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Study leave for Year 11 has been banned

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BellaBear · 22/11/2007 19:21

SMT have just announced that study leave for GCSE year has been banned (by the government) and as such, there is no point having any for mocks in two weeks time.

On a personal note [noooooooo I am a year 11 tutir and was looking forward to two weeks of no registrations!)

I understand the reasons are exam results improving in schools where this has been trialled. I think that it has added to our workload and I'll bet nothing gets taken away!

Does anyone work in a school that doesn't have study leave? How do you manage lessons after the exams have occurred? Do you still teach planned lessons or do lessons become general revision sessions?

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brimfull · 22/11/2007 20:18

so do you mean there will be no study leave for any students in any school.

dd is in yr 11

I would delight in this decision

Blandmum · 22/11/2007 20:15

We stopped ours year before last. many of our students did next to no work during 'study leave' and it was seen as extra holiday by lots of them.

I run revision lessons. If there is a particular topic that they struggle with (the nitrogen cycle springs to mind) I do a revision lesson on it.

I also spend lessons going over past papers as group activities. I also use things like mind mapping of topics etc. Question loops, who wants to be a millionaire, getting them to set questions, this is the answer, what is the question, key word activities.

We teach right up to the start of the main block of GCSEs

scienceteacher · 22/11/2007 20:08

I have always been very skeptical of study leave (thought grateful to have the free time as a teacher).

When I was at school, there was no such thing - we did our exams (in Scotland)straight after the Easter holidays, and then either started our next years' courses or did a leavers' programme.

I'm pretty sure that an awful lot of students have no idea what to do to revise during their time off. I am always happy to see those who voluntarily come into school during that time.