Year 12 and Year 13 Independent and Out-of-lesson Study Guidance
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Year 12 and
Year 13
Independent and
Out-of-lesson Study
Guidance
Fine Art How Sixth ✓ Check Show My Homework. Form students ✓ Visit galleries, museums, specific exhibitions and places of can work interest. independently ✓ Gather visual material - take photos and draw. Essential ✓ Speak to your teacher as this will relate to your personal reading list interests. Extend, ✓ Life Drawing. stretch and ✓ Speak to your teacher as this will relate to your personal challenge interests. activities
Photography How Sixth ✓ Check Show My Homework. Form students ✓ Visit galleries, museums, specific exhibitions and places of can work interest. independently ✓ Gather visual material - take photos and draw. Essential ✓ Speak to your teacher as this will relate to your personal reading list interests. Extend, ✓ Life Drawing. stretch and ✓ Speak to your teacher as this will relate to your personal challenge interests. activities
Maths
How Sixth Form Complete all homework and textbook exercises, use:
students can ✓ 1. mymaths.co.uk https://www.mymaths.co.uk/
work ✓ 2. underground maths https://undergroundmathematics.org/
independently ✓ 3. Cheney maths blog and
✓ 4. physicsandmathstutor.com
https://www.physicsandmathstutor.com/
✓ 5. Advanced Maths Support Programme https://amsp.org.uk/
✓ 6. Desmos graphing website
https://www.desmos.com/calculator
Essential ✓ Textbook and OCR A Level course Specification
reading list
Extend, stretch ✓ 1. Problem Solving Workshops at Maths Institute
and challenge http://furthermaths.org.uk/files/events/KS5ProblemSolving/SE-
activities 20180917-KS5ProblemSolving-2.pdf
✓ 2. UKMT Maths Challenge,
https://www.ukmt.org.uk/individual-competitions/senior-
challenge/archive
✓ 3. STEP/MAT preparation through MCS
✓ 4. Maths in Action trips:
https://www.thetrainingpartnership.org.uk/study-day/maths-
in-action-12-12-2018/
✓ 5. follow Hannah Fry and More or Less on BBC iPlayer
Further Maths
How Sixth Complete all homework and textbook exercises, use
Form students ✓ 1. mymaths.co.uk https://www.mymaths.co.uk/
can work ✓ 2. underground maths https://undergroundmathematics.org/
independently ✓ 3. Cheney maths blog and
✓ 4. physicsandmathstutor.com
https://www.physicsandmathstutor.com/
✓ 5. Advanced Maths Support Programme https://amsp.org.uk/
✓ 6. Desmos graphing website https://www.desmos.com/calculator
Essential ✓ Textbook and OCR A Level Further Maths course Specification
reading list
Extend, ✓ 1. Problem Solving Workshops at Maths Institute
stretch and http://furthermaths.org.uk/files/events/KS5ProblemSolving/SE-
challenge 20180917-KS5ProblemSolving-2.pdf
activities ✓ 2. UKMT Maths Challenge, https://www.ukmt.org.uk/individual-
competitions/senior-challenge/archive/
✓ 3. STEP/MAT preparation through MCS
✓ 4. Maths in Action trips
https://www.thetrainingpartnership.org.uk/study-day/maths-in-
action-12-12-2018/
✓ 5. Follow Hannah Fry and More or Less on BBC iPLayer
Media
How Sixth ✓ Check Show My Homework.
Form students ✓ Consolidate class notes - complete any incomplete class notes.
can work ✓ Catch up on missed work by talking to your teacher or other
independently students in your class.
✓ Re-read/ re-watch set texts.
✓ Revise theorists and theories.
✓ Annotate set texts.
Essential ✓ The Big Issue
reading list ✓ The Guardian
✓ Daily Mail
✓ Watch Stranger Things and Deutchland 83
Extend, ✓ Speak to your teacher as this will relate to your personal interests
stretch and and Media coursework.
challenge
activities
PE How Sixth ✓ Check Show My Homework. Form students ✓ Read notes and complete independent question booklets. can work ✓ Catch up on missed work by talking to your teacher or other independently students in your class. Essential ✓ Textbook and PE Review magazine in the library. reading list Extend, ✓ Access to Brookes library - read professional journals relating to stretch and fitness testing, nutrition and career professional development. challenge activities
Product Design
How Sixth ✓ Check Show My Homework.
Form students ✓ Practice maths using guidance at the back of the text book.
can work ✓ Read notes from theory lessons and check in with the summary
independently of the corresponding chapter in the text book.
✓ Practise exam questions including those from past specifications
(ignore design questions).
✓ Read articles and power points saved in shared area and in
Google Classroom
Essential ✓ Textbook AQA Product Design Hodder.
reading list
Extend, ✓ Speak to your teacher as this will relate to your personal interests
stretch and and PD coursework.
challenge
activities
Fashion & Textiles
How Sixth ✓ Check Show My Homework.
Form students ✓ Practice maths using guidance at the end of each chapter in the
can work text book.
independently ✓ Read notes from theory lessons and check in with the summary
of the corresponding chapter in the text book.
