Year 11 Information
Welcome to the Year 11 Information page! This page will be essential to help support you during your journey through Year 11. It is important that you maintain high expectations throughout the year so that you can achieve to the best of your ability.
Always remember our expectations:
- Constant engagement in lessons
- High standard of attendance and punctuality
- Homework +
- Frequent and deliberate revision
- Make the most of every lesson and every intervention
Information, Support, Guidance & Revision Lists
Our Y11 GCSE-Revision List guide is now available. Containing information, support, guidance & revision lists booklet is available from the bottom of this page, HERE and from the QR code.
Year 11 mock exam timetables and revision
Download the mock exam timetable and revision timetable using the links below.
Revision timetable template - download and make your own revision timetable
Year 11 GCSE English Revision presentation
Click HERE to see a list of Year 11 exam boards and specifications.
For information to candidates from JCQ, the examining body, please see the documents downloadable from the bottom of our Teaching and Learning page.
Year 11 Contact Information
Assistant Principal: Miss C. Mills
Assistant Principal: Mr R. Lawrence
Pastoral Co-ordinator: Ms N. McFarlane
General revision resources
You might find the following documents useful when planning for your exams.
- Beating exam stress - published by Childline
- Click HERE to see a list of useful revision websites.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the examinations, please contact our Exams Officer Ms Evangelou
Revision Expectations - English Language
Students should interact with Federation’s revision resources found here:
Complete activities to aid in reading and comprehension to support their understanding of Big Ideas
Students to apply self-abridgement to text.
Complete practice questions using models and support stems provided under timed conditions.
- Q1- 2 mins
- Q2- 10 mins
- Q3- 12 minutes
- Q4- 20 minutes
- Q5: 40 minutes
Create a mind map of revision tools for each question of the language paper.
Revision Expectations - English Literature
Interact with learning hub and audio pi podcasts :
Days 1 and 2 - Jekyll and Hyde – Listen to key scenes and make notes using mindmaps, graphic organisers/ revision cards on:
- Context,
- Structure,
- Form,
- Key themes
- Characters
- Key quotations Part 1 and Part Two
Days 3 and 4:
- Macbeth and An Inspector Calls
- Context,
- Structure,
- Form,
- Key themes
- Characters
Revision Expectations - Physics
Use the topic list and checklist provided to chunk your revision. Break up large specification points into smaller topics. Then break up the smaller topics into individual concepts that are easier to digest.
- Create flash cards for each topic with questions at the front and answers on the back.
- Create a glossary for all no excuse vocabulary you’ve used in lessons.
- Create mind maps/ concepts maps to help you link concepts with one another and give a clear overview of a topic.
- Use the ‘read-cover-recite-check’ technique:
- Read over a key topic from your notes or student textbook
- Cover what you have read
- Recite from memory what you have just learnt. In some cases, you might need to write down or draw the information depending on what you’re learning.
- Check your notes or notebook to see what you’ve missed out. Then fill in those missed gaps.
- Once you have completed the steps, repeat until you are 100% confident you’ve now learnt that topic. All you need is a piece of paper and pen for this technique, but you can also use flashcards and mind maps.
- Most importantly, practice as many past paper and exam questions as possible. Make sure you are self-assessing your answers against a mark scheme.
- Practice answering a range of questions with different command words, for example Compare, Evaluate, Explain and Describe.
- Practice recalling, rearranging and using all the physics equations.
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Revision Expectations - History
- Seneca-compulsory revision to be completed every week by all students, which takes 1 hour.
- Seneca: Students must also complete independent revision on Seneca for 2 hours per week.
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Revision Expectations - Geography
You should be completing regular revision every day (around 15-20 minutes) using the OCR B CGP revision guide, your books from Y10 and Y11. Revision can include mind maps, flash cards, completing past paper questions, use the mark schemes that are provided online to self-assess your work, read through candidate model answer reports to see what would be the standard that examiners are looking for.
Revision Expectations - Mandarin / French / Spanish
You should be completing regular revision every day (around 15-20 minutes) using the websites above. Revision can include vocabulary self-testing, completing past paper questions, completing questions from your speaking preparation booklet or completing questions from the purple AQA GCSE revision workbook.
