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Year 11 Support
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.
Key Dates for Year 11
- Monday 12 January - Taster day in Sixth Form
- Saturday 17 January - Sixth Form Open Afternoon 1pm to 3.30pm - book here
- Friday 23 January - Deadline to apply for HGS Sixth Form
- Tuesday 10 February - Reaching for Success Parent Information Evening, Main Hall, 6pm
- w/c 9 February - Year 11 GCSE Food and Nutrition assessments
- w/c 23 February and 2 March - Year 11 second mock exams (English, Maths, Science)
- March - Sixth Form coursing discussions will take place, details of student meeting date and time will be provided nearer the time
- w/c 9 March - Year 11 GCSE Geography fieldwork trips
- w/c 30 March - Year 11 Easter Revision sessions
- w/c 20 April - Year 11 GCSE Art/Photography exams
- w/c 27 April - Year 11 GCSE MFL speaking exams
- Friday 22 May - Year 11 study leave begins
- Thursday 18 June - Sixth Form Induction
- Friday 19 June - Year 11 Ball
Year 11 Supporting Success Information Evening - Tuesday 16 September
Thank you to all Year 11 parents who attended the Supporting Success information evening on Tuesday 16 September. A copy of the slides can be found below.
Year 11 Supporting Success Showbie Folder
All Year 11 students can access the Supporting Success Showbie folder via their iPads. The access code is BJWKR.
Sixth Form Prospectus and Applications
Students can now apply for HGS Sixth Form via this link, please select 'Existing Users'. All current HGS students have been emailed a password (to their HGS account) from Applica on Thursday 23 October. if you have any questions about completing the application form, please email HGSSixthForm@hgs.rklt.co.uk
Work Ethic and Home Learning
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.
Regular Revision and Intervention Sessions taking place in school
| Date | Time | Subject | Classroom |
| Monday | Period 1 | English Support Session | Invite only |
| Lunch | Food and Hospitality | Drop in - D07 | |
| Lunch | DT | Drop in - D05 | |
| Lunch @ 1.10pm | Science - Physics | ||
| 3.30-4.30pm |
Science - Biology (For topics see below) |
Drop in - A15 (Combined) Drop in - A16 (Triple) |
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| Tuesday | Lunch | Food and Hospitality | Drop in - D07 |
| Lunch | DT | Drop in - D05 | |
| Lunch | Maths Sparx Help | Drop in - A14 | |
| Lunch | English | Drop in - A48 | |
| Lunch | Geography Support | Invite only | |
| Lunch | GCSE PE - 1pm start | Room TBC - check Arbor | |
| Lunch | German |
A25 - Higher A24 - Foundation |
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| Wednesday | Lunch | DT | Drop in - D05 |
| Lunch | Food and Hospitality | Drop in - D07 | |
| Lunch at 1.05pm | Sociology | Drop in - A05 | |
| Lunch | French | Drop in - A24 | |
| Period 6 | English Support Session | Invite only | |
| Period 6 | Maths | Drop in - A39 | |
| Thursday | Lunch | Food and Hospitality | Drop in - D07 |
| Lunch | DT | Drop in - D05 | |
| Lunch | Drama | Drop in - A03 | |
| Friday | Lunch @ 1.10pm | Science - Biology | A16 |
Masterclasses / Ad hoc revision sessions
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Subject |
Date/Time |
Location |
Topic |
| Maths (Group 3) | Weds 14 Jan 4pm-4.45pm | MS Teams | Solve an inequality |
| Maths (Groups 4&5) | Weds 14 Jan 5pm-5.45pm | MS Teams | Translation |
| English Literature | Weds 14 Jan 2.45pm | A50 | Macbeth Act 2&3 (plot) |
| Maths (Group 1&2) | Mon 19 Jan 5pm-5.45pm | MS Teams | Use a graph to find the solution to an equation |
| English Literature | Weds 21 Jan 2.45pm | A50 | Macbeth Act 4&5 (plot) |
| Maths (Group 3) | Weds 21 Jan 4pm-4.45pm | MS Teams | Enlarge a shape |
| Maths (Group 4&5) | Weds 21 Jan 5pm-5.45pm | MS Teams | Solve inequalities with unknowns on both sides |
| Maths (Group 1&2) | Mon 26 Jan 5pm-5.45pm | MS Teams | Problems involving inverse proportion |
| English Literature | Weds 28 Jan 2.45pm | A50 | Jekyll and Hyde Chapters 1 to 3 (characters & plot) |
| Maths (Group 3) | Weds 28 Jan 4pm-4.45pm | MS Teams | Rationalise the denominator |
| Maths (Group 4&5) | Weds 28 Jan 5pm-5.45pm | MS Teams | Solving problems with angles |
| Maths (Groups 1&2) | Mon 2 Feb 5pm-5.45pm | MS Teams | Algebraic fractions and division |
English Literature - drop in sessions for students who have missed a lesson or need some extra help on a certain text. Please do not feel you need to attend every week, you can drop in to the week where you feel you need a little more support.
Maths - online masterclasses. The Maths team will email all students with the relevant link to join these masterclasses.
Details of Easter revision sessions will be appear here later in the academic year
Summer Exams
Further information will be available here when Summer exam timetables are issued.
Year 11 Preparing for your GCSE exams booklet
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.
| Art | BTEC Sport | Business | Computer Science | |
| DT | Drama | English | Food | French |
| Geography | German | History | Hospitality and Catering | Maths |
| Music | PE | Photography | RS | |
| Sociology | Spanish to follow | |||
| Revision Tips | Exam Timetable |
Revision Timetables: Study Period Revision Template
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