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14/02/25

📣 Our Enrichment Timetable for Spring Half Term 2 is now available to view via our website - https://t.co/aJbuBWiXJs pic.twitter.com/fWxOBV5Xvm

14/02/25

A reminder that the online booking system goes live at 6pm today for our Year 7 Progress Evening being held in the Main Hall on 26th February 2025. Full details and a user guide can be found our website here: https://t.co/b1F9Y1AQdY pic.twitter.com/ZLuudjQ4RX

13/02/25

🎼Our talented Year 7 students have been strumming up a storm in their Music lessons this week, showcasing their hard work and creativity in their ukulele assessments! 👏 pic.twitter.com/X42P4e91S5

12/02/25

Some of our Year 7 students had an amazing time taking part in the Topical Talk Festival, a project by The ! We’re so proud of their enthusiasm in becoming informed, confident global citizens! pic.twitter.com/WnAVK3uu2K

11/02/25

Good Luck to our Year 11 Drama students preparing for their final performance exam tomorrow!🍀Dress rehearsals look like they're going well!👏 pic.twitter.com/joEHjbqKfk

07/02/25

As ECTs we want you to be experts in your classrooms, but great teachers also manage behaviour, model good character and support student wellbeing. Respect from the children comes from strong personal and professional conduct, not just good lessons. #teachers pic.twitter.com/fcHP8hnnO2

07/02/25

📣 Don't miss out on all the latest news here at de Stafford School! Find our Weekly Bulletin on our website - https://t.co/RCb3EXoOgs Wishing you all a lovely weekend! 🥳 pic.twitter.com/oNvlcoBGKZ

06/02/25

What a beautiful and chilly morning here at de Stafford! 🥶🌞 Even the daffodils have popped out to say hello. 🌱 Spring is just around the corner! pic.twitter.com/fXGidtfToy

04/02/25

Our Student Council recently came together to share their thoughts on our catering provision with Taylor Shaw. The discussion was filled with fantastic ideas and valuable feedback! 👏 pic.twitter.com/q7ahQqHKR6

31/01/25

We had a fantastic time celebrating Lunar New Year in our Canteen yesterday afternoon! The sweet and sour chicken was absolutely delicious! pic.twitter.com/6OI1l5xHgL

28/01/25

📢 Year 11 Parents and Carers - please remember to order your son/daughter's Leavers' Hoodie and Yearbook by Tuesday 20 February 2025! To place orders, please visit the following website https://t.co/QEXurmN3r8 and enter our unique school ID : 25299YR11

27/01/25

Year 9 had the privilege of hearing from Gerry Hahlo, the son of a Holocaust survivor, as part of . Thank you, Gerry, for sharing your powerful story. Today, we remember and honour the victims, learn from history, and stand united against hate. pic.twitter.com/DLEMSAPkKe

24/01/25

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22/01/25

Yesterday, we had the privilege of welcoming Jack Pepper, a former GLF student, to work with our GCSE Music students. Jack, an accomplished composer and broadcaster, spent the day sharing invaluable tips on how to approach writing music. The experience was truly inspiring! pic.twitter.com/tDsTI8VQcd

21/01/25

Some of our Year 11 cohort are putting their 'Map it, Shrink it, Quiz it, Link it' strategies into practice during an English Literature lesson, revising the Power and Conflict cluster poetry in preparation for the upcoming mock exams. ✍️ pic.twitter.com/bnXKUoc48f

17/01/25

💜 A big thank you to our Year 11's and parents who attended our Access Arrangements meeting on Wednesday afternoon. It was a great opportunity to discuss how these concessions support academic progress and improve GCSE outcomes when used effectively and consistently. pic.twitter.com/rYp9SUSPLb

17/01/25

📣YEAR 8 PROGRESS EVENING A reminder that the online booking system goes live at 6pm today for our Year 8 Progress Evening being held in the Main Hall on 29th January 2025. Full details and a user guide can be found our website here: https://t.co/b1F9Y1Bo3w pic.twitter.com/7QmOUq4Rvo

14/01/25

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08/01/25

Do you know someone thinking of a career in teaching? We have opportunities to train to teach and many others across the network. Please re-post and lets work together to fill these vacancies! info.org pic.twitter.com/ri4TcjzfSh

06/12/24

📢We are recruiting! Further details and job description are available on Eteach and can be accessed via the link: https://t.co/CCJg56EblN pic.twitter.com/QZ0YunVENt

Year 11 Revision Day October 2024

Year 11 Revision Day was held on the 21st October. If you missed the presentation, we have shared the resources from the parents session for you below.

