Year 10 Summer Work

Mathematics

The best way to secure your knowledge in Maths is through regular practice. We recommend completing the 5 a Day worksheets on CorbettMaths for at least 4 days a week (each one will only take 10 minutes).

• Choose the right level depending on your group (see below), and then scroll down to find the worksheet for the current date.

1. G1 - Higher plus

2. G2/B1- Higher

3. G3/B2 - Foundation plus

4. G4/B3 - Foundation

5. B4 - Numeracy

• Write down your working on paper, and try to answer as much as you can.

• When you've finished, check your work using the answers which are also provided.

• If you find a topic that you're struggling with, go to Maths Watch and check out the video.

English

• We recommend completing the Pick 'n' Mix recall questions for at least 4 days a week (each one will only take 10 minutes). You will also find the quotation challenges useful for Macbeth, A Christmas Carol, An Inspector Calls and Power & Conflict poetry.

• You can also complete mini mocks for Literature and Language (Language Paper 1 / Language Paper 2 / Q5 Writing)

• If you find a topic that you're struggling with, go to YouTube and check out the videos by Mr Bruff.

Combined Science

Factual recall of key facts and equations from the exam specification is really important in Science. We recommend:

• Completing your daily goal on Tassomai at least 4 days a week (it will only take you 10-15 minutes)

• Downloading the free 23 Physics Equation app to your phone and spending 10 minutes at least 4 days a week practising recalling the equations. Select your exam (GCSE), exam board (AQA) and option (combined science) on the home page when you first use it. I recommend you select the topic 'Need to learn' or 'Paper 1' or 'Paper 2'.

• Watching a video about one of the required practicals here once a week.

• Completing short assignments on Seneca Learning on Paper 1 topics you struggle with (they will only take 5-10 minutes)

Biology

Factual recall of key facts from the exam specification is really important in Science. We recommend:

• Completing your daily goal on Tassomai at least 4 days a week (it will only take you 10-15 minutes)

• Watching a video about one of the required practicals here once a week.

• Completing short assignments on Seneca Learning on Paper 1 topics you struggle with (they will only take 5-10 minutes)

Chemistry

Factual recall of key facts from the exam specification is really important in Science. We recommend:

• Completing your daily goal on Tassomai at least 4 days a week (it will only take you 10-15 minutes)

• Watching a video about one of the required practicals here once a week.

• Completing short assignments on Seneca Learning on Paper 1 topics you struggle with (they will only take 5-10 minutes)

Physics

Factual recall of key facts and equations from the exam specification is really important in Science. We recommend:

• Completing your daily goal on Tassomai at least 4 days a week (it will only take you 10-15 minutes)

• Downloading the free 23 Physics Equation app to your phone and spending 10 minutes at least 4 days a week practising recalling the equations. Select your exam (GCSE), exam board (AQA), option (Physics) and tier (Higher) on the home page when you first use it.

• Watching a video about one of the required practicals here once a week.

• Completing short assignments on Seneca Learning on Paper 1 topics you struggle with (they will only take 5-10 minutes)

Art and Textiles

You are to continue to produce work for your individual coursework project. This should include a range of drawings and paintings, supported by artist research and final pieces. You all have individual targets set by staff, so please use these to add to an improve your project. Please remember this will count for 60% of your final GCSE grade.

Business

To support you in building confidence in your business knowledge you should:

• Use BBC bitesize to revise units 1 and 4 click here

• Complete revision questions on Seneca Learning from the topics you have covered so far. These topics will include, marketing, human resources and business in the real world.

• Have a go at some practice exam questions click here

Computing

• We have worked hard on covering all the theory for Paper 1 in Lock-down, and covered Paper 2 in lessons. To practice your exam skills and get used to answering exam questions work through the 6-a-day question papers. Aim for 3 or 4 per week. Attempt ALL the questions before checking your answers. The ones you got wrong are your 'weaker' areas and need some extra work. Re-read your notes on the answer sheets and do further revision for these topics.

• Work through the assignment on Seneca using this link. Aim for a couple of hour long sessions per week.

• Refresh your coding skills in Python ready for the programming project using this link.

Design & Technology

As part of both your theory and NEA work you are required to investigate the work of others. In order to prepare for this you will need to select two designers and two design companies from the list below and investigate, analyse and evaluate their work.

