A Level Assessment

This page details all of the assessments we will be running as part of the changes to the 2021 Summer examination season due to Covid-19.

Subjects: 

Art

Date of AssessmentPeriodLengthWhat will the assessment be on?Where can I find
this information?
Portfolio evidence to be
completed by 30th April
N/AN/AA3 sketchbooks; final pieces and research essay.A80 workshops

Biology

Date to be assessedPeriodLengthWhat will the assessment be on?Where Can I find this
information?
Friday 30th April340 minutesCommunication and homeostasis
Hormonal communication
Plant and animal responses
Text book pages 10-17, 64-73, 80-107
Revision guide pages 132, 140-147, 158-171
arnewood.fireflycloud.net/science/a-level-biology/plant-and-animal-responses
arnewood.fireflycloud.net/science/a-level-biology/hormonal-communication
arnewood.fireflycloud.net/science/a-level-biology/communication-and-homeostasis
Tuesday 4th May240 minutesBiodiversity (AS)
Ecosystems
Populations and sustainability
Text book pages AS book 254-271
Text book pages A book 270-301
Revision guide pages 110- 117, 238-254
Thursday 13th May140 minutesCellular control
Manipulating genomes
Cloning and biotechnology
Text book pages 162-169, 178-209, 216-263

Friday 14th May325 minutesRespiration
Text book pages 136-153
Revision guide pages 184-192
arnewood.fireflycloud.net/science/a-level-biology/respiration

Business Studies

Dates to be assessedPeriodLengthWhat will the assessment be on?Where can I find this
information?
Thursday 1st April140Value and limitations of Ratio Analysis /  Overall Performance / Share Price

Financial Ratios - Gearing, Current Ratio, ROCE

CSR & Business Ethics

Porters Five Forces Model

Ratio analysis value / limitations  - Text book pages 342-363
Overall Performance -Text book pages 364-384
Share price - Text book pages 16-29
Calculations - Gearing / Current Ratio / ROCE - Text book pages 342-363
CSR / Business Ethics  - Text book pages 437-460
Porters 5 Forces Model - Text book pages 461-467
General - Firefly Business Pages / Teacher handouts / notes
Friday 23rd April340Ansoffs Matrix

Competitive Advantage

Bowmans Clock

Price Skimming

Confidence Levels

Ansoffs Matrix - Text book pages 487-494
Competitive Advantage - notes / video -Text book pages 495-505
Bowmans Clock - Text book pages 495-505
Price Skimming / video - Text book pages 116-141
Confidence Levels - notes / video - Text book pages 90-105

General - Firefly Business Pages / Teacher handouts / notes

Thursday 29th April140International Markets

Intrapreneurship

Greiners Growth Curve

Horizontal / vertical integration

Productivity

Capacity Utilisation

International Markets - video 1 / notes / video 2 / Model - Text book pages 535-550
Intrapreneurship - Text book pages 529-531
Greiners Growth Curve - Text book pages 508-522
Horizontal / vertical integration- Text book pages 508-522
Productivity - - Text book pages 265-275
Capacity Utilisation - Text book pages 164-173

General - Firefly Business Pages / Teacher handouts / notes
Thursday 6th May140Economic Environment - Fiscal / Monetary policy - Interest Rates / Profits and costs 

Quality / Labour Productivity

Mass Customsation

Market Growth Rate

Income / Price Elasticity of Demand

Stock Control Charts

Economic Environment - Fiscal / Monetary policy - Interest Rates / Profits and costs video / notes - Text book pages 1-15 / 205-228 /  342-363 / 410-436
Quality - intro assurance / control  / Labour Productivity - Text book pages 174-178 / 265-275
Mass Customsation - - Text book pages 180
Market Growth Rate - Text book pages 90-105
Income (YED) video / notes / Price Elasticity of Demand -  video - Text book pages 90-105
Stock Control Charts - video / notes - Text book pages 179-188

General - Firefly Business Pages / Teacher handouts / notes

Chemistry

Date to be assessedPeriodLengthWhat will the assessment be on?Where can I find this
information?
Thursday 29th April440

