Students learning at home
Online Learning Platforms
The following online learning platforms are used here at Phoenix for setting work.
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| Please click the link ' Quick Start Guide for Parents' for instructions on how to access GCSE Pod. |
All students have been provided with login details to be able to access Classcharts. |
All students have been provided with login details to be able to access Office 365. For instructions on how to logon to Office365, please click here. |
To logon to Microsoft Teams, click here. |
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If students need to reset passwords for GCSEPod or Classcharts please contact info@phoenix.sandwell.sch.uk If students need to reset passwords for Office365 please contact ict@phoenix.sandwell.sch.uk In your request please include your Full Name, Tutor Group and Username (that you use to login to the computers at school). |
Important information for Parents/Carers of Key Stage 3 Students
Uploading completed work on Classcharts
If you can see the option below on your Classcharts, you will be able to upload your completed work:
Teacher Email Addresses
To contact teachers, please click here for the full list of teacher email addresses.
Subjects
In the drop down menu, you will find the documents or links needed for each subject whilst working at home.
Maths
Maths work will be set on Classcharts from now on. Instructions as to the new system will be uploaded from 13th May 2020 with new work.
MathsWatch - Login: firstname.surname@phoenix Password: southgate2018
In addition to the homework set on Mathswatch, students can also access interactive questions by searching for a topic video then clicking the “interactive questions” tab on top of the video.
CenturyTech - (if you have forgotten your username, please contact the school on info@phoenix.sandwell.sch.uk. Your password is phoenix2019)
WhiteRoseMaths - This will be providing video tutorials from 24/3/2020.
Corbett Maths - for practice worksheets, papers.
Corbett Maths (5aday) - do the one for your level on the date for that day. Daily practice. Answers provided too.
Dr Frost - A Level Maths students
English
KS3
To keep students reading over the summer, Miss Talbot has created a 6 Week Book Challenge. Every week for 6 weeks challenge yourself to read a book from each of the 6 categories, then complete the below and bring it back to school with you in September! Happy Reading!
KS3 English - Book Review Booklet
KS3 English - Writing Practice Booklet
KS3 English - Short Stories Booklet
KS3 English - Fantastic Beasts and Mythical Creatures
KS4
GCSE Language
Language Paper 1 and 2 Writing Tasks
Macbeth
Sign of Four
Sign of Four Knowledge Organiser
An Inspector Calls
An Inspector Calls Knowledge Organiser
An Inspector Calls Learning Booklet
Poetry: Power and Conflict and Unseen
Climate Change Unseen Poetry Booklet
Year 10 and Year 11 (Apps, weblinks and podcasts that support KS4 students)
CenturyTech - (if you have forgotten your username, please contact the school on info@phoenix.sandwell.sch.uk. Your password is phoenix2019.
Science
KS3 Science Projects
Week 1 - Year 7
Week 2 - Year 7
Week 3 - Year 7
Week 4 - Year 7
Week 5 - Year 7
Week 6 - Year 7
Week 1 - Year 8
Week 2 - Year 8
Week 3 - Year 8
Week 4 - Year 8
Week 5 - Year 8
Week 6 - Year 8
Week 1 - Year 9
Week 2 - Year 9
Week 3 - Year 9
Week 4 - Year 9
Week 5 - Year 9
Week 6 - Year 9
Year 7 Hip Replacement Research Project
Year 7 Microscope Research Project
Year 7 Safer Roads Research Project
Year 7 Science of Music Research Project
Year 7 Space Station Research Project
Year 7 Soil pH Research Project
Year 7 Stage Lighting Research Project
Year 8 Elements Research Project
Year 8 Endangered Species Research Project
Year 8 Extinction Research Project
Year 8 Periodic Table Research Project
Year 8 Plastics Research Project
Year 8 Pressure Research Project
Year 8 Recycling Research Project
Year 10 Biology Trilogy Foundation
Year 10 Biology Trilogy Higher
Year 10 Chemistry Trilogy Foundation
Year 10 Chemistry Trilogy Higher
Year 10 Physics Trilogy Foundation
Year 10 Physics Trilogy Higher
Year 10 GCSEPhysicsOnline (Website with lessons and resources for students)
Bitesize (Website link to support KS4 students)
Youtube (links to videos that support KS4 students)
ExamPro Questions ( links that provide exam style questions)
Art and Design
Bitesize KS3 Art and Design Website link to support KS3 students
Bitesize GCSE Art and Design Website link to support KS4 students
Tate Website link to support art students
Art2Day Website link to support KS4 students
Business/Enterprise/Economics
BeeBusinessBee - website with educational resources
BBC Bitesize - website with educational resources
Pearson - exam board materials
BTEC Business Level 3 - weblinks to support KS5 students
A Level Economics - weblinks to support KS5 students
Child Development
Connexions
Careers Advice/Connexions – During School Closure
As part of Phoenix’s careers guidance programme Year 11 & 13 students and their parents/carers are able to access individual support from our Connexions Personal Adviser – Lynn Edge.
Lynn can be contacted as follows: By e-mail on lynn.edge@phoenix.sandwell.sch.uk
By phone on 07792711064 - Monday – Friday 9am to 5 pm
KS3 Digital Photography
Please continue to use Showbie to complete your portfolios. Please message Ms Kapoor on Showbie, if you would like your portfolios exported as Powerpoints.
