Revision sessions for Modern Languages will take place over two days of the Easter holidays to help improve the exam performance of our GCSE and A Level cohort.
We will concentrate on using a range of activities including revision techniques; building Knowledge Organisers; analysing past papers; exam technique; focus on key skills for listening, speaking, reading and writing; and recreating assessment tasks in exam conditions. All these elements should help to prepare our pupils more effectively for the challenges of the final exams.
The final speaking assessments will take place just after Easter, so participation at these sessions would be invaluable for all pupils who wish to excel in these exams.
The sessions will take place in T12, in Modern Languages. The schedule is the following:
Monday 30th March
French GCSE 9.00am – 12.00pm
French A Level 1.00pm – 3.00pm
Tuesday 31st March
Spanish GCSE 9.00am – 12.00pm
Spanish A Level 1.00pm – 2.30pm
Italian GCSE 2.30pm – 4.00pm
Message from Nr Naish, Head of MFL
All Modern Foreign Language pupils taking exams this year are welcome to these sessions. I would highly recommend that if you can attend, then you should do so. The efforts that we make now, before the final exams, will make a lasting impact on the exam performances of our pupils and, consequently, on their life chances.
I would also advise pupils to use online resources, such as www.memrise.com, which is a free online vocabulary learning tool. It has all the vocabulary needed for both the GCSE and A Level exams for both French and Spanish, and I would highly recommend using it, especially before sitting the Listening and Reading papers, which require consistent knowledge of the set vocabulary. The lists can be found at the following links:
(AQA) French GCSE:
https://www.memrise.com/course/1199399/aqa-9-1-gcse-french-theme-based-vocabulary/
https://www.memrise.com/course/1199148/aqa-9-1-gcse-french-general-vocabulary/
https://www.memrise.com/course/1137583/aqa-new-gcse-french-from-2016/
https://www.memrise.com/course/1199399/aqa-9-1-gcse-french-theme-based-vocabulary/
https://quizlet.com/class/13693514/
(AQA) Italian GCSE:
https://www.memrise.com/course/2090054/italian-aqa-gcse-9-1/26/
https://www.memrise.com/course/487273/aqa-gcse-italian/
(AQA) Spanish GCSE:
https://www.memrise.com/course/1256350/aqa-gcse-spanish-9-1/
(Edexcel) French A Level:
https://www.memrise.com/course/1249498/french-edexcel-a-level/
(AQA) Spanish A Level:
https://www.memrise.com/course/1306214/aqa-spanish-a-level-year-1-new-course-from-2016/
https://www.memrise.com/course/1754922/aqa-a-level-year-2-spanish/
Kind regards,
Mr Naish