YEAR 11 GCSE PROGRAMME OF SUPPORT

As the Spring Term gets fully underway and your daughter understandably begins to think about the forthcoming summer exams, we would like to share with you the support on offer to her this year. 

Although Sacred Heart students have a fantastic record in GCSE results, each year we remind the girls in Year 11 that this comes from sustained work and a desire to achieve. As your daughter’s teachers, we pledge to do all we can to support her. In turn, we ask her to commit to work with us to maximise her chances.  

Study Club 

Each night of the week (3.30pm to 4.30pm) at least 3 GCSE subject specialist teachers are on hand in the Library’s Study Club to offer help with coursework, classwork or revision. For those students who feel stuck on a particular aspect of a subject, this is a great place to come and ask for a one-to-one explanation. Students who attend often say how a few sessions really help them become ‘unstuck’ in a subject.  

‘Effective revision’ sessions 

Next week all of Year 11 have participated in a 2-hour revision morning in which they have reviewed a number of key study skills including: 

• Creating a revision timetable 

• Cornell note taking 

• Acronyms and mnemonics 

• Mind mapping 

• Q&A flashcards 

• Breathing techniques to combat exam stress 

These are just some of the strategies taken from the Sacred Heart Professional Learner Toolkit, which can be found on the school website: See here 

Online support 

You have access to many online resources that can be used to help you revise including: 

1. SPARX Maths: www.sparxmaths.uk – access personalised homework, independent learning videos and interactive questions.  

2. Quizlet: www.quizlet.com - another popular flashcard making website and app. 

3. MathsWatch: vle.mathswatch.com - access videos, worksheets and online questions. 

4. Seneca Premium: a great website, tailored with exam board specific information and questions. Almost all subjects covered and exam board specific!  

5. Brainscape digital flashcards: www.brainscape.com (your username is your school email address. Default password is SHHS2017) 

6. BBC Bitesize: information and quizzes on all GCSE subjects. 

7. Books: bit.ly/shhsebooks - lots of free ebooks and audiobooks.  

8. ClickView: revision videos made by your teachers. Your login is you school computer username and password. 

9. Cognitoedu.org: GCSE Maths and Science revision videos, quizzes, flashcards and past papers that are tailored to your Exam boards. 

10. Duolingo: website and app for learning languages. · Gojimo: www.gojimo.com - GCSE quizzing app and website. Exam board tailored and track your progress, strengths and weaknesses. 

11. Oak National Academy: online taught lessons covering GCSE: Art, Biology (triple), Chemistry (triple), Combined Science, Computing, English, French, Geography, German, History, Maths, Physics (triple), RE and Spanish. 

12.  Kerboodle: www.kerboodle.com - online textbooks and resources for science and languages (username is first initial and surname, password is the same. Institution code: Be6) 

13. Library catalogue: bit.ly/shhslibrary