NPCAT ASPIRE
“True education enables us to love life and opens us to the fullness of life.”
( Pope Francis 2014)
At Nicholas Postgate Catholic Academy Trust, we set high expectations to ensure that every pupil excels across all aspects of school life. Our intention is to ensure pupils make excellent progress by removing any potential barriers to learning. Our aim is to ensure that all pupils across our secondary schools leave with knowledge and skills which will not only create excellent life opportunities, but will also prepare them exceptionally well for life beyond school.
As part of our drive to raise pupil engagement and improve pupil progress and achievement ahead of the summer GCSE examinations, we are launching a series of pre- recorded masterclasses and resources in various subjects to support pupils with their preparation and revision. These sessions will complement the work and revision provided by your child’s own school. The pre-recorded revision sessions will be delivered by our expert teachers from across the Trust. The sessions will be linked explicitly to the GCSE specifications and focus on the knowledge, content and skills that pupils will require for the examinations. There will be a focus on revision of specific topic areas , covering the different papers for each subject. Although these sessions are pre- recorded so that pupils can watch them at any time to suit their own revision, in order to help pupils organise their time, workload and revision in the approach to the examinations we have suggested appropriate times to access each masterclass. A suggested timetable can be found for each subject below.
| Week commencing | Maths | |||||||
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w/c 14th April |
Foundation: All about data | Higher: All about data | ||||||
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w/c 21st April |
Foundation: All about ratio | Higher: All about ratio | ||||||
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w/c 28th April |
Percentages | Percentages | ||||||
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w/c 5th May |
Area and volume | |||||||
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w/c 12th May |
Foundation: Calculator tips and tricks | Higher: Calculator tips and tricks | ||||||
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w/c 19th May |
Non-calculator Number skills
Transformations, elevations, bearings, constructions and loci |
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w/c 26th May |
Paper 2 | |||||||
| Paper 3 preparation | Unseen topics: Percentages
Unseen topics: Proportion Unseen topics: Standard form Unseen topics: Foundation trigonometry Unseen topics : Higher trigonometry Unseen topics: Angles Unseen topics: Foundation data and statistics Unseen topics: Higher data and statistics Unseen topics: Foundation Algebra Unseen topics: Higher Algebra |
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| Week commencing | Science | External resources | |||||||
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w/c 14th April |
Paper 1 Biology – Microscopy %
Paper 1 Biology – Mitosis and the cell cycle |
Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic cells | |||||||
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w/c 21st April |
Paper 1 – Biology – Infection and response (full topic review) | Health and Disease | |||||||
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w/c 28th April |
Paper 1 Chemistry – Atomic Structure and the Periodic table | Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table | |||||||
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w/c 5th May |
Paper 1 Chemistry – Bonding and Allotropes of Carbon | Chemistry of Carbon | |||||||
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w/c 12th May |
Paper 1 Physics – Transformers and the National Grid | Energy of moving objects | |||||||
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w/c 19th May |
Paper 1 Physics – Particle Model (Full Topic Review) | ||||||||
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w/c 26th May |
Biology Paper 2 – Homeostasis (Full topic Review) | DNA and the genome | |||||||
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w/c 2nd June |
Biology Paper 2 – Ecology (Full Topic Review) | ||||||||
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w/c 9th June |
Physics Paper 2 – Magnetism (Full Topic Review) | Measuring waves | |||||||
| Week commencing | Geography | External resources | |||||||
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w/c 14th April |
Paper 1 – Living with the physical environments – Tectonic hazards | Natural and tectonic hazards
Global patterns of urbanisation |
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w/c 21st April |
Paper 1 – Living with the physical environments – Tectonic hazards – part 2
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w/c 28th April |
Paper 1 – Living with the physical environments – Tropical storms
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w/c 5th May |
Paper 1 – Living with the physical environments – UK weather hazards and climate change
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w/ c 12th May |
Paper 1 – Living with the physical environments – Tropical rainforests
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w/c 19th May |
Paper 2 – Challenges of the human environment – Urban Issues | ||||||||
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w/c 28th May |
Paper 2 – Challenges of the human environment – Resource management | ||||||||
| Week commencing | Further Maths | |||||||
| 1. Circles | ||||||||