Module 3: Periodic table and energy

  • The periodic table and periodicity
  • Group 2 and the halogens
  • Qualitative analysis
  • Enthalpy changes
  • Reaction rates and equilibrium (qualitative)
OCR website - https://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/as-and-a-level/chemistry-a-h032-h432-from-2015/


Kerboodle website - https://www.kerboodle.com/app/courses/14188


Text book pages - 92-166

Thursday 6th May440

Module 4: Core organic chemistry

  • Basic concepts
  • Hydrocarbons
  • Alcohols and haloalkanes
  • Organic synthesis
  • Analytical techniques (IR and MS)
OCR website - https://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/as-and-a-level/chemistry-a-h032-h432-from-2015/


Kerboodle website - https://www.kerboodle.com/app/courses/14188


Text book pages - 170-266

Thursday 13th May440

Module 5: Physical chemistry and transition elements

  • Reaction rates and equilibrium (quantitative)
  • pH and buffers
  • Enthalpy, entropy and free energy
  • Redox and electrode potentials
  • Transition elements
OCR website - https://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/as-and-a-level/chemistry-a-h032-h432-from-2015/


Kerboodle website - https://www.kerboodle.com/app/courses/14188


Text book pages - 270-426

Friday 14th May440

Module 6: Organic chemistry and analysis

  • Carbonyl compounds
  • Carboxylic acids and esters
  • Nitrogen compounds
  • Polymers
OCR website - https://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/as-and-a-level/chemistry-a-h032-h432-from-2015/


Kerboodle website - https://www.kerboodle.com/app/courses/14188


Text book pages - 454-504

Computer Science

Date to be assessedPeriodLengthWhat will the assessment be on?Where can I find this information?
Friday 23rd April250Written exam

- Turing machines
- Data structures (graphs, trees, BST, stacks, queues, pointers)
- Algorithms (searching, sorting, Dijkstra)
- Vectors
- Data representation:
     - Images
     - Sound
     - Characters (ASCII, extended ASCII)
     - Fixed/Floating-point decimals
Theory of computation - Firefly page

AQA A-Level Crag & Dave videos

From the Hodder book:
-Turing Machines p150
- Data structures p92
- Algorithms p92, p101, p110


Friday 30th April250On-screen exam

- Programming tasks (not related to Hex Baron)
- Computation theory questions related to Hex Baron.

Programming concepts - Firefly page

AQA A-Level Crag & Dave videos

Wednesday 5th May140Written exam

- Networking (topologies, TCP/IP, asynchronous transmission)
- Computer systems (hardware, software, operating systems, translators, logic gates, Boolean algebra)

- Computer architecture (von Neumann vs Harvard, CPU, CPU performance and FDE cycle, instruction sets, assembly language

- External devices (peripherals and secondary storage)

AQA A-Level Crag & Dave videos


Hodder Education book.

Friday 14th May240Written exam

- Computational complexity (time/space complexity)
- Databases (normal forms, E-R diagrams, SQL)
- Fundamentals of functional programing
- Finite State Machines
- Reverse Polish Notation (RPN)
- Syntax diagrams / Backus-Naur Form (BNF)
- Binary and Hexadecimal (with arithmetics)
- Computational logic (including half/full adder)

Networks - Databases - Functional Programming and Regular expressions - Firefly page

AQA A-Level Crag & Dave videos


From the Hodder book:
- Computational complexity p169
- Networking p310 onwards.
- Databases p364
- Functional programming p394
- RPN p117.
- Syntax diagrams  / BNF / Regular expressions p157.

Drama

Date to be assessed PeriodLengthWhat will the assessment be on?Where Can I find this
information?
Friday 23rd April340Component 3: Section A - Live theatre evaluation based on The National Theatre adaptation of Frankenstein.National Theatre website. Students have a log on in order to watch the performance again. 

Students also have several marked essays with detailed feedback that they are welcome to work on for further guidance. 

Thursday 6th May140Component 3: Section C - Woyzeck: Interpreting one complete performance text, in light of one practitioner for a contemporary audience. Students have been given a Woyzeck and Brecht revision booklet to help guide them. 

They will be focussing on Woyzeck's mental deterioration throughout the play.  

