Year 13

Autumn 23 - Advice for parents at parents evening. 

As we come to the end of the first term of the Digital Society course, we can reflect on achievements so far.

• The IA is in, so thats 30% (SL) and 20% (HL) of the course completed. 

• There is a wealth of experience of paper 1 long answer questions, both SL and HL. Both groups have progressed such a long way from August 2022. This was identified to me as a weakness of past students of the course, which I hope has been rectified. 

• 3/4 of the content has been covered. 

So where does that leave the rest of the course?

• Mocks in January will consist of Paper 2 (SL & HL) and Paper 3 (HL) only

• There has to be a sustained period of time  for preparation for the Paper 3 case study, both Mock and Actual. 

• Still 25% of the course material to cover. 

We are on track and whilst not complacent, I am not unduly worried. There is work to do and all students are responding.

So, how can I (parent) help?

• The more reading the student does, the wider the resources they have to write about in the questions. Refer back to the curriculum pages here for ideas on reading.

• Talk about Digital Society Stories at the dining table, (or wherever you spend time as a family). The whole point of the course is to be able to recognise the consequence of a development in our digital society upon people and communities. 

• Read essay answers, discuss what was written about, but recognise that I am happy with the progress being made. If you haven't heard from me since last year then everything is going fine.