11+ Maths & English

Here is a snippet of one of our regular combined online 11+ Maths and English sessions with our very hard working students!

KS3 Maths

Our students worked through various practice questions on Surface Area of Cones & Spheres. We looked at different types of questions such as calculating the surface area of the 3D shape or rearranging the relevant equation to find the missing radius. 📏📐

Our students worked through each question step- by- step as illustrated to ensure that they apply their mathematical knowledge and skills to solve each problem.

11+ English- A Reading Comprehension

A 11+ specialised comprehension lesson aims to help our students understand the passage; demonstrate understanding of inference in the passage; show understanding of meanings in context and be able to collate evidence and quotations to support explanation-based answers.

A Year 8 Chemistry lesson on Earth Science- Rocks 🌍🪨🌊

This topic associates with Physical Geography which is an example of a cross-curricular topic that involves establishing patterns of information between different academic subjects.
Students tend to enjoy learning about Earth Science as it develops a sense of curiosity and excitement of the natural phenomena.

11+ Maths- Percentages of Amounts

A very engaging and differentiated session on ‘finding percentages % of amounts’. ✏️📒
Solving a multi-step maths problem can be challenging for students as it involves the use of multiple skills such as highlighting the key information from the question; breaking down the information into key steps and working towards the answer by using the method that best suits them.
This technique helps students assess their prior knowledge and think aloud whilst solving the problem, which can be a great practice for students to feel independent in their learning.

A Year 8 Physics lesson on Electricity- Series & Parallel Circuits. 🖊🔋💡📗

The lesson was taught using ‘Instructional Scaffolding’- a key teaching method employed to help students achieve independence in their learning journey.
How does it work?
This technique can take many forms such as:
🔸 Key questioning
🔸 Designing storyboards
🔸 Using prompts
🔸 Modeling a task
🔸 Understanding students’ prior knowledge
🔸 Incorporating visual aids.

A 1:1 Year 7 Physics lesson. 💻📈📐📝

A fantastic, intense and structured online Physics lesson teaching the topic of speed, distance and time.

KS3 Maths

Presenting to you a worked example of a KS3 exam-style maths question on ‘Calculating the perimeter of a semi-circle.’

11+ Maths- A challenging workshop on Long Division.

A highly engaging, online 11+ Maths workshop mastering the Long Division method to tackle division questions involving two and three digit numbers.

Year 7 Maths and English Session.

A combined session of Maths and English content involving Maths problem solving problems and Shakespeare.

An interactive 11+ Maths workshop on Ratio & Proportion!

We had a lot of fun solving difficult ratio questions and applying our knowledge and skills to real life examples. ✅

A lovely Year 7 lesson on Sound Waves- Frequency and Amplitude. 🎤🔊📢

Students find the topic of Sound particularly interesting as they can understand and apply the theoretical knowledge learnt, in a practical setting.
Sharing a snippet of one of our students’ brilliant work during the online session!

KS3 Maths

Here is a detailed worked solution to the KS3 Maths problem on Circles which was posted on Problem Solving Tuesday! ✏️🌈

Let us know which topics and subjects you’d like us to post about in the coming weeks✏️📖

11+ Maths-Algebra- rearranging and substitution. ✏️📝📐 Our fabulous students learnt numerous skills and tricks in this topic area to tackle different types of 11+ algebraic questions such as how to rearrange an equation to solve for the unknown; substitute known terms and values to find the unknown value and to solve a real-life example problem by applying the methods learnt.

We hope you all enjoyed the workshops this week and we are looking forward to holding more topic enhancement classes in the Easter holidays! 😊

KS3 Biology

KS3 Biology- One of our very hard working Year 7 students has been learning about Specialised Cells and how different cells have a specific role. They have special features that allow them to do these jobs.
We labelled, annotated and then worked towards answering questions about specialised cells’ roles, description and their adaptations. 🧬🦠🔬

11+ Non-Fiction Comprehension

Here is a snippet of our 11+ English Reading Comprehension sessions with our very hard working students! 😀
We analyzed, discussed and constructed evidence-based answers to the questions. 📚📝
Our students have shown great focus and determination in making note of new vocabulary and understanding how to incorporate them into sentences.
Well done to our students!! ⭐️