Designers

• Harry Beck

• Marcel Breuer

• Norman Foster

• Charles Rennie Macintosh

• Aldo Rossi

• Ettore Sottsass

• Phillipe Starke

Design Companies

• Alessi

• Apple

• Braun

• Dyson

You could create a profile for those that you select that might include: Evaluation of the materials used, images of products, explanations of production and manufacturing techniques, evaluations of design ethos, your own sketches of the products, analysis of products, how has the designer/company developed and progressed over the years? etc.

Be creative, there is no necessity to include mountains of text, so make it interesting!

Enterprise

To build your knowledge ready for the Enterprise exam you should:

• Use BBC bitesize to revise marketing click here. Focus on segmentation and market research.

• Use BBC bitesize to revise finance click here. Focus on costs, revenue and profit and go back through break-even.

• For all of the above, watch the videos and have a go at the section quizzes.

French

• Refresh your memory of key grammar and keywords using GCSE BBC Bitesize French here.

• Complete grammar revision by logging in to Kerboodle French and clicking resources. You will find a lot of grammar revision work to go through.

• Complete practice papers by logging in to your Kerboodle French, Select assessment and you will find a bank of different practice papers there to complete.

• To have fun learning and keeping your vocabulary up to date, work through the tasks on DuoLingo.

Functional Skills

(Maths)

• It has been recommended you complete the 5 a Day worksheets on CorbettMaths for at least 4 days a week (each one will only take 10 minutes) for your maths work.

• We also recommend the same to improve your maths skills for functional skills, you may therefore complete 7 in a week.

• Focus on the numeracy section but you can try and challenge yourself with some from the foundation section also.

(English)

• We recommend that you use BBC Bitesize to look at a range of topics for Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening and complete the practise activities.

• There are also a range of activities that you can download and complete independently for revision on the Skills Workshop website.

Geography

Factual recall of key facts and learning Case Studies is really important in Geography. We recommend:

• Making revision aids for your Case Study examples.

• Refreshing you memory of key facts and keywords using GCSE bitesize here

• Completing short assignments on Seneca Learning from the topics you have covered so far. That might be Climate Change, Dynamic Development, Urban Futures or Global Hazards.

German

• Refresh your memory of key grammar and keywords using the GCSE German Bitesize here.

• Complete grammar revision by logging in to Kerboodle German and clicking resources. You will find a lot of grammar revision work to go through.

• Complete practice papers by logging in to your Kerboodle German, Select assessment and you will find a bank of different practice papers there to complete.

• To have fun learning and keeping your vocabulary up to date, and complete the tasks on DuoLingo.

Health & Social Care

Proof read the pieces of LO2 coursework you have completed this term and check your spelling, punctuation and grammar.

Create a bibliography of all key textbooks or websites that you have used to help you find information that you have used to write your coursework.

History

You've already covered three quarters of the content you will be examined on next summer. It's vital that you keep that knowledge fresh in your mind. We recommend using the Monkey Monkey revision website to regularly check what you can remember. Aim to earn 50 bananas a week! It has sections on the subjects that you have done so far (Health and the People, Elizabethan England and Germany) but the fourth topic is different to the one we do. This will also help you fill in any gaps in your knowledge if you do it regularly.

Hospitality & Catering

As part of your controlled assessment for Unit 2 you will be required to plan, prepare, cook and present a 2 course meal, this could be a starter and a main or a main and a dessert. Over summer it is vital that you continue to build upon your practical skills. I would like you to prepare and cook at least 4 dishes of your choice. Consider what skills you will use and how you can present the dishes to make them look appetising.

Here are some useful websites to find recipes;

BBC good food

Food a fact of life

Once you have cooked your selected dishes, please take a photograph and complete the dish evaluation sheet.

ICT - Creative iMedia

• R081 is all about Pre-Production documents. Over the summer you can work on your skills by completing this project for Jem and Benny's ice cream. Our suggestion is to do 2 of the 4 tasks each week.

• Work through one of the past exam papers below per week. Attempt ALL questions and then use the marking schemes to check your answers. Any questions answered incorrectly show weaker areas that need working on and you should revise these areas more thoroughly before attempting the next paper.

  • • January 2014 Question Paper & January 2014 Marking Scheme

    • January 2015 Question Paper & January 2015 Marking Scheme

    • June 2015 Question Paper & June 2015 Marking Scheme

Media

• Continue to use BBC Bitesize to revisit theory and subject terminology.

• You can type the name of a set text followed by AWS into Google for in-depth exam board analysis of the set text.

