Year 11 Study Skills

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Year 11 Study Skills

• 2nd March 2010

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Planning your revisionM Sprake - Director of
Learning KS4

• If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd
  spend the first hour sharpening the axe.
• Abraham Lincoln

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Preparation for Success

• Audit what do you already have/ need.
• Know what you have to cover
• Decide what you need to help you revise ask
  subject teachers
• Plan your revision timetable

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Timetable overview
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Planning revision all subjects
Date
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4
Saturday 5th April
Maths
Science
English
French
Area
Number
Anthology
Oral
Human Body
Mind Mapping
Method
Cards
Notes
Cards
To understand
To list the
To look for
To prepare
Aim-
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Timetable subject specific
Subject
Area
Topic
Resources
Priority
Maths
Numbers
Equations

• Class Notes
• Past Paper
• Class Notes
• (some missing)
• Past Paper

Low
Graphs
Pie Charts
High
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Successful Revision Session 7 steps

• Environment
• Stay focused, stick to the important points.
• Range of revision techniques - think about how
  you learn best (coming later)
• Tick off topics when you have revised them
• 30 minute sessions
• Relax
• Recognise achievement

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English Revision

• Mr S. Patience Advanced Skills Teacher, English

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Planning Key Dates

• English Literature
• Tuesday 25th May (70)
• English
• Paper 1 Tuesday 8th June (30)
• Paper 2 Thursday 10th June (30)

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Paper 1 Section A

• Content
• Audience
• Type
• Purpose

How do the presentation and language of this text
help it to target its audience and achieve its
purpose?
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Paper 2 Section A

• Poems from Different Cultures
• Know the story of the poem
• Understand the feelings and larger themes
  explored
• Explain how language is used to create effects
  and express feelings
• Explain how techniques work together
• Compare to another poem similarities,
  differences in feelings, techniques used

P E E 2
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Section B (both papers)

• Writing to argue, persuade or advise
• Writing to inform, explain or describe

Generating ideas Structuring ideas
clearly Expressing ideas accurately Expressing
ideas powerfully
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English Literature

• Literature poems
• Same as for Poems from Different Cultures only
  they need to compare four poems.
• Of Mice and Men
• Read the novel
• Be able to find quotations about different
  characters, themes practice skimming to find
  them
• Write practice essay plans

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Revision Resources

• Notes from lessons
• Notes on Fronter
• Revision guides
• AQA website
• BBC Skillswise
• Read, read, read, THINK, read, read, read

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Science Revision

• Mrs L Hirst Director of Science

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Useful Websites

• www.aqa.org.uk
• www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/
• en.wikipedia.org

Useful Websites

• These are available to purchase from Mrs Gotts.

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Maths Revision

• Mr J Harness - Director of Mathematics
• It is good to have an end to journey toward
  but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
• Ursula Le Guin

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Resources

• Personalised Revision Plan
• Own books
• Revision after school Tuesday 16th March
• Mathswatch CD Rom
• Internet
• www.mymaths.co.uk
• www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/maths
• www.edexcel.com/quals/gcse/gcse-leg/maths/1380/Pa
  ges/default.aspx
• www.gcsemathspastpapers.com/gcse-maths-past-paper
  s-questions.htm

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Read it Think it Do it!

• Cover up the answer and method
• Try the question
• Check the answer
• Do it again if not sure
• Bring in the question and ask any maths teacher

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Learning How to Revise

• VAK
• VISUAL / AUDITORY / KINAESTHETIC

Mr R Li-Rocchi Assistant Headteacher Support and
Guidance
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What are visual learners like?

• Visual Learners
• Like to use pictures and diagrams to learn.
• Understand remember best when they see
  information.
• Enjoy using colour coding to help them remember.

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What are auditory learners like?

• Auditory Learners
• Like to hear information.
• Enjoy doing presentations and discussions.
• Find long periods of silence difficult to learn
  in.

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What are kinaesthetic learners like?

• Kinaesthetic Learners
• Prefer to be doing things to help their learning.
• Can like taking notes or doodling as they
  listen.
• Like making things and doing work using ICT.

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Learning Styles
What type of learner are you?
Try a learning styles test www.berghuis.co.nz/ab
iator/lsi/lsiframe.html (click on test 2 link)
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Using Your Test Profile
Dominance use visual revision techniques
Use variety of revision techniques
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• The Visual Learner
• If you are a visual learner, try these
  techniques
• Write key facts on different colour cards (eg
  grouped in to topics) you can then lay them out
  in front of yourself.
• Aim to visualise what you are learning sit back
  and try to see a picture of the ideas or
  information.
• Write down important facts on Post-it notes and
  stick them in key places! E.g. Mirror, TV etc.
• Use mind maps, pictures, cartoon story boards,
  photos, diagrams to summarise information.
• Use illustrated books from the library.
• Search the internet for interactive learning
  sites.

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• Auditory Learner.
• If you are an auditory learner, try these
  techniques
• Summarise the subject in your own words, talking
  through them as you do so.
• Read notes out loud as you go through them
  rehearse delivering your notes as a speech on
  stage.
• Make mp3 files or cds of the information and play
  them back to yourself.
• Explain the subject to other people.
• Put the information to a famous tune and sing it
  back yourself.

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Kinaesthetic Learners

• If you are a kinaesthetic learner, try these
  techniques
• Move around as you learn. This could be something
  simple like pacing up and down in your room.
• Retype the information on a computer into a
  colour, font and print size that you like.
• Write down the facts on to key facts cards. You
  can shuffle them like a pack of cards and keep
  reading them.
• When you are working at home give yourself
  kinaesthetic breaks, e.g. jogging, cooking.
• Create big bold mind maps that allow you to
  express the information freely.

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The Rounded Learner

• It may help to choose techniques for revision
  according to your learning style.
• The long term goal should be to develop the
  style(s) you are not so strong at.
• You will then become a rounded learner.

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Role of the Parent/ Carer in revision

• Ms N Furneaux - Headteacher