Key Stage 4 Raising Achievement Evening

We have missed you, Year 11, and we are so proud of the start you have made this term. We want to continue to work together with you to accelerate your progress, build your confidence and recognise your effort.

Please see the Main Meeting below. If you have any questions following the Main Meeting, please contact Mr S Knight (Assistant Principal) at the Academy by email using Simon.Knight@oasismayfield.org.

Securing the coveted Grades 9-7 is a challenge for many students. Understanding how to develop effective habits and sharpen your skills can increase the likelihood of success in examinations. This session could be the key to unlocking your future.

Positive personal health, wholesome wellbeing, a healthy diet and active fitness regimen is essential in preparing for the demands of an intensive exam season. Attend our session on mindfulness to hear how you can prepare to perform.

Many students feel anxious when they approach the exam season, and this often becomes heightened when sitting exams. This session will seek to share tools that can help you to showcase your true ability in the face of anxieties.

Some of our students are entitled to exam access arrangements. If this applies to your child, this session outlines what to expect during the upcoming examination season and gives an overview of each of the key entitlements for such students.

Research shows that revision strategies that engage students in active recall of key knowledge through repetition results in improved performance in exams in AO1 questions (knowledge recall). Attend our session on Flashcards to learn how to use this revision strategy effectively for impact.

We see patterns in the simplest situations. In presenting patterns in a visual way, thereby visualising our thinking, we can create concrete images of abstract thoughts. These patterns help students to achieve higher levels of critical and creative thinking. Join this session to build up your revision toolkit.

Interleaving can be useful for some students in helping them to make connections in their learning. Interleaving forces you to switch between topics whilst revising in order to accelerate their learning. This encourages you to think harder about how you approach problems. How will you solve yours?

Have you ever bene in a situation where you have been presented with too much information and then asked to remember it? Well now you have a chance. Chunking is where you split your work in to manageable sections to revise from. Research shows you remember more if you chunk information.

Accessing high quality online material for learning ‘on demand’ is essential – particularly in Year 11. Students that actively use GCSEpod are found to significantly outperform their peers. Join this session to hear more about how to access and use GCSEpod to raise your attainment.

The Maths department at Oasis Academy Mayfield proactively set homework using Hegarty Maths. This online platform auto-marks your child’s Maths work for instant feedback – but how can you use Hegarty Maths to raise their attainment. Find out more by attending this session.

Now, more than ever, students and parents / carers have pressing questions about the year ahead. You now have an opportunity to put your constructive questions to the Head of Year, Mr J Salzman, and our SLT Link, Mrs K Warwick. If you have any questions following this live Question and Answer Session, please contact Mr J Salzman (Head of Year 11) at the Academy by email using Jack.Salzman@oasismayfield.org.

Many students are confident about their next steps for when they leave Oasis Academy Mayfield, but not all. This session will give an overview of your options as you transition from Year 11 at Mayfield and how you can shape your future, developing an aspirational goal to motivate you in coming months. Particular thank you to Shirley Eastwood and the team at Itchen Sixth Form College in preparing this Breakout Session for our Year 11 parents / carers and students.

Please see the link below to our Curriculum Booklet for 2020-21. This gives an overview of the curriculum we will follow here at Mayfield, together with the support that you as the parent / carer can give to your child to support their revision and learning.

Curriculum Booklet

Please see the link below to our Revision Booklet – Part 1. This outlines the weekly revision focus that students have been assigned for their independent revision at home. This is bespoke to each subject and is in addition to your homework. If you have any questions, or need any further support, please contact your child’s subject teacher for further information or guidance.

Revision Booklet - Part 1