Shen
field H
igh Sch
oo
l Prepare for Success!
• Plan your time,
• Re-read, Re-draft, Recite, Re-test, Research, Rehearse & Record
• Essential Facts, Figures & Formula, Essay Model Answers
• Practice Questions
• Answers & Mark Scheme
• Review & Reflect on your progress
• Enjoy your future success
PREP Newsletter
Year 7 Summer Term 1
What is ‘PREP’? ‘PREP’ is what we do with the information we have learnt during the school day and how we prepare for the next
day of learning. Evidence suggests that we only retain 50% of the information we learnt yesterday and after a week,
we only retain 10%. The only way we can move the information we have learnt into the long-term memory is
through re-visiting the information 4 or 5 times over a number of weeks.
In order to improve learning retention we are encouraging students to ‘PREP’ each evening after school. The focus of
the time should be on the learning from the day and learning from the previous week, month and/or year.
‘PREP’ is short for PREPARE:
• Plan your time,
• Re-read, Re-draft, Recite, Re-test, Research, Rehearse & Record
• Essential Facts, Figures & Formula, Essay Model Answers
• Practice Questions
• Answers & Mark Scheme
• Review & Reflect on your progress
• Enjoy your future success
Each department has uploaded Go4Schools and the X: Student Drive with resources, practice questions and the
answers.
Students should use the resources to PREP each evening and review any areas that they still don’t understand. If
students require feedback, help or guidance with their prep, they are encouraged to visit their teacher in a PREP
Drop-In time.
The PREP Drop-In Timetable is available on our website and in this Newsletter.
Regular ‘PREP’ will lead to successful exam and assessment results.
How to use this Newsletter Each subject has an explanation of the key assessment areas and where to find the resources for their subject. There
are also extra websites, books, APPs, links and Super Curricular opportunities listed if you would like to look at a
subject in greater depth.
The final part of the newsletter is filled with tips and strategies on how to ‘PREP’ successfully.
• Improving Memory Skills & Understanding PREP
• Funs Ways to PREP
All the tools, strategies and games listed can be applied to almost any subject. It is important to use the strategies to
improve understanding and information retention before you have a go at practice questions. It is essential to have
the knowledge first, before you apply it to an exam/assessment situation.
Don’t try and tackle all the resources at once. Students will be guided by their teachers through explanations and
feedback from assessments. There is a curriculum map on our website if you would like to look ahead and start
looking at the next topic.
It is important the students find the right PREP strategy for them and use them consistently.
We hope you find this newsletter useful and welcome any feedback on how we can improve it.
PREP Common Language
[R4A] Revision materials for a planned classroom assessment. The Go4Schools deadline is the date the assessment will take place. [PQ] Practice Questions & Mark Scheme – to improve understanding, knowledge or skill. Independent learning opportunity not required to be printed or handed in. [HI] Handed-In PREP – This PREP should be printed, completed and handed in on the Go4Schools Deadline. It will be either self, peer or teacher marked. [ER] Extra Revision Resource – The student should independently use PREP revision strategies to learn the material to improve understanding of the topic. This should not be printed or handed in. [RT] Research Task – Should be completed by theGo4Schools deadline to aid task or assessed piece of work in lesson. Completion is essential for success in that lesson. [IA] Internal Assessment – An internally assessed assignment or coursework that is due on the date of the Go4Schools deadline.
Contacts
Click the links below to contact a particular department about PREP
Subject Departments English
Maths
Maths and Computing
Science
Technology
History
Geography
Humanities
MFL
PE
Drama
Music
Art
Business
Social-Sciences
Media
PASS (SEN )
Extra Resources to support during the School Closure The below links are sites that have been set up with links to resources ideas, solutions, plans and support.
