Year 11 Support

Exam intervention sessions are designed to offer targeted support to students in order to maximize their potential and ensure they are well-prepared for their upcoming examinations. These sessions are tailored to address specific areas of challenge and provide additional practice and guidance.

Benefits of Exam Intervention

• Personalized Support: Our intervention sessions are structured to address individual learning needs, providing focused attention to each student.
• Enhanced Understanding: Students have the opportunity to deepen their understanding of key concepts and improve their grasp on challenging topics. 
• Boosted Confidence: Through guided practice and expert guidance, students gain confidence in their abilities, which can positively impact their performance in exams.
• Improved Results: Research has shown that students who actively participate in intervention sessions tend to achieve higher grades in their final examinations.

After school sessions typically take place between 3:05pm and 4:15pm. 

Students are invited and can check which sessions they are invited to via the SIC. Parents you should have been emailed a timetable for your child's sessions at the start of the year. These are then updated in January following our Novmeber Mock exams. 

Additional sessions are also run in the school holidays which students are again invited to. Timetables are shared with students and parents prior to the holidays

Intervention Timetable 2024-2025

Revision is a crucial part to your child succeeding and reaching their potential in their GCSEs, and we talk about revision being a bit like "training" for a marathon, in that it:

- It needs to be done little and often 

- Can't simply be done the night before, but needs to be built up over time. 

To support that we recommend that students should be revising for 1 hour and 30 minutes each day after school, revising the 3 subjects they have had that day for 30 minutes each. 

We advise students to complete a revision timetable using the template below. 

Revision Timetable

Revision Template Example 

During the holidays our advise is that students should either:

a) Again revise for at least 90 minutes per day (either 3 x subjects for 30 minutes each) 

b) Revise for 90 minutes per day but by doing 1 past paper a day 

c) Follow their normal school timetable, revising when they would have had lessons between 9am and 3pm, stopping for break and lunch as per the school day, and then having free time from 3pm onwards.  

Half Term / Holiday Revision Timetable

To help our students revise they can access via their chromebooks:

Our school based website page full of revision strategies 

Our school designed revision websites for each subject

To help you as parents understand different ways that your child can be revising please see the link below which includes 3 Youtube tutorials and summaries on some of the best revision techniques. 

Revision Strategies for Parents

For each of our Mock exams we publish a timetable which includes the revision lists for each exam, and some top tips from each subject about how to "Step to Success". Please see the Mock Exam section. 

We passionately believe in recognise and celebrating the achievements of our students, whether that is academic success, effort, displaying a positive attitude or simply doing the right things each and every day, and we love to reward our students in a range of ways.

- Unsung Heros (nominations from staff shared in assembly each week with winners randomly selected) 

- Prizes and reward lunches after mock exams

- Our reward card, which students can earn discounts off of Prom, their Leavers Book or Hoody. 

Year 11 Reward Card

To help prepare our students for the real GCSEs we run 2 Mock Exam periods during Year 11:

- November Mock Exams Monday 11th - Friday 22nd November

- March Mock Exams Monday 3rd March - Friday 14th March 

Please see the timetables below for the mock exams which includes revision lists and "Stepping to Success" guides for each subject with top tips on how to revise

November Mock Exam Timetable

The GCSE Exam window this year is:

Thursday 8th - Wednesday 25th June

A timetable of exams will come out closer to the time along with key guidance, rules and expectations.