Upcoming C26 GCSE Spanish speaking exams

21st March 2024Natalie Barton

C26 (Y11) students will have their Spanish speaking exams on Tuesday 23rd and Wednesday 24th April, which are worth 25% of their overall GCSE grade in Spanish. Our Y11 students have been working hard to prepare for these – the next few weeks will be crucial for continuing this preparation and revision.

To prepare, students should be practising past paper role plays and photo cards, and they should also be practising their General Conversation questions. To support them at home, friends and family could test them on these questions, and also reassure them about any anxieties they have about the exam.

We wish our Y11s the best of luck in these exams – ¡Buena suerte!

X24 History, getting started with revision!

By B Batty17th September 2021

Students this week have been given their own copy of the revision guide for our History exam board OCR B SHP History. All students should have named their copy so that if they are misplaced they can be returned. Students are encouraged to annotate and highlight the guide as they carry out their revision.

The revision guide has a number of different topics, however, students will need to focus on the following sections for revision:

  • The Elizabethans 
  • The People’s Heath 
  • Living under Nazi Rule 

The locations of these topics can be found in the contents page. We would recommend in general students start by revising The People’s Health as well as focusing on page 88 in order to prepare for the upcoming assessment in lessons. 

If any student has been absent when these revision guides were handed out, they can see myself or Mrs Hannam directly and we will make sure they get their copy.

 

A further revision guide focusing on the Viking Expansion will be issued to students in the coming weeks.

 

 

X23’s tonal self portraits looking amazing!

By Miss Jones2nd December 2019

Y10 have been working extremely hard to get their tonal self portraits finished for their ‘Christmas Style Lecture’ that is due to take place next week.

Pupils have looked at portraits through history in order to help them with their own self portraits.

Pupils have been asked to plan a background for their portraits to show aspects of their character and what makes them who they are. They have all been asked to create a rough plan in their sketchbook. Here are some examples:

Pupils now need to complete their background and mount their tonal self portraits onto them.

Here is one in progress:

Im looking forward to seeing this piece of work completed and displayed next week! Well done X23! Keep up the fantastic work!

Crew Nightingale reflect on their HOWLs

By B Batty6th June 2019

At the end of last term in Crew we spent some time reflecting and unpicking what our HOWLs should look like. Following our return from the two week break each Crew member has set new pledges to ensure they are Getting Smart, Being Kind and Working Hard. We will use these new pledges to frame and focus our final term in Year 10

X22 Application and Practice

By B Batty17th May 2019

As we are now coming to the end of our expedition ‘Are we really free to choose?‘ students have once again being applying their knowledge and practising answering exam questions. It’s been really pleasing to see so many students Working Hard and Getting Smart when attempting source and interpretation questions. Students have really risen to the challenge with these tricky questions! Here are just a few examples of their hard work from this week.

X22 ES Plan

By Mr R Campbell5th April 2019

Hi,

Here is the plan for X22 Extended Study. Please can parents support students by ensuring it is completed on time.

 

Date set Date due Higher Topic Support on website Foundation Topic Support on website Done?
1/4/19 8/4/19 DNA p63

Genetic Diagrams p67-68

 Biology unit 7 DNA p53

Genetic Diagrams p57

 Biology unit 7
8/4/19 15/4/19 X and Y Chromosomes p 68

Inherited disorders p69

 Biology unit 7 X and Y Chromosomes p 56

Inherited disorders p58

Family tree p59

 Biology unit 7
15/4/19 24/4/19 Resistance and V=IR p187

Resistance and I-V characteristics p188-189

 Physics: unit 2 Resistance and V=IR p162

I-V characteristics p164

 Physics: unit 2
24/4/19 29/4/19 Series Circuits p191

Parallel circuits p192

 Physics: unit 2 Series Circuits p166

Parallel circuits p167

 Physics: unit 2
29/4/19 7/5/19 EM waves p238

More uses of EM waves p239

 Physics: unit 6 EM waves p201

Uses of EM waves p202

More uses of EM waves p203

 Physics: unit 6

Best wishes

Mr Campbell

Reminder: X22 Celebration of Learning 6th and 7th February 2019

By B Batty14th January 2019

The Celebration of Learning for X22 students will be on the 6th and 7th February. Students will be presenting their art work and discussing how they have chosen to represent last term’s guiding question: Who were the Vikings? The evening will begin at 5.30pm with a short introduction by our students followed by an opportunity for parents to view all students’ artwork and speak to students about the process and thinking behind their work.

Skipper students will present their work on Wednesday 6th February and Admiral students on Thursday 7th February.

We look forward to seeing you.