Knowledge Retrieval

At Welling School, we believe that a firm grounding in knowledge should be at the core of students learning. With this in mind, we have created this ‘knowledge organiser’ booklet to give you an overview of what your son or daughter will be studying over the next two modules. A knowledge organiser is a set of key facts or information that pupils need to know and be able to recall in order to master a unit or topic. This will help them to develop and deepen their learning across all of their lessons.

Each subject has created one or more knowledge organisers based upon the topics that are being studied in the first two modules. Students should learn this information in their own time so that they can recall it easily. This can be done following these simple steps:

• Read – Spend 5 to 10 minutes reading through a knowledge organiser.
• Cover – Either cover over key topics or simply turn your knowledge organiser over to ensure that the information is well hidden.
• Quiz – Ask a friend or relative to test your knowledge on what you have learnt.
• Repeat - Repeat the steps until you have committed the material to memory and mastered the topic.

If you are still struggling with a topic, then you might want to carry out further research and make your own knowledge organiser.

Teachers will set this as homework which should be recorded in the student planners. Students will then be tested in lessons via low stakes quizzing to ensure that they have revised their knowledge organisers. It is important that students track their scores from their low stakes quizzes in the “Quiz Scores” section of this booklet. Typically, these will be scored out of 5, however, departments may vary depending on the topic they are delivering. Initially the scores will be recorded in the student’s books or their online workbook. However, it is vitally important that they are transferred to this document.

You can support your child by:

• Encouraging them to study their knowledge organiser booklet and learn the material set.
• Testing them on their ability to recall the information learnt from the knowledge organisers.
• The knowledge organiser is part of their stationary equipment and it is expected that the knowledge organiser should be with the students at all times.

Please see below for our Spring Terms 1 and 2 knowledge organisers: