5/5/13 Issue JAN 2017

YEAR 11 NEWSLETTER ‘PREPARING FOR YOUR FUTURE’

Headteacher’s Address

As we approach the end of what has been an extremely busy half term for both pupils and staff, we would like to thank you for your continued support and informative discussions at Parents’ Consultation Evening. We really value the contribution that you make to your son/daughter’s education and we would like to thank you for this. Whilst the vast majority of parents/carers are fully supportive of the school, we have been having an in-creasing number of discussions with parents about sanctions that have been put in place by their class-room teachers. We have a very rigorous quality assurance system here to check that our staff follow correct procedures and are confident that their use of the school systems is appropriate and justified. Our staff are extremely professional, very focused and dedicated to help your son/daughter achieve and be their very best and any decision by them to sanction pupils is taken with this in mind. Can parents therefore continue to reinforce the need for pupils to remain focused and on task so that they can be fully prepared for the summer GCSE exams. Have a happy and restful half term.

Year 11 Reports

On Wednesday 8th February your son/daughter was issued with their subject reports for Science, MFL, Art, PE, Drama and BTEC Business Studies. If you have not received these, please contact the school office and we can organise copies for you. The next set of subject reports will be issued before the East-er holiday and will include comments and targets from; English, History, Geography, ICT, Music, Maths, DT subjects, Religious Studies and Computer Science. We hope that you will find these useful in the build up to your son/daughter’s GCSE summer exams.

ART AQA Exam Deadline Dates Well done to the vast majority of year 11 pupils for meeting your first deadline for A02 Art GCSE. Keep it up! GCSE Art pupils have been given their exam paper which will represent 40% of their overall grade. The remaining 60% has been completed as coursework. Students have between now and their exam dates (4th and 5th May 2017) to prepare for their chosen question - their final piece will be done over these two days. Students need to ensure they produce work to cover the 4 assessment objectives. All pupils have been given a detailed booklet covering expectations, Artist resources and listed work required. Please help us by supporting them to meet the follow-ing deadlines. AO1 Tue 7th March (4 weeks) Artist research and Artist experiments. AO3 Tue 4th April (4 weeks) Intentions—2 x ideas for final piece AO4 Fri 7th April (day we break up for Easter) A2 final piece outlin - done in own time anytime you are ready (in lessons + lunchtimes) Final Piece—completed in10 hour exam Thurs 4th and Fri 5th May

DESIGN TECHNOLOGY Controlled Assessment Deadlines Electronics and Product Design— by the end of Spring Term (7th April) Catering—3rd March for task 1 and 2

Open Sessions for Support Electronics, Product Design and Catering —Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday lunchtimes Revision booklets have been issued to pupils by their class teacher.

ICT and Computing Please see below key information for ICT and Computing exams Exam Boards - OCR ICT and OCR Computer Science J275 Controlled Assessment ICT - BO64 deadline March. A453 deadline March Controlled Assessment Computer Science—Programming Project A453 (30% overall) and

Practical Investigation A452 (30% overall): Deadline end of Spring Term (7th April) Lunchtime drop in sessions are available upon request in U5/J1 as well as 3:15 on a

Wednesday Current Lesson Content—Programming Project Task 2 Current homework—exam practice and theory questions Good websites/resources for revision - Teach-ICT.com (computing and ICT). BBC.bitesize.

www.tinyurl.com/perrysictb061 (link for B061 resources online) http://teachwithict.weebly.com/binary-lessons.html

School holidays in between

Half term 1 week 18th—26th Feb

Easter 2 weeks 8th—23rd April

MUSIC We are pleased to say that the majority of pupils within the GCSE group increased their listening exam grade by a minimum of two grades since the start of September in their recent mock exam, which is a fantastic achievement, but they are still capable of doing even better. Pupils spent more than the exam controlled assessment time focusing on performance in Year 10 and so therefore we will be focusing predominately on composition, written work and the listening paper during the next term. Pupils are more than welcome to come up to the department to rehearse their performance pieces during lunchtimes and after school as priority will be given to Year 11 GCSE pupils. They are also encouraged to come along and continue with any composition or written work as staff will be more than willing to help and support them to achieve their potential. Year 11 GCSE Music dates - Final Ensemble Performance Friday 10th March 2017 by 1.15pm Composition 2 (10% of GCSE 10 hours Controlled Assessment Wednesday 5th April 2017 by 4.00pm Log and Evaluation (5% of GCSE) Friday 7th April 2017 by 3.30pm Must be handed in as a print out and an electronic copy Creative Task Exam: External Exam worth 20% of GCSE Tuesday 2nd and Wednesday 3rd May 2017

MATHS All pupils will be working on a programme of past papers for revision and this will start with

a paper to do over half term. Please encourage pupils to complete these to the very best of their ability; these are the most crucial element of revision. Following half term, pupils will get at least one past paper per week.