✓ Practise exam questions including those from past specifications
(ignore design questions).
✓ Read articles and power points saved in shared area and in
Google Classroom
Essential ✓ Textbook AQA Fashion & Textiles Hodder.
reading list
Extend, ✓ Speak to your teacher as this will relate to your personal interests
stretch and and Textiles coursework.
challenge
activities
Sociology
How Sixth ✓ Check Show My Homework.
Form students
can work On a weekly basis:
independently ✓ Add to your studies document and your glossary.
✓ LEARN key concepts and thinkers.
✓ Complete all the sociological views/studies document and print
off all the fact sheets from show my homework-globalisation and
the media.
✓ Re-draft exam questions, open book, to create perfect answers.
Essential ✓ Hodder: ‘my revision notes’ and ‘student guides’.
reading list ✓ Sociology Review.
Extend, ✓ Listen to Radio4 programmes.
stretch and ✓ Watch Dispatches or Panorama.
challenge
activitiesEconomics
How Sixth ✓ Check Show My Homework.
Form
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Essential
reading list ✓ Academic journal articles:
Behaviour economics - Akerlof The Market for Lemons Quality Uncertainty and
the Market Mechanism 1970
Behaviour economics - Schwarz et al Assimilation and contrast effects in part-
whole question sequences A conversational logic analysis 1991
Behaviour economics - Tversky et al Judgments of and by representativeness
1981
Behaviour economics - Wansink et al Bottomless Bowls Why Visual Cues of
Portion 2005
Behaviour economics - Kahneman and Tversky Prospect Theory An Analysis of
Decision under Risk 1979
Behaviour economics - Zhe Jin et al The effect of information on product
quality Evidence from restaurant hygiene grade cards 2003
Extend, ✓ Speak to your teacher.
stretch and
challenge
activitiesBiology
How Sixth ✓ Check Show My Homework.
Form students ✓ Step 1: Use notes from lessons and the textbook to create mind
can work maps, information summaries, key word definition lists and
independently flashcards to help you memorise content. Quizlet is useful for
this. Seneca Learning is a great website for teaching yourself
content.
✓ Step 2: Do practice questions to practice your application of
knowledge. Good websites for practice questions are
mathsmadeeasy.co.uk and physicsandmathstutor.com, the
textbook also has lots of past paper questions and there is also a
CPG Maths for A Level Biology in the library which is useful to
practice maths skills needed for the course.
✓ Step 3: Read around the topic using Biological Sciences Review
magazines and the big black Biology books – these are available
in the library.
Essential ✓ AQA A level Biology textbook.
reading list
Extend, ✓ Read New Scientist and/or Scientific American.
stretch and ✓ Subscribe to Biological Sciences Review through the library.
challenge ✓ Visit the Natural History Museum.
activities ✓ Look up Villiers Park extension activities:
https://www.villierspark.org.uk/course_level/a-level/Chemistry
How Sixth ✓ Check Show My Homework.
Form students ✓ Independent Learning Materials for Y12 and Y13
can work Y12 - Chemistry challenge papers, worksheets and resources for
independently modules 2-4, exam questions for the year
Y13 - Chemistry olympiad papers, exam questions for the year,
resources to match the Pearson books
✓ The Seneca Learning website is also a great place to start if you
need to re-teach yourself any concepts from the course.
Essential ✓ CGP Chemistry textbook.
reading list
Extend, ✓ Read New Scientist and/or Scientific American.
stretch and ✓ Subscribe to Chemistry Review through the library.
challenge ✓ Look up Villiers Park extension activities:
activities https://www.villierspark.org.uk/course_level/a-level/Physics
How Sixth ✓ Check Show My Homework.
Form students ✓ Step 1: Use notes and textbook to create key word definition lists
can work and flashcards to help you learn key words. Memrise and Quizlet
independently are useful for this. Seneca Learning is a great website for
recapping content.
✓ Step 2: Do practice questions to practice application. Good
websites for practice questions are mathsmadeeasy.co.uk,
physicsandmathstutor.com, and https://isaacphysics.org/
Remember to mark these and analyse how you have done. There is also
a CPG Maths for A Level Physics in the library which is useful to
practice maths skills needed for the course.
✓ Step 3: Read around the topic using Physics Review magazines –
these are available in the library.
Essential ✓ CGP New A-Level Physics for AQA
reading list
Extend, ✓ Collins AQA A Level Physics Year 1 and AS Student Book (AQA A
stretch and Level Science) for AS, AQA A-level Physics Year 2 Student Book
challenge (A2)
activities ✓ Read New Scientist and/or Scientific American.
✓ Subscribe to Physics Review through the library.
✓ Visit the Museum of the History of Science.
✓ Look up Villiers Park extension activities:
https://www.villierspark.org.uk/course_level/a-level/Applied Science
How ✓ Check Show My Homework.
