Supporting your child's learning at home - Saint John Houghton Catholic Voluntary Academy

Supporting your child’s Learning at Home

Key Stage 3

In Year 7, 8 and 9 it supporting your child’s learning at home helps to maintain and improve academic progress. Ways in which you can help your child are:

Offer support to complete Hegarty (Sparx) Maths homework tasks.
Offer to support Science homework – Century Science on-line platform.
Encourage your child to read and compete their reading log for English

In addition, in Years 7, 8 and 9 each subject area has a topic knowledge Driver in student exercise books that can be used to learn ‘sticky knowledge’ from and subject specific vocabulary. Learning this key knowledge will support all students in remembering and knowing more as the academic year progresses and with each of their subject assessments.

Year 10

Useful links to general school work are below and all students will always have weekly Sparx Maths tasks, Science Century questions and English Reading to complete. We would encourage all students in Year 10 to begin their revision early, as there are exams in Pentecost term every year and Y11 Mock GCSE’s Advent term.

SJH GCSE Revision Booklet

https://www.theuniguide.co.uk/advice/ucas-application/revision-exams-making-the-grade

https://www.bcu.ac.uk/exams-and-revision/best-ways-to-revise/best-revision-techniques

https://lifemoreextraordinary.com/revision/create-revision-flashcards-boost-memory/

https://getrevising.co.uk/

Year 11

For all Year 11 students the GCSE Exams are fast approaching and we know that many parents/carers want to support their child with effective revision. Students often struggle to revise and can put this vital task off until it feels overwhelming. Please come and talk to us if you want support as a parent/carer or if you are student – Mrs Hartharn & Mrs McDermott.

Below is a list of resources Year 11 students access, if they have no work/ require extra revision material. This includes the school guide to revision:

GCSE Revision Booklet

Other Key revision resources:

English-SJHEnglish channel on Youtube/ bbcbitesize.co.uk

https://sparxmaths.com/
CENTURY | Online Learning | English, Maths and Science science platform used widely by students at Saint John Houghton
Seneca Online free revision for most GCSE courses, including Eduqas Geography B and History AQA exam specifications.

RE- Dynamic Learning/ Eduqas Religious Studies Specification. Use your RE Homework revision booklets – any questions see Ms Bailey.

Geography- GCSE bbcbitesize- Follow the links to – Eduqas Geography

Art- Continue with drawings (discuss with teacher)

Business-www.twoteachers.co.uk

Computing- ‘craig n dave’ website

PE- bbcbitesize-OCR

Design/ Food – Use booklets provided by teacher

Engineering- Discuss with class teacher

French- Kerboodle

Spanish- Kerboodle

Music- bbcbitesize (OCR music

Useful Websites

CENTURY | Online Learning | English, Maths and Science science platform used widely by students at Saint John Houghton
Seneca Online – Revision and homework
Twinkl – Teacher created planning and resources. Currently 1 month free when you enter code – UKTWINKLHELPS
The Learning Scientists – Six strategies for effective learning
ScratchCreative – Computer programming
TED-Ed – TED Ed’s mission is to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Everything we do supports learning — A growing library of animated videos and lessons
Duolingo Learn – Languages for free
TKSST – The Kid Should See This is an unprecedented collection of 4,300+ kid-friendly videos, curated for teachers and parents who want to share smarter, more meaningful media in the classroom and at home.
Kahoot – Game-based learning pllatform that makes it easy to create, share and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes.