Dear Parents/Guardians,
We are pleased to inform you that we have been able to purchase a set of GCSE revision guide/workbooks
(one joint book) for the OCR Gateway GCSE course your child is following in Science. The book covers both the year
10 Core Science GCSE and the year 11 Additional Science GCSE. As each revision guide contains a workbook this
means that, once written in, the book cannot be re-issued to be used again by another student. We feel that having
a revision guide is a good aid for supporting students to achieve their target grade and as such can also be used as an
independent study tool.
We are able to purchase these revision guides at a highly subsidised price and can supply these to your child for £4
(retail £10.99) which we hope you will agree is good value for money.
Please return the reply slip below, with payment, to your son/daughters Science teacher.
If your son/daughter is eligible for free school meals they will be provided with a book free of charge.
Please see information overleaf regarding the course structure of GCSE Science and key GCSE exam dates
Yours sincerely
Claire Daly
Head of Science
[email protected]
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Student Name: ……………………………………………………………………….. Tutor Group: ………………………………….
Science Group:………………………………………………………………………….
I enclose £4.00 towards the cost of the revision guide.
Signed (Parent/Guardian) ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
General Core Science Information for Year 10 Pupils and Parents
Name of Science Group: Edison, Galileo, Geiger, Hubble, Jenner, Nobel, Marconi, Salam, Thomson and
Watson
GCSE Science Course: OCR Gateway Science - Science B - J261
Web link to Specification: http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/82546-specification.pdf
Candidates Guide to Controlled Assessments: http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/68538-candidateguidelines-for-controlled-assessment.pdf
Text Book that links to the specification: OUP: OCR Gateway GCSE Science;
https://global.oup.com/education/product/9780199135523/?region=uk: ISBN: 978-0-19-913552-3
Useful Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/ocr_gateway/
Units taught:
Calendar
Exam Code
Modules
Sept - Dec
UNIT B711:
B1: Understanding Organisms
C1: Carbon Chemistry
P1: Energy For The Home
Jan - May
UNIT B712:
Mock Exam
Length of Exam
Weighting for Exam
Week Beginning 14th Dec.
1 hour 15 minutes
35% of total GCSE
Week Beginning 9th May
1 hour 30 minutes
40% of total GCSE
Provisional Date for
Actual GCSE Exam
Weds 25th May 2016 pm
B2: Understanding Our
Environment
C2: Chemical Resources
P2: Living For The Future
Fri. 10th June 2016 am
Oct - Feb
UNIT B713:
Controlled
Assessment
in lessons
N/A
N/A
25% of total
GCSE
N/A
Controlled Assessments; in their Science lessons, students will have three weeks to complete the controlled
assessment. This is sufficient time to complete the tasks to a high standard. Part 1 of the controlled
assessment is a research task and this may be completed at home and will be the homework set during the
time frame outlined below. There will be a catch up session after school every Wednesday for controlled
assessments but ONLY for a student who has been absent or does not have access to the internet at home.
Title
Purifying Copper
Penguins Huddle
Time Frame
Specific to the Science group already filled
in on students letter
In Year 11 students will start a new Science GCSE called “Additional Science” this is a different GCSE and
is assessed independently of the Year 10 Core Science GCSE so pupils can attain different grades in each.
Students will leave Cardinal Newman School with two separate GCSE science grades.