Making a Difference through Science

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Making a Difference through Science!
The Children and Young Peoples Service

• How to support your child in preparing for the
  KS3 science National Curriculum tests.

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Making a Difference through Science!
The Children and Young Peoples Service

• How to support your child in preparing for the
  KS3 science National Curriculum tests.

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What is the Making the Difference in Science!
project?

• The following slides will give you an idea
• They have been used to launch the project
• in schools

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Making a difference ..through science!
The Children and Young Peoples Service
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• Make Poverty History and
• Live 8 want the G8 countries
• to give more money to poor
• countries so that they can
• spend it on things like
• hospitals and schools.

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It would cost around 3 billion a year for every
child in the world to go to school
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• Thats less than the USA spends on ice cream
  every year.

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More than 100 million children around the world
miss out on school
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• Education transforms lives
• You are one of the lucky ones.

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• How can you use
• your education to
• make a difference to
• the education of
• others ?

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• You can use your education to provide the gift of
  education for young people less well off than you.

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What have these gotin common?

• Spurs
• Astra Zeneca a pharmaceutical company
• Letts
• Educational

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• Your education
• is important to them because you are the future
• Science
• is important to them because it is vital to
  future development
• The community of Haringey
• is important to them because they believe in a
  more equal London
• Every child matters to them
• because they believe in a more fair world

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• To organisations like AstraZeneca,
• Letts and Spurs these things are
• so important that together they,
• and others, have pledged more
• than 10 000 to help you to do
• well in science this year. We will
• raise much, much more.

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Through agencies such as
You can provide gifts such as.
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Teach a class
Build a classroom
Buy a desk and chair
Teachers kit
Train a teacher
Kit out 5 students
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Caribbean countries
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia
Where will our gifts go?
African countries
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What do you have to do?

• If you make good progress in science, the money
  they have pledged will be used to provide the
  gift of education to young people in the
  developing world.
• If you meet your target in the science tests in
  May, young people in the developing world will be
  given the gift of education in your name.

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Whats in it for you?

• The pleasure of helping others
• Becoming confident in, enjoying, and perhaps
  beginning a career in, science
• A flying start to next years GCSE
• A Making a Difference through Science Award
• This year the two Y9 students who made the most
  progress in science from KS2 enjoyed an
  educational and recreational visit to South
  Africa as Oliver Tambo Science Students of the
  Year.
• The two students in each school who made the most
  progress were awarded The Making a difference
  through science awards.

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How we will help you ?

• Help from your teachers
• Free revision books to every home
• Guidance for your parents and carers about how to
  revise
• Translated into community languages if you need
• Special meetings for your parents and carers to
  help you to learn science and study for exams
• Easter schools and after school help
• Held in community centres eg at Spurs football
  ground

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At a speech in Trafalgar Square, Nelson Mandela
told children Sometimes it falls upon a
generation to be great. You can be that great
generation
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Together we can MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY in 2007
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This white band is the symbol of the Make Poverty
History campaign and of your commitment to doing
as well as you can to make a difference
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The End
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You dont need to be good at Science

• Dont worry if you feel that you are not good at
  Science or if the language of Science is
  unfamiliar
• Support and encouragement for your child and
  pride in their progress is all they need from you
• This will help them gain confidence in themselves

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What can you do?

• Encourage them to
• Study regularly
• Talk about what they are learning
• Explain their ideas and their answers
• Use the revision books
• Check and record their progress
• Prioritise the most important topics
• Use the Red Hot Websites

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1. Study regularly

• Encourage them to spend a little time, say 15
  minutes, revising from KS3 Success in Science

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2. Talk about what they are learning

• Encourage then to talk to you about what they are
  learning and how they are learning it
• Listen and ask them to explain
• Use your community language if this is more
  comfortable for you
• The most important thing is that they understand
  the scientific ideas and can explain them

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3. Explain their ideas and answers

• The ability to explain and give evidence is
  essential to gaining Level 5 (the target level)
• It helps students to make better progress
• It is an important skill in all subjects
• Children who can explain well can go on to get
  good GCSEs

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3. Explain their ideas and answers

• The following DVD outlines easy ways for parents
  and carers to help their child to develop the
  ability to explain and thus achieve a level 5 at
  the end of Key Stage 3

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I can explain!
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Summary of DVD

• Levels are a measure of the knowledge,
  understanding and skills
• The target level is Level 5 or above
• A key skill in Level 5 is the ability to explain
• All it takes is a simple question
• Give them time to think about what they are going
  to say and how they are going to say it

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4. Use the revision books

• Ensure that you understand how the REVISION GUIDE
  and the QUESTION ANSWER BOOK and PROGRESS
  PLOTTER work together
• Be patient and be prepared to listen to them when
  they want to tell you what they have learnt

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• 3 books
• A revision guide in colour
• A QA book (blue and green) containing answers
• Red Hot websites

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5. Check and record their progress

• Keep an eye on them and encourage them to
  persevere
• Encourage them to finish questions and check
  their answers
• Check that they record their progress in the
  PROGRESS PLOTTER

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6. Prioritise the most important topics

• Ask them which topics their teachers think it is
  most important for them to revise
• Help them with a revision timetable to ensure
  that they cover the most important topics first

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7. Use the Red Hot Websites

• The Red Hot Websites book is a guide to fun
  websites that support students with Key Stage 3
  Science
• Help your child to navigate the book and the
  websites
• Make sure they are staying on task when they are
  on the computer

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7. Use the Red Hot Websites

• Remember you and your child can use free ICT
  facilities in the library for an hour each day
• Well established revision websites are
• www.samlearning.com
• www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science
• You might also find useful
• www.parentscentre.gov.uk