Gcse revision pack

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, but I took quite a long social media break from Christmas to March and was absolutely swamped at work so there’s that! Feeling a bit more in my groove again so have been sharing some more resources and some more to come!
My year 11 class this year are…tricky. They’re a small class (only 17) compared to the others but have some behaviour issues and are quite weak compared to my previous classes. I’ve been frustrated for quite a while with them, to the point of tears a couple of times, but the behaviour issues have been pretty much sorted in the past few weeks and we’re now about to start revision.
They’re a group that need spoon feeding when it comes to revision or else it just won’t get done. I’ve seen these types of revision packs before online, so I decided to make one for my class, with specific instructions so that there’s no doubt in their mind exactly what they have to do.
The folder contains:

• Revision list – This is quite an in-depth list, with a suggested revision timetable. I don’t actually expect them to complete everything I’ve mentioned but this is an “in an ideal world” revision schedule.
• GCSE knowledge organiser – I’ve posted this before and it contains all the vocab for each topic as well as QR codes linking to Quizlet, tenses explanations and model writing answers.
• Independent learning grammar booklet – Again I’ve posted this before, made by myself and my colleague Helen. As much grammar practice as you could hope to see, from the easy stuff like using connectives, up to using the subjunctive for those highflyers. (Although we did forget the imperfect tense for some reason!)
• Booklets of role plays and photo cards – These were just taken from the AQA specimen papers, and my colleague Mel just made a snazzy front cover!
• Top 20 verbs – a list of 20 important verbs in various tenses, with a couple of extra tenses added for the higher tier students
• 21-day revision challenge – I stole this idea of someone on twitter last year (can’t remember who so if it’s you let me know and I’ll credit accordingly!). Basically, it goes through the course over 21 days with a QR code link to various places.
• Booklet of reading questions – honestly, no idea where this was from. Think I got it off TES a few years ago and just happened to have enough printed already in my cupboard!
• Exercise book – due to covid I have a massive amount of exercise books so I just threw one in there for them to make notes, do any writing tasks, make mind maps etc…

So this is it. It remains to be seen as to whether it will help or if they’ll just be left languishing in the depths of some disgusting teenage bedrooms but at least they’ve been given them. You can lead a horse to water etc…

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