Year 12

SUMMER TASK BOOKLET Name:____________________

Taxonomic Level AS Biology Summer work ‐ Cells

PrestructuralI am not sure about…

• I do not really know what cell organelles do yet?

UnistructuralI have one relevant idea about….

• I can Identify Eukaryotic cell organelles

MultistructuralI have several ideas about…

• For Eukaryotic cells I can describe the structure and function of the each organelle

• I can describe the role of each organelle in a Eukaryotic  cell

• I can draw and label Animal, Plant, Fungal and Algal Cells• I can draw, label and describe prokaryotes such as bacteria 

and viruses.RelationalI have several ideas about…I can link them to the big picture.

• I can compare and contrast Eukaryotes cells and Prokaryotes (virus & bacteria)

Extended AbstractI have several ideas about…I can link them to the big picture.I can look at these ideas in a new and different way.

Create an overview of cells

Present information and evidence to show your depth of understanding about the topic Cells components.

Year 12 BTEC Business Summer Task  

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/eu_referendum  

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business/market_data/currency/default.stm  

Look on the business pages of the bbc website also. 

Summer Tasks: 

As you now know after your research, the Global Economic Climate has and is going 

through major changes.  Firstly research the following over the past 10 years and say what 

has happened to: 

Inflation  

Unemployment Figures 

Growth in the Economy 

Balance of Payments 

Interest Rates 

Exchange Rates 

Types and Rates of Taxation  

Then discuss what is happening in the UK Economy after the EU referendum.  What 

current uncertainties are there in the Global Economy?  What impact has the decision 

had?  You are to produce a 1000 word report on your findings.  Remember you need to 

reference your evidence and produce a bibliography.  This is entirely based on your 

opinions and facts so there is no right or wrong answer to this.  Just apply what you have 

researched. 

The following website is a good starting point, but you must use your study skills to 

accurately research other websites for information. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/eu_referendum  

 

 

 

 

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Year 12 Construction Summer Task 2016

Name: …………………………………………………………………

Year 12 Economics Summer Task  

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/eu_referendum  

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business/market_data/currency/default.stm 

Look on the business pages of the bbc website also. 

Summer Tasks: 

As you now know after your research, the Global Economic Climate has and 

is going through major changes.  Firstly research the following over the past 

10 years and say what has happened to: 

Inflation  

Unemployment Figures 

Growth in the Economy 

Balance of Payments 

Interest Rates 

Exchange Rates 

Types and Rates of Taxation  

Then discuss what is happening in the UK Economy after the EU referendum.  

What current uncertainties are there in the Global Economy?  What impact 

has the decision had?  You are to produce a 1000 word report on your 

findings.  Remember you need to reference your evidence and produce a 

bibliography.  This is entirely based on your opinions and facts so there is no 

right or wrong answer to this.  Just apply what you have researched. 

The following website is a good starting point, but you must use your study 

skills to accurately research other websites for information. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/eu_referendum  

 

 

 

 

1) Collect a range of different texts which relate to what you have been up to over the summer holiday. These could include:

Tweets- celebrities, friends, yours

Texts

Facebook posts

Tickets- concert, bus, train, flight, cinema etc.

Receipts

Newspaper/magazine articles

Song lyrics

Leaflets/flyers

2) Create a scrapbook of your summer made up of the texts you have collected, it can be as crafty or basic as you like.

3) Annotate each of your texts in your scrapbook for G.A.P. (Genre, Audience and Purpose).

Year 12 English Literature Summer Task 

Over the holiday you will need to read two short prose texts – The Great Gatsby and The Awakening.

When you have read The Great Gatsby, work through the attached questions to help your understanding.

Happy reading!

CHAPTER ONE

1. How does Nick describe himself at the beginning of the novel? 2. How does Nick describe Tom Buchanan? 3. Who is Jordan Baker? 4. What is Gatsby doing when Nick first sees him? 5. How does the tone of Nick’s description of Tom reveal Nick’s feelings about Tom?

CHAPTER TWO

1. How does Nick meet Tom’s mistress? 2. How does Myrtle react to Tom’s arrival? 3. Describe George Wilson. How does he react to Tom’s arrival? 4. How does Myrtle behave as the party progresses? 5. Describe the setting of the valley of ashes where George and Myrtle live. 6. How does Fitzgerald describe Myrtle Wilson? Does her physical appearance reflect her

character in any way?

CHAPTER THREE

1. Describe the two ways in which Nick differs from the other guests at Gatsby’s party. 2. What does Nick think of Gatsby when he first meets him? 3. What does the owl-eyed man in the library find extraordinary about Gatsby’s library? 4. What does Nick learn about Jordan Baker after he has sent some time with her? 5. Describe two incidents involving automobiles in this chapter. What role do automobiles

seem to play in the novel so far?

