GENERAL EDUCATION SITES
The Guardian Education site is full of content for teachers, parents and children.
Help with the topics your child is studying in school
GCSE REVISION WEBSITES
GCSE EXAM BOARDS
All the examination boards have past exam papers, sample answers and mark schemes that can be used for revision / exam practice at home. These web addresses will take you to the pages to download past exam papers:
CORE SUBJECTS
Maths
Mymaths - (Username: turves green / Password: triangle)
Percentages - This activity is a series of short, simple demonstrations to show how you can work out percentages of money using different strategies.
English
Subject Pages >English
– practice materials and samples etc
Science
the EdExcel links)
(To be used with pupil passwords)
be used with passwords or purchased as applicable and desirable)
(can also be used with the apps on Android and iPhone etc.)
Biology 1: Code: 2418397
Biology 2: Code: 2387457
Chemistry 1: Code: 2421162
Chemistry 2: Code: 2430192
Physics 1: Code: 2584814
Physics 2: Code: 2403445
EXPRESSIVE ARTS
Art
- Watch videos with advice on: drawing, graphics, painting, photography and sculpture.
- Check up on course structure and the four assessment objectives
- Advice on composing artwork, using photography and ICT, how to draw, and analysing artwork
- Watch videos of Brit artist Stuart Semple meeting four GCSE Art students to see how they develop their ideas into great pieces of art, and face the final 10 hour exam.
The entire collection - online! Links to particular areas of artistic styles, artists etc
Your paintings has over 75,000 paintings from the UK's national art collection.
Discover art from the Tate collection and beyond. The Tate holds the national collection of British art from 1500 to the present day and international modern and contemporary art. The collection includes nearly 70,000 artworks by over 3,000 artists and grows every year.
Explore the collections of The Victoria & Albert Museum including fashion, textiles, jewellery, ceramics, glass, metalwork, furniture and much more.
(An online encyclopaedia of art.)
Drama
BBC –
RSC: -
Birmingham Repertory Theatre: -
Birmingham Hippodrome: -
mac Birmingham: -
Music
revision
Tanbur Music – Links to hundreds of websites where pupils can listen to and perform music –
Jam Studio – Online sequencing -
Virtual Keyboard - Try your hand at composition or play along to the drum beats with the Virtual Keyboard –
PE/Sport
TECHNOLOGY
Design Technology - general
Ideas on mechanisms and structures
A site packed with useful information about how everything works
Business Studies
Good site for revision for Unit 1
Site for keeping up with business and economics news
Good site for small business ideas and help with setting up.
Food
Leading supermarkets, for example ASDA, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose and Co-op, all have very good websites that contain useful current information.
Graphics
ICT
Reviewing websites:
Resistant Materials
this is the main one to use -
Textiles
(Revise and test)
(Revision areas)
(Fibres)
(care labels)
(Videos on stitches etc)
(Technical words)
(Smart/Modern fabrics)
(revision topics- very useful!)
HUMANITIES
Geography
History
Good revision tool
Some useful posters and information sheets
Short video clips
Good revision tool
Specification and past papers
Most importantly, use the VLE!
RE
The best advice is to go to the school VLE!
French
(user id: tggstc / password: mignon)