http://homelearninguk.com http://www.amazingeducationalresources.com/
Extra Resources for pupils
Learning by Questions offers 60,000 questions, allowing pupils to deepen their knowledge. Me Power provides more than 100 practical tactics and tips to improve examination performance. Gojimo.com has GCSE quizzes that relate to different specifications and are set up and ready to go. Memrise.com is a useful app for all languages and uses videos to help learners. Looking for visual thinking? Try bubbl.us, to help students better understand, remember and generate new ideas. Revisionbuddies.com can provide short bursts of revision for many GCSE topics and tracks progress too. It even allows the pupils to access past papers and mark schemes. Goconqr.com allows pupils to create mind maps and flashcards using key terms. Enter the two 11-18 Young Writers Competitions – try Young Writers. Brainpop has a great set of videos, freely available for pupils. Seneca Learning offers many online courses for pupils. Finally, it’s been around for a while and just as good, BBC Bitesize resources and videos. Or BBC Learning http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/coursesearch/
Year 7 - PREP Guide – Half Term 5
Subject Topic PREP Tasks Further Research /Reading En
glis
h
Spea
kin
g an
d L
iste
nin
g Carry out some research for your Speaking and Listening presentation based on a topic that interests you. Try to come up with a statement that you could research and then create a debate for, such as:
- “Social media is running the lives of young people.”
- “Eating a balanced diet and exercise makes you a happier person.”
- “Having dreams and ambitions are important tools in helping plan your future.”
- “Animal testing is cruel and needs to be stopped.”
- “The Royal Family no longer play an important role in society.”
- “Football is a sport that causes too many problems to be an enjoyable game.”
- “People these days are too self-obsessed.”
- “People need a healthy break from their phones.” Create a visual presentation to aid your talk to the class. Remember, you must not read off the presentation, instead, use it to help guide you through your speech/presentation. Give your speech to a friend or family member. What advice would they give you to make your speech/presentation more memorable? Practice the various rhetorical techniques to get your audience to listen to you. If you are not sure, why not write out your speech and learn it. You will not be able to read off a sheet of paper. Come up with 5 – 10 questions about your chosen topics. Give these questions to your friends to ask you after your presentation is finished (you can achieve more marks from your answers to these questions than you can from the presentation!) Perform your speech to a family member/record yourself. Then you should evaluate what went well/what you would do differently next time.
Now is the time to start looking at the world around you and discover what is going on. To do this, you could read a different story from one of the following news websites every day:
- The Daily Mail
- The Guardian newspaper
- BBC News
- TED Talks channel - YouTube
Super-Curricular Visits
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Media & Other Links
The Speech that Made Obama President Clip from 'Darkest Hour' - Churchill's famous speech 'The Great Dictator' Charlie Chaplin's final speech I Have a Dream - Martin Luther King Oprah Winfrey Golden Globe award speech
Subject Topic PREP Tasks Further Research /Reading M
ath
s
Mat
hs
in L
ife
- C
oo
kery
[ER] TASK 1 - HEGARTY MATHS The best place to PREP for Mathematics is www.hegartymaths.com, with online tutorials and practice questions. The best practice is to watch and make notes on the video in your Maths PREP book, then copy and complete the quiz questions, self-assessing using the online feedback. This will prepare you best for your post-test. Hegarty Clips to support this topic include: Recipes: 739, 740, 741, 742 Ratio: 328, 329, 330 If you work through all of these, check the feedback from your latest topic and Maths Stage tests, or see your teacher for advice on which clips to work on next. [ER] TASK 2 - Look up this recipe that makes 12 cupcakes on the BBC website: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/cupcakes
a. Alter the amounts of each ingredient required for 24 cupcakes. b. Do the same for 1 cupcake. c. How much of each ingredient would you need to make enough cupcakes
for each person in your household to have a cupcake?
Whichever PREP activity, reading or research you choose to complete, we, the Mathematics department, want to know about it.
You should make notes, keep a diary or even make a poster to tell us what you did, what you learned and what you found interesting. Bring those notes along to
a lesson for Outstanding Learning Points and to use during your Post-Test assessment.
Tweet us a picture of your work and creations @ShenfieldMaths
[ER] The Maths Chef Book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Math-Chef-Over-Activities-Recipes/dp/0471138134
[ER] NRICH - Mixing Lemonade https://nrich.maths.org/6870
[ER] NRICH - Mixing Paints: https://nrich.maths.org/4793/
[ER] NRICH - Mixing More Paints https://nrich.maths.org/4794
Super-Curricular Visits Taste Test - Orange Squash (or alternative) required https://www.skillsworkshop.org/sites/skillsworkshop.org/files/resources/Level%201-2%20taste%20test%20ratio%20activities.pdf
Only if you have plenty of these ingredients in your cupboard, create the cupcakes from the recipe in Task 2. It’ll be up to you for how many you bake and make sure you have permission from an adult to carry this out, and take their assistance where needed.
