Essential skills

Having had a fair bit of success with our year 11 C/D borderline students in the March exam we are now in a position, like many other schools, where we are able to turn our attention to helping our remaining students get that all important C grade. I have put together a series of 5 “Essential skills” worksheets that could be used as a starter activity or as a homework (or in lots of other ways) in order to help keep certain topics fresh in the minds of these students. To make it easier to monitor, track and set targets from, I have kept the order of topics consistent for all of them, however, they do get progressively harder.

Not the most exciting of resources, but a useful addition to all the other great things I’m sure you are doing to help prepare the students at your school.

Essential skills C/D pack

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15 thoughts on “Essential skills

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    Mark Greenaway

    April 24, 2013 at 11:13pm

    Hi Mo

    Really appreciate you putting these together
    Trust all is going well, things seem to be happening your end

    Take care

    Mark

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      MathedUp

      April 24, 2013 at 11:17pm

      No worries Mark. Hope you find them useful.. Aiming to put together a monitoring sheet for them over the weekend but let me know if you beat me to it (I know you too well!)

      Things going well thanks and hope all is well at your end. Hopefully we get a chance to have a catch up soon..

      Mo

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    Miriam Sismey

    April 25, 2013 at 8:55am

    Hi Mo,
    Thanks for these – they will save us a lot of work!
    Miriam

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      MathedUp

      April 25, 2013 at 6:21pm

      No worries. Hope all is well at JH.. Will hopefully see you at Teachmeet on 16th May..?

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        Miriam Sismey

        April 25, 2013 at 8:40pm

        Hope so – I shall put it in the diary.
        Wil it be at TDA this time?

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          MathedUp

          April 25, 2013 at 10:13pm

          No, will be at KSCS. Here is the link..

          See you there!

          Mo

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    Lynne Webb

    April 30, 2013 at 12:11am

    Thanks Mo used twice today already. Monitoring sheets after the bank Holiday? YES PLEASE!
    Lynne

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      MathedUp

      April 30, 2013 at 12:14am

      Will get on it! Hope you are well..
      Mo

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    Lynne Webb

    April 30, 2013 at 11:49pm

    Thank you! I am very well thanks. Hope you are too.

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    March 24, 2015 at 10:49pm

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    Jessica (@algebrainiac1)

    April 8, 2019 at 5:46pm

    I followed a thread of old links on a blog post that came up when I was searching and got to this post…When I click the link for the Essential skills C/D pack, it says it isn’t available. Do you have this somewhere that I can check it out? Thanks!

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      MathedUp

      April 13, 2019 at 9:19pm

      Hi Jessica. Link was broken but have fixed it now. I hope it proves useful..

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