CHAPTER FOUR

1. What does Gatsby tell Nick about himself? 2. What accomplishments of Meyer Wolfshiem’s does Gatsby describe to Nick? How does

Nick react? 3. According to Jordan, what did Daisy do on her wedding way? Why? 4. Why does Gatsby want to have tea with Daisy in Nick’s house? Why doesn’t Gatsby ask

Nick for this favour himself? 5. How does Daisy behave after Gatsby goes overseas? What does her behaviour show

about her feelings for Gatsby?

CHAPTER FIVE

1. Gatsby suggests a spur of the moment trip to ‘Coney Island’ or a swim in his pool. What does this tell us about him and how he is feeling?

2. What does Gatsby offer Nick in return for Nick’s cooperation in inviting Daisy to his house? How does Nick react and why?

3. How does Gatsby change when he knows that Nick will invite Daisy?

4. What is the meeting between Gatsby and Daisy like initially? 5. How are Daisy and Gatsby different when Nick returns to the house after a half an hour?

CHAPTER SIX 1. When does James Gatz change his name? Why? 2. What is Daisy’s real response to the party, according to Nick? 3. What does Gatsby tell Nick he wants Daisy to do? 4. What is Gatsby’s view of the past? When Nick says that Gatsby “wanted to recover something,

some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy,” what do you think he means? 5. At the end of the chapter, Nick describes Gatsby kissing Daisy in Louisville five years before. What is

Gatsby giving up when he kisses her? Why?

CHAPTER SEVEN

1. Why does Gatsby stop giving parties? 2. When does Tom first realize that Daisy loves Gatsby? 3. Why is Myrtle Wilson upset when she sees Tom and Jordan? 4. Why does George Wilson lock Myrtle in the bedroom? 5. Why does Tom insist that Daisy go home with Gatsby? What do you think this tells us about Tom’s

character and his relationship with Daisy?

CHAPTER EIGHT 1. What does Gatsby tell Nick the night of the accident? Why? 2. Did Gatsby want to go to Oxford? 3. How does George Wilson spend the night after the accident? 4. What evidence had Wilson found that his wife was having an affair? 5. What would you day is the principal reason for Daisy’s appeal to Gatsby? 6. CHAPTER NINE 1. What is the motive publicly given for Wilson’s murder of Gatsby? 2. What does the telephone call from Chicago tell us about Gatsby’s business? 3. What does Klipspringer want from Nick? How does Nick react to this?Why is Gatsby’s father so

proud of him? 4. What does Tom confess to Nick when they meet that fall? Does he regret what he has done?

Year 12 Health and Social Care Summer Task

In Health and Social Care you need to be able to explore familiar applications of physical, intellectual, emotional and social development across the human lifespan.   For this homework task you need to produce a booklet of mind maps highlighting PHYSICAL development only during the following life stages:  Infancy – 0‐2yrs Childhood – 3‐8yrs Adolescence – 9‐18yrs Adulthood – 19‐65yrs Later adulthood – 65+yrs  Your booklet should have a front cover with the title ‘Physical development across the life stages’ and you should have one to two pages per life stage. Use text books and the internet to help you with your research.   

  

   

    

 Year 12 ICT Summer Task  The aim of this unit is to enable you to understand how the components of computer systems work together. You will develop the skills needed to recommend appropriate hardware systems for various purposes. Using the skills developed you will build/upgrade a full computer system with a view to testing and considering preventive maintenance procedures.   Task 1.1 Computer hardware components (this can be completed as a report, presentationor poster)  Research and then explain the function of the following internal system unit components and peripheral devices:  internal system unit components o processors  o motherboards  o BIOS / UEFI  o hard drive configuration and controllers (e.g. SATA, IDE, master, slave)  o Thunderbolt  o VGA, DVI, DisplayPort, HDMI  o internal memory (e.g. RAM, ROM, cache)  o specialised cards (e.g. network, graphic cards, sound).  o power supply   peripheral devices  o output devices (e.g. monitor, printer, speakers)  o input devices (e.g. camera/webcam, scanner, microphone, mobile devices)   

 

 

Year 12 Mathematics Summer Task  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

A Level Further Maths Preparation Summer Task 

Attempt each of these three problems. All the knowledge you need, you knew at GCSE. The key is can you select the correct knowledge required to solve each problem – this is a skill that is crucial for studying Further Maths! Write your answers, together with lots of lovely working, on paper ready to hand in during your first maths lesson.   

 

BTEC Level 3 Media

Summer Project

Find out the target audience (age, gender, class) of the film(s) you’ve seen.

Read reviews and analysis from a range of different sources.

Compare how male and female characters are represented.

Can you make any connections with real world events?

Write an illustrated report / blog post / essay discussing your findings.

This summer, go to the cinema to see at least two films. Try to choose two films from different genres, countries of origin, time periods etc.

