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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
- Final Saturday Revision Sessions 9 May - 10am to 1pm. Book a place via Arbor/Clubs
- Friday 8 May - Deadline to book Year 11 Ball ticket
- Friday 22 May - Year 11 study leave begins
- Thursday 18 June - Sixth Form Induction
- Friday 19 June - Year 11 Prom
Year 11 Supporting Success & Reaching for Success Information Evenings
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.
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 | German - Week A only |
Higher - room TBC Foundation - room TBC |
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| Lunch @ 1.10pm | Science - Physics | A16 | |
| 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 | GCSE PE - 1pm start | Room TBC - check Arbor | |
| 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 | |
| Lunch | Spanish (foundation) | Drop in - A24 | |
| Period 6 | English Support Session | Invite only | |
| Period 6 | Maths | Drop in - A39 | |
| Period 6 | Science | Drop in - A16 | |
| Thursday | Lunch | Food and Hospitality | Drop in - D07 |
| Lunch | DT | Drop in - D05 | |
| Lunch | Drama | Drop in - A03 | |
| Lunch | Geography Support | Invite only | |
| Lunch | German - Week B only |
Higher - room TBC Foundation - room TBC |
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| Lunch | Spanish (higher) | Drop in - A24 | |
| Friday | Lunch @ 1.10pm | Science - Biology | A16 |
Masterclasses / Ad hoc revision sessions
|
Subject |
Date/Time |
Location |
Topic |
| Science | A different topic will be covered each week - showbie group ZRT9J | ||
| Maths (Group 1&2) | Monday 5pm-5.45pm | MS Teams |
11 May - Preparing for Paper 1 18 May - Preparing for Papers 2&3 1 June - Preparing for Paper 2 8 June - Preparing for Paper 3 |
| Maths (Group 3) | Wednesday 4pm-4.45pm | MS Forms |
13 May - Preparing for Paper 1 20 May - Preparing for Papers 2&3 Tuesday 2 June - Preparing for Paper 2 Tuesday 9 June - Preparing for Paper 3 |
| Maths (Group 4&5) | Wednesday 5pm-5.45pm | MS Forms |
13 May - Preparing for Paper 1 20 May - Preparing for Papers 2&3 Tuesday 2 June - Preparing for Paper 2 Tuesday 9 June - Preparing for Paper 3 |
Saturday Revision Sessions
These revision sessions are an excellent opportunity for Year 11 students to undertake 3 hours of independent silent study with no distractions. The sessions will take place in G2 located in the Sixth Form. Complimentary hot drinks will be available.
You do not need to wear uniform; we do ask that you bring your own revision material and we ask that mobile phones are not on desks.
Final session date and time
Saturday 9 May 10am to 1pm
How to book a place: Saturday revision sessions are now available to book via the Arbor/Clubs section.
Revision Sessions Pre and Post Half Term
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
After the May half term break, Year 11 students will have access to revision spaces in schol should they wish to revise before or after an exam.
We are offering two types of revision session:
- Subject specific revision - students can focus on a specific subject, with a subject specialist teacher available to answer any questions.
- Independent silent study - a quiet environment where students can work independently on their revision tasks.
Booking a place
If you wish to book a place for your child, we encourage you to discuss options together by checking your child's Arbor calendar for exam timings and select the session(s) that best support their revision needs. Places are offered on a first come first served basis.
Both subject specific and independent silent study places should be booked via Arbor Parent App / Clubs from Friday 8 May at 9am.
A copy of the timetable can be found below by clicking on the image.
Signing in and out
If students are attending a revision session they should sign in and out at the student attendance office.
Summer Exams
The Summer GCSE exam timetable can be accessed here.
Please note there is a contingency day. All students taking GCSE examinations must plan to be available until this date in case of any disruption.
Further information can be found on the examinations page on our website.
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.
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