Fourth Form Summer Work

Over the summer, you should be completing any coursework and tasks set by your subject teachers. In addition, you should work on consolidating your learning from the last year. Suggested tasks are listed by subject below.

Art

Please refer to the Art firefly page for guidance, found here.

Design and Technology

Please refer to the design and technology firefly page for guidance, found here.

Latin

Revise the full 450-word GCSE vocabulary list for a BIG test during the first lesson back. Test yourself regularly online here and here.

Maths

Please refer to the Maths firefly page for guidance, found here.

Chemistry

Please refer to your class OneNote. Your teacher will provide personalised specific revision exercises for you.

Physics

Please refer to the Biology Firefly page for guidance, found here.

Biology

Please refer to the Biology Firefly page for guidance, found here.

English

Complete the activities in the Ready To Go booklet.

Religious Studies

Knowledge checklists and exam style questions for papers can be found on Firefly.

For the Religion, Philosophy and Ethics paper, click here. (Existence of God and Religion, Peace and Conflict)

Short answers

Complete a group of shorter (3 and 6 mark) exam style questions under exam conditions. Then, complete the same question again in a different colour pen, using notes/books to help you. Now mark both versions of the answers. Now try and evaluate your performance and split topics into three categories:

• Things I don’t remember – these are more likely to be things that you got correct with the notes, but you didn’t get the marks without notes
• Things I don’t understand – these are more likely to be things that you didn’t get correct whether you had notes or not
• Issues with exam technique – these are spotted when you mark the answers yourself

With the things you don’t remember, spend some time going over them individually using other memory techniques. For things that you don’t understand – seek out some help.

Word Definitions

A selection of keywords can be found on Firefly here. Pick a section of the specification and identify the key words and phrases. Now write out definitions of those words. This will make you think about what you are writing and how you define them. Now write your words and definitions on different cards and see how quickly you can match them. Try using the cards to play pairs or snap – if the word matches the definition, that’s a match.

History

This summer you should spend time revising your content knowledge. 

• You have done a lot of work this year learning content and how to structure answers to exam questions. 
• This summer focus on revising your content knowledge, because even if you know the structure for a marked question, you won’t earn many marks without content knowledge. 

You should use GCSE pod. 

• Access it through the library’s Firefly site on the page “Online Resources and Logins.” 
• Then click on GCSEPod. You will need to create an account. 
• Once you have logged in, you will be able to access this Superpowers playlist. 
• You do not need to watch the last two pods, titled “Three Crises” and “The Thaw.” 
• These are short revision videos with short quizzes to check your learning at the end. 

You should also watch these Crash Course videos. You can slow down the speed if you like as he often talks quite quickly. But they’re a great revision of some of the things you learned this year.  

• Superpowers: Cold War overview

   

Geography

Expected work - Complete the Natural Hazards learning grid to review content from this year.

Recommended work - Review the natural hazards course content using watching GCSEPod revision videos and using Educake to set yourself quizzes

French

Please refer to the French Firefly page for guidance, found here.

German

Please refer to the German Firefly page for guidance, found here.

Spanish

Please refer to the Spanish Firefly page for more guidance, found here.