Knowledge Organisers

by Katherine Reece,
Lead Teacher of Humanities

As part of being a PiXL school, we have looked at using knowledge organisers at the start of each topic in which the students can have a very clear access to what exactly is covered. Humanities will be following the format as below. This is in the form of an A4 worksheet that will be stuck in the student's exercise book at the start of each topic so that they can refer to it at any point to help secure their knowledge. This is something which is being developed so that it occurs across every year group and every topic. The students will be able to use the knowledge organiser as a point of reference at the end of the topic to highlight areas of strengths and weaknesses, this can then be a starting point for intervention and revision. By the end of Year 11 the students will have a knowledge organiser for every topic covered and this can be another revision resource to help them with.

 

Revision checklists

To aid this the students have been given topic lists for everything covered in Year 11 - this is given out after Easter in Year 11 and the students can go through all their revision using this as a checklist. Here, very clear gaps in knowledge can be found and this way the students will be able to ask for help, intervention or revise more on their own, covering the correct topics.