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Welcome to Ralph Thoresby School Revise Wise Night For Year 10 & 11 students

Welcome to Ralph Thoresby School Revise Wise Night For Year 10 & 11 students. ‘ ReviseWise ’ 18 th September 2014 How can you help make the difference?. Results up again!. Year 11 exams week beginning 1 st December 2014 Year 10 exams week beginning 23 rd March 2015

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Welcome to Ralph Thoresby School Revise Wise Night For Year 10 & 11 students

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  1. Welcome to Ralph Thoresby School Revise Wise Night For Year 10 & 11 students

  2. ‘ReviseWise’ 18th September 2014 How can you help make the difference?

  3. Results up again!

  4. Year 11 exams week beginning 1st December 2014 Year 10 exams week beginning 23rd March 2015 Timetables to follow

  5. What this evening involves. Maximum 5 minute input from the following people: Andrew Parkinson – How to revise for geography David Brown - How to revise for science Jonny Lee – How I revised Richard Ward - How to revise for history Shane McLeer – Head of PE Vikki Taylor - How to revise for languages Emma Boyes & KirstyFoggitt – How I revised Tom Stubbs – How to revise for English Stewart McGill - How to revise for maths Ruth Chuck – General revision management

  6. Andrew Parkinson Deputy Head Teacher & Geography Teacher

  7. Use of Mnemonics & Imagery

  8. Mnemonics Richard of York gave battle in vain Roy G Biv

  9. Geography Never eat Shredded Wheat Naughty elephants squirt water

  10. Geography Eat An Aspirin After A Night-time Snack SEAN got three AAA's

  11. The 7 Continents: Europe Antarctica Asia Africa Australia North America South America

  12. Looking ahead: What about A level Geography? Cows Often Sit Down Carefully. Perhaps Their Joints Creak?Persistent Early Oiling Might Prevent Painful Rheumatism.

  13. Geological time periods Cambrian Ordovician Silurian Devonian Carboniferous Permian Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous Paleocene Eocene Oligocene Miocene Pliocene Pleistocene Recent

  14. Imagery

  15. Never eat Shredded Wheat

  16. The 7 Continents: Europe Antarctica Asia Africa Australia North America South America • Eat An Aspirin After A Night-time Snack

  17. David Brown Science Teacher

  18. Learning from science • The study found only 2 universally successful techniques

  19. Golden rule number 1 • Test yourself • Past papers • Summaries • Write. Cover. Repeat. • Any method where an answer is known and you can check your own knowledge or understanding.

  20. Golden rule number 2 • Spread out your revision • Revision is a process – not the end point • Leave time between sessions • Be clear about when you will do what

  21. More science! • A lesson learned from science and computer games. • 850,000 online gamers • “people who leave more than 24 hoursbetween their first five attempts at the game and their second five attempts score as highly, on average, as people who have practiced 50% more than them.”

  22. In summary • Test yourself • Find which method works best for you • Understand your stuff first • Spread out your revision • Begin early • Early means early! • Process not product

  23. Richard Ward Head of Humanities & Historian

  24. Revising for History Medicine & Health Through Time The American West 1840-1890

  25. Revision materials • Exercise book • Text books • Revision guide • BBC bitesize

  26. Chronology Timeline For example 1 cm = 10 years 1500 1550 1600 1650 1509-Henry VIII 1650-Oliver Cromwell Becomes king becomes Lord Protector

  27. Causes- Why did an event/development happen? • Mind map Farming SlaveryWealth The River Nile Why did medicine improve in Ancient Egypt? Writing Religion

  28. Shane McLeer Head of PE

  29. Vikki Taylor Assistant Head teacher & Languages Teacher

  30. Modern Foreign Languages

  31. Vocabulary – Mind Maps

  32. Vocabulary – Word Families la lecture – reading lire – to read un livre – a book • jouer – to play • un joueur – a player • un jeu – a game • un jouet – a toy

  33. Listening & Reading… Listening: • Listen to everything your teacher says in lessons • Google French news articles from the radio Reading: • Search for articles on the internet from French magazines and newspapers General: • GCSE BBC Bitesize

  34. Controlled Assessments…

  35. Tom Stubbs English teacher

  36. Emulation Style Structure Content

  37. Two GCSEs English Language + English Literature

  38. Two Skills Reading + Writing

  39. “A neophyte writer is an apprentice to tradition.” Charles Bazerman, 1980 Good Readers = Good Writers “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” Abraham Lincoln

  40. What to look out for: Alliteration Facts Opinions Rhetorical Questions Emotive Language Statistics Triplets

  41. Texts to consider • Magazine articles • Political, charity, advertisement leaflets • Transcripts of speeches • Examples of exam responses • Letters from the council or from school

  42. Facts Imperative Language Alliteration Opinions dressed as facts- declaratives Triplet

  43. Annotation Rehearsal

  44. Things to look out for: Keywords and their meanings Anything which reveals ideas about characters or themes Any language techniques which help you to understand the writer’s intentions e.g. what did they want the reader to think about

  45. Textual Analysis

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