Individual revision is the key to success at GCSE. It is crucial that each student follows an organised programme of revision out of school in preparation for the examination periods. This page provides some general information to support revision and details of what to revise for each subject. Content will be added from time to time so do re-visit.
Year 10 Guidance Evening Links
Year 11 Guidance Evening Links
Guidance evening presentation 2024
Results day – top tips from previous Year 11 students
Stress Management video by the NCS
Long term memory video by Mr Houghton
Health & wellbeing advice leaflet
A Parent’s Guide to Surviving The Exam Season
Please see below further revision material and information per subject.
Year 11 Exam Information
Subject revision materials
Animal Care
Business Studies
Business Studies OCR Exam board
The OCR website gives an overview of the course as well as access to past papers here.
The Oathall GCSE Business studies revision website which has links to other resources can be found here.
Computing
A wide range of revision materials including video guides are collated and maintained on Google Classroom and the department provides all Year 11 students with their own copy of the CGP GCSE Computer Science AQA Complete Revision & Practice guide in both paper and online format.
Child Development
Drama
Revision materials are added and updated on Google Classroom and all students have their own copy of the Blood Brothers script.
The following external revision guides are useful but not compulsory.
BBC Bitesize has some useful tasks/ reminders/ revision material available also.
Revision guide to be purchased can be found here.
Engineering
https://technologystudent.com/
Mathematics formulas skill sheet
English
All students are invited to join the relevant revision classrooms at the start of the year. Their class teacher will be able to give them the code if there are any issues. Knowledge organisers below – these should be used once students have started these literature texts in class
French
GCSE Revision Google classroom code: czyfafe
French listening and reading advice
French grammar Languages online
Geography
All geography students have a paper copy of the revision pack and a GCSE 9-1 Geography, Oxford book.
Students should access the Geography Google Classroom for revision.
German
Health and Social Care
History
Year 11 will be sitting two mock exams in November: Paper One (2 hours) will cover ‘USA 1920-73’ and ‘Conflict and Tension (The Cold War) 1945- 72’. Paper Two will be a shortened version, with students sitting a 1 hour paper on ‘Health and the People’ . All students will be issued a school produced pack for each unit with revision sheets, activities and practice questions. These can be used alongside their exercise books and their external revision guides- links to these revision guides are on the mock prep guide below. We would also like to encourage students to actively use the resources on our History GCSE Google Classroom, which they were added to in the summer term of Year 10. Please see links below:
Hospitality and Catering
New Specification 2022– There is a new specification launched in Sep 2022
Revision Sites:
- What is the hospitality & catering industry all about?
- Hospitality outlets
- Star rating system
- Careers in hospitality & catering
- Nutrition & food
- Specialist diets
- Special diets video
Useful (but not essential) textbooks:
Mathematics
Maths Practice Papers
Further Maths Booklet – exam questions and markscheme by topic
Music
Please refer to this link in google drive to access all the relevant information about the EDUQAS GCSE Music course (A) and revision materials (B – F).
Physical Education
Students will have their login details shared by their subject teacher to GCSE Classroom
Students have individual log in’s to The Everlearner PE platform, https://theeverlearner.com/login
Health, fitness and well being
Psychology
Religious Studies
Oathall R.E. GCSE revision site
Science
http://freesciencelessons.co.uk/
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/zrkw2hv
http://www.bozemanscience.com/
https://mmerevise.co.uk/gcse-science-revision/
Spanish
Vocabulary practice on Quizlet
Spanish reading and listening advice