Music

The Summer Break presents us all with a great opportunity to improve our core skills in; Listening, Composition, and Performance.

• For Listening; make sure you are critically listening to as much music as possible, you should be critically listening to music from your own personal taste as well as music in the Q3 Academy Spotify Playlists and assessing how they all use the DR SMITH musical elements to create the conventions of their genre.

• For Performing; make sure you are practising your instrument, voice, and/or performance skills, daily. I would recommend you rehearse for at least 20 minutes a day or around 2 hours per week.

• For Composition; use Band Lab to maintain and improve your composition skills, set yourself challenges to compose short pieces in new styles and genres. If you are lucky enough to have GarageBand installed on any of your devices, make you use of this also.

PE

• Ensure that you have completed all relevant coursework tasks.

• Make sure that your coursework checklist is complete and sent back to your teaching staff.

• Test you knowledge on paper 1 by accessing past papers on the Year 10 Physical Education eLearning Hub page.

• Test you knowledge on paper 2 by accessing past papers on the Year 10 Physical Education eLearning Hub page.

Performing Arts

A good way to develop your skills in Performing Arts is to watch live performance work as often as possible and consider the impact that the performance and design aspects had on you as an audience member. Below is a performance of Macbeth that is currently available for free online (there are lots more free performances if you keep your eyes open). I have selected this performance in particular as you can compare it to the 2018 RSC version that we watched in lessons.

Try and watch at least one theatrical performance and make notes on aspects such as - the type of stage used, the actors' use of characterisation, the use of costume design, the use of set design, the use of sound and lighting and any practitioner influences that you notice (Stanislavski's Naturalism or Brecht's Epic Theatre).

View a 90 minute version of Macbeth at the Shakespeare Globe Theatre here.

Photography

You are to continue to complete and improve all the work your have done to date. This should include a range photographs, techniques, supported by artist research and documentation of techniques. Please remember this will count for 60% of your final GCSE grade.

Psychology

To consolidate your knowledge of the Brain and Neuropsychology topic that you have learnt via eLearning this term you have the option to complete the tasks within this revision booklet to help you revise.

Alternatively, you can follow this web link to the online textbook and turn to Chapter 7 where you can click on the icons labelled 'Q' for multiple choice quizzes on the topic or 'W' for further web links to online videos and websites to help you review what we have covered so far.

Religious Studies

It is very important that you keep going over what we have learnt so far to ensure you have the best chance of doing well in the exam. I recommend you complete the following:

• Watch revision videos and complete the quizzes on the BBC Bitesize here

• Christian Beliefs is one of the most important topics to revise. Complete the work book using the revision flashcards

• Make revision material of topics we have covered so far. This could include: posters, flash cards, revision notes, key words, diagrams, etc.

Sociology

It is very important that you keep going over what we have learned so far to ensure you have the best chance of doing well in the exam. I recommend you complete the following:

• Consolidate your knowledge for The Family topic by completing the following workbook

• Check your understanding and have a go at some practice exam questions

• Self-assess your answers using the mark scheme for the practice paper

• Create revision material of topics we have covered so far. This could include: posters, flash cards, revision notes, key words, diagrams, etc.

Spanish

• Refresh your memory of key grammar and keywords using the GCSE Spanish BBC Bitesize here.

• Complete grammar revision by logging in to Kerboodle Spanish and clicking resources. You will find a lot of grammar revision work to go through.

• Complete practice papers by logging in to your Kerboodle Spanish, Select assessment and you will find a bank of different practice papers there to complete.

• To have fun learning and keeping your vocabulary up to date, and complete the tasks on DuoLingo.

Statistics

• Make notes on the summary pages of the chapters 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 from the textbook you have been provided with.

• Notes should include copying down definitions and tips.

• If you do not have the book please try to arrange to pop in before the summer to collect.

• If you cannot collect the books then you may need to use the internet to make your notes the topics which are:

  • Chapter 1. Collection of data e.g. primary, continuous, etc.

  • Chapter 2. Graphs and charts

  • Chapter 3. Averages and measures of spread

  • Chapter 5. Time series

  • Chapter 6. Probability

Work Skills

Read through the specification showed on the video on the first week. Look through the topic list and see if there is a specific topic that interests you. Show on a powerpoint that you can meet all the criteria outlined as this will give you bonus learning hours and may make the difference between a level 2 and level 3!