Thursday 13th May130Component 2: Group practical performance of Tissue by Caryl ChurchillStudent have the script of Tissue and will need to focus on learning their lines 

English Language

Date to be assessedPeriodLengthWhat will the assessement be on?Where can I findthis
information?
Tuesday 27th April445English Language Paper 1 - Individual Variation - analysis and comparison of how personal/social identity is conveyed across two pieces of linked data. 30 marks
Student notes in exercise books, plus revision material handed out before Christmas which includes practice questions and information on linguistic theory. Textbooks are also available on request.
Friday 7th May545English Language Paper 2 - Child Language - analysis of children's writing across a set of unseen data. 45 marks

Material on Firefly - https://arnewood.fireflycloud.net/english-and-media-studies/a-level-english-language/cla-child-language-acquisition-resources

Typed notes and paper copies of revision materials also handed out in class.  Students have been offered revision guides.

Tuesday 11th May445

English Language Paper 1 - Variation over Time - analysis and comparison of how language has changed over time across two pieces of linked data across different time periods.
30 marks

Student notes in exercise books, plus revision material handed out before Christmas which includes practice questions and information on linguistic theory. Textbooks are also available on request. Additional information can be found here: https://www.bl.uk/englishtimeline

English Literature

Date to be assessedPeriodLengthWhat will the assessment be on?Where can I find this information?
Tuesday 20th April150Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee WilliamsAnnotations completed in class in students' own copy of the book. Notes taken in class. 

Revision materials on Streetcar

Wednesday 28th April150Othello - William ShakespeareAnnotations completed in class in students' own copy of the book. Notes taken in class. Content has been reduced to remove critical response (AO5). Essay will be focused on characters of Iago and Othello and the themes of race and gender.

Revision on Othello
Tuesday 4th May150Modern PoetryAnnotations completed in class in students' own copy of the book. Notes taken in class. Content has been reduced to focus on 8 key poems which have been shared with the students. 

Revision materials on modern poetry
Wednesday 12th May150The Romantic Poets - William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley and John KeatsAnnotations completed in class in students' own copy of the book. Notes taken in class. Content has been reduced to cover only three of the five poets. The essay question will focus on the themes of nature and mortality. 

Revision materials on The Romantics

French

Date to be assessedPeriodLengthWhat will the assessment be on?Where can I find this
information?
Friday 23rd April440The Independent Research Project oral exam - 10 mins eachStudents have an IRP booklet for guidance. They have the information collected from their own research, organised under headings ready to be discussed.
Wednesday 28th April440Listening element on topics of voluntary work, politics and heritage.Year 1 textbook chapters 3 and 4 and Year 2 textbook chapter 4. Blue revision sheet. Livret de révisions voluntary work, politics and heritage sections as practice materials.
Friday 7th May440Reading element on topics of refugees, poverty, cinemaYear 2 textbook chapter 6, chapter 2, Year 1 textbook chapter 6. Blue revision sheet.  Livret de révisions refugees, poverty and cinema sections as practice materials.
Wednesday 12th May440Writing and translation element on the topic of the digital world and a more general topic area to test grammatical knowledge. Year 1 textbook chapter 2. Blue revision sheet. Grammar and Translation workbook, especially pages 23 to 30 and pages 57 to 82.  Livret de révisions translation tasks on the digital world in particular but all topics could be useful.

Geography

Date to be assessedPeriodLengthWhat will the assessment be on?Where can I find this
information?
Thursday 1st April450

The Water Cycle and Water Insecurity; Storm hydrographs, water insecurity and challenges posed to changes in the water cycle. 

The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security; Mitigating planetary warming, challenges posed by changes to the water and carbon cycles.

Oxford Textbook Chapter 1 & Chapter 2.
Friday 23rd April450

Superpowers; what they are, factors influencing superpowers, impacts of resource consumption on environment, role of TNC's in superpowers.

Health, Human Rights & Intervention; conventions protections human rights e.g. Geneva Convention, factors affecting life expectancy within countries and between countries, why there is a neo-liberal market and how IGO's help to influence this, different military interventions and the impact of these on improving human rights. 

Oxford Textbook Chapter 3 & Chapter 4. 
Friday 30th April450

Fieldwork Questions; recap of methods used to collect data during your Year 12 fieldtrip. Focus on pros and cons of different data presentation methods, interpreting transects, what a null hypothesis is, critical values in Spearman's Rank tables, evaluation of different fieldwork methods carried out. 

