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Welcome to the Key Stage 4 Micro-Site! A source of information for Tytherington School’s KS4 students and their parents…
Also, don’t forget the other information, revision support and materials that are available for access via FireFly.
Summer Examinations
The Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) has published the Key Dates in the Examination Cycle information for GCSE, GCE and Project qualifications in the Summer 2023 series.
The date of the first exam on the common timetable is Thursday 9th May 2024. The afternoons of Thursday 6th June 2024 and Thursday 13th June 2024, and the full day of Wednesday 26th June 2024 are Contingency sessions in the event of national or significant local disruption to examinations in the United Kingdom. All candidates are expected to make themselves available up to and including the Contingency Day.
Wednesday 19th June 2024 is the date of the final exam on the common timetable for GCSE and Tuesday 21st June 2024 is the date of the final exam on the common timetable for GCE (A-Levels).
It is time to get yourself prepared for you summer examinations at the end of Key Stage 4. “What’s in your hands…?” is a reminder of the power that you have to impact your own future through the efforts that you make now. Consider the message that it gives and what you can do…
Exams Timetable
The national exams timetable has been published and you can download an Excel spreadsheet that you can filter to create a personalised timetable by clicking here.
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Mock Examinations and Assessment Windows
When mock examinations are due to take place, details of them will appear here.
From | To | Formal Assessment |
Monday 6th November 2023 | Friday 17th November 2023 | Year 11 Core Subject Assessments (English, Maths & Science) |
Monday 15th January 2024 | Friday 26th January 2024 | Year 11 Mock Examinations Timetable |
Monday 17th June 2024 | Friday 5th July 2024 | Year 10 Mock Examinations Timetable |
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Professionally Predicted Grades
PPGs are a prediction of how well a student is expected to do when considering their controlled assessments, ongoing assessment and effort and attitude:
Other subjects, especially the core subjects of English & Mathematics, will be running “Walking-Talking Mocks” and other mock examination style sessions in order to support our students in their readiness for the real thing.
Getting Started with Revision in 2024
To help our Year 11 students get started with their revision, Mrs Pearson has produced this “Getting Started with Revision” video that takes you through steps to take to get yourself organised with your revision in the February 2024 half-term holiday, and a few revision strategies that may work for you – This can be viewed on this page plus on FireFly (click here to be taken to the FireFly resource page).
Mentioned in the video are the following resources that you can download here:
- GCSE Guide to Study, Exams & Revision
- Weekly Schedule Template
- Chunked and Spaced Revision Timetable Sheet
You can also download the slide deck from the video here:
“Getting Started with Revision” Evening on Tuesday 27th February 2024
This will be combined with a “Getting Started with Revision” in-person evening event on Tuesday 27th February 2024 in our Main Hall:
- 17:30-18:30 for students in 11BG, 11CW, 11DB, 11HM & 11CS
- 18:30-19:30 for students in 11LJ, 11PP, 11KS, 11RS, Bridges & KS4 Hub
At the evening event, all students will be given a personalised revision booklet that will help them organise and plan out their independent revision schedule, plus make use of the “Revision & Support Sessions” below and those that are being arranged for Easter and May School (please see below).
Students are free to come on their own to the evening, or can be joined by one parent/carer if they wish as well. Coming together will help with an understanding in the household of the planning, organisation and carrying out of revision.
You can download a copy of Mrs Pearson’s Revision Planner by clicking here.
Revision & Support Sessions
As the year progresses details of revision and CA or other coursework support sessions will appear here.
