Knowledge Organisers Year 11

• Test them on key quotations from either the poems or the novels they have studied.
• Time them when they are answering exam style questions.
• Watch their Shakespeare play with them, ask them to explain key details.
• Encourage them to read good quality non-fiction texts e.g. newspapers and biographies.

• All students have begun their ten week Externally Set Assignment on the theme ‘Reflections’.
• Students need to work independently outside of lessons in their sketchbooks exploring this theme.
• Please look at their books regularly and get them to speak to you about their ideas.

• A01 Responding to the work of Artists. Students will create artists pages exploring the minimum of three artists. Ask them how the selected artists work links to their chosen theme.
• A02 Experiment with a range of Media. Students need to show refinement in their choices. Ask them what materials they work best in. See if they can improve on their work? Do they need to use a wider tonal range for example? How could they develop their work?
• A03 Develop a journey in their Work. Ask them what their initial theme is and how it could develop as they progress over the ten weeks?
• A04 is the Final Outcome.  The artwork that they will create during the ten hour exam. Please make sure, when the time comes, that your child knows what they are going to be creating and that they have planned for the whole ten hours. The piece needs to relate to their sketchbooks.

Please encourage your son/daughter to attend revision sessions and ask for help if needed.  The ten weeks will fly by.  There are a range of resources that have been created to help them with their projects.

• All students have been loaned an AQA Revision guide.
• Ask them to explain the progress that they have made with their NEA (Coursework). Get them to expand on decisions they have made in order to justify their development so far.
• Test their understanding of key topics related to the exam. Each week the students are introduced to a new element and will need to research further to gain a greater understanding.
• Ask them to tell you about how to answer a question in a GCSE exam; paying attention to the command words, marks awarded and what the question is asking them to do.
• Discuss products we use in our every day lives and form decisions on the materials used, function, environmental considerations and Target Market.
• Use www.technolgystudent.com to research into topics covered in lessons in order to build upon their understanding and be able to make links.

• If practical work has been completed, talk to your son/daughter about the skills they used to make the dish and identify ways that the dish can be improved.
• Using the revision guide encourage them to talk about the topics that they have covered in class.
• Students can use the knowledge organisers to highlight key concepts and ideas within the Food Preparation and Nutrition specification.
• Encourage your child to create a set of revision cards for topics as they are covered in class.

Revision Guides are available to borrow from the Food Technology office.  These guides are to be returned after the completion of the final exam. The revision guide covers all areas of the AQA specification and includes questions that will help students recall and apply knowledge and understanding.

• Use the topic checklists to make sure all areas of the specification have been reviewed.
• Check that your child is making revision materials for each unit – spider diagram, mind map, flash cards, poster, post it notes, lists.
• Encourage your child to read through notes regularly. Using colour pens to highlight and categorise can be useful.
• Ensure your child is doing 30-45 minutes revision at a time, properly concentrating – no phones, laptops, ipads, TV etc.
• Test your child using flash cards.  Explaining things to other people helps them to remember.
• Ask them to tell you about the differences between High Income Countries, Low Income Countries, and Newly Industrialising Countries.
• Get your child to think about causes and consequences, and to make sure they are able to make choices and justify decisions.
• Use the exam board website – Eduqas.  In the Geography GCSE section you will find sample exam papers and mark schemes. http://www.eduqas.co.uk/qualifications/geography/gcse-b/

• Review the revision guides together click here
• Ask to see evidence of their wonderful flashcards they have made using the revision material on Moodle.
• Test their knowledge using the flash cards on each subtopic e.g. Individual Differences, Research Methods, Perception etc.
• Test their knowledge using the flash cards on symptoms and treatments for mental health disorder e.g. ADHD, phobias, schizophrenia, depression.
• Ask them to tell you about the most interesting type of treatment back in history for mental illness e.g. lobotomy or electric shock treatment.
• Time them when they are answering 6 mark exam style questions. Students should aim to write a side of A4 in 6 minutes for 6 mark evaluation questions. One mark per minute.
• Ask them to tell you about the most interesting Psychological study e.g. Diamond and Sigmundson, Zimbardo, Asch, Loftus and Palmer.

• Review the revision guide click here 
• Ask to see evidence of their wonderful flashcards they have made using the revision material on Moodle.
• Test their knowledge using the flash cards on each subtopic e.g. family, education and crime.
• Time them when they are answering 24 mark exam style questions. Students should aim to write at least a side of A4 in 24 minutes for 24 mark evaluation questions. One mark per minute.
• Ask them to tell you about the most interesting sociological concept e.g. subcultures, self fulfilling prophecy, gender socialisation, triple shift, feral children, dark figure of crime.