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Knowledge Organiser Home Learning at FHES

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I recently posted on Twitter @GeogMarsh  that I was incredibly proud of my two year 10 classes. They had just sat a cumulative assessment on the content taught in year 9 (we do a three year KS4) and had no prior warning that the assessment was taking place. They sat two thirds of a GCSE paper from the Edexcel B SAMS. The two topics were 'Hazardous Earth' and 'Development Dynamics'. Since the start of the this year, we have been using knowledge organisers (KOs) as a home learning strategy across the school. In year 10, they have been revisiting the 'Development Dynamics' topic through weekly KO home learning since September.  All but one student, across two classes that total 58 students, scored higher on the 'Development Dynamics' topic than the 'Hazardous Earth' topic. In most cases the difference was more than 5 marks, over a 30 mark topic. This could be a complete coincidence, and I could have taught 'Development Dynamics' better, h