KeyStage 4 (Ages 14-16, GCSE)

Our Key Stage 4 Personalised Learning Programme helps to prepare your child for GCSE exams whilst providing an excellent grounding in basic skills.

English topics covered

Reading (En 2)

• Comprehension – Using advanced skills for comparing, summarising and quoting from a text. Identifying thematic patterns and textual imagery within fiction and non-fiction. Mastering close-reading in a variety of different textual forms i.e. media articles, travel writing and other cultures and traditions. Showing an understanding of the given text by presenting relevant quotes and commenting on their values within the text.
• Media Texts – Identifying different textual approaches of articles and how this affects/ manipulates the reader.

Writing (En 3)

• Composition – Different types of essay planning
• Audience and Structure – learning to modify language to fit a certain target audience. Structuring information to the purpose of the text i.e. informative, persuading, describing, narrating or analysing.
• Standard English – Grammar, tense (Past, Present, Continuous), punctuation, paragraphs, nouns and pronouns, apostrophes, adjectives, colons and semi-colons, etc

Maths topics covered

Number and Algebra (Ma 2)

• Multiples/ Factors/ Prime Numbers/ Square, Cube and Root Numbers
• Standard Index Form (Calculator and Non-Calculator)
• Rational and Irrational Numbers
• Speed and Density
• Ratio and Proportion
• Decimals, Fractions and Percentages (Percentage change/ Quantity)
• Approximation and Estimation (Rounding)
• Algebra (Expressing, Simplifying, Factorising, Multiplying and Dividing Expressions)
• Solving Equations (Linear, Quadratic, Simultaneous)
• Formulae (Writing, Substituting and Rearranging Expressions)
• Number Sequences and Formulae
• Graphs (Linear and quadratic/ Distance-Time Graphs/ Speed-Time )
• Functions

Shape, Space and Measure (Ma 3)

• Angles and 2D Shapes
• Geometric Properties of Circles
• Geometrical Reasoning
• Area, Perimeter and Circumference
• Maps and Bearings
• Scale Drawings and locus
• Reflection and Rotation
• Translation and Enlargement
• Pythagoras’s Theorem and Trigonometry (Sine, Cosine and Tangent)
• Volume/ Mass/ Capacity

Handling Data (Ma 4)

• Primary and Secondary Data Collection
• Questionnaires and Databases
• Two-way tables
• Averages and Range (using diagrams)
• Bar and Pie Charts
• Stem and Leaf Diagrams, Box plots, Histograms
• Scatter Graphs, Correlation and Line of Best Fit
• Cumulative Frequency Tables and Graphs
• Calculating Probabilities