The following table shows the targeted revision and controlled assessment improvement sessions that are running at present for Year 10 students in the final weeks of the academic year and in preparation for their mock exams:
Subject | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Other/Notes |
English | After School, 15:10-15:40 for Year 11
Jubilee Block |
– | – | See Download | – | English Literature Revision Programme – Click to Download |
Mathematics | – | – | After School, 15:10-16:00
Year 11 in M2 Year 10 in M4 |
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Biology | – | After School, 15:10-16:00 in S1 | – | – | – | – |
Chemistry | – | – | – | After School, 15:10-16:00 in S6 | – | – |
Physics | – | – | After School, 15:10-16:00 in S10 | – | – | – |
Art & Textiles | Lunch Time in the Art Dept. | Lunch Time in the Art Dept. | – | Lunch Time in the Art Dept. | – | – |
Business Studies | – | – | After School, 15:10-16:00 in SF3 | – | – | – |
Classics | – | Week 2 After School, 15:10-16:00 in J2 | – | – | Week 1 After School, 15:10-16:00 in J2 | – |
Drama | – | – | After School, 15:10-16:00 in PA4 | Lunch Time, 13:25-14:00 in PA4
After School, 15:10-16:00 in PA4 |
Lunch Time, 13:25-14:00 in PA4 | – |
Physical Education | – | Before School, 08:15-08:45 in MLB
After School, 15:10-16:00 in MLB |
– | – | – | Click Here to Download Session Programme |
Psychology | – | After School, 15:10-16:00 in L6 | – | – | – | – |
Please see FireFly for the GCSE Essentials resources page, plus a wealth of general and subject specific revision materials to support your independent study.
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Easter and May Revision Schools
As the year progresses details of any Holiday Revision School sessions will appear here.
Easter School 2024
We are very pleased to provide the following programme of revision and support sessions for Year 11 (GCSE) and Year 13 (A-Level) students within our ‘Easter School’ for 2024:
Date | Session Details (Including Time and if the session will be In School or Online) |
Thurs 28th March 2024 | History GCSE (13:00-15:00, In School) – Four 30-minute revision sessions in a carousel, focusing on questions from the Germany & Conflict Unit.
With The History Department, starting in H3 |
Week 1 – w/b Monday 1st April 2024 |
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Tues 2nd April 2024 | Religious Studies GCSE (09:30-12:00, In School) – For members of 11A/Rs1 for Buddhism Unit.
With Mrs Wearne in H6 |
Geography GCSE (09:30-13:00, In School) – Paper 3 preparation, with exam technique workshops for 6- and 9-mark questions.
With Mr Cooke, Mrs Mellor, Miss Harris & Mrs Beardsell in the G Block |
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Thurs 4th April 2024 | Psychology GCSE (10:00 – 12:00, Online) – Research methods, novel research scenarios, essay writing (9 and 12 marks)
With Miss Brereton – Link will be sent out via email |
Week 2 – w/b Monday 8th April 2024 |
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Mon 8th April 2024 | History GCSE (09:00- 13:00, In School)- Paper 1 Exam Preparation. Part 1- Germany, 1890-1945: Democracy and Dictatorship (interpretations questions and the 12-mark question). Part 2- Conflict and Tension: The Interwar Years, 1918-1939 (source questions and the 16-mark essay question)
With Miss Wallett in H3 and Dr Pugh in H5 |
Tues 9th April 2024 | French A-Level (10:00-13:00, In School) – “Le régime de Vichy et la Résistance”
With Ms Gannon in L1 |
Weds 10th April 2024 | Music GCSE & A-Level MT (09:30-12:00, In School) – Composition finalising and Candidate Record Forms.
With Mr Lilley & Mr Beecher in PA2 |
Music GCSE & A-Level MT (12:30-3:00, In School) – Walking Talking Mock – Taking you through the answering of an exam paper.
With Mr Lilley & Mr Beecher in PA2 and MTR |
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Thurs 11th April 2024 | Religious Studies GCSE (09:30-12:00, In School) – For members of 11A/Rs1 for Buddhism Unit.
With Mrs Wearne in H6 |
Fri 12th April 2024 | Spanish GCSE (09:30-12:00, In School) – Speaking exam revision and practice.
With Mrs Keeping in H6 |
May School 2024
We are very pleased to provide the following revision and support session for Year 11 (GCSE) students within our ‘May School’ for 2024:
Date | Session Details
(Including Time and if the session will be In School or Online) |
Friday 31st May 2024 | History GCSE (09:30-12:30, In School)- Paper 2 Preparation (Britain: Health and the People, and Norman England) with Miss Wallett and Dr Pugh in the Main Hall
We will be focusing specifically on the 16-mark factors essay for Britain: Health and the People, and Wales after the Norman Conquest for Norman England. Please use the entrance indicated by the arrow on the map below as there will be contractors on site in other areas of the school. Only the Main Hall and Refectory area (including toilets) will be accessible on the day. |
Please also see FireFly for the details of our Online Booster Sessions that are presented via Microsoft Teams.