KS4 Digital Photography
Continue with your photography work via Showbie. Please message Ms Kapoor if you would like your work exported as Powerpoints.
Drama
Edmodo (work has been set for KS4 and KS5 on Edmodo)
Classcharts (work has been set for KS3 on Edmodo)
Engineering
Year 10,11 and 13 (information on how to access work set on Edmodo)
Edmodo (work has been set on Edmodo)
Food Technology
Geography
Health and Social
Edmodo work set for KS4 and KS5
History
Classcharts work set for History students
KS4 ICT and Computer Science
TeachICT Website to support ICT students
Languages
All students must log into Office 365, then click on TEAMS to see their classes and homework set. Students may also log into Classcharts to see reminders of the homework set.
Activities to improve your Spanish
Any login issues please contact info@phoenix.sandwell.sch.uk
Literacy
KS3
This week’s literacy recommendations aren’t audiobooks, they are podcasts from the BBC. You (or your parents) do have to register, but the range of absolutely top-quality resources is astonishing.
To register for a free BBC account visit https://account.bbc.com/register/thanks?isCasso=false
And then search for the podcast you fancy.
Two starting points:
If you loved ‘Horrible Histories’ then search for ‘Homeschool History’. If you make yourself listen to the first few minutes, I guarantee you’ll be hooked for the episode – this is entertaining and educational, for instance I sampled the Charles Dickens episode for this recommendation and ended up listening to the whole episode and then another 3 – I am now an expert* in the life of the real Pocahontas, Mary Queen of Scots AND Florence Nightingale! (14/15 minutes each episode)
Very different, partly because it’s more aimed at adults and partly because it’s science/technology and not history is, ‘Crowd Science’. It is usually very straightforward because it is made for people in other countries who are interested but who don’t have a particularly good understanding of science It starts off with a listeners question and then explores that question with scientists to come up with an answer. The current episode is about whether we can tickle ourselves and last week’s was about whether current toilets are the best they could be! (about 45 mins each)
And the best thing about these podcasts? You can listen to them while you are doing something else – two homeworks at once? I’ll have some of that!
* For the purposes of this recommendation, an ‘expert’ is someone who has listened to a 14 minute radio program on a subject, other definitions may exist.
Happy reading!
Mr Smith
Explore the free audiobooks at audible and find one you like the sound of :
If you are looking for books to listen to...for free, try visiting https://stories.audible.com/discovery
For people missing literacy in the LSC, there is 'Cirque du freak: A living Nightmare.' Darren Shan is another author who really divides opinion - many KS3 students absolutely love his stories and if you have macabre tastes, then this might well be the book for you to try this week! It is found in the 'Tween' category.
For people with a more non-fiction approach, try 'The Witches of Salem' by Shirly Jackson. It's interesting, but the soft southern accent of the reader was just too slow for me - if you listen on 1.25 or 1.5 speed, it is much more listenable and doesn't quite get to 'chipmunk' speed (3x +). You can find it a few rows down, also in the tween category.
If all of this fantasy malarkey, is too much, how about 'The Blue Herring Mystery: The Ellery Queen Jr. Mysteries'. I always love an audio book where the reader, in this case Traber Burns, sounds like a character from the story...and his voice fits it too!
Mr Smith's KS3 Weekly Reading Suggestions
Happy reading!
Mr Smith
KS4
Non-fiction – we are publishing a literacy powerpoint each week which is available here:
Literacy Powerpoint for w/e 1.5.'20
Literacy Powerpoint for w/e 8.5.'20
Literacy Powerpoint for w/e 15.5.'20
Literacy Powerpoint for w/e 22.5'.20
Literacy Powerpoint for w/e 5.6'.20
Literacy Powerpoint for w/e 19.6'.20
(Original source material used with the kind permission of Advanced Picture News)
Music
The Phoenix Edge
If you experience any problems with logging in, please contact Ms Kapoor via Showbie or email.
Physical Education
Religious Education
Year 9 - Treatment of Criminals - Prison
Edmodo work set for Year 11 and Year 10
Classcharts work set for KS3
Sociology
Year 11 Tasks for Stratification
Year 11 Power, Authority and Patriarchy
Year 11 How is Power Exercised (1)
Sport
Classcharts (Work has been set on Classcharts for Year 10 and Year 11)
Work for Ms Ault's Yr10 Sport Group can be found using the links below -
Technology
TechnologyStudent (Technology website with revision information for Y7-Y13)
Edmodo (work has been set on Edmodo)
Classcharts (work has been set on Classcharts)
Travel and Tourism
Year 9 - Classcharts (Work has been set on Classcharts)
Year 10 - Showbie and Classcharts (Work has been set on Showbie and Classcharts)
Year 11 - Showbie and Classcharts (Work has been set on Showbie and Classcharts)
Guidance and Resources for Home Learning
Useful Links and Resources from Sandwell Educational Pyschology Team
Sandwell Educational Pyschology Team's Top Tips for Teaching at Home
Good to Know News Newsletter March 2020
A Guide for Home Learning to Support Carers & Families
Good to Know News Newsletter 9th April 2020
