A level Physics organisation and requirements
What you need to bring to lessons
- Exercise book
- You will be provided with this
- All lesson notes should go into the exercise book
- Physics textbook/revision guide
- You will need to get at least one of the A level textbooks recommended. This should come to every lesson for reference
- A4 lever-arch folder
- It is your responsibility to buy this
- A4 folder dividers
- It is your responsibility to buy this
- A4 lined paper
- It is your responsibility to buy this
- Necessary stationary, including pencil, ruler, calculator, green pen, red pen, black pen.
- It is your responsibility to buy this
Organisation of lessons
All classwork should be completed in your exercise book.
Homework and independent work should be completed on paper and handed in on the deadline. Failure to hand work in on the due date will result in a detention that evening. If a student completes the homework in their free periods in that day, they will still have a detention.
The folder should be separated into separate sections
- Classwork exercise book
- Revision notes
- Homework and Independent notes
- Summary notes
- Assessments
- Homework Booklets
- Student admin sheets
- Assessment tracker
- Marking log
- Reading log
- Specification
If a student misses a lesson, it is their responsibility to catch up on the work missed. If they miss a lesson they must do the following before the next lesson
- Email the teacher to find out the work missed
- Find the teacher to find out the work missed
- Speak to someone in the class to find out the work missed
Failure to complete the work missed from previous lessons will result in a student attending compulsory catch-up.
Revision and Assessments
Students will be expected to complete a revision summary each week. This will need to be a comprehensive, concise summary of all the content covered in the previous week.
This could be either written notes, flashcards, mind maps or explained diagrams.
It will be collected in each week and marked by the teacher.
Failure to complete the revision summary will result in a student attending compulsory catch-up.
Students will regularly complete end of topic assessments and cumulative assessments. A student must prepare thoroughly for these assessments.
A student must achieve their target grade in the assessment. The target grade will be decided at the beginning of the year and will either be an official target grade or an aspirational target grade based on UCAS grade requirements.
Failure to achieve their target grade will result in a student attending compulsory catch-up to re-sit and mark the assessment.
Homework booklets
Students will be provided with homework booklets for each A level topic. These are in addition to revision summaries, homework and independent study. Students will be expected to complete the homework booklets by the deadline date provided. The homework booklets are designed to assess a student’s ability to answer exam questions.
Failure to hand the homework booklets in on the due date will result in a detention that eveningwhere the homework booklet will be completed.
A level Physics textbooks and recommended resources
Recommended text for all AS/A2 students -
- A Level Physics textbook - £35.99
- AS Year 1 Physics textbook - £24.99
- A level Year 2 Physics textbook - £26.50
- A level Physics revision guide – both years - £19.99
- CGP Books has a large selection of revision guides that match the full specification or years 1 and 2 individually. The maths skills booklet is also recommended for those that need to develop their understanding of maths, as this will be a limiting factor in your Physics attainment. A full list can be found here:
Topic specific student guides and workbooks
- Topic 1 -3 Student Guide
- Topic 1 - 3 workbook
- Topic 4 - 5 Student Guide
- Topic 4 - 5 workbook
- Topics 6 - 8 Student Guide
- Topic 6 - 8 workbook
- Topic 9 & 12 Student Guide
- Topic 9 & 12 workbook
Collins Physics – Student Support Materials
Summer Reading Assignment
- Choose one of the books below.
- Read the book, highlighting key sections.
- Produce a summary of the key concepts and theories presented in the book. This should be a minimum of 500 words and a maximum of 2000.
- A Brief History of Time
- In Search of Schrodinger’s Cat
- Seven Lessons on Physics
- Why does E = mc2?
- QED – The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
- The Grand Design
- Einstein: His Life and Universe
- The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
Summer Maths Assignment
- You will be provided with a Maths skills booklet that develops key skills in using significant figures, standard form and graphing data.
- All sections of the Maths booklet need to be completed ready for your first Physics lesson, including those requiring you to graph data