at the Assessment and Revision section to use them.
For additional revision resources please look at the Stretch and Challenge section of the Maths KS4 webpage.
Music
Listening:
Information on musical elements online at BBC Bitesize
Skills-based content may be addressed with independent use of Auralia/Musition software
Yellow Pages a useful ‘first-stage’ revision resource for applied recall
More specific guidance is provided in the PPE Revision Booklet
Music PPE on 18th December The use of an AQA-specific GCSE Music revision guide is highly recommended from this point onwards, as it presents the key information required for the listening exam (details of two possible options are given below; click on either to follow hyperlink to possible retailers for purchase and please ensure that you view ‘Revision Guide’ and not ‘Study Guide’). This includes the elements of music and stylistic features students are expected to recognise, advice on how to tackle questions on unfamiliar music from all Areas of Study, notes on the study pieces, and a glossary of technical terms. In addition, CGP’s ‘Complete Revision & Practice’ guide comes complete with a CD to accompany practice questions provided.
Composition: Having received teacher feedback on their draft composition work, students should ensure that they are working to complete their pieces in line with the feedback. The next submission deadline is 12th December, at which point work on composition 1 should be largely complete. Performance: Many students have now completed at least one assessable performance recording. Students who have not yet done so must ensure that they have arranged a suitable time for their recording to take place. Individual feedback shared with students leading to a second recording opportunity should be addressed as soon as possible, to allow for this to be scheduled in a timely manner. Suitable choice of music must be discussed with instrumental/class teacher. Students should ensure they are well-prepared in advance of the deadline and aware of lessons that require specific equipment (instruments, sheet music including accompaniments if applicable) to be brought into school. NB students are responsible for ensuring that their performances meet with minimum duration requirements when combined with their intended ensemble performance. This is a minimum of one minute of ensemble performance and a total time requirement of 4 minutes overall.
PE Repeat from 08/11/19
- Revision On all content learnt so far from both paper 1 and paper 2
- Revision sessions Wednesday after school drop in sessions for GCSE
- Online materials to use for revision Seneca learning & BBC Bitesize Deadline for GCSE filming of sports for practical marks to be handed in to PE Department is the 19th December.
Product Design
Area of Compound Shapes - Questions Area of Compound Shapes - Answers T1 Maths Skills for DT Homework T1 Maths Skills for DT Worksheet
RS - During the PPE period GCSE RS students will sit 2 exams: Paper 1: a 1 hour paper on Christian Beliefs and teachings & Christian practices and Paper 2: a 1 hour Philosophy and Ethics paper with questions from the Dialogues unit and the Religion Peace and Justice unit.
- Revision should be active – note taking, mindmaps, flashcards - with a focus on key terms and key teachings.
- Revision should also include engagement with and completion of practise exam questions.
- Students should use the PLCs included in the PPE revision booklets issued by their tutors to guide their revision.
- If students are looking to purchase a revision guide we recommend: ‘My Revision notes OCR GCSE Religious Studies (9-1)’ Amazon GCSE Religious Studies
Sport BTEC Repeat from 22/11/19
Sport BTEC Revision Notes Sport BTEC Unit 1 Revision Workbook
Science Our Science PPEs start next week and with understandably students might be getting a bit overwhelmed and unclear on how to revise so much in such a short space of time. PLC or a personalized learning check list. Students have been issued these documents or new ones can be downloaded from Tiny (no log in required). Each page in the document states whether it is for paper 1 or paper 2. The science exams are all paper 1. Encourage your child to spend 10 minutes identifying THREE areas that would make the BIGGEST difference to their exam. Which bit of content do they feel they have never heard of or are clueless about. Then head over to bitesize, Seneca or dig out the revision guide to prepare for that area. Finally, try some practice questions on that topic on our exam bank website – Tiny or practice questions from the revision guide workbook. This strategy can make a big difference to the PPE grades, and more importantly, is the strategy students should adopt all the time.
Tassomai Deep in the middle of PPEs, more Tassomai may not be high on the list of priorities, but just like going to the gym, doing some practice, even if less than before, is really effective. Try to find 10 minutes outside of the usual revision blocks and once on the Christmas break, try not to abandon Tassomai practice totally. 10 minutes a day over the holidays is a small investment with a big gain in confidence.
Many of our students are absolutely storming through Tassomai and really seeing the gains, here is our new leader board and it is great to see so many new names this week. Please pass on a big well done to anyone on the leaderboards.
Most daily goals Target 4
1st Alfie C (New!!), Cara F, Caitlin H (New!!), Dan M and Sam S (New!!)
All on 7
2nd Shannon B, Hannah S, Cameron T & Chris W (new!)
3rd 9 Students have hit 4 or 5 daily goals
Most Progress in last 7 days Target 2% a week
1st Hannah S 4% (back at the top!)
2nd Saphire L (New on the leaderboard!) 2.4%
3rd Sam S (2.1%)
Most Correct Questions
1st Hannah S (Still at the top!)
2nd Dan M (New!) 3rd Esha D (NEW!)
Most Overall Progress Target 80% by May
1st Hannah S (43.1%) Still 1st! Well done Hannah, but someone needs to catch
you!
2nd Will H 31.8% Still 2nd!
3rd Shannon B 28.7% (Still 3rd but closing!)
Charlotte B 25.9% (Still 4th)
Commiseration prize…. Archie S – you are doing amazing, just constantly in 5th… may be next week!