Year 12 Music Summer Task 

www.musictheoryvideos.com Using the above website, work through the videos / tutorials. I don’t expect you to do them all, or understand everything. Much will be revision, some will be new learning that is quite easy to understand, some will be possibly too difficult to understand just yet. However, don’t let this put you off. Do what you can, make notes, highlight what you don’t fully 

understand, and we’ll pick this up in September. 

Use the grid below to mark off what you manage to work through ‐ shade or highlight using Green for ‘Fully Understand’, Yellow for ‘OK...think I’ve got it’ and Red for ‘HELP!!!’ 

Grade 1  Grade 2  Grade 3  Grade 4  Grade 5 

Accidentals and Semitones 

Terminology  Demisemiquavers Alto Clef Cadences 

Bass Clef  Major Scales  Intervals Breves Intervals 

Intervals  Minor Scales  Key Signatures Chromatic Scales  Inversions 

Key Signatures  Key Signatures  Ledger Lines Double Dotted notes

Key Signatures

Major Scales  Time Signatures  Major Scales Double Sharps and Flats

Major Scales

Notes and Rests  Tonic Triads  Minor Scales Instruments Minor Scales

Terminology  Triplets  Terminology Intervals Terminology

Treble and Bass Clef relationship 

  Time Signatures Key Signatures Tenor Clef 

Tied Notes    Transposition Major Scales Time Signatures

Time Signatures    Tonic Triads Minor Scales Transposition

Treble Clef      Root position triads

 

Tonic Triads      Technical Names   

    Terminology  

      Time Signatures  

      Transposition  

YOU CAN TEST YOUR UNDERSTANDING USING THE EXERCISES ON http://www.educationquizzes.com/us/specialist/music‐theory 

Taxonomic Level AS Physics – Atomic Structure

PrestructuralI am not sure about…

• I do not really know what Atoms are made up of yet?

UnistructuralI have one relevant idea about….

• I can Identify the sub‐atomic parts of an atom

MultistructuralI have several ideas about…

• I can describe Protons, Neutrons, Electrons, Nucleons• I can describe the relevance of charge  (C) & mass (kg) of 

atoms• I can describe the Proton Number• I can describe the Nucleon Number• I can describe Specific charge

RelationalI have several ideas about…I can link them to the big picture.

• I know how to and I can calculate specific charge of a particle

• I can explain what is meant by an Isotope and Isotopic data.

Extended AbstractI have several ideas about…I can link them to the big picture.I can look at these ideas in a new and different way.

Complete the questions

Present information and evidence to show your depth of understanding about the topic of atomic structure.

                                                       

Year 12 Psychology Summer Task 

1) Research what a ‘phobia’ is including its symptoms and causes. Use the NHS choices 

website to help.  

 

2) Choose 5 phobias which are of particular interest to you and make note of these 

(including correct spelling and description of the phobia). 

 

3) Research what treatments are available for phobias. You may come across the 

methods of ‘systematic desensitisation’ and ‘flooding’. Make notes about what these 

are and how they work. 

 

4) Research what ‘OCD’ is including its symptoms and causes. Use the NHS choices 

website to help. 

 

5) Research some common examples of particular OCD traits people have e.g. 

obsession with cleaning 

 

6) Research what treatments are available for OCD. You may come across a particular 

method of drug treatment called SSRIs. Find out how they work and what they do. 

 

 

 Year 12 Spanish Summer Task 

   Complete the following activities:  

Task  Activity  CompleteY / N 

1  Complete Vocabulary sheets 

 

2  MEDIA Questions and Answers – Choose any three Q&A to translate onto file paper  

 

3  Complete AS Chief Examiners worksheet  

 

4  Watch a Spanish Language FilmName: __________________________  

 

5  Find a Spanish TV show to watch on www.antena3.es  Name: ___________________________  

 

6  Complete Unit 1 Grammar exercises (1‐14) http://www.studyspanish.com/tutorial.htm    

 

 

Year 12 Sport Summer Task

1. Use the internet to find a blank picture of a skeleton. Label it using the 

attached information sheet. 

 

2. Find the names of the different types of bones (there are 5) and explain the 

main functions of each of them when performing sporting techniques and 

actions. 

 

3. Research the functions of the skeleton when performing sorting techniques 

and actions. 

BONES

CRANIUM = Skull

CLAVICLE = Collar Bone

SCAPULA = Shoulder Blade

STERNUM = Breast Bone

RIBS = Ribs

HUMERUS = Upper arm (funny bone)

RADIUS = Lower arm (thickest)

ULNA = Lower arm (thinnest)

CARPALS = Wrist

METACARPALS = Hand

PHLANGES = Fingers

VERTEBRAE COLUMN= Back bone/ Spine

PELVIS = Pelvis

FEMUR = Thigh Bone

PATELLA = Knee Cap

FIBULA = Lower Leg (thinnest)

TIBIA = Lower leg (shin bone-thickest)

TARSALS = Ankle

METATARSALS = Foot

PHLANGES = Toes