Year 13 Reading Day Work

Tuesday 24th January 2017

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French Spanish Sociology History Maths Business Studies IT BTEC Creative and Media Cam Tech Sport Chemistry PE Health and Social Care Performance Studies Film Studies BTEC Production Arts Ethics English Literature English Language Geography Art Design and Technology: Resistant materials Design and Technology: Textiles Physics Biology Applied Science Music/Music Tech BTEC Engineering

Y13 French

1) Write an essay in French about :

« Tous les grands artistes provoquent des émotions fortes chez le public. » Analysez comment l’architecte/le metteur en scène/musicien/peintre que vous avez étudié cherche à provoquer des émotions fortes chez son public.

(40 marks)

2) Prepare the following speaking questions on «La Haine » :

1) Tu as regardé la Haine. Tu as aimé ? Pourquoi ?

2) Quels sont à ton avis les thèmes principaux ?

3) Est-ce que ce film est représentatif de la société française ? Pourquoi ?

4) Parle-moi des techniques cinématographiques utilisées.

5) Que penses-tu du choix des personnages ? Penses-tu que c’est un choix aléatoire ou réfléchi?

3) Click on those two links, create a (free) account and start learning the vocabulary. Follow Tlarrateguy.

A2 links

http://www.memrise.com/course/48039/aqa-a-level-french/

http://www.memrise.com/course/83835/a-level-french-la-haine/

Useful links

Resources and vocabulary : http://mfl.jimdo.com/resources/french-a2-level/

News and current affairs : http://www.20minutes.fr/

Revision : http://www.s-cool.co.uk/a-level/french

Conjugation of French verbs online: http://www.verb2verbe.com/

Date to submit tasks: Monday 27th January to TLA

Y13 Spanish

1) Write the following essay in Spanish about ‘La Casa de Bernarda Alba’ (Lorca):

“Refiriéndote a una o más obras o poemas, explica que nos revela(n) de las ideas del dramaturgo. Justifica tu punto de vista.”

2) Translate the following phrases into Spanish:

(a) A few years ago, we were going to buy a flat in Marbella, in the South of Spain. [2 marks]

(b) If we had followed our dream, we would have lost a lot of money. [2 marks]

(c) When the Spanish economy suffered a huge crisis, house prices fell. [2 marks]

(d) The politicians argued but they did nothing to solve the problems. [2 marks]

(e) Unfortunately, the economic situation will not improve in the future. [2 marks]

3) Translate this passage into English :

4) Open the link below, create a (free) account and start learning this vocabulary. You should practise all of the topics that you have covered so far as well as any additional topics that you have not yet covered. Your teacher will track your progress !

http://www.memrise.com/course/81718/a2-spanish-aqa/

Useful links :

Resources and vocabulary : http://mfl.jimdo.com/resources/spanish/

Grammar revision : http://www.studyspanish.com/tutorial.htm

Date to submit tasks : Monday 27th January to CLW

Y13 Sociology

Revision of Year 12

You should look over and add to your existing notes from year 12. Use the textbooks, own

knowledge and the website that accompanies the textbook (www.sociology.uk.net) to help you.

Family topics:

1) Divorce, marriage and cohabitation: Trends, sociological reasons for trends, theoretical

views on trends

2) Family diversity: Types, trends, sociological reasons for trends and theoretical views on

diversity

3) Functions of the family: Functionalism, Feminism, Marxism and personal life perspective

4) Social policy and the family: Impact, examples, theoretical perspectives

5) Domestic Division of Labour: March of progress vs. conflict perspectives

6) Childhood: social construction, western notions, cultural differences, historical, future of

childhood

7) Demography: Birth rates, death rates and migration.

Crime and Deviance

You need to revise all of the crime and deviance unit, this includes: Functionalist, Subcultural,

Marxist, Interactionist, Realist perspective, gender, ethnicity, social class, media, globalisation,

punishment and control.

You will also need to revise methods: Types, PET and wider sociological ideas connected to

positivism and interpretivisim.

For each topic spend equal amount of time and create a mind map or flash cards or glossary of key

terms for each topic. I would expect at least 5 topics covered. You should access your notes,

textbooks and the website that accompanies the textbook, www.sociology.uk.net

Beliefs

For the Beliefs section you will need to revise all of the Beliefs in Society topics covered so far,

including:

● Functionalist perspectives on the functions of belief in society, including Durkheim, Malinowski and Parsons.

● Marxist perspectives on the functions of belief in society, including Marxist and Neo-Marxist ideas.

● Feminist perspectives on the functions of belief in society, including Linda Woodhead’s ideas on religion as empowering women.

● The relationship between Religion and social groups, including Age, Gender and Ethnicity, and whether religion is a conservative force or force for change.

For each topic spend equal amount of time and create a mind map or flash cards or glossary of key

terms for each topic. I would expect at least 4 topics covered within the crime and deviance

section and 4 within the Beliefs in Society section. You should access your notes, textbook and the

website that accompanies the textbook.

SLW will check work on 26th January 2017

Y13 History

Coursework first draft deadline is due in on 27th February therefore you need to be working on

reading and writing. Remember you must cross reference historians and then provide judgement

on which historian you agree with.

Year 13 Maths

Year 13s have an exercise from their revision booklet to do for reading day: For reading day in Maths the students should complete the next exercise in their revision booklets. These are booklets prepared by the maths department and which provide exam questions based around each topic from a given unit. Year 13 complete Pure Core 3 exercise D

Year 13 Business Students will be working on Unit 17 Health and Safety or Unit 4 Accounting (all work on google classroom).

Health and Social Care - Units 18 and 11 tasks set on

google classroom.

Ext Task - please ensure all outstanding corrections

have been done ready for moderation.

Year 13 IT Students are required to work on their Game design unit. Each student will be at a different stage of the work. They should work on their current pass, merit or distinction criteria.

BTEC Creative Media Production

Year 13 TV&Film

Work on your production diary for your Multi Camera Programme

(e.g. storyboards, location recce's, Schedules, Call Sheets, Treatments, Risk Assessments)

example documents can be found here

http://www.guerillafilm.com/book-resources/the-guerilla-filmmakershandbook-pocketbook/contr

acts-and-paperwork/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/filmmaking/guide/production/legal-guideproduction-agreeme

nts#otherresources

Year 13 Games Design

Work on the guides explaining how you made each of your 3D models - these can be

presented as a google slideshow or a prezi.

For each of your 3D models you should have made a walk through/tutorial style guide to

how you produced it. You do not need to cover every step of the process but should try and

have at least 3 stages, with screenshots and then notes explaining the key software features

you used.

Here is a useful beginners guide book you can access for free if you’re getting stuck

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D%3A_Noob_to_Pro#Unit_2:_Basic_Modeling_and

_Shading

This tutorial is in the style I’d like you to aim for

http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2015/04/blender-tutorial-series-released-for-opensim/

Don’t forget a lot of tutorials are on blocked sites so it may be easier to access good

examples on your home network.

Year 13 Cam Tech Sport

All work is available on google classroom.

Mr West- Complete set tasks for fitness testing M1 and M2. Make sure all

corrections are up to date.

Miss McDonald- Make sure all work is upto date with sports massage

including M1 (Sport specific benefits of sports massage).

Miss Domingue- Complete final task for athletes lifestyle and make sure all

corrections are complete and submitted on google classroom.

Year 13 Chemistry Work

Your mock exam (w/b 30th January 2017) will cover the following topic areas: 3.4.1 Kinetics 3.4.2 Equilibria 3.4.3 Acids and Bases 3.4.4 Nomenclature and Isomerism in Organic Chemistry 3.4.5 Compounds Containing the Carbonyl Group 3.4.6 Aromatic Chemistry 3.4.7 Amines 3.4.8 Amino Acids 3.4.9 Polymers 3.4.10 Organic Synthesis and Analysis 3.4.11 Structure Determination 3.5.2 Periodicity In preparation for this you will complete the June 2014 CHEM4 paper and question 3 from June 2014 CHEM5. These can be accessed on the AQA website or from the pupil shared drive. You can then mark your work using the online mark schemes. http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/subjects/AQA-CHEM4-QP-JUN14.PDF http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/subjects/AQA-CHEM5-QP-JUN14.PDF The deadline for this work is Friday 27th January 2017.

Year 13 A2 PE

Complete essay on Tom Brown and the impact of Dr Arnold on Public Schools and the

development of sport.

Complete the work set on Ergogenic aids which is in google classroom.

Revise.

Cambridge Technical in Performing Arts: Introductory Diploma (singles): Research your optional unit, read and learn lines for ‘Our Country’s Good’ Subsidiary Diploma (Singles Plus): Rehearse repertoire pieces for performance Extended Diploma (Doubles): Rehearse and prepare improvisations fopr performance

Y13 Ethics: 13E

Our Mock exam will consist of a full Philosophy of Religion paper,

Therefore you need to revise all of the Philosophy work from last term. This includes:

● The Problem of Evil, including Augustine, Iraneaus and Hick.

● Religious Language, including the Logical Positivists, Hare, Flew and Swinburne, and the

relationship between Faith and Reason.

● The Ontological Argument, including Anselm, Descartes and the Modern arguments.

(Remember: You do not need to revise any medical Ethics – they fall under the Moral

Decision-Making paper).

For each topic you should spend an equal amount of time. I expect you to create mind maps or

flashcards, as well as a glossary of key terms and thinkers for each topic. You should use your

notes to do this, and textbooks if you would like.

I would also like you to write yourself a guide to answering AO1/AO2 questions, including what

should or shouldn’t be included in your answers, and any specific targets that you have been given

for each as part of your assignment feedback. This should not take long, and can be in the form of

bullet-points.

I will be checking your work the first lesson back

Year 13 English Literature

Blake essay: Compare the 2 'Holy Thursday' poems in terms of how the theme of social and political protest is presented in the two poems.

Year 13 English Language Reading Day Task

Child Language Acquisition - 1 hour

1. Re-read the guide to how to write an essay about Child

Language Acquisition Data

2. Annotate the data and write as much as you can in

response to the following question:

“Read Text 5 and answer the following question. Analyse and

explore how the children and their mother use language to

interact with each other and the role such family interactions

have in shaping language development”.

We will be going through this on Wednesday 25/01/17

Language Variation Over Time - 1 hour (on Google

Classroom)

Please write up the letter on the two letters which we

prepared in class last week. Hand in on Wednesday 25/01/17

via Google Classroom

A Guide to writing an essay on Child Language Acquisition

1. What are the key contextual factors influencing the conversation?

Consider:

● Relationship between the speakers – how well do they know the person they are speaking to? ● Status of the participants – is there a formal or informal hierarchy? ● Setting – where does the conversation take place? Is this important? ● Topic – what are they talking about? Do they use field specific lexis? ● Purpose – what is the point of the conversation? What are the speakers trying to achieve? ● Comfort – are they comfortable and relaxed or uncomfortable and nervous or guarded? ● Spontaneous v Crafted – is it completely spontaneous or does it show some evidence of planning and

crafting?

2. Consider the child’s likely or typical stage of language development. How do you know?

3. Write about the child’s linguistic competencies. Try to focus on what they can do as well as what they

have not yet developed.

Lexis/Semantics Which words appear and what do these words relate to in the child’s world? What do the words mean? How many different words appear? Which word classes are used and why? Do the children grasp the meanings of words used in the conversation? Examples of overextension/underextension/mismatch statements?

Grammar How complex are the sentences they are beginning to form? Analyse clause elements if possible Can they use inflectional suffixes i.e. plurals, possessives, tense? Any patterns in this? Can the child ask questions? How do they do this? How does the child express the concept of negation? Are there any examples of overgeneralisations (e.g. “I falled over (also known as virtuous errors).

Phonology Do the children create sounds which represent adult speech? If not, are there any patterns to the errors made (e.g. deletion of unstressed syllables, addition, assimilation etc)?

Pragmatics How is turn-taking used? Are they co-operative? Polite? Do the adults play a role in modelling police and face-saving acts? Does the child understand more indirect uses of language? (can they infer? Do they understand humour used?) Why do the children use particular statements? (Halliday and Dore’s functions).

4. Child Directed Speech: Think, too, about the adult’s uses of language (if there is an adult in your

transcript).

5. Work out which theorists’ work could be drawn upon to support your discussion of CDS or of the child’s

speech.

Y13 – Geography - Reading Day – January 24th 2016

You have some time today to prepare for your mock exams which will cover questions from the

FOUR topics which make up Unit 3 of the A2 course.

You have completed FOUR units so far in the A2 course. These are:

1. Water conflicts 2. Biodiversity under threat 3. Superpower geographies 4. Development

Please visit the following page on the Edexcel website:

http://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel-a-levels/geography-2008.coursematerials.html#filterQuery=category:Pearson-UK:Category%2FTeaching-and-learning-materials&filterQuery=category:Pearson-UK:Document-Type%2FTopic-support

If this link is too hard to find - just search Edexcel A level (2008) Geography - go to ‘course materials’ then to ‘teaching and learning materials’, then scroll down (you might need to press ‘show more’ until you find the 4 powerpoints which relate to our Unit 3 topics which I listed above. Use these to make notes and fill in areas which you perceive as being gaps in your knowledge. The Powerpoints are listed as being ‘support and guidance - Unit 3 - Topic etc’.

Hand your notes to Mr Pollock on Mon 30th January.

Year 13 Art students

Tuesday 24th January 2017 Reading Day

Unit 3: Personal Investigation

AQA Art and Design.

● This a practical unit with written elements in which candidates are expected to develop a personal

investigation based on an idea, issue, concept or theme leading to a finished piece or pieces.

● The practical elements should be linked with some aspect of contemporary or past practice of artists, designers

or craftspeople.

● Candidates should be selective when deciding what to submit for this unit.

Quality of Written Communication

As the quality of written communication is an important aspect of this unit candidates should consider the

following points:

● Written material of a critical, analytical nature can be included in a variety of forms, such as a personal study, a

journal, a log, reports on gallery visits or an evaluation and reflection on candidates' work and that of others.

● Written material should be no less than 1000 and no more than 3000 words.

● Images should be used to support the written work.

● Sources should be identified and a bibliography and list of visits should be included.

● Candidates should demonstrate that they are aware of the discipline of working within given word counts.

Candidates must also:

● ensure that text is legible and spelling, punctuation and grammar are accurate so that meaning is clear

● select and use a form and style of writing appropriate to purpose and to complex subject matter

● organise information clearly and coherently, using specialist vocabulary when appropriate.

Why did you choose the project? How /why was this project personal to you? Did you realise your intentions? What was the concept/message on your work? What, who, where, why? Give examples of the inspiration used in your project and final piece. eg. Artists, photos, quotes, people, ideas, places, literature etc. Did you visit galleries/museums/artists workshops? What have you learned about materials, techniques, processes? What have you learned about your strengths? How did you use your preparation time/time management? What went well? If you could extend this project, which way would you take it? If you could do another 2D/3D piece, what would you do? The finished essay must be handed into Mrs Wallace by Monday 30th January 2017

Design and Technology: Graphic Products Year 13 Teacher: J. Linnell

All students were issued with a list of revision topics from the A2 Level Edexcel Product Design

specification on Tuesday 22nd November 2016 in preparation for their Mock exams in January/

February 2017.

Students must use the exam papers and the mark schemes that we have already studied to

prepare for the exam. Particular emphasis should be placed on using the exam board’s mark

schemes to generate their own concise answers using subject specific language and terminology.

Students have purchased an appropriate subject specific textbook and they will need to do online

research using a variety of websites including:

List of useful websites and revision materials:

Websites http://www.technologystudent.com/ http://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel-a-levels/design-technology-product-design-2008.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB7mbeAb6nc https://www.tes.com/resources/search/?subjects=GB%7C0%7CDesign%2C%20engineering%20and%20technology%7C&subjects=GB%7C1%7CDesign%2C%20engineering%20and%20technology%7CGraphic%20and%20product%20design%7C&subjects=GB%7C1%7CDesign%2C%20engineering%20and%20technology%7CResistant%20materials%7C&years=GB%7C0%7C16%2B%7C&q=product%20design&sortBy=highestRated

Design and Technology: Textiles Year 13Teacher: L Gordon

Textiles Drop Down Day.

Please use the list below and select 2 topics to revise.

Year 13 topics

Revision list

● Fashion periods from 1900 ● Historical textile products ● Technological developments ● Fashion promotion and marketing ● Product life cycle ● BSI and testing ● Fibre properties ● Synthetic fibres ● Pattern cutting ● Construction methods

Students must use the exam papers and the mark schemes that they have already studied to

prepare for the exam. Particular emphasis should be placed on using the exam board’s mark

schemes to generate their own concise answers using subject specific language and terminology.

Students have purchased an appropriate subject specific text book and they will need to do online

research using a variety of websites including Wikipedia and the Britannica School Encyclopaedia

link.

L Gordon

Teacher of Textiles

Year 13 Physics:

Please complete the exam paper that you have been given by Dr. McInally

6th Form reading day – Biology(Y13)

Topics to be revised

All of unit 4

Populations

Energy

Photosynthesis and respiration

Cycling

Genetics

How long to spend on each topic

You will spend different lengths of time on each topic depending on how well you understand it.

Ensure you do not avoid a hard topic and focus on easy ones to make you feel good.

During a single day I suggest you spend three hours revising biology. In preparation for the mocks

in total I would suggest you need to revise until you know all the facts off by heart and are

consistently getting high marks and correct answers on practise papers. This will take different

students different lengths of time. Overall I would recommend roughly an hour a night from the

beginning of January onwards.

Tasks for students to do so that they are not just “reading back through notes”. Ways to memorise content

● Flashcards ● Mindmaps ● Condensing notes ● Reading a different source for the same topic

Ways to consolidate understanding

● Past paper questions ● Using mark schemes available at AQA. ● Using your text book to answer how science works questions.

Useful websites etc.

www.aqa.org.uk A date when the work will be checked. First lesson back after the reading day.

6th Form reading – Applied Science

It is essential that you are now up to date with coursework

deadlines you must use this day to get up to date with everything on

this sheet.

Year 13

Unit 7 – All the sections up to date from your plan up to planning your presentation. You should

now be working on planning the presentation and the hand-out.

Unit 9 – All three sections complete and handed in ready to go into final folder

The fitness program

The sports science job profile

The sports injury section

Year 13 Music

So far, we have completed six of the twelve set works that you will be studying this year. The notes that you have got are fantastic – detailed and well presented – but you need to revise these pieces. Over the course of your reading week, I would like you to listen to all the pieces that we have done, following the score in your anthologies. Read and read again all the notes that we have put down and add any additional annotation to the score (IN PENCIL) as you see fit. Remember, there are six pieces still to do and time is tight due to our shared lessons with the year 12s. We may not be coming back to these pieces in class until after Easter, so the more revision you can do now on them, the more that they will stick in your minds. This is probably the most different task out of all your subjects – listening to music. So make yourselves comfortable, have the score and your notes to hand and then… listen .

Year 13 Engineering

Please complete all of the work which Mr. Goan will set you this week. He will talk to you

about this in lessons.

This would be a really good time to ensure that your IVA assignment is up to date. Now that

you have started the manufacturing process you can update your diary including any pictures

you may have taken over the last few weeks. You certainly should have a detailed working

drawing produced in Techsoft or Sketchup.

You also have the opportunity to catch up on any outstanding assignments from past units.