Extra revision for Higher Paper Pupils is taking place on a Thursday lunchtime in J28 11B3 has revision sessions available on Tuesday and Thursday lunchtimes in J14 11B2, 11A2 and 11B1 have revision for higher topics after school on a Friday in J22 After half term some foundation pupils will begin “Maths Futures” revision during PDM time.

This will involve them being mentored by higher paper students. This will be a major bene-fit to both mentor and mentee.

Some higher pupils will also receive support with their past paper revision from A Level stu-dents during PDM time.

Revision guides and workbooks are available from Mr. Brown at a cost of £5 each.

DRAMA GCSE Year: Unit 3 externally assessed exam (40% of final qualification) 1st and 2nd March (all day) GCSE students will also be invited to attend school for three days of February half term to re-hearse for their exam due to how tight the deadlines are. A letter will follow if this affects your son/daughter.

ENGLISH

Exam dates - English Literature Paper 1 (Macbeth and A Christmas Carol): Monday 22nd May A.M. 1hr

45m English Literature paper 2 (An Inspector Calls, Unseen poem, Unseen comparison, Conflict

poetry comparison): Friday 26th May A.M. 2hr 15m English Language paper 1 (fiction extract/ writing to describe/ narrate): Tuesday 6th June

A.M. 1hr 45m English language paper 2 (2 literary non-fiction extracts/ writing to present a viewpoint):

Monday 12th June A.M. 1hr 45m

Paper 1 50% 1 hour 45 mins

What is the question? Marks

Question 1 List 4 things from this part of the source... 4 marks

Question 2 How does the writer use language to... 8 marks

Question 3 How has the writer structured the text to interest you…/ develop the...

8 marks

Question 4 A student/ reviewer said... To what extent do you agree?

20 marks

Question 5 Write a story... Write a description based on this image... Write a narrative about...

24 marks (content and organisation) 16 marks (technical skills)

Paper 2 50% 1 hour 45 mins

What is the question? Marks

Question 1 Choose 4 statements which are true... 4 marks

Question 2 Use details from both sources to write a summary of the differences/ similarities between...

8 marks

Question 3 How does the writer use language to describe... 12 marks

Question 4 Compare how the writers convey... 16 marks

Question 5 Statement Write the text of a speech/ newspaper etc Present your viewpoint/ argue/ persuade

24 marks (content and organisation) 16 marks (technical skills)

ENGLISH

Paper 1 40% 1 hour 45 mins

What is the question? Marks

Question 1

Starting with this extract, how far do you think Shake-speare presents... MACBETH

30 marks 4 marks SPAG

Question 2 Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present... A CHRISTMAS CAROL

30 marks

Paper 2 60% 2 hours 15 mins

What is the question? Marks

Question 1 (1-2)

How does Priestley explore.../ how does Priestley pre-sent... etc AN INSPECTOR CALLS

30 marks 4 marks SPAG

Question 2 (26)

Compare the ways the poets present... POWER AND CONFLICT POEMS

30 marks

Question 3 (27.1)

In this poem, how does the poet present... UNSEEN POETRY

24 marks

Question 4 (27.2)

What are the similarities and/ or differences in the way the poets present... UNSEEN POETRY

8 marks

ENGLISH

MFL Department Updates Year 11 French Higher Revision sessions scheduled to take place every Friday, after school, starting the

first Friday after half-term. Please see JSR for further info. Good websites/resources for revision

www.linguascope.com—username: perryshigh password: oldbury1

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

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

Content for the next two weeks

French: Completion of town CA. Completion of Spring Term reading and listening assessments. Spanish: Completion of vocab tasks. Completion of Spring Term reading and listening assessments. Homework ALL students, as an on-going homework, should be taking the time to revise vocabulary, in order to ensure

thorough preparation for the listening and reading components of the GCSE MFL exam. In addition to this, other homeworks will include:

Revision for spelling / meaning tests; Translation exercises; Reading and written tasks; Revision for written / spoken CAs.

Exam board info. Edexcel GCSE in French (2FR01)

http://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel-gcses/french-2009.html

Edexcel GCSE in Spanish (2SP01) http://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel-gcses/spanish-2009.html

Revision techniques and advice: Revision tip of the fortnight for MFL Please see the cut out and keep below. Information on upcoming assessments Students will be completing a past listening and reading paper as part of their Spring Term assessment. To

be done by February half-term. Revision for this is essential and using the above websites, together with their vocab revision booklet, will help with this.

Controlled assessment info. French: Completion of Town CA. Then commencement of preparation for free time formal spoken CA. Spanish: Preparation for the formal spoken CA on free time on-going.

Whole school

Exam info. Formal MFL spoken CAs scheduled to take place from 3

rd – 5

th April, (inclusive).

Expectations Completion of all classwork and homework to an acceptable standard, in line with target grades expectations

is vital, together with attendance at after school Wednesday revision sessions, (as per students’ timeta-bles), as well as lunchtime revision sessions, in order to ensure success in the MFL GCSE.

Intervention offer Higher Revision sessions for French scheduled to take place every Friday, after school, starting the first Fri-

day, after half-term. Drop-in sessions are available at lunchtimes and is vital if anybody is behind with CAs and, in particular, for

preparation for the final formal spoken assessment scheduled for April. Outstanding linguists of the fortnight

French: Elliott Brown; Lauryn Bowater. Spanish: Jaikiran Dhani; Lillie-Mae Williams.

Most improved linguists of the fortnight French: Emma Chapman; Joe Seddon. Spanish: Jessica Smith; Syman Sahota.

MFL—Revision Tip

Geography Year 11 students are progressing through their penultimate topic of their course (Mr Hancock and Mr Gibson's classes are midway through The Restless Earth, whilst Mr Mullarkey's classes are midway through Tourism). The latest edition of the geography magazine has been distributed to those students who subscribed at the start of the year (February 2017). As ever, this is full of useful and up-to-date geography. All students need to be starting their revision programme and class teachers will be providing further information on, not only what to revise, but also the most efficient forms of revision. A reminder that students can access examination papers (and mark schemes) from previous years by browsing the AQA website http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/geography/gcse/geography-a-9030/past-papers-and-mark-schemes

Religious Studies RS (OCR Religious Studies B: Philosophy and Applied Ethics [J621]) Pupils have just completed end of unit assessments with both teachers and are about to start the final two topic areas: Wealth and Poverty (FFR) Religion and the Media (SAM) Revision sessions for all will continue to run at lunchtime on Wednesdays in J3. Selected pupils will also be invited to attend PDM sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays after half term; this will be indi-cated on a revised timetable issued February 27th. Finally can we remind you that the course outline and past papers etc can be found online at www.ocr.org.uk but paper copies are available from either teacher.

When revising for your spoken or written CA, things NOT to do:

leave it to the last minute / the night before, as:

your brain will over heat!;

you’ll only remember the first bit and will underachieve massive-

ly because you WON’T remember the second half.

panic!

practise at all because you think you’re rubbish, so there’s no point!

not write it or say it out loud at all!

stare at a page of writing for hours, hoping the words will magically

transform themselves to your head / mouth, in order for you to

write / say your assessment successfully!!

HISTORY

Purchase a revision pack from Mrs Parker for only £2! This included 3 revision

guides, Cold War, Germany and Britain and 2 step by step exam guides. They give

you tips and examples for each individual question.

Revision tip of the fortnight!

Create question cards. Write

knowledge questions on the front and the answers on the back. Then ask

friends or family to test you

Content for the next two weeks – In the next two weeks pupils will begin studying the Cold War. Beginning with the origins of the Cold War

Homework- Pupils will

be set a practice exam

question for homework

5 Minute Revision

Look at pictures. What

reasons do they show for

why Hitler became Chan-

cellor? Write a mini para-

graph describing each of

the reasons.

Got more time? Write

full PEEL paragraphs for

each reason

BUSINESS STUDIES AND LAW

Good websites/resources for revision - GCSE Business Studies

Content during lessons—Controlled Assessment research on social enterprises

GCSE Law - additional revision material available, please email Michael.glattback@perrys.org.uk

GCSE Business Studies drop in sessions available on a Tuesday lunchtime in U4

BTEC Unit 2 Exam Wednesday 15th March 08:45

CHILD DEVELOPMENT Revision focus this month is ‘Healthcare professionals’ and ‘Childcare Provision’. All Child Devel-opment pupils have access at home to a textbook and a revision workbook.

PROM

6th July 2017 - Edgbaston Palace Hotel 7.00pm - 11.00pm Tickets on sale from Parents’ Evening £25 (or £10 deposit) from the Parents Association and then in school from Mrs Parker. All pupils are entitled to attend providing they meet the following criteria: Good attendance over 90% Good punctuality, no more than 10 lates Good behaviour Attendance at Wednesday, Period 6 sessions Any pupil who is not yet eligible will be informed and set targets to be achieved if they would like to attend. Targets will be reviewed at Easter. The school reserves the right to withdraw any pupil from the Prom guest list if there are any significant issues before the Prom.

COLLEGE APPLICATIONS Pupils need to ensure that their post-16 applications have been submitted to their chosen institu-tions. If pupils need any assistance with these, please see Miss. Beardmore in the Sixth Form Centre or Mrs. Hinkinson on the senior corridor next to the Pastoral Office. Pupils need to con-sider all of their options and allow themselves several choices for September.

LEAVERS HOODIES

This year we are offering a navy or black hoodie with the school emblem embroidered on the front under which leavers 2017 will be displayed. On the back are the words Leavers 17 with the names of all the year group inside the 17, this basic option will cost £15.00. There is the option to have a name screen printed down the sleeve at an addition cost. The cost of this hoodie is £16.50.