{"id":3973,"date":"2019-12-03T11:17:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T11:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/?p=3973"},"modified":"2019-12-03T11:17:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T11:17:45","slug":"knowledge-books-for-gcse-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/knowledge-books-for-gcse-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge Books for GCSE Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Knowledge-Book.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Knowledge-Book.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Knowledge-Book-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>At the start of the academic year, Bridgnorth Endowed School introduced a new classroom tool to Year 10 and 11 students in the form of a GCSE Knowledge Book.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The essential go-to manual is divided into subjects and lays out the core topics in an organised and easily accessible way.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Teachers were asked to pinpoint the most important key facts in each subject to help students understand exactly what they need to know to be successful.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The concept stems from mastery, one of the school\u2019s key drivers, and sets out to support the aim that \u201cwe work hard to get better at the things that matter.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students are encouraged to use them during Tutor Time, at the beginning of each day, and are also able to take them home if they wish.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea is to keep going through all of the information to instil the facts, based on the theory that the memory of learned knowledge is lost in a matter of days or weeks unless it is consciously reviewed regularly.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assistant Head, Mr Street, explains: \u201cTo make the most of the knowledge books, students should be setting weekly goals and trying to overlearn by revisiting and testing themselves again and again.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although still under development, the reaction to the books has been very positive; they are useful tools to support students in retaining and retrieving knowledge for life-long learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#ab162b\" class=\"has-text-color has-medium-font-size\"> <strong>Feedback from students includes: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote is-style-default\" style=\"border-color:#abb8c3\"><blockquote><p><strong>The knowledge books are useful for revision.<br>They give a general overview for all aspects of the subject.<br>They are organised and everything is easy to find.<br>It\u2019s easy to use and very helpful.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the start of the academic year, Bridgnorth Endowed School introduced a new classroom tool to Year 10 and 11 students in the form of a GCSE Knowledge Book. The essential go-to manual is divided into subjects and lays out the core topics in an organised and easily accessible way. Teachers were asked to pinpoint &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/knowledge-books-for-gcse-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Knowledge Books for GCSE Students&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[2,91,78],"class_list":["post-3973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curriculum","tag-bridgnorth-endowed-school","tag-curriculum","tag-gcse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}