Media & Other Links
Teacher TV: Ratio & Proportion in Real-Life https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teachers-tv-ratios-and-proportions-in-real-life-6049215
BBC Teach: Ratio - Cookery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFU-1lKmmek
Subject Topic PREP Tasks Further Research /Reading
Scie
nce
Inve
stig
ativ
e Sc
ien
ce
Students in year 7 are now undertaking the “Investigative Science” course which is designed to improve their investigative skills and develop an understanding of how and why scientists carry our
experiments in the way that they do.
The first two investigations that the students need to consider are loaded upon GO4Schools. These are “Huddling Penguins” and “Wings”. Other investigations projects will be loaded onto GO4Schools in the next few weeks. Students need to follow the instructions laid out in the task. For each investigation students should consider the control variables that need to be kept constant. Students should tabulate their results in a suitable table. Students should plot a suitable graph of the information, considering the type of graph to be plotted and the scale to be used. Finally, students should draw a conclusion based on the results and trends observed in the graph.
Nuclear Fission and Fusion…it’s the future baby!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LekacMuM12Y What if Oil ran out? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiNtrOS88rs
Super-Curricular Activities
2018 the year of the engineer check out the link below https://www.yearofengineering.gov.uk/inspired
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Media & Other Links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m55kgyApYrY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnQ2VibernI
https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/z99jq6f/revision/1
Subject Topic PREP Tasks Further Research /Reading A
rt
Form
al E
lem
ents
of
Art
Formal Elements of Art Line, Form, Shape, Tone, Texture, Pattern and Colour
Native American Totem Project
[HI] Find and copy a selection of Haida Patterns and designs. Fill an A4 sheet. Note what different shapes represent. [HI] Draw and shade a Totem pole in the Haida style. Use a variety of Haida shapes and patterns and solid colours. Use your A4 sheet of Haida patterns to inform your design. Briefly relate what story, event or statement your totem represents.
[HI] Build a 3D sculpture of a Native American style Totem Pole. Use whatever materials you have; wood, cardboard, paper, paint, etc. As always, the best part of 3 hours should be spent to make the best sculpture possible. Take a photograph to show you teacher.
[HI] Design a couple of ideas for the construction of your ceramic pot in the style of a Native American Totem pole.
[RT] Research the following: - Do other cultures carve Totems? Where? - Find a Haida myth and retell it in your own words;
design a totem to show the story on A4 paper.
Super-Curricular Visits
[RT] Research: - Bill Reid - David A. Boxley
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Media & Other Links
https://youtu.be/6Lht4XGkk0k https://youtu.be/y6r5jQvQ6n0
http://www.native-languages.org/tlingit-legends.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QXjcg7rbhg
Subject Topic PREP Tasks Further Research /Reading
Co
mp
ute
r Sc
ien
ce
Dat
a R
ep
rese
nta
tio
n
[ER] Data Representation Prep Notes Read and complete notes on the following two topic areas shown in this link: https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/topics/zxnfr82 Once done, complete all four quizzes. [RT] Research Task Research about Gottfried Leibniz and create a poster on the history behind binary code. [ER] Video: Computer Science Early Crash Course Watch the video below which explains the history behind binary numbers and how computers use 1’s and 0’s to communicate. Make notes/ create a poster identifying key areas/ interesting points to share in class. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GSjbWt0c9M
Books to read: - Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing – Martin
Gardener (KS3) Learn Python Course
- www.codeacademy.com/learn/learn-python
Super-Curricular Visits
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Media & Other Links
BBC Bitesize KS3 Computer Science: https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/subjects/zvc9q6ff Code.org: https://studio.code.org Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com SHS Computer Science: www.shs.cloud
Subject Topic PREP Tasks Further Research /Reading D
ram
a
Shak
esp
eare
