Jesmond Park Academy
YEAR 9 MOCK EXAMINATIONS
Dear Parent/Carer,
Monday 18 November 2024 – Monday 25 November 2024
Please find enclosed with this letter, a copy of the overview for our Year 9 Mock Examination Timetable and a copy of the Year 9 Revision List. Your child’s personalised timetable will be issued w/c 4 November 2024.
The purpose of these examinations are to continue preparing our students for the rigour of the final GCSE examinations that they will be sitting in Summer 2027 of their Year 11. These examinations take place in formal examination venues in the same format as our Year 10 Summer Mocks and our Year 11 January Mocks.
We will hold a special Year 9 assembly on Monday 4th November 2024, where the expectations that we have for our students over the course of the mocks, will be shared. These expectations are in place to ensure that all of our students are as prepared as possible for their examinations. This assembly will also include revision tips and advice, as well as useful websites.
To support and prepare our students for the Autumn Mock Examinations, our Year 9 teachers will be delivering a programme of teaching, advice, support and revision advice. Students will also receive a lesson on revision tips and examination practice in tutor time.
Whilst we stress the importance of your child taking any assessments seriously, preparing for them as best as they can and striving to achieve their best, we equally stress the importance of health and wellbeing. We are fully committed to supporting all of our students in ensuring that we support and prepare them as best we can as they continue with their studies throughout Year 9.
If you have any further queries about the forthcoming examinations, or support for your child, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s Head of Year, Form Tutor, Subject Teacher, or relevant Head of Faculty or Department after the Autumn Term Break.
Students will be issued with their results from the Autumn Mocks later in the academic year
Other Key Dates for Parents/Carers
- Year 9 Options Evening: Tuesday 11 February 2025 (Format and further details to follow
- Year 9 Parent/Carer Subject Evening: Tuesday 28 January 2025
- Year 9 Grade Card 2: (May 2025)
- Confirmation of Year 10 options: (Summer 2025)
Yours faithfully,
Miss L Sayers
Head of Year
YEAR 9 AUTUMN MOCK EXAMINATIONS
Week Commencing: 18 November 2024
Revision List
You can find revision support on our VLE and One Drive. Your teachers will show you where this is. All Year 9 students have access to this. You should also use your exercise books. There are a range of revision websites students can use. BBC Bitesize is a good start. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/z4kw2hv
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SUBJECT |
YEAR 9 |
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ART |
The mock exam will be based on the Artist study which students have been given for their first Year 9 assessment. They will be able to prepare by completing the research, writing notes and a draft analysis of the artist’s work. They should also produce a copy of the artist’s work to their highest standard. Students will be completing the mock assessment in class. The standard of their presentation and writing will be assessed along with an assessment of their skill level in drawing and painting. |
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COMPUTING
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Python, binary numbers, ASCII character representation, digital graphics and digital sound, HTML and flowcharts |
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DT |
Design Process Workshop tools and equipment Material categories Material Processing (Pulping) 6 R's of Sustainability Product Life Cycle Assessment Environment Impacts Sustainability Identifying drawing communication technique Impact of using Batteries CAD Modelling |
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ENGLISH |
The task is to produce a piece of descriptive writing based on an image. The image will be linked to ideas studied in 'The Book Thief'. Students should use a wide range of language techniques such as similes, metaphors, personification, and pathetic fallacy. Use ambitious and powerful key vocabulary. Include structural techniques such as juxtaposition, foreshadowing, and motif. Also, include a range of sentence types (simple, compound, embedded, and subordinate clauses) as well as a wide variety of ambitious punctuation in their writing. |
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FOOD |
Nutrition Diet Where food comes from Food Science - linked to practical work |
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FRENCH |
The main focus of the mock exam will be Unit 1- Healthy Living. Students should revise key vocabulary from this topic and the grammar rules for forming past, present, and future tenses. There will also be a small amount of content based on the topic of school. The writing task will require the use of extended sentences; therefore, students should also revise connectives, time phrases, intensifiers, and opinions. Teachers will provide a knowledge organiser in advance, which should be used as the main revision tool. |
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GEOGRAPHY |
What is a natural hazard? The structure of the earth, hazard risk, plate boundaries (location & types), tectonic theories, convection currents, earthquakes, & volcanoes. Map skills such as grid references, human and physical geographical features, distance and geographical skills. |
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HISTORY |
Causes of World War One, The Battle of the Somme (General Haig), Life in the trenches (conditions), Causes of the Russian Revolution |
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MANDARIN |
The exam will be a reading exam in Chinese characters only, and will be challenging. Students need to focus on recognising job vocabulary in particular, but also: forms of transport, places in town, food, family members. These are all in the students' vocabulary booklets. There will be a 30-words writing in Chinese characters, based on the places and transport topic. |
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MATHS |
A revision list is included at the end of this document |
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MUSIC |
Your mock exam will include both practical and theoretical/listening tasks. Your practical will be based on work in class and the listening/theoretical mock will be multiple-choice questions based on your musical learning throughout KS3 (but with more focus on Blues). Students can prepare by revising all musical elements using Dr P Smith revision sheet which your teacher will upload for you to help you revise. |
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RE |
Year 9 will be assessed by a 1 Hour written exam.