Please see FireFly for the GCSE Essentials resources page, plus a wealth of general and subject specific revision materials to support your independent study.
Aiding Revision & Preparing Yourself
Please follow @TythyDHTMrP on Twitter for updates to this and the other KS4 Micro-Site pages.
The table below gives you some sources of great general information and resources to help you prepare and do the best that you can when your exams come around:
Web Link | Description of Resource |
Parent & Student Revision Guide | Our own revision guide offers information and ideas on revision, study and how parents can support their children. |
Chunked & Spaced Revision | Combining principles to plan revision and succeed – An article to help you understand the principles with an example and blank, printable, template of a weekly ‘Chunked & Spaced’ Revision Timetable. |
Long-Term Revision Plan | This sheet can be printed on to A3 paper and offers a framework for planning revision over a long period of time, using the principles of ‘Chunked & Spaced’ revision. |
SENECA Learning | A highly recommended revision site that was mentioned in the Ninth Edition of ‘The Journey’. |
ExamTime | ExamTime is your place for Revision Tips/Sample Resources/Study Tools and much much more |
Get Revising | Everything you need to find, create, and share study resources |
BBC Bitesize | A home of both study guides and class clips |
S-cool | GCSE revision site with guides and question banks |
Guide to Revision from OCR | A guide to revision from OCR. |
Skills Guides from OCR | We’ve produced a set of skills guides that aren’t subject specific, but each cover a topic that could be relevant to a range of qualifications – for example ‘communication’, ‘legislation’ and ‘research’. (OCR) |
Surviving Exams | NHS tips on surviving exams and coping with exam anxiety |
(Large Download) |
A collection of 20 recipes designed especially by chef Mark Lloyd, all including ingredients that will enable students to feel fuller for longer and perform well. |
The ultimate key to success in your exams is to do the best that you can in your coursework and begin revising early so that you feel prepared and ready.
From Your NHS Youth Ambassador for Cheshire East
The NHS Youth Ambassador for Cheshire East, in partnership with Leighton Hospital and the Cheshire East public health team, has undertaken a project to create a leaflet informing Year 11 students about the importance of their physical health around the GCSE exam season, focusing especially on nutrition.
Having completed her GCSE’s last year she became aware of conflicting advice from both her own school and her fellow students about how to best prepare her mind and body for the challenges of the intense revision period. She feels that the health choices she made contributed to her academic success and enabled me to achieve 3 grade 9’s and 8 A* at GCSE.
Her leaflet can be downloaded here.
VISYON ‘Space to Talk’
Visyon is a charity that supports the emotional health of children, young people and their families in the Cheshire and Staffordshire moorlands areas – see https://www.visyon.org.uk/
They run open access ‘Space to Talk’ sessions for Year 11 students that are feeling anxious about their GCSEs after-school on a Wednesday afternoon at the Waters Green Medical Centre.
Students aged 15+ can book 30 minute slots to talk to a Counsellor – call 01260 290000 to book.
Parental Support for Students
Parent & Student Revision Guide | Our own revision guide offers information and ideas on revision, study and how parents can support their children. |
From Your NHS Youth Ambassador for Cheshire East
The NHS Youth Ambassador for Cheshire East, in partnership with Leighton Hospital and the Cheshire East public health team, has undertaken a project to create a leaflet informing Year 11 students about the importance of their physical health around the GCSE exam season, focusing especially on nutrition.
Having completed her GCSE’s last year she became aware of conflicting advice from both her own school and her fellow students about how to best prepare her mind and body for the challenges of the intense revision period. She feels that the health choices she made contributed to her academic success and enabled me to achieve 3 grade 9’s and 8 A* at GCSE.
Her leaflet can be downloaded here.
From Partners in Excellence (PiXL)
Partners in Excellence (PiXL) have been looking into support that Parents can provide to their children in the build up to and during examinations. The following documents provide information, including practical tips for supporting students and recipes to provide the “Power to Perform”:
Resource | Description of Resource |
Prepare to Perform | A guide for parents providing 10 tips for supporting children through their exams. |
(Large Download) |
A collection of 20 recipes designed especially by chef Mark Lloyd, all including ingredients that will enable students to feel fuller for longer and perform well. |