Sixth
Form To help with your exam units (1,3 & 5):
students ✓ Step 1: Use notes from lessons and your textbook to create mind
can work maps, information summaries, key word definition lists and flashcards
indepen to help you memorise content. Quizlet is useful for this.
dently ✓ Step 2: Do practice questions to practice application. All past papers
can be found on the Pearson website - just google Pearson Past Papers
and select Applied Science.
Essential ✓ This is a great revision guide that we recommend you get -
reading https://www.amazon.co.uk/National-Applied-Science-Revision-
list Workbook/dp/1292258179/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_1?_encoding=UT
F8&psc=1&refRID=2REY1ZX2ZW325FHB3CGY
✓ If you are a Bursary student please speak to Miss Rayment and she will
order it for you.
Extend, ✓ This textbook is great for extending yourself
stretch https://www.amazon.co.uk/National-Applied-Science-Student-
and Nationals/dp/1292134097/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF
challeng 8&psc=1&refRID=2REY1ZX2ZW325FHB3CGY
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activitiesSpanish
How Sixth ✓ Check Show My Homework.
Form students ✓ 1. Revise all aspects of Spanish grammar - All tenses should be
can work fully understood, create your own grammar ‘bible’
independently (www.languagesonline.com)
✓ 2. Ensure you practise speaking as much as possible, seek out
native speakers!
✓ 3. Go over all your notes after each lesson to create a bank of
"specific topic based" vocabulary (www.memrise.com)
✓ 4. Do as many practice papers from other boards
Essential ✓ Speak to your teacher.
reading list
Extend, ✓ Read Spanish magazines
stretch and ✓ Listen to/Read Euronews, Watch Spanish films
challenge
activitiesGeography
How Sixth ✓ Check Show My Homework.
Form students ✓ Organise your folders in line with the scheme of work to ensure
can work there are no gaps in knowledge.
independently ✓ Try to create detailed PLANs and answers to exam questions
using guidance given in lessons.
✓ Create case study profiles and key term glossaries.
✓ LEARN key processes and concepts.
Essential ✓ Hodder: ‘Student guides’ and ‘need to know’
reading list ✓ Geography Review
Extend, ✓ Read around your case studies to explore more context or detail.
stretch and ✓ Keep on top of current affairs. In particular, you should be
challenge focusing on: topics such as migration, the rise of far right,
activities isolationist economic policies (Trump), Natural Disasters,
Resource shortages, Geopolitical conflictsEnglish Literature
How Sixth ✓ Check Show My Homework.
Form students ✓ Consolidate class notes - complete any incomplete class notes at
can work home.
independently ✓ Re-read your set texts with study guides such as York Notes.
✓ Re-read set texts. Annotate texts. Make chapter/ scene notes.
✓ Research the background of the author.
Essential ✓ Frankenstein
reading list ✓ The Handmaid's Tale
✓ Twelfth Night
✓ The Importance of Being Earnest
✓ Keats selected poetry,
✓ Comedy Critical anthology
✓ Forward Anthology of Poetry
Extend, ✓ Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare
stretch and ✓ Cambridge Introduction to Comedy
challenge ✓ Ruth Padel 52 ways of looking at a poem
activities ✓ Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon
✓ Keats biography by Andrew Motion
✓ Bill Bryson's Shakespeare
✓ Keep checking: Playhouse, New Theatre, North Wall, Old
Firestation websites for interesting productions.
✓ Check the Curzon for interesting films.
✓ Read the Reviews sections of broadsheet papers, especially at the
weekend.
✓ Read other texts by the set authors or within the same genre.
✓ Check the Bodleian and Blackwells websites for interesting
lectures.
✓ Read essays and relevant contextual information on the British
Library website.History
How Sixth ✓ Check Show My Homework.
Form students ✓ Borrow books from the shelves in L13 (Modern Middle East and
can work France), L14 (general) and L24 (Tudors), from the Library (please
independently consult with Mrs. Fenton) and from public libraries.
✓ Attend talks at Oxford Brookes, Oxford University, the Middle
East Centre at St Antony's College, Oxford, and elsewhere (e.g.
the Oxford Literary Festival).
Essential ✓ Access to History - The Middle East 1908-2011 Michael Scott-
reading list Baumann
✓ The Israel-Palestine Conflict, Martin Bunton
✓ State of the Middle East Atlas, Dan Smith.
Extend, ✓ Read BBC, Al Jazeera, Haaretz and other new media daily.
stretch and ✓ My Promised Land, Ari Shavit
challenge ✓ Once Upon a Country, Sari Nusseibeh
activitiesFrench
How Sixth ✓ Check Show My Homework.
Form students ✓ 1. Revise all aspects of French grammar - All tenses should be
can work fully understood, create your own grammar bible
independently (www.languagesonline.com)
✓ 2. Ensure you practise speaking as much as possible, seek out
native speakers!
✓ 3. Go over all your notes after each lesson to create a bank of
"specific topic based" vocabulary (www.memrise.com)
✓ 4. Do as many practice papers from other boards as you can
Essential ✓ Read French books related to the topics;
reading list ✓ Read books suggested by Edexcel
Extend, ✓ Read French magazines
stretch and ✓ Listen to/Read Euronews
challenge ✓ Watch French films
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