Topic 1 - Ethics
Topic 2 - Crime and punishment
Evaluation response of a statement linked to capital punishment. You will need to give reasons why people would agree and disagree with the statement, evaluation of the strength of the evidence and write a personal conclusion.
Revision and preparation You will have practiced questions in your mock prep lesson and have a written plan that you will need to take home and learn for the mock exam. Your RE teacher will also send out on Frog, a revision power point for you to use to revise at home. |
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SCIENCE |
Physics:
Chemistry:
Biology:
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SPANISH |
Unit 1 - Relationships and first section of Unit 2 – Leisure and interests Revision content: Students should revise the following vocabulary: family members, personality and physical descriptions, key verbs and expressions to describe relationships, opinions on ideal partner and marriage, free time activities (music, films, sports, TV programmes), verbs, and adjectives to express/justify opinion. Students should also revise using past, present, future, conditional and future tenses and be prepared to complete a writing task, and reading and translation questions. Teachers will provide a knowledge organiser in advance, which should be used as the main revision tool. For further support on grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, students are encouraged to visit the YouTube channel ‘v gonzalez otero’. |
Year 9 Revision List Maths – Calculator Paper
Videos can be found on www.corbettmaths.com/contents/
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Number |
Video |
Algebra |
Video |
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Converting between fractions, decimals and percentages |
123, 126 |
Collecting like terms |
9 |
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Time calculations |
322 |
Substitution |
20 |
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Rounding – watch video on www.mathsgenie.co.uk |
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Solving Equations |
110 |
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Prime numbers |
225 |
Laws of indices |
17 |
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Simplifying ratios |
269 |
nth term of sequences |
288 |
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Highest common factor |
219 |
Geometric sequences |
375 |
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Lowest common multiples |
218 |
Expanding single brackets |
13 |
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Sharing in a ratio |
270, 271 |
Simplifying algebraic fractions |
24 |
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Fraction and % problems |
137, 234 |
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Calculations in standard form |
301, 302, 303 |
Shape and Space |
Video |
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Percentage change |
233 |
Angles on a straight line |
35 |
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Angles in parallel lines |
25 |
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Data and Probability |
Video |
Surface area of a cuboid |
310 |
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Drawing pie charts |
163 |
Translating shapes with vector |
325 |
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Bar charts |
148 |
Circumference of a circle |
60 |
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Probability of an event |
245 |
Pythagoras |
257 |
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Finding the mean |
53 |
Exterior angles of polygons |
32 |
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Mean and mode from a frequency table |
54, 56a |
Using trigonometry to find missing sides |
330 |
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Volume of a prism |
356 |
Jesmond Park Academy Year 9 Mocks Overview
Monday 18 November 2024 – Monday 25 November 2024
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Time |
Monday 18 November 2024 |
Tuesday 19 November 2024 |
Wednesday 20 November 2024 |
Thursday 21 November 2024 |
Friday 22 November 2024 |
Monday 25 November 2024 |
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9:00am |
Science 1hr 15mins |
RE 1hr |
History 1hr |
Mathematics 1hr 30mins |
Spanish Reading, Translation, Writing 1hr |
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10:45am |
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1:15pm |
English 50mins |
Geography 50mins |
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Computing 1hr |
French Reading & Writing 1hr |
Mandarin Reading 1hr |
Other subject areas will complete their Year 9 Mocks during lesson time:
- Art: weeks beginning 4 and 11 November during lessons, details have been shared with students
- DT and Food: weeks beginning 11 and 18 November (Wed P3 & P4, Wed P5 & P6, Fri P3 & P4) details have been shared with students
- PA Department – details have been shared with students
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