In this section, you will find differentiated, subject specific revision strategies and information.

Maths (edexcel)

There are two tiers of entry for maths: Higher and Foundation. Both have 3 written papers, each 90 minutes long. Students should be revising for their GCSE maths exam for a minimum of 30 minutes EVERY day until the exams are over.

Hegarty maths: students have individual logins to access a range of resources. Hegarty maths includes videos explaining every maths topic with questions.

Science (aqa)

There are two tiers of entry for science: Higher and Foundation. The combined science (Trilogy) exam papers are 75 minutes long and the triple science exam papers are 115 minutes long. Students will sit 2 papers for each discipline, so 6 papers in total.

Pupils should be completing 15 minutes a day on their “Seneca” account. This can be completed anywhere anytime and will really boost their retention of knowledge and ability to answer questions.

Revision guides have been purchased and should be being used in conjunction with past papers , provided by class teachers, twice a week.

Revision materials from Pixl on the school website along with other summary resources.

Question and answer cards are available from the science department in addition to summary revision booklets.

Useful links to support you and your son/daughter:

https://www.senecalearning.com/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/aqa/

http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/science/gcse/combined-science-trilogy-8464

http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/science/gcse/biology-8461

http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/science/gcse/chemistry-8462

http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/science/gcse/physics-8463

French and spanish

Little and often is the key to success for language learning! 10-15 minutes vocabulary revision every day using one of the websites below is an excellent way to support your exam preparation and revision for French and Spanish.

Revision Guides and Workbooks

Students have copies of the following books to support their revision and exam preparation:

Purple Revise AQA GCSE French/Spanish Revision Guide

Purple Revise AQA GCSE French/Spanish Workbook

For recordings, follow the link in the front of the books.

Revision Websites (for both languages)

www.languagesonline.org.uk

www.language-gym.com

www.quizlet.com – key vocabulary revision for listening and reading exams. App also available.

www.duolingo.com – App also available.

www.memrise.com – App also available.

geography

You will need to revise all of the topics we have covered during Year 10 and 11.

Revision Guides

Your teacher will be giving you knowledge organisers and revision aides but the following revision guides and recommended:

Oxford University Press GCSE 9-1 Geography AQA Exam Practice ISBN 978 0 19 842348 5

Oxford University Press GCSE 9-1 Geography AQA Revision Guide ISBN 978 0 19 842346 1

CGP GCSE AQA Geography The Revision Guide ISBN 978 1 78294 610 6

CGP GCSE AQA Geography Complete Revision and Practice ISBN 978 1 78294 613 7

Hodder Education AQA GCSE Geography Workbook ISBN 978 1 51045 336 4

Collins Geography AQA GCSE Revision (All in one Revision and Practice) ISBN 978 0 00 816626 7

Revision Websites

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/zkw76sg

http://www.coolgeography.co.uk/

http://www.internetgeography.net/

http://www.s-cool.co.uk/gcse/geography

history

All topics covered in Year 10 and 11 will need to be revised.

You can find a range of revision resources on the school website here. This includes useful websites and podcasts of the topics you need to review.

You also have Paper 1 and Paper 2 revision booklets from school to support you revision.

design and technology (aqa)

Students should use past exam papers and questions as a start point for their revision.

The mark schemes from the exam board can be used to help you identify the areas you need to spend time revising.

Use the revision guides and websites to help you.

Useful websites

https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/design-and-technology

http://www.technologystudent.com/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/design/

http://www.design-technology.info/home.htm

http://wiki.dtonline.org/index.php/Main_Page

http://www.jamesdysonfoundation.co.uk/students/secondary/

http://www.mr-dt.com/designing/pdcourseworkdocs.htm

https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wmg/about/outreach/3d_design_printing/cad_tutorials/

Revision Guides

CGP GCSE AQA Design and Technology - The Revision Guide - ISBN 978 1 78294 752 3

CGP GCSE AQA Design and Technology - The Revision Guide - ISBN 978 1 78294 753 0

PG Online AQA Design and Technology - ISBN 978 1 910523-10-0

PG Online website: www.pgonline.co.uk

GCSE PE (AQA)

All GCSE topics can be found on the Rye Hills Academy web site here.

The following website is also useful to support your revision: https://www.bbc.com/education/examspecs/zxbg39q

Sports Science (OCR)

The focus of the exam is Reducing the Risk of Injury which is worth 25% of the final exam. The rest of the grade comes from three controlled assessment tasks which are completed in lessons.

All Sports Science topics and a selection of past papers can be found on the Rye Hills Academy website here.

Business and enterprise (ncfe)

Students will complete a synoptic project and an exam. All topics and lesson notes can be found on the Rye Hills Academy website here.

The study materials and activities will help pupils to prepare for the exam.

music (aqa)

1. Your Google Classroom includes resources, quizzes and live-recordings of lessons. You can also communicate with your teacher using the comment feature and submit videos or audio files of your performances and compositions to get feedback. Use this resource and use it to ask questions as all comments are only seen by yourself and the teacher.

2. Use the AQA website to check the specification and find past papers and mark schemes. Access this here.

3. Use all past papers from lessons and revise areas you found challenging.

4. Use mark schemes issued in lessons to gain guidance about the style of answers and information AQA are looking for.

5. Regularly review all key word sheets and knowledge organisers from lessons.

6. Resources to support preparation and revision are available on the school website here. Don't forget to review Year 10 work too!

7. Visit BBC Bitesize for GCSE (but be aware this is not just for AQA and will contain information you don't need so check the specification). You can access this here.

8. Transfer your knowledge into mind maps, flash cards and other ways to vary your style of learning.

media

Media Studies revision will be determined by the quality of the notes that you have created over the two years of the course! You can send these home or print out selected files. Specifically..... Look at REPRESENTATION, AUDIENCE, CONVERGENCE and OWNERSHIP, INDUSTRIES AND CONTROL.

Ensure that you learn the terminology associated with Representation (Technical, Symbolic and Narrative). Consider audience theories from Blumler and Katz's Uses and Gratifications Theory, Psychographic segmentation, Gramsci's Hegemony, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Galtung and Ruge.

Ensure you understand the complexities of convergence of media platforms, contexts, media industries, ownership and control.

Topics cover the two print adverts (This Girl Can and Quality Street), the James Bond posters (Spectre and Man with the Golden Gun) , the two magazine covers (GQ and Pride), the two newspaper pages from The Guardian and The Sun, situation comedy (The IT Crowd and Friends), Pokémon Go, The BBC, The Archers and the pop music videos,

Useful revision can be found by looking on the EDUQAS site. It is full of resources, annotated texts and questions. You can access this here.