Year 11 Support & Guidance

Managing Time Is a Key Factor in Ensuring Success

Time spent completing meaningful revision is vital but so too is time spent socialising with friends and family and relaxing.

Here is a suggested study timetable that you can use to plan your revision and relaxation time. Revision Timetable

Managing Stress

To avoid unnecessary stress and last minute cramming, it is advisable to revise little and often. An hour per night is far better than 5 hours at the weekend. If you are feeling stressed have a look at the suggestions for managing and alleviating that stress. How can I manage my stress?

What to Revise and How

Often students say they don’t know how to revise. Advice and guidance from ‘The Learning scientists’ suggests these evidence informed ways to revising subject content:

1. Spaced practice – space out your studying over time
2. Retrieval practice – practice bringing information to mind
3. Elaboration – explain and describe ideas with many details
4. Interleaving – switch between ideas when you study
5. Concrete examples – use specific examples to understand abstract ideas
6. Dual coding – combine words and visuals

You can view each of the approaches here:

The Learning Scientists

Knowing how to spend your time revising is often one of the main challenges. To help, we also suggest using a Revision Strategy like this one designed by Amy Thompson of Bishop Young Church of England Academy, which makes the time you spend revising useful, active and meaningful.

If you are not clear about how to revise, the following suggested techniques may also be useful: I don’t know how to revise!

Tutoring

Many of our subjects are offering intervention and revision sessions and these will continue through the exam period. We have also designed a bespoke revision plan to ensure students are maximising their revision prior to each exam.

GCSEpod

GCSEpod is an online learning platform that we have purchased for our GCSE students and is designed to be used independently without the need for teachers to set work.

GCSEpod letter

• Regular users of GCSEpod achieve at least 1 grade higher than non-users.
• Students can access GCSEpod on their mobile phones, and other electronic devices. Meaning they can access it at any point, anywhere.
• It consists of short videos and questions. This is an ideal way to improve their knowledge and learn in a fun, easy and interactive way.
• Please make sure your child has downloaded the App on their electronic devices.
• Encourage your child to use GCSEpod, at least once a day.