It was a very successful day in which students were exposed to 5 main topics:

  1. Managing your  time: How to create a revision timetable
  2. Exam practice paper folders and how to prepare for your exams
  3. Revision techniques – How to use flash cards
  4. Revision techniques - How to use Mind maps
  5. Elevate session - How to get the best out of your exams and what to do on the day

 

Managing your time: How to create a revision timetable

This session was focused around how to plan a revision timetable. There are 3 key steps when preparing a timetable. WHEN – WHAT – HOW

WHEN – When you should be revising: Plan your week so that you can see the gaps in which you can put on a revision session at the same time keeping a balance between study and free time.

WHAT – Using the topics list that have been provided in your booklet, identify what subject and most importantly what topic you will work on in that revision session.

HOW- Using the strategies that were covered during the day (Map it – Shrink it - Quiz it – Link it / practice papers / Mind maps / Flash cards / Sparks / Educake etc) identify how you are going to revise for the revision session.

Revision session should usually be around 25-30 min long and then it is important to have a break. Then the next session can start. More information can be found here on the school website.

Exam practice paper folders and how to prepare for your exams

This session discussed the rationale and science behind revision. It all started with finishing the lyrics to Jingle Bells, All I want for Christmas and an iconic Whitney Houston song. The point is, all students could remember the lyrics, because they had heard them before, many times, but more significantly they had committed the lyrics to their long-term memory through ‘rehearsal’ and ‘practice’, essentially singing along. The best way to prepare for anything is to practice it, and to practice it with the same expectations and intensity as when you need to perform under pressure. In our session we handed our folders with top tips, past papers and mark schemes (other resources will be accessible on SharePoint). Students RAG rated a science paper, and so we have done the hardest thing, started the revision process, identifying questions that require a bit of research before we can practice. Students demonstrated an excellent understanding of how to practice and seem keen to get started. The final thing we talked about, were creating habits of success. Viewing the exam hall as a place where they excel and perform to the best of their ability, this is because they are prepared, but also because when they practice there, they practice how they want to perform, committing all of their good habits to instinct, like re-reading and BUGing questions, re-reading answers, using one more connective, highlighting and annotating a source etc.

Revision techniques – How to use flash cards

This session was focussed on how to Shrink It and Quiz It. We focussed on how we can covert large sums of text into meaningful flashcards for revision. We did this my modelling it with a biology knowledge organiser. I explained to them how to determine what’s useful and how to categorise the information on the flashcards to make them most useful. After this, students learned how to use the flashcards. We discussed having partners or parents quiz them on the flashcards and we practised this in the session. We discussed useful questions that would maximise the flashcards, such as procedural or fact-based questions rather than ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ ones.  We also discussed ‘Flip and Fetch’ as a way of doing rote memorisation of substantive core knowledge and practised this also.

Revision techniques - How to use Mind maps

This session was focussed on how to Map It and Quiz It. We focussed on mind maps for the Map It part whereby the students watched an example being modelled based on Physics knowledge and then were given the opportunity to try their own based on straight line graphs which lead to everyone inputting while I modelled on the visualiser. We discussed elements of mind maps that students may not have considered previously like linking work with arrows, the use of colour, using boxes to highlight important concepts. Once students had been given to study their mind maps, they turned over to see how much they could remember. This was then linked to Quiz IT where I showed the students how Chat GPT could generate very specific questions for them to quiz their knowledge. While doing this I reminded students that they must be specific and state that the questions are to be for GCSE, give the subject and the exam board i.e. GCSE maths AQA.

The Parents after school session

This session focused upon supporting parents with how to prepare and help their child in the run up and during the exams. The PowerPoint is available for parents to access below.

Documents

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Elevate Parent Seminar 2024 25th Oct 2024 Download
Workshop 1 Managing your time Creating a... 25th Oct 2024 Download
Workshop 2 Dealing with stress and prepa... 25th Oct 2024 Download
Workshop 3 How to revise Y10 and Y11 ses... 25th Oct 2024 Download
Workshop 4 Quiz it Link it Map it Shrink... 25th Oct 2024 Download