/Mac
bet
h
[RT] Research Task – Should be completed by theGo4Schools deadline to aid task or assessed piece of work in lesson. Completion is essential for success for that lesson. In the Summer term you will be exploring Shakespeare’s Macbeth in Drama lessons. Click on the link below to read a modern-day version of Macbeth – “Macbeth in Ten Minutes”. Make notes on the 5 key moments and any key themes of the play
- https://lookaside.fbsbx.com/file/TEN%20MINUTE%20MACBETH%20by%20Kristen%20Doherty.pdf?token=AWy7yDTxb710_kCIJ1zlHwmMuwl9gaqack2L7sjeKXo8tjNlu-AqVjKd_IBJ7RTi8qDSPfo5jUjm5qFnXywDKmxBHIr-WBJ3VEBJcmBhoIQaeOM-riHZLpVrbKl-TMdMuRPL7ZgG0wHkH_CtCgHgo_GIe_bLtxA2t7O9s3ZectU1GQ
[RT] Research Task – Should be completed by theGo4Schools deadline to aid task or assessed piece of work in lesson. Completion is essential for success for that lesson. Use the BBC Bitesize link below to take you to the KS3 Macbeth page. Work your way through the “Revise” topics (making notes) and then complete the test at the end of each topic:
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zp982hv [RT] Research Task – Should be completed by theGo4Schools deadline to aid task or assessed piece of work in lesson. Completion is essential for success for that lesson. Use the BBC Bitesize links below to watch the videos on Macbeth. Make notes for each video/topic:
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zp982hv/resources/1
BBC Bitesize KS3 – An introduction to Shakespeare’s life and inspirations. Make notes and take the test at the end: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zxqsgk7/revision/1
Media Links
A short video on the Plot of Macbeth (BBC bitesize): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCsQ21ySfvA A storyboard/ cartoon strip of Macbeth – with an opportunity to create your own version: https://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboards/ajs94/macbeth Short Videos on key scenes/moments from Macbeth (BBC School Radio): https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/english-ks2-macbeth-index/zkxcbdm
Subject Topic PREP Tasks Further Research /Reading G
eogr
aph
y
Gla
cier
s
[ER] How does the water cycle impact on your life? [ER] How does the water cycle impact on glaciers? [RT] Find 1 or 2 pictures of glaciers. Give their location, describe them. [RT] Find and research a specific glacier that is found on the earth today. [R4A] Make a glossary of all new glacial terms. [RT] Have ever visited a glacier or glaciated landscape like the Lake District? Create a poster or write a postcard to someone about it. [RT] Why is it important for scientists to learn about glaciers?
[RT] Find out more about how people lived in Europe during the last ice age. [ER] Study maps to identify landforms of erosion and deposition of glaciers in the UK. [RT] Research what may happen if glaciers (and ice-sheets) continue to melt at current or predicted rates.
Super-Curricular Activities
Geography meets Art. Search for inspiration, make some art linked to Geography. https://glaciermelt.is/
PLEASE STAY AT HOME, SAVE LIVES! Design an advertisement for the Lake District, a post glacial landscape. https://www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/
Media & Other Links
Bitesize on glaciers: https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/topics/zpcqxnb World glacier monitoring service: https://wgms.ch/ National Geographic Article: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2013/09/rising-seas-ice-melt-new-shoreline-maps/ Frozen Planet series on iPlayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b00mfl7n/frozen-planet EIS, Tim lapses, facts + more: http://extremeicesurvey.org/
Subject Topic PREP Tasks Further Research /Reading
His
tory
Wh
o r
ule
d in
th
e M
idd
le A
ges?
[HI] Who was Thomas Becket? Research and write a profile of this famous Archbishop [HI] Thomas Becket met an unpleasant death. Design a cartoon of the events of December 29th, 1170 [ER] Who was King John? Research and write a profile of this unpopular king [ER] The Magna Carta: try this quiz 1. Magna Carta is Latin for… 2. Who was King at the time of Magna Carta? 3. Who were the Barons and why were they unhappy? 4. Who became involved in the argument from the Church of England? 5. What did Robert Fitzwalter call his troops? 6. How did King John react when he heard that the rebels had advanced towards London? 7. Where was Magna Carta agreed? 8. When was Magna Carta agreed? 9. How did King John endorse (show that he accepted) Magna Carta? 10. How many clauses (rules) were in Magna Carta?