Notes from fieldwork. 

Oxford textbook pages 297 & 305.

Friday 14th May450Synoptic Paper; recap of synoptic themes from across the course. Specific focus on factors affecting development of countries and status of superpower countries. Oxford textbook Chapter 7. 

Government and Politics

Date to be assessedPeriodLengthWhat will the assessment be on?Where can I find this
information?
Tuesday 30th March240US Government & Politics

Pressure Groups

Congress 

One exam question

One extract based essay question

US Government & Politics textbook
US Government & Politics Revision guide
Crash course US Government and Politics


Wednesday 5th May240Political IdeasPolitical Ideas textbook

Political Ideas Revision guide

Monday 17th May140US Government and Politics & Comparative PoliticsUS Government & Politics textbook
US Government & Politics Revision guide
UK Government & Politics textbook
UK Government & Politics Revision guide


History (Option C)

Dates to be assessedPeriodLengthWhat will the assessement be on?Where can I find this
information?
Thursday 1st April240Civil Rights Interpretation question on African Americans and Black PowerCivil Rights textbook

Civil Rights Revision guide

Tuesday 27th April340Civil Rights Thematic essay question 

Choice between Women and Trade Unions

Civil Rights textbook

Civil Rights Revision guide

Tuesday 11th May340Source based essay question on the Mid Tudor crisis - Mary and ReligionEarly Tudors textbook

Early Tudors Revision guide

History (Option D)

Dates to be assessedPeriodLengthWhat will the assessment be on?Where can I find this
information?
Wednesday 31st March 140Civil Rights Interpretation question on African Americans and Black PowerCivil Rights textbook

Civil Rights revision guide

Wednesday 28th April140Civil Rights Thematic essay question

Choice between women and Trade Unions

Civil Rights textbook

Civil Rights revision guide


Wednesday 12th May140Source based essay question on the Mid-Tudor crisis - Mary and religionEarly Tudors textbook

Early Tudors revision guide

Law

Dates to be assessedPeriod LengthWhat will the assessment be on?Where can I find this
information?
Friday 23rd April540Criminal Law 

Murder

Voluntary Manslaughter: Loss of Control 

Sentencing of the Crown Court in relation to Murder and Manslaughter 

Year 2 text book

https://arnewood.fireflycloud.net/humanities/law/year-2-law/criminal-law-/2-murder


arnewood.fireflycloud.net/humanities/law/year-2-law/criminal-law-/3-voluntary-manslaughter-/loss-of-control-


Students have revision and and class notes  in their folders

Friday 30th April540English Legal System 


Statutory interpretation - Rules and cases

Influence on parliamentary law making

Law commission 

Control of delegated legislation 

Role of the jury 

arnewood.fireflycloud.net/humanities/law/year-1-law-/the-nature-of-law-and-the-english-legal-system--1


Year 1 text books 

Notes in folders and revision from lessons 

Tuesday 4th May440Human Rights 


Article 10 

Article 11 

Public Order Act 

Protection form harassment 

HRA S6-8

Text book year 2 

Students have work books and and class notes/ revision  in their folders

Tuesday 11th May440Concepts of Law 

Law and Morality 

Students have work books and and class notes  in their folders
Text book year 2 

Maths

Dates to be assessedPeriodLengthWhat will the assessment be on?Where can I find this
information?
Wednesday 28th April340Statistics

Venn Diagrams
Mean, Standard deviation & Median
Histograms
Binomial Distribution
Hypothesis testing
Normal Distribution

All exam questions have been carefully selected and students have exam past paper booklets.

These are to be worked on while in class and at home.

Wednesday 5th May340Pure 1

Radian calculations
Exponentials and logs
Differentiation
Integration
Binomial Expansion
Trigonometry
All exam questions have been carefully selected and students have exam past paper booklets.

These are to be worked on while in class and at home.

Wednesday 12th May340Mechanics

Variable acceleration
Moments
Connected particles
Dynamics
Vectors

All exam questions have been carefully selected and students have exam past paper booklets.

These are to be worked on while in class and at home.

