Year 11 GCSE Support
On 21st August 2025, your children will receive their GCSE results.
Now is the time to begin with the end in mind. The level of work that our students are doing and the level of commitment they are showing currently will have a significant impact on what they achieve in the end.
The information on this page aims to help you and your child maximise the remaining weeks and months to help them achieve their full potential and give them the widest range of choices for the future.
As we all know, there are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from mistakes. As you are aware, your child will soon begin their GCSE Mock exams. As well as highlighting a student’s strengths, mock exams also allow our students to identify the areas that need addressing, before the final GCSE exams. What students do before and after the mocks is just as important as actually sitting them.
An essential element of ensuring this success is the guidance and direction received at home. As parents ourselves of school age children, we empathise with the demands this can make on our lives when homes are already busy. We also acknowledge a possible lack of confidence in knowing how best to help our children when so much has changed since we were at school especially when it comes to subjects that we were not particularly good at or maybe didn’t enjoy. Therefore, as part of our offer of support, staff at St Benedict’s have put together this GCSE Revision & Support Guide geared towards you as parents and carers as much as for your children.
In order to effectively use all the live links, please download a PDF copy of this booklet. You can do so via the PDF button on the top right corner of the flipbook web page.
Please take the time to read it carefully together with your child and we look forward to seeing you at our virtual parents’ evening in January.
Our dedicated staff will be offering a GCSE revision programme tailored for the November Mock exam session. The classes run at different times of the day and will stop with their final mock exam on 5th December. A revision timetable for the Spring Term will be published in January 2025. For a copy of the revision timetable please click here below
St Benedict's Catholic College Revision Support Sessions
In preparation for the year 11 Mocks and the examination in the summer, our heads of department and subject coordinators have provided you with practical advice on the next steps for improvement. You can easily access this advice along with individual changes to the GCSE exams by following each departmental link on the college map below.
Our annual Year 11 GCSE Revision & Support evening takes place on Wednesday 6th November 2024. During this event key staff provided the most up to date information about the Year 11 learning journey, useful tips and advice for you on how to effectively support your child with their GCSE preparation at home and last-minute strategies for our students to ensure they “Level up and ace their mocks!”.
We would like to thank everyone who attended the event, and all parents and carers for their ongoing support in ensuring their child fully understands the importance of the coming months and strives to apply their energy and attention to examination preparation both in college and at home. Please see below a summary of the PowerPoint presentation used for the evening.
