Stay Focused
If you're like us, you're probably guilty of occasionally wasting time on Facebook and other social sites when you should be doing something more important. Stay Focused is a Chrome extension designed to help you stop wasting time on those sites and get your work done. With Stay Focused installed you can set a time limit for yourself on the sites that you tend to waste time on. Once you've used up your self-allotted time on those sites you won't be able to revisit them in that browser until the next day (or other time you select).
How stressed are you?
Stress is part of everyday life and can be beneficial. But high levels over a long period can be seriously bad for our health.
The following test has been created with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy for National Stress Awareness Day. It has been designed to help you spot symptoms of stress and find out how well you are coping with the pressure of everyday life.
Scoring: never - 0, almost never - 1, sometimes - 2, often - 3 and very often - 4.
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Stress test
How often do you find yourself being irritable with friends and family?
Click Here to take the test
All questions and advice provided by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and Professor Cary Cooper, the association's former president.
Web production by: Christopher Ashton, Salim Qurashi and Lucy Rodgers
Spanish Revision Help
Then click on Languages Online in the top right hand corner. The best website (it is from a language college)
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Great for learning/revising vocabulary
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Fully interactive website covering nearly every aspect of Spanish
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Free interactive website from Nottingham High School aimed at GCSE and A Level Students
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Language website from Manchester Uni.
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Good game site for revising vocabulary
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A good website for practising grammar. Be careful though, some of the pronunciation that you may hear is Southern American
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It is still in progress but there are some good exercises here
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You can watch video clips and much more
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www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/spanish
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Allows you to do revision exercises then do ‘exams’
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www.jvlnet.com/~liliana/Spanish_Numbers.html
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A great site to help you practise numbers
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oye.languageskills.co.uk
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Has listening exercises too! Use beginner and intermediate sections (ignore the year groups)
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Helps you practise verbs and grammar. Click on Student login/register and then go to the resources down the left-hand side
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Helps practise verbs conjugation and has a verb conjugator included
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A website just for conjugating verbs
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A website that not only is an English-Spanish or Spanish – English dictionary but also one that has a verb conjugator area too
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spanish.about.com
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Your questions answered
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Computer Science Exam Top Tips
Break the question down. if it's asking you to explain the advantages and disadvantages, that's 3 marks a piece, so 3 advantages AND 3 disadvantages needed
Always start by stating the obvious and build from there
Don't over think it, if it looks simple, it probably is simple!
Unless you are 100% sure that your first answer is wrong, LEAVE it alone, don't change it!
If you are given a table of data or a graph then it's because you need to use it!
READ the information at the start of the questions, often there's a clue in it...
Use Computer Science vocabulary, not "stuff", "things" etc.
Make a flowchart rather than write Pseudocode
Always start by stating the obvious and build from there
Don't over think it, if it looks simple, it probably is simple!
Unless you are 100% sure that your first answer is wrong, LEAVE it alone, don't change it!
If you are given a table of data or a graph then it's because you need to use it!
READ the information at the start of the questions, often there's a clue in it...
Use Computer Science vocabulary, not "stuff", "things" etc.
Make a flowchart rather than write Pseudocode
Never leave a question blank
Use a Highlighter
Don't forget a BLACK pen....
Don't forget a BLACK pen....
MFL Vocab Tester
This is a vocab tester in all 3 languages - select a topic and it loads a word list.
You need to put the mother tongue as the word language you are using.
GCSE German
German:
http://www.dasding.de/ - music website, gossip, photos, video, songs with lyrics
http://www.hellomylo.com/ - A website with revision activities from year 7 upwards, and some challenges for year 10/11
http://www.kindernachrichten.de/ - Children's News, articles and recipes etc
http://www.suttonhighmfl.110mb.com/ - Click German, then GCSE, then chose a topic.
Hundreds of different activities to revise vocab and grammar
http://derblogger.arte.tv/ - A germanblog website, videos galore
www.s-cool.co.uk/gcse/german - Revision activities and tips for German
- a song by the wise guys about 'Denglisch' - mixing german and english together
- another Wise guys song about the perfect German teacher!
- a remix - Party Rock Anthem auf Deutsch with a facebook theme!
http://www.welt.de/ - German news website
- Deutsche Welle Youtube channel, for listening / watching news broadcasts
http://www.wetter.de/ - the weather in Germany - good for revision!
http://www.bunte.de/ - Celebrity gossip auf Deutsch
http://www.kindernachrichten.de/ - Children's News, articles and recipes etc
http://www.suttonhighmfl.110mb.com/ - Click German, then GCSE, then chose a topic.
Hundreds of different activities to revise vocab and grammar
http://derblogger.arte.tv/ - A germanblog website, videos galore
www.s-cool.co.uk/gcse/german - Revision activities and tips for German
- a song by the wise guys about 'Denglisch' - mixing german and english together
- another Wise guys song about the perfect German teacher!
- a remix - Party Rock Anthem auf Deutsch with a facebook theme!
http://www.welt.de/ - German news website
- Deutsche Welle Youtube channel, for listening / watching news broadcasts
http://www.wetter.de/ - the weather in Germany - good for revision!
http://www.bunte.de/ - Celebrity gossip auf Deutsch
German Radios:
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BASE Stress App
Brookvale CAMHS has created a new free self-help app called BASE that has been designed to help young people manage their stress, anxiety and depression. The app allows you to write diary entries which help you keep track of when your stress and anxiety might be at its best or worst. This will help you understand how to manage your emotions.
The app also provides handy tips on how to calm down and relax. It even produces entry reports which shows the emotions you feel the most. The app logs this data into a 7 day graph so you can see how much your mood changes over a week!BASE is used to help you note down your feelings so you can understand when your stress and anxiety is at its worse, instead of relying on memory.
Website links for Product Design and Resistant Materials.
These are the main websites we are referring to in lessons.
These topics relate to both Product Design and Resistant Materials.
GCSE Media Top Tips
Media Read the question, then read it again before you attempt to answer it.
Take a highlighter with you and highlight key words in the question.
Refer back to the question to make sure you spell keywords/concepts correctly
Spend most time on the questions which will get you the most marks
Computer Science Controlled Assessment - Scoring Marks
Even if your code or evidence document is incomplete, it is still possible to score marks in each section of the controlled assessment.
Use the checklist below to see if your evidence document is making the most of the marks available.
Try and have at least one piece of evidence for each section below.
- Design of Solution (9 Marks)
- What the Problem Involves
- Overview of the Problem
- Flowcharts
- Solution Development (9 Marks)
- User Needs
- Code Screenshots
- Code Listing
- Programming Techniques (36 Marks)
- Programming Techniques Tables
- How Each Part Works Together
- Working Code
- Efficient Coding
- Data Structures Tables
- Robust Code
- Testing and Evaluation (9 Marks)
- Test Plan
- Screenshots of Tests
- Evaluation
GCSE Food Technology useful websites
How to make pasta
What is healthy eating?
Food groups
Seasonal Eating
Allergies
Energy and Nutrients Video Podcasts
http://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/section.aspx?t=81&siteId=19§ionId=75
Standard Components
BBC BItesize : Food Technology
S Cool Food Technology Revision site
Tips on making a revision timetable:
- When compiling a schedule try to be as realistic as possible. Do not try to do too much in your day with a timetable that you have no real chance of completing.
- Make a list of subjects that you need to revise for between now and your exams.
- Work out which subjects have the most content that needs to be revised.
- Concentrate on those specific topics or modules that you have the most difficulty with.
- Break down major revision subjects into smaller parts; this can help you make your studying more precise.
- Ensure that you include break times during the day, these are important to help you unwind and to make sure you don't burn yourself out.
- Work out when you 'study best', for instance some people are able to concentrate better in the morning. Then use these times to study those topics that require the most effort and energy.
- Do not leave your most difficult or hardest subjects till the end of the day. Instead try to get these out of the way early on.
- After completing a revision period cross it off from your timetable. This will help you feel a sense of achievement.
- At the end of each week assess your performance and change your plans accordingly.
- Consider using different coloured pens to highlight specific classes or rank subjects according to importance. However if you feel you may be changing things around then use a simple pencil.
- Keep your timetable flexible and be ready to change it if circumstances change. Try not to spend the whole day revising one subject.
- Most experts suggest studying in slots of 40 minutes and then taking a break before your next session.
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