Art (AQA)
What is covered in the Easter Revision course?
Ashbourne offers Easter Revision courses in Fine Art, Graphic Communication and Textiles. All boards are welcome for these art course as students will receive individual guidance. Students will work in one or more areas related to art areas listed below.
- Painting and drawing
- Mixed media, including collage and assemblage
- Sculpture
- Land art
- Installation
- Printmaking, relief, intaglio, screen processes and lithography
- Film, television, animation, video, photography: lens-based and light-based media and new media
- Graphic illustration
- Fashion and textiles
Biology (OCR)
What is covered in the Biology Easter Revision courses?
AS level Easter Revision topics covered
- Foundations in Biology
- Exchange and Transport
- Biodiversity, Evolution and Disease
- Practical skills
A level Easter Revision topics covered
- Key topics from AS level
- Communication, Homeostasis and Energy
- Genetics, Evolution and Ecosystems
- Practical skills
Chemistry (Edexcel)
What is covered in the Easter Revision course?
The Easter Revision courses include Core Inorganic and Physical Chemistry and Organic and Physical Chemistry. Students will also revise aspects of the practicals they have conducted, and apply what they have learned to other practical scenarios.
Classical Civilisation (OCR)
What is covered in the Easter Revision course?
Comic Drama in the Ancient World
How did the Aristophanes, Menander and Plautus portray the ancient world through their comic dramas? Students will examine the context in which the plays were produced and look at the techniques used to create comedy.
Virgil and the World of the Hero
Students get to experience the epic adventures in Virgil’s Aeneid and Homer’s Iliad and examine the world in which they are set and the role of the hero. The texts are read in translation.
Drama and Theatre Studies (AQA)
What is covered in the Easter Revision course?
The three texts covered in this course are: Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth, Metamorphosis by Steven Berkoff and Things I Know To Be True by Andrew Bovell.
Economics (Edexcel)
What is covered in the Easter Revision course?
The coverage emphasises the importance of evaluation and judgement to exam success by using a contextual approach to the study of economics.
AS level Easter Revision topics covered
Introduction to markets and market failure
Positive and normative statements, production possibility frontiers, specialisation and the division of labour, rational decision making, demand/supply, elasticities, taxes and subsidies, market failure, externalities, government failure.
The UK economy – performance and policies
Economic growth, inflation, unemployment, balance of payments, aggregate demand/supply, circular flow of income, the multiplier, output gaps, trade cycle, government economic objectives, budget deficits, fiscal policy, monetary policy, supply side policy, conflicts between economic objectives.
A level Easter Revision topics covered
Business behaviour and the labour market
Types of firms, types of integration, demergers, motives for firms, competition policy, economies and diseconomies of scale, revenues, costs, market structures, efficiency, contestability, monopsony, price discrimination, privatisation and regulation, labour markets.
A global perspective
Globalisation, patterns of trade, specialisation and trade, trade liberalisation, protectionism, trading blocs, international competitiveness, balance of payments, exchange rates, inward foreign investment, public spending and taxation, poverty and inequality, development economics.
English Literature (Edexcel)
This course is available for current Ashbourne students only.
Film Studies (WJEC)
What is covered in the Easter Revision course?
If you are interested in this Easter Revision subject and are following the same exam board please contact the college on 020 7937 3858 or [email protected] to enquire whether we can accommodate your specification.
French (Edexcel)
What is covered in the Easter Revision course?
Topics covered in this course include change in French society and cultural, social and political perspectives in French-speaking countries.
Ashbourne follows the EDEXCEL syllabus.
Further Maths (Edexcel)
Ashbourne currently offers Easter Revision courses for Core Further Maths.
History (AQA)
What is covered in the Easter Revision course?
A level History topics covered:
- Stuart Britain 1603-1702
- Russia 1917-1953
History of Art (Edexcel)
If you are interested in this Easter Revision subject and are following the same exam board please contact the college on 020 7937 3858 or [email protected] to enquire whether we can accommodate your specification.
Mathematics
A level Maths modules are offered as individual Easter Revision courses and are taught by Ashbourne’s outstanding Maths Faculty
- Pure Maths AS
- Pure Maths A2
- Applied Maths AS
- Applied Maths A2
Music (AQA)
If you are interested in this Easter Revision course and are following the same exam board please contact the college on 020 7937 3858 or [email protected] to enquire whether we can accommodate your specification.
Philosophy (AQA)
What is covered in the Philosophy Easter Revision courses?
If you are interested in this Easter Revision subject and are following the same exam board please contact the college on 020 7937 3858 or [email protected] to enquire whether we can accommodate your specification.
AS level Easter Revision topics covered:
Epistemology – the nature of knowledge, perception, empiricism and rationalism
Moral Philosophy – normative ethical theories, applications, metaethics (linear syllabus)
A level Easter Revision topics covered:
Ethics – Utilitarianism, Kantian deontological ethics, Aristotle’s virtue ethics, ethical language, cognitivism, non-cognitivism.
Philosophy of Mind – mind–body problem, dualism, materialism, logical/analytical behaviourism, mind–brain type identity theory, functionalism, eliminative materialism.
Physics (AQA)
What is covered in the Easter Revision course?
Ashbourne’s Physics department follows the AQA syllabus for AS and A level Physics. Therefore our Easter Revision courses are tailored to the requirements of that syllabus. However, there is considerable overlap between specifications and students studying towards exams for different boards will also find our courses beneficial.
In addition to the topics below, the appropriate practical skills and data analysis skills necessary for success will also be covered. Option topics will not be reviewed.
Revision sessions comprise a number of short reviews of selected subject content followed by practice with past-paper questions chosen to target specific assessment aims.
Students will receive a compilation of essential definitions and summary statements of key ideas for each topic. In addition, students will be given access to all available relevant past-paper questions and mark schemes from 2009 to the present in electronic form.
If you have any further queries, please feel free to call Ashbourne on 020 937 3858 and arrange to talk to the relevant tutor.
AS level topics:
- Measurements and their errors
- Particles and radiation
- Waves
- Mechanics and materials
- Electricity
A level topics:
- This course will assume knowledge of the AS material and will cover:
- Further mechanics and thermal physics
- Fields and their consequences
- Nuclear physics
Politics (Edexcel)
The A level Politics Easter Revision course is a full day course that runs in both the morning and afternoon sessions. The AS level Easter Revision course is either morning or afternoon.
If you are interested in this Easter Revision subject and are following the same exam board please contact the college on 020 7937 3858 or [email protected] to enquire whether we can accommodate your specification.
Psychology (AQA)
If you are interested in this Easter Revision subject and are following the same exam board please contact the college on 020 7937 3858 or [email protected] to make sure we teach the same options you are studying.
AS level Easter Revision topics covered
- Social influence
- Memory
- Attachment
- Approaches in psychology
- Psychopathology
- Research methods
A level Easter Revision topics covered
- Social influence
- Memory
- Attachment
- Approaches in psychology
- Psychopathology
- Research methods
- Biopsychology
- Issues and debates in psychology
- Option topics: Schizophrenia, Addiction and Cognition and Development
Spanish (AQA)
What is covered in the Easter Revision course?
Topics covered in this course include the development of Spanish society, political and cultural values, attitudes and beliefs across the Spanish-speaking world and the impact of global communication on Spanish-speaking communities across the world.
