Key Stage 4 Information

Subject Support: Everything you need to know about your upcoming exams (2019)

Mock Results: Next Steps
Year 11 Assembly and support materials to talk pupils through how to fill in their Next Step Review document.

LSHS Next Steps Assembly

Year 11 “Next Steps” Review Document

Use this document to evaluate your strengths and weaknesses from your mock results and then set revision priorities. This will help you focus your revision and studies to help you get closer to your target and beyond!

Action Plan Next Steps Parental Copy

Year 11 Revision Resources (Click the links to open)

Guide to Effective Revision: How to make the most of your revision [Guide To Effective Revision]
Revision Timetable Template (2018 dates) [2018 Revision Template + Guide]
Revision Timetable: Advice for getting you started [How To Make a Revision Timetable]
Miss Franklin’s Step by Step Guide to Revision timetabling [Miss Franklin’s Top Tips for Revision Timetables]

Subject Specific Support Materials

Here you can find a collection of exam questions, revision checklists and other support material for different subjects to support your revision.

IFS Exam: GCSE Resources (Full Name: IFS Level 2 Certificate in Financial Education)

Booklets:

Unit 1A Booklet

Unit 1B Booklet

Unit 2a/2b booklet 3

Unit 3 Booklet May 2017

Copy of powerpoint resources for Unit 1, 2, 3:

Unit 1a 2018 2019 Website

Unit 1b October

Unit 2a2b

Unit 3 May 2017

Practice Questions:

Spec Paper – Unit 2 C

Spec Paper – Unit 2 C Answers

Spec Paper – Unit 2 B

Spec Paper – Unit 2 B Answers

Spec Paper – Unit 2 A

Spec Paper – Unit 2 A Answers

Spec Paper – Unit 1 C

Spec Paper – Unit 1 C Answers

Spec Paper – Unit 1 B

Spec Paper – Unit 1 B Answers

Spec Paper – Unit 1 A

Spec Paper – Unit 1 A Answers

Support materials:

English

ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Past/sample papers can be found at :
http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/english/gcse/english-language-8700/assessment-resources

PAPER 1 MODERN FICTION
o Prepare by reading a wide range of modern fiction texts: short stories in particular. Maybe
try: https://mic.com/articles/94552/13-short-stories-from-classic-novelists-you-can-read-overlunch#.wu430qiuQ

o Write creatively. Maybe try exercises such as these:
https://writetodone.com/10-best-creative-writing-exercises/

10 Best Creative Writing Prompts

o Use the Mr Bruff videos:

PAPER 2 WRITERS’ VIEWPOINTS
o Prepare by reading opinion and lifestyle pieces online in broadsheet papers with free web
access: The Independent, Huffington Post, Guardian, Telegraph, Mail. For example:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/commentisfree
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/

o Write opinion pieces. Watch debate shows such as Question Time, or the Youth Parliament
debates on YouTube.

o Use the Mr Bruff videos:

ENGLISH LITERATURE
PAPER 1 SHAKESPEARE and 19th CENTURY NOVEL
 Romeo and Juliet
 Jekyll and Hyde (or A Christmas Carol)
Read, reread and read again.

o Listen along to the audiobook for a different reading experience:
J and H: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3Rh4AlRzuc&t=220s
R and J: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kt8EzPxNeA (once in Act 1, you will find the
links to all acts up to 5)
ACC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE-DitMqjYg

And quick recap vids such as this:

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o Watch adaptations of scenes from R and J such as those in the link below. Attend
performances if they come up.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/484GwDBByzcGTGCy5bvmhLF/romeo-andjuliet

Obviously for those students studying a Christmas Carol, the run up to the mocks provides
plenty of opportunity to watch adaptations!

o Watch Mr Bruff and Francis Gilbert (YouTube)

o Use the revision workbooks- a couple of pages a day will be very useful

PAPER 2 MODERN TEXTS AND POETRY
 An Inspector Calls
 Power and Conflict Poetry
 Unseen Poetry

Again, there is no substitute for re reading the texts! But some other strategies to add are:
o Listen to the poems to help to memorise the poems- some decent readings (at times with
useful commentary also) are:

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