[HI] The peasants’ revolt: Find out what made the peasants so angry in 1381. Present your findings in a report, a newspaper article or maybe a poem.
The Magna Carta Chronicle: A Young Person's Guide to 800 Years in the Fight for Freedom Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381, by popular historian Dan Jones
Super-Curricular Visits
www.activehistory.co.uk Password: shenfield User: history PLEASE STAY AT HOME, SAVE LIVES!
Media & Other Links
Find out more about King John and the Magna Carta: https://www.bl.uk/magna-carta Try some of these fun activities: games and quizzes: http://ks3historygames.co.uk/king-john-magna-carta-ks3-history/
Subject Topic PREP Tasks Further Research /Reading M
FL –
Fre
nch
Un
it 3
– M
a vi
e d
e fa
mill
e
Des
crib
ing
you
r fa
mily
, pet
s an
d f
rien
ds
[ER] Learn the vocabulary associated with this unit – this can be found on Go4Schools under French PREP. [ER] Complete the relevant grammar exercises on Go4Schools. There are also several tasks to work through to help put into practice what you have learnt during lessons. [R4A] Revise for End of Unit Assessment 3 using your class notes and the revision checklist for this unit. This will have been given to you by your French teacher, and can also be found in Go4Schools. [RT] Find an article on the internet about anything that you are particularly interested in (e.g. sport, music, film, television) and make a list of new words and their meanings in English from what you find in the article. You can use Collins online French dictionary to help you with the definitions.
[ER] Try watching your favourite television shows on Netflix (or similar) with the French subtitles. Alternatively, you could change the audio setting to French and have English subtitles.
[ER] Visit the local library or check their online
catalogue. There are plenty of free resources: comic
books, novels, books to complement students’
learning… Some favourite story books are available in
French too!
French newspapers online;
www.lemonde.fr
www.lefigaro.fr
www.lequipe.fr
www.20minutos.fr
www.bbc.com/mundo
Super-Curricular Activities
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Media & Other Links
- www.collinsdictionary.com/french - www.quizlet.com/ashaunak (website or app) - Duolingo (app) - aim for 10-15 minutes/daily. It’s a mix of writing, translating, practicing different vocab and listening – all in one! It gets really
competitive and fun. - Memrise (app) - aim for 10-15 minutes/daily. - www.langUage-gym.com/#!/ to practise verbs in all tenses - www.bbc.co.uk › languages › french › french_connection
Subject Topic PREP Tasks Further Research /Reading
MFL
- S
pan
ish
Un
it 3
– E
n m
i fam
ilia
Des
crib
ing
you
r fa
mily
, pet
s an
d f
rien
ds
[ER] Learn the vocabulary associated with this unit – this can be found on Go4Schools under Spanish PREP. [ER] Complete the relevant Gramática exercises on Go4Schools. There are also several tasks to work through to help put into practice what you have learnt during lessons. [ER] Revise for End of Unit Assessment 3 using your class notes and the revision checklist for this unit. This will have been given to you by your Spanish teacher, and can also be found in Go4Schools. [RT] Find an article on the internet about anything that you are particularly interested in (e.g. sport, music, film, television) and make a list of new words and their meanings in English from what you find in the article. You can use Collins online Spanish dictionary to help you with the definitions. [ER] Try watching your favourite television shows on Netflix (or similar) with the Spanish subtitles. Alternatively, you could change the audio setting to Spanish and have English subtitles.
[ER] Visit the local library or check their online
catalogue. There are plenty of free resources: comic
books, novels, books to complement students’
learning… Some favourite story books are available in
Spanish too!
[ER] Spanish newspapers online;
www.elpais.com
www.marca.com
www.20minutos.es
www.bbc.com/mundo
Super-Curricular Activities
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Media & Other Links
- www.collinsdictionary.com/spanish - www.quizlet.com/ashaunak (website or app) - Duolingo (app) - aim for 10-15 minutes/daily. It’s a mix of writing, translating, practising different vocab and listening – all in one! It gets really
competitive and fun. - Memrise (app) - aim for 10-15 minutes/daily. Look for sets that are based on Mira (textbook used for Spanish at KS3) - www.language-gym.com/#!/ to practise verbs in all tenses - BBC Bitesize for Spanish
Subject Topic PREP Tasks Further Research /Reading
Mu
sic
Imp
ress
ion
ism
[R4A] Complete the following PREP Knowledge PREP – Make sure you are ready for your PREP Assessment! You can find this and the keyboard sheets in: - X:\Expressive Arts\Music\Key Stage 3\Year 7
PREP\Impressionism
You will find all the music for this scheme of work here. If you have a keyboard at home, you should download them to practice. If you do not have a keyboard, use an online keyboard https://virtualpiano.net/ or download a keyboard APP.
Class focus / assessments:
- Hommage a Voiles, Melody, 3 Ostinatos and a Drone
Explore the links below to find out more about this era. Discover why this topic is so closely linked with Art.
Super-Curricular Activities
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Media & Other Links
https://www.pianotv.net/2016/09/impressionist-music/ Classic FM Listen to the special on Impressionism: https://www.classicfm.com/radio/shows-presenters/everything-you-ever-wanted-know/what-is-impressionism-in-music/
Subject Topic PREP Tasks Further Research/Reading
PE
Theo
ry: S
kele
tal S
yste
m
[ER] Whole skeletal system recap and revisit from half term 1+3: Label the bones:
Functions on the skeleton Pupils to know the 5 functions of the skeleton: protection of vital organs, muscle attachment, joints for movement, platelets, red and white blood cell production, storage of calcium and phosphorus.
Classification of bones
• Long, Bones that are longer than they are wide, like the femur
• Short; Bones that are box-like shaped, like tarsals
• Flat; Think, plate bones that act like a shell such as the cranium.
• Irregular; Unusual shaped bones like the vertebrae. 4 Classification of joints Pivot (neck), hinge (elbow, knee and ankle), ball and socket (hip and shoulder), condyloid (wrist). Movement possibilities at joints These dependant on joint Classification; flexion, extension, adduction, abduction, rotation, circumduction, plantar-flexion, dorsi-flexion. Sporting examples of these movements. The role of ligaments and tendons Tendons – Connective tissue joining muscle to bone Ligaments – Connective tissue joining bone to bone
As we have covered all skeletal topics before it is important to be able to apply them to sports performance.
[ER] Due to the uncertainty when students will be back in school please complete the resources on goforschools and keep them at home.
BBC Bitesize – Skeletal system https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zq3sbk7/revision/1
Super-Curricular Activities
Every weekday at 9am complete the Joe Wicks body coach workout. - Go onto youtube.com - Search ‘The Body Coach’ and join in with
his 30minute live workout. - Record your workout in your PE home
exercise diary. - You can also use the other YouTube links
on goforschools.
Media & Other Links
BBC home workout with Olympic athletes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/get-inspired/46648590
Links for home workouts: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN0h6EZd6TM
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzx-d1Z2bLY
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAXg3cM0UCw
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0DuHnxnH14
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmGjxU3Ggko
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmWPRv6g9aI
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc1Ag9m7XQo
Subject Topic PREP Tasks Further Research /Reading So
cial
Sci
ence
s
Wo
rld
Rel
igio
ns
[R4A] Compulsory Prep task – This will also be set on Go4Schools and must be completed to allow pupils to be successful in the assessment for this topic - The assessment for this unit will be a factcheck assessment on information connected to the key facts about the biggest 6 world faiths and the belief of Humanism Pupils must spend prep time trying to learn this information for a class test without notes or cheat sheets Additional Prep tasks – [ER] Create a table showing the differences and similarities between world faiths [ER] Research a smaller, less well-known religion or a specific denomination of group within a religion
[ER] Speak to someone who follows a faith or is an atheist and ask them why they hold the views which they do [ER] Complete additional research on Humanism, such as what they do to celebrate life stages such as birth or marriage
Super-Curricular Activities
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Media & Other Links
[ER] Watch “The Little Buddha” to show the cross-over of religious beliefs in different cultures [ER] “True Tube” clips of faith and belief / BBC Bitesize
Improving Memory Skills & Understanding PREP 1. Self-Testing
Self-testing is an effective tool if you have a large amount of information to learn for an assessment or exam.
Let’s say you had to remember the definition of 20 key words.
Start by writing out five key words and their definitions. Study them for 2 or 3 minutes, then put the sheet away.
On another piece of paper, try to write down the key words and definitions from memory.
If you were not able to recall all 5, then repeat the process again. Study the definitions and re-test.
Once you are able to recall 5 key words and definitions, add another 5 to the original sheet.
Give yourself 4 or 5 minutes to study the 10 key words and definitions. Put the sheet away and re-test but this time
with 10.
Build this up until you can recall all 20 key words and definitions.
More importantly, re-test yourself a week later. Review your progress and go back to any definitions or words you
were unable to write down. Then, re-test yourself a month later with the same words.
The more you re-test, the more you will retain and the easier it becomes.
These techniques could be applied to:
• Key Information for an Essay
• Character names and profiles
• Formula
• Translations
• Case Studies
• Experiment processes
• Arguments or Quotations
• And many more!
2. Mind Mapping
Mind Mapping is a highly effective way of getting information in and out of your brain. Mind Mapping is a creative and logical means of note-taking and note-making that literally "maps out" your ideas.
All Mind Maps have some things in common. They have a natural organisational structure that radiates from the centre and use lines, symbols, words, colour and images according to simple, brain-friendly concepts. Mind Mapping converts a long list of monotonous information into a colourful, memorable and highly organised diagram that works in line with your brain's natural way of doing things.
• Think of your general main theme and write that down in the centre of the page. i.e. Food
• Figure out sub-themes of your main concept and draw branches to them from the centre, beginning to look like a spider web i.e. Meats, Dairy, Breads
• Make sure to use very short phrases or even single words • Add images to invoke thought or get the message across better • Try to think of at least two main points for each sub-theme you created and create branches out to those
3. Revision Cards
Revision cards are small handheld cards that contain key information. The cards should have a title at the top with 5
or 6 key words, formula or sentences. Try and keep the colour consistent for each topic e.g. green cards for the
Environment.
TIP: On the back of the revision card, write the title from the front. Then, after you have read through your cards a
number of times, turn them over. Look at the title and self-test yourself on the information. Once you have recalled
all you can, turn the card back over and check your answers.
4. Complete the Sentence
If you have a large number of facts to learn for an essay, write out ten key sentences you wish to memorise for the
essay. Then, on a separate piece of paper, write out the first half of the sentence and leave the other half blank. Take
a break, make a cup of tea, then come back and try to complete the sentences from memory.
If you managed to complete all ten, try and add more sentences and repeat the exercise.
TIP: Once you can complete the sentences with ease, test yourself further by trying to write out all the key sentences
from memory without the sentence starters!
Fun Ways to PREP
1. Key Words Crossword Puzzle Choose a subject and write down all the key words you need to learn. Find an online Crossword creator, there are a huge number of web sites that can do this for you. For the clues, write the definition of the key word. Once the crossword has been created, leave it for a few days/weeks. Then, try and complete it. Don’t forget to print out the answer sheet so you can self-check the answers! Here is an example below:
2. Key Word Pictionary For this game you will need at least one other person. With a friend or group of friends, decide which subject and set of Key Words you wish to learn or revise. Write them down on individual cards. Try to have a large number so they are not too obvious. Take it in turns to draw (without using words, symbols or speaking) something that represents the key word you wish to learn. *Want to Make the Game Harder?* The other player who is trying to guess the key word can’t say the key word, but must give the correct definition of it! Here is an example below:
The Easy Answer: An Atom
1. *The Definition Answer:
2. The smallest particle of a chemical element that can exist.
ACROSS DOWN 2. What does the ‘H’ in SHS stand for? 1. In what year group do you take A Level exams? 5. What is ‘PREP’ short for? 3. What is the surname of our Headteacher?
4. In what Year group do you take GCSE exam?
3. Write a Short Story If you have a large number of facts, figures or key words to remember, write a short story that you can recite to yourself in the exam. The more interesting and funny your story is, the more likely you are to remember the facts. Here is an example:
1.To begin our adventure into storytelling, start by reading the paragraph below, which recounts a brief and
chaotic story. Your task is simply to understand what happens:
"A man called Nigel is sat next to his enormous, 300lb pet squid as they travel around in the back of his
lime-green limo. They're arguing over what to watch on the limo's TV: Coronation Street, or Sesame Street.
It soon turns into a fight, which the squid wins by using its eight limbs to empty eight pepper-grinders on to
Nigel's head. Nigel leaps from the car in terror and runs away towards the sea, cleverly heading through a
thick yellow field of rapeseed to stop the squid from following. On reaching the beach, he meets Prince
Harry, who is celebrating his 25th birthday. Prince Harry persuades Nigel to help him confront two Gallic
dancers who have eaten a beautiful "she-swan" (without the Queen's permission). After the attack, Nigel
jumps into the sea and swims out towards, as luck would have it, the Lady of Shalott, who is bobbing up and
down in a boat made from a giant orange pepper. She invites him on board and they fall in love."
It will have taken you perhaps a minute to read through this. This should demonstrate just how quickly and effortlessly your mind can imagine elaborate scenes it has never encountered before.
Your next step is to see how much of the story you recall. First, close your eyes and repeat the story as well as you can in your head. When you're done, open your eyes and write down all the items you have successfully recalled. This will give you a sense of how many useful memories you can store in around a minute or so. Hopefully you'll have impressed yourself again.
Now, you'll perhaps be wondering what the point of remembering a random list of objects like this might be. But here we can reveal that the story you've learned is not at all random, but in fact encodes the ingredients for a Nigel Slater recipe. Hooray! The 300lb squid represents 300g of squid; the lime-green limo is a lime; Coronation Street stands for coriander; Sesame Street for sesame oil; eight pepper grinders for eight crushed peppercorns; the rapeseed field for rapeseed oil; Prince Harry celebrating his birthday for 25g ginger; two Gallic dancers for two cloves of garlic; the "she-swan" for Szechuan pepper; the sea for salt; the Lady of Shalott for shallots; the orange pepper boat for one large orange pepper.
Have a look over these connections. Your last task is to try to remember the ingredients that correspond to each element in the story. Once you've done that, you're ready to make your squid and pepper stir-fry …
1. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/15/story-lines-facts
4. Key Term Word Search Choose a subject and write down all the key words you need to learn. Find an online Word Search creator, there are a huge number of web sites that can do this for you.
For the clues, write the definition of the key word.
Once the word search has been created, leave it for a few days/weeks. Then, try and complete it. Don’t forget to print out the answer sheet so you can self-check the answers!
Here is an example below:
1. What is ‘PREP’ short for? 2. What is the surname of our Headteacher? 3. What year group take their GCSE exams? 4. What year group take their A Level exams? 5. What does the ‘H’ in SHS stand for?
5. Write a poem If you have a large number of facts, figures or key words to remember, write a poem that you can re-cite to yourself in the exam. Try and make it rhyme on the key words and throw in their definitions if you can.
6. Card Matching Game Use revision cards. They must all be the same size and colour. On half the cards, write a key word on each. On the other half of the cards, write their definitions on each. With a friend, turn all the cards so they face down on the table. Each person takes it in turns to turn over two cards. If they turn over the key word and the correct definition, they get to keep them. If the two cards do not match, they must be turned back and it is the next persons turn. The winner is the person with the most cards at the end. You not only have to remember where the key words and the definitions are, but match them as well!
Here is an example:
7. Name That Tune! Choose a song from the charts that you know really well and enjoy singing along to. Now, re-write the lyrics so they contain all the facts and key words you need to remember. Try to keep to the same number of syllables for each line! Then, sing the words out loud as many times as you need to remember the lyrics. TIP: Go to youtube or karaoke site and use the backing track/instrumental so you can sing your lyrics along to the beat!
8. Alphabet Prep Challenge yourself to write a key fact, definition or key word for each letter of the alphabet. It works best with a single topic or area. Once you have completed it, memorise it using some of the techniques in this book. Finally, challenge yourself to recall all the information using the alphabet as your guide and prompt!
PENTATONIC
SCALE
A Musical Scale
containing
only 5 notes.