Wednesday 19th May340Pure 2

Radian calculations
Exponentials and logs
Differentiation
Integration
Binomial Expansion
Trigonometry
All exam questions have been carefully selected and students have exam past paper booklets.

These are to be worked on while in class and at home.

Further Maths

Dates to be assessedPeriodLengthWhat will the assessment be on?Where can I find this
information?
Monday 26th April440Further StatisticsAll exam questions have been carefully selected and students have exam past paper booklets.

These are to be worked on while in class and at home.

Friday 7th May440Further DecisionAll exam questions have been carefully selected and students have exam past paper booklets.

These are to be worked on while in class and at home.

Monday 10th May440Core Pure 1

Complex numbers
Series
1st order differential equations
Hyperbolic differentiation 

All exam questions have been carefully selected and students have exam past paper booklets.

These are to be worked on while in class and at home.

Monday 17th May440Core Pure 2

Matrices
Hyperbolic integration
2nd order differential equations
Polar curves
All exam questions have been carefully selected and students have exam past paper booklets.

These are to be worked on while in class and at home.

Media Studies

Dates to be assessedPeriodLengthWhat will the assessment be on?Where can I find this
information?
Wednesday 21st April340

Paper 1 Section A- Questions 1-3
Media Language and Representation

Unseen text; Close-study products; Common's 'Letter to the Free'; The Specials' 'Ghost Town'

Firefly revision pages
Class handouts
AQA Media Studies textbook (Illuminate Publishing)
Thursday 22nd April230Paper 1 Section A- Question 4
Media language and representation

Close study products; Maybelline 'That Boss Life'; 1960s Score advert

Firefly revision pages
Class handouts
AQA Media Studies textbook (Illuminate Publishing)
Wednesday 5th May350Paper 1 Section B
Audiences and Industries

Close-study products; Film- 'Chicken'; BBC radio- 'Life Hacks'; Orson Welles' 'War of the Worlds' 1938 Radio Broadcast

Firefly revision pages
Class handouts
AQA Media Studies textbook (Illuminate Publishing)
Thursday 13th May235Paper 2 Question 2
Synoptic Question

Close-study products:
Men's Health
Oh Comely
Firefly revision pages
Class handouts
AQA Media Studies textbook (Illuminate Publishing)

Religious Studies

Dates to be assessedPeriodLengthWhat will the assessment be on?Where can I find this
information?
Tuesday 27th April524Religious concepts and religious life (AS)

The Community of Believers
Key Moral Principles
A01 Question

AS Text book: P.76-83 and P. 84-91

AS Revision Guide: P.48-59
Revision notes and materials provided in class

arnewood.fireflycloud.net/humanities/religious-studies/a-level/as/as-christianity/theme-2-religious-life/ereligious-life--the-community-of-believers

Thursday 29th April324Teleological Ethics (AS)Revision notes and materials provided in class.

Utilitarianism pages on Firefly.

Thursday 6th May336Deontological Ethics (A2)Revision notes and materials provided in class.

Natural Law pages on Firefly.
Monday 10th May436Developments in religious thought (A2)

Attitudes toward wealth
A02 Question

A2 Text Book: P.50-61

A2 Revision Guide: P.28-33
Class notes

arnewood.fireflycloud.net/humanities/religious-studies/a-level/a2/a2-christianity/theme-3-significant-social-developments-in-religious-thought/asocial-developments-in-religious-thought--attitudes-towards-wealth


Monday 17th May436Religious Language (A2)Revision notes and materials provided in class.

Religious Language pages on Firefly.

Photography

Dates to be assessedPeriodLengthWhat will the assessment be on?Where can I find this
information?
Portfolio evidence to be
completed by Monday 26th April
N/AN/ATo consist of unit 1 portfolio; final piece and research essay and journal.Resources in Photography studio

PE

Dates to be assessedPeriod LengthWhat will the assessment be on?Where can I find this
information?
Wednesday 28th April130H555-01 - Heat & the Cardio-Vascular system; Flexibility; Energy Systems; Recovery; Joints, movements and muscles; Functional roles of muscles and types of contraction; Analysis of movement; Skeletal muscle contraction
Everlearner

Firefly

Friday 7th May240H555-02 - Classifications – definitions with e.g; Self confidence; Learning theories Cognitive; Memory; Leadership; Stress management; Attribution  - Weiner’s model; Guidance; Groups; Stages of Learning; Motivation; Transfer; Practice types; Feedback.

Everlearner

Firefly

Wednesday 12th May130H555 - 01 - Biomechanics – Projectile motion; Injury prevention and rehabilitation from injury; Respiratory SystemEverlearner

Firefly

Friday 14th May240H555- 03 - Global sporting events; Routes to sporting excellence in the UK; 21st Century – Emergence and evolution of sport; Ethics and deviance in sport.Everlearner

Firefly

Physics

Dates to be assessedPeriodLengthWhat will the assessment be on?Where can I find this
information?
Thursday 22nd April340

Particles and Waves

Constituents of the Atom; Alpha and Beta Decay
Particle Interaction diagrams; Classification of Particles;
Quarks; Conservation laws; Energy Levels and Photon Emission; Progressive Waves; Wave speed; Stationary waves and superposition; Diffraction Gratings;
Refraction not including optical fibres;

Revision guide

p2-19
p24-39

Thursday 29th April330Mechanics and Further Mechanics

Scalars and Vectors, inclined plane; Moments; Motion along a straight line;
Momentum and Impulse; Work, Energy, Power, Efficiency; Conservation of Energy; Circular Motion; Simple Harmonic Motion; Simple Harmonic Systems;

Revision Guide
p42-69
p98-103


Thursday 6th May340Gravitational, Electric and Magnetic Fields

Circular Motion; Newton’s Law of Gravitation; Gravitational Field Strength; 
Orbits of Planets and Satellites; Electric Field Strength; Magnetic Flux Density;
Moving Charges in a Magnetic Field; Magnetic Induction.

Revision Guide 
p98-99
P120-124
P126-127
P140-143
P147
Friday 14th May140Nuclear and Thermal 

Thermal Energy Transfer; Ideal Gas laws; Brownian Motion; Rutherford Scattering; Radioactive Decay; Nuclear Radius; Thermal Nuclear Reactor.

Revision Guide
p108-112
p117
p144-145
p162,162
p156,157
p166,167

Psychology

Dates to be assessedPeriodLengthWhat will the assessment be on?Where can I find this information?
Tuesday 20th April540

Applied Psychology

What makes a Criminal - section A

What makes a criminal  section B 

What makes a criminal section C  

Year 2 text book 

class notes and revision in students folders


arnewood.fireflycloud.net/humanities/psychology/year-2-psychology/applied-psychology/criminal-psychology/1-what-makes-a-criminal-biological


Friday 30th April140 

Research Methods 

Section B Experiments 

Year 1 text book 

class notes and revision in students folders


mrs.shep_law_psych TikTock 

arnewood.fireflycloud.net/humanities/psychology

Wednesday 5th May440Areas, issues and debates 

Core studies:


Chaney

Bandura

Freud

Kohlberg

Debates:

Reductionism v Holism 


Freewill v Determinism

Usefulness 


Perspectives: 

Psychodynamic

Behaviourism

Area: Individual differences 

arnewood.fireflycloud.net/humanities/psychology/year-1-psychology/psychological-themes-through-core-studies-02


Text book year 1 & 2 


Notes from class in students folders



Friday 7th May130Applied psychology 
Mental health 

Characteristics of mental disorders 


Year 2 text book 
Fire fly (link below)
Notes in students folders from class and revision notes from class

arnewood.fireflycloud.net/humanities/psychology/year-2-psychology/applied-psychology/issues-in-mental-health/1-the-historical-context-of-mental-health

Product Design

Dates to be assessedPeriodLengthWhat will the assessment be on?Where can I find this
information?
Monday 26th April140Designing and making 

Section A - Product Analysis

    AQA Product Design text book

    • Product Analysis, ergonomics and product safety
    • Waste Electrical Electronic  P308
    • Statistics and probability p358
    • Quality Control and Quality Assurance p 291-300
    • Virtual modelling p118
Monday 10th May140Designing and making 

Section B - Commercial Manufacture

    AQA Product Design text book

    • Total Quality Management p293, 303
    • Design movements p202
    • Quality control p298-299
    • Responsible design p276 – 288
    • Weights using density p353-354
    • Technology developments p214-219