Dear Parent/Carer,
YEAR 10 SUMMER MOCK EXAMINATION SUPPORT
Year 10 Summer Mocks: Thursday 13 June 2024 - Friday 28 June 2024.
As we approach our May half-term break, our focus is turning to our Year 10 Summer Mock GCSE Examinations. We are holding these between Thursday 13 June 2024 and Friday 28 June 2024.
As we work towards our Year 10 summer mocks, our advice remains the same for our Year 10 students as it has for our Year 11 students who are in the middle of their GCSE Examinations.
It is important that your child finds the balance between completing productive study, examination preparation and revision for these mocks, alongside taking clearly defined breaks and time away completely for family time, fun, rest and relaxation. This is vital for your child’s health and wellbeing. Our absolute priority is to support our Year 10 students both academically and with their health and well-being in the lead up to, during and after the Year 10 mocks.
With this in mind we are holding a ‘How to Support your Child in the Year 10 Summer Mocks’ live TEAMS meeting on Thursday 9 May 2024 at 5:00pm. The event will outline the plan for the remainder of Year 10 and include details on revision best practice in the lead up to the Year 10 mock exams. It is anticipated that this session will last approximately 30 minutes. You can access recording via this link:
https://youtu.be/6FvE47wfi5k
The following information provides initial details about the support for our Year 10 students and parents/carers at Jesmond Park Academy as we approach the mocks.
General Information Regarding the Year 10 Mocks
We are holding an assembly for our Year 10 students launching the countdown to our Year 10 mocks, which will focus upon the support in place for them. Our Year 10 teachers will also be talking to our Year 10 students about the expectations and topics in individual subjects and we will be giving our students finalised subject specific revision lists and a copy of their personalised mock examination timetable. An overview of the mock examination timetable is included with this letter, which you and your child may find useful for revision planning.
GCSE & BTEC Revision Guides
All of our Year 10 students have a full set of revision guides for most of the subjects that they study. These are theirs to keep and should be used to support their ongoing review of work and revision throughout the remainder of Year 10 and Year 11.
GCSEPod
All of our students now have personal login access to GCSEPod, which is an interactive online revision and resource tool.
Summer Mock Examination Support in Personal Development Lessons
Our Year 10 Personal Development teachers are delivering lessons on ‘how to revise’ and ‘how to effectively prepare yourself for examinations’. This also includes further support on how to use revision guides effectively.
Compulsory Period 7 Guided Revision Programme for Year 10 Students
There will be a compulsory Period 7 guided revision programme in place for our Year 10 students. We are planning this alongside our support in place for our Year 11 students who are still ongoing with their GCSE examinations. The guided revision will consist of silent revision using revision guides and other key revision materials. We will talk through the use of flash cards, mind maps etc.
It is anticipated that our compulsory guided study sessions will take place at the following dates and times after the half-term break. Please note that on these days school will not finish for our Year 10 students until 3:30pm.
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Monday 3 June 2024
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Tuesday 11 June 2024
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Wednesday 5 June 2024
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Wednesday 12 June 2024
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Thursday 13 June 2024
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Year 10 Summer Mocks Results Afternoon
This will take place towards the end of term and will hopefully provide our students with a ‘real’ experience of GCSE results day after all of their hard work in the lead up to the mocks.
Year 10 Full School Report
This will include your child’s form tutor report, mock results, subject grades and subject next-step targets for Year 11. We will publish this to parents/carers before the end of the summer term.
Unfortunately, due to timing, there may not be much further interaction between school and home once we have sent out our report, but please be rest assured that we will be using the outcomes from the mocks (and other student assessments) to plan support for our Year 10 students going into Year 11.
Year 10 Work Experience Week: Monday 15 July 2024 – Thursday 18 July 2024 (Students return to school on Friday 19 July 2024)
We are continuing to support our Year 10 students to enable them to successfully secure a work experience placement for this week. We are meeting students during registration, and we will be holding Period 7 work experience workshops in the two weeks before the May half term for students who are finding it difficult to find a place. Once your child has secured a placement, they should register it on Unifrog. We have written to you before with details surrounding this. If you need any further help or advice at this stage please email:
Lorraine Aspinall (LAspinall@jesmondparkacademy.org.uk) or
Sarah Beeley (SBeeley@jesmondparkacademy.org.uk)
We will endeavour to ensure that as many students as possible secure a placement. For those students who have not, attendance to school during work experience week is compulsory as normal, and we intend to hold ‘in-school’ work-related learning activities for those students.
As we have already said, our absolute priority is to support our Year 10 students both academically and with their health and well-being throughout the remainder of this year and throughout Year 11.
If you have any further questions or information regarding our Year 10 mocks, or you have further information which will help us support your child, please contact Mr James Smith (Head of Year 10) at JSmith2@jesmondparkacademy.org.uk.
Yours faithfully,
Mrs C Smith - Deputy Principal
Mr C Mason - Head of KS4
