GCSE 1

1

Physics (Mr V Breeze)

Art (Mrs J Ellis)
Draw a plane - For flying objects project.
Detailed drawing with rulers of jet engine plane
Then cut out drawing and collage onto painted sky background.

2

Chemistry (Mrs C Whitehead)

Business Studies (Mr K Walsh)

1. Complete all questions from Holiday Homework Sheet (given to you last term)
2. Text book:
   Read Unit 50, pages 192- 195: Organising Production
3. Exercise Book and Textbook
   Start a new page and put the heading Organising Production - Checklist Questions
   Answer Checklist Questions 1- 10 on page 195 in full sentences in your Exercise Book
   

3

Biology (Mrs C Whitehead)

Ecology: Distribution of organisms
Competition and predation

Economics (Mr K Walsh)

1. Complete all questions from Holiday Homework Sheet (given to you last term)
   
2. Text book:
   1. Read Section 7, page 57: Worldwide Specialisation
   2. Read pages 296- 97, Section 1 - Why countries specialise and trade
   3. Look at Exercise 1 - 'Something Special' on page 297. Answer questions 1), 2), 3) and 4) in your Exercise Book.
      (NOTE: put the date, title and write all answers in full sentences). Use the internet to help you answer these questions.

4

ICT (Mr K Hartley)
Integrated documents
Output devices
What are output devices
Describing output devices
Types of output

Geography (Mr P Caton)
Urbanisation and shopping habits.
Write an essay about the primary and secondary consumer habits in your local town or city . Do they mostly shop in large superstores, small local shops, specialist shops, shopping malls or mail order. What developments are planned for your town ?

5

Media Studies (Mr S Luke)
Recap unit on comics and animation:

• Characters in comics and cartoons; representation; tie- ins and spin- offs; character types
• Comic front covers
• Conventions - how comics and cartoons communicate meanings
• Key moments

Animation techniques

Spanish (Mrs C Bassett)
Topic: Free time. Revising sports/activities. Giving opinion on free time activities using “me gusta/no me gusta” + infinitive. Dictionary skills.
Listening and reading practice.
Topic: Media. Types of books/TV programmes/films. Giving opinions about different genres. Writing a review of a film or TV programme

Mathematics (Mr E Davies)

3- dimensional figures: applications of Pythagoras' Theorem, and trigonometry.
IGCSE text book, page 194, Ex 7, all questions.
Also NETS of 3D figures, page 145.

English(EAP/ESL)

EAP 2 (Mr S Luke) Follow- up to vocabulary / writing: personalities: Writing: Describe an ideal friend - what personal qualities should they have? What sort of character? What qualities do you NOT like to see in a friend? Why?

EAP 3 (Mr D Meddows)
You Must complete the following task. If you do not have your yellow EAP course exercise book, then research each solution on the internet.

'The government is looking at ways to decrease anti-social behaviour in public areas. Students in schools across the UK have been invited to offer advice on this matter. The government is considering the following options:

- the taser
- a DNA database
- the mosquito device'

Writing a report:
1) Describe each option
2) Evaluate its advantages and disadvantages
3) Provide recommendations for which measure or combination of measures the government should adopt giving your justification

Theme: Law and Order – Anti-Social Behaviour
Writing:
A report - (i) background to antisocial behaviour (ii) causes (iii) evaluation of proposed solutions
Language for task:
- phrases for describing the purpose of a device
- phrases for expressing consequences
- revision of concession clauses

ESL1 (Mr D Meddows)
pp72 - 87 Cutting Edge Pre-Intermediate.
Quantifiers with Countable uncountable nouns
Geographical features
Asking for and giving directions
may, might, will, definitely etc
Present tense after if, when, before and other time words
Reading: The 1900 House
Wordspot: if

ESL 3 (Mr S Luke) Exams practice:
Revise written tasks:

• Reports (Background/situation, description, reasons/problems, solutions/recommendations)
• Summaries (short version, main relevant details)
• Articles (introduction, positives, negatives, advice, recommendations)
• Reviews (Interesting introduction, characters/cast, plot, interesting moment/highlight, conclusion/recommendation)

If students have access to English radio/TV (BBC I- player?) this will be useful practice for listening tasks