Home Study Extra Resources

Easy Excel - Microsoft Excel is one of the most used software applications of all time. Hundreds of millions of people around the world use Microsoft Excel. You can use Excel to enter all sorts of data and perform financial, mathematical or statistical calculations.

https://www.excel-easy.com/

Subjects specific sites;

Science

You tube – You tube has loads of tutorials to help with ideas and concepts that need to be reviewed. The following are ‘channels’ that have effective videos;

MyGCSEscience – Videos that are AQA specific. https://www.youtube.com/user/myGCSEscience/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=9

FreeScienceLessons – Videos are AQA specific and broken down into paper 1 and paper 2 and required practical’s.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqbOeHaAUXw9Il7sBVG3_bw/playlists

Malmesbury Science – Videos go through all required practical’s that students have learnt through their GCSE and could be asked about in their exams. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TM-z1-tmX1iK_H4SxVhww

Maths Websites

My maths – Students have log in details for this. Activities can be set by a teacher or the students can go on and do activities themselves. www.mymaths.co.uk

Corbet Maths – This has videos and worksheets that will help your child through their Science GCSE. www.corbetmaths.com

Mr Barton’s Maths - This website allows for topic revision, practice question, video tutorials and worked examples to help with revision. www.mrbartonmaths.com

English Websites

English Biz- The focus of the website is not on the individual texts, but on the skills needed to write well and to be able to analyse texts and write effective essays. www.englishbiz.co.uk

Revision World – Has lots of information, links and videos for both literature and language to help students be successful. www.revisionworld.co.uk

You tube – You tube has loads of tutorials to help with ideas and concepts that need to be reviewed. The following are ‘channels’ that have effective videos;

Mr Bruff’s revision videos - https://www.youtube.com/user/mrbruff/videos

Mr Salles teaches English - https://www.youtube.com/user/dominicsalles

Hospitality

Helpful revision Website;

Food a fact of life - Resources for young people aged 3-16 years about where food comes from, cooking and healthy eating. https://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/

British Nutrition Foundation – Information about healthy eating, balanced diets and nutrition science. https://www.nutrition.org.uk/

Child Development Helpful revision Website;

Early year’s matters website – This provides information about the developing child. http://www.earlyyearsmatters.co.uk/our-services/school-and-nursery-support/early-years-adviser/child-development-2/

The NHS website – All the information about children’s health https://www.nhs.uk

BTEC Sport

Helpful revision Website;

Revision World – Key information and facts as well as study skills to help with your GCSE PE revision. https://revisionworld.com/gcse-revision/pe-physical-education

Art

BBC Bitesize – Great website for all subjects to review and test knowledge and understanding of key ideas and concepts.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/z98jmp3

Julia Stubbs website – This site showcases different artwork from students from KS2 to A level. www.juliastubbs.co.uk

I’m Stuck – GCSE revision – This channel has specific Geography tutorials. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLygA1_PUbd9dDbuvC0YgLI_pAuZvdJg3x

Resources for students

Me Power provides more than 100 practical tactics and tips to improve examination performance.
A great app for creating timed quizzes is Kahoot.com for added competition for keywords or ideas.
Memrise.com is a useful app for all languages and uses videos to help learners.
Looking for visual thinking? Try bubbl.us, to help students better understand, remember and generate new ideas.
Brainpop has a great set of videos, freely available for pupils..
Make beautiful boards, documents, and webpages that are easy to read and fun to contribute to. Try Padlet.
Seneca Learning offers many online courses for pupils.
There are loads of online resources pupils and parents can use. Safer Internet Day is all-year-round in my opinion.
BBC Bitesize resources and videos.