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Year 11 into Year 12 Bridging Tasks

To help you make the best possible start to A Level studies, your teachers have put together some possible tasks you can be doing in preparation for starting Year 12. If you are planning on doing A Level at Fairfax we would strongly recommend that you do this work in preparation. The suggested activities are below. If you have any queries please message your teacher through Show My Homework or email post@fairfax.bham.sch.uk

Suggested Activities in Preparation For Year 12

This document contains a range of possible tasks which students could complete in preparation for their A Level and BTEC studies. Subject specific resources will be uploaded over the coming weeks. Please note that Fairfax reserves the right to withdraw courses that are not viable. All courses require a minimum number of students to qualify as a viable programme of study.

Year 11 into Year 12 Bridging Tasks

A Level Bridging Tasks – Accounting

SUBJECTRECOMMENDED READING
A Level Accounting·       My Revision Notes: AQA A-level Accounting, by David Lewis, ISBN 9781510449367

 

·       Accounting for AQA: AS and A-Level Year 1, by David Cox, ISBN 9781911198123

A Level Bridging Tasks – Business.docx

A Level Bus – Bridging Task (CHALLENGE)

 

 

A Level Business·       Revise Edexcel AS/A Level Business, Revision Guide and Workbook, Pearson, ISBN 9781292213217

 

·       Marketing and People: Theme 1 for Edexcel Business AS and A Level, by Alan Hewison, ISBN 9781780140117

  • Carry out some research on the macroeconomic variables e.g. current interest rates, exchange rates, inflation rate, unemployment rate and economic growth of the UK, USA, China, Russia, India, Brazil, South Africa and Vietnam.
A Level Economics·       Markets, Consumers and Firms: Theme 1 for Edexcel AS and A Level Economics B, by Nancy Wall and Brian Ellis, ISBN 9781780140131

 

·        Websites to explore: www.tutor2u.net  and www.physicsandmathstutor.com/economics-revision/a-level-edexcel-b

 

Complete a time line for the UK documenting how the macroeconomic variables have changed over the past 15 years and what important news stories have impacted on these variables.

 

  • Visit tutor2u.net, click on subjects, then economics. In the search box type ‘head start’

 

There are a number of activities for you to complete to give you a head start in your Economics study.

English Language A Level Specification

A-Level English Language -Getting-Started.docx

A Level Language Glossary Booklet

A Level English Language Knowledge Organiser

English Language Paper 1 Section A Text Analysis and Comparison

CAMBRIDGE ELEVATE ONLINE TEXT BOOKS

Students should access the A/AS Level English Literature A for AQA Student Book and the A/AS Level English Language for AQA Student Book as follows:-

 

Please Note- All English books have been clubbed together onto one book shelf so you will see A Level, GCSE and Literature.

 

1-     Please use the link here to log in and register, https://www.cambridge.org/gb/education/90-day-trial

2-     Use the school name, school postcode and school email address. If you have registered recently for a 30 day trial you will have to use another email address, a personal one or other as you cannot have 2 trials running at the same time on one email.

3-     Once registered you will be sent a link, with your username and password to the email address used.

4-     Please log in.

5-     You will be presented with a bookshelf, please be sure to click onto the correct book.

6-     Use the home tab top right hand corner to go back to your book shelf. Use the question mark for “how to use”

English Literature Specification

Reading List

Write like a literary scholar

A Level English Literature – Unseen Prose Booklet

 

CAMBRIDGE ELEVATE ONLINE TEXT BOOKS

Students should access the A/AS Level English Literature A for AQA Student Book and the A/AS Level English Language for AQA Student Book as follows:-

 

Please Note- All English books have been clubbed together onto one book shelf so you will see A Level, GCSE and Literature.

 

1-     Please use the link here to log in and register, https://www.cambridge.org/gb/education/90-day-trial

2-     Use the school name, school postcode and school email address. If you have registered recently for a 30 day trial you will have to use another email address, a personal one or other as you cannot have 2 trials running at the same time on one email.

3-     Once registered you will be sent a link, with your username and password to the email address used.

4-     Please log in.

5-     You will be presented with a bookshelf, please be sure to click onto the correct book.

6-     Use the home tab top right hand corner to go back to your book shelf. Use the question mark for “how to use”

BTEC National Extended Certificate in Information Technology

Look at the specification (Units 1, 2, 3 and 6) and other materials on the website below to find out what this course is all about and what careers it could lead you to.

 

https://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/btec-nationals/information-technology-2016.html

 

L3 BTEC National in IT·       Revise BTEC National Information Technology, Revision Guide, by Ian Bruce, Daniel Richardson and Alan Jarvis, ISBN 9781292299099

 

·       Revise BTEC National Information Technology, Units 1 and 2, Revision Workbook, by Daniel Richardson and Alan Jarvis, ISBN 9781292230597

·       BTEC Nationals Information Technology, Student Book Activebook, by Jenny Phillips, Alan Jarvis, Mark Fishpool, Richard McGill, Tim Cook and David Atkinson-Beaumont, ISBN 9781292140308

Carry out some research into the role of various key people in the justice system. Use the following website and explore both civil and criminal systems. Draw a hierarchy of the courts labelled with the various key personnel in each court and what their role is.  https://www.judiciary.uk/about-the-judiciary/the-justicesystem/jurisdictions/criminal-jurisdiction/

 

Also research a recent (last 5 years) news story about either a criminal or civil case which has gone to court. Document a summary of the case (5 x key facts – what, where, who etc.) the outcome and why the case was ruled that way – why did the judge make that decision?

 

A Level Law·       My Revision Notes: AQA A-level Law, by Craig Beauman and Clare Wilson, ISBN 9781510429222

 

·       Website to explore: